ChoicePoints - May 2002

"If I do not choose for myself, someone else will choose for me. I then become an instrument for the accomplishment of their goals and intentions - and mine are lost."  _{Louise LeBrun}

This issue released: Saturday, May 4, 2002

Spotlight On - people, products and pronouncements
Today's Thought
Coming Attractions!
Did you know? - arcane tidbits for fun & frolic
Thought Waves

Spotlight On — The WEL-Systems® Institute

Big changes are happening at Partners in Renewal You'll already have noticed the changes in format of our monthly newsletter ---and we'd like to tell you about some of the many other changes you'll discover in the coming weeks and months.

The first is that we've launched The WEL-Systems Institute, with Partners in Renewal becoming one of several operating units. With this launch, we are focusing our growing number of seminars, workshops and certification programs for the benefit of the audiences who are most interested in them.

The WEL-Systems Institute provides the framework within which the next wave of expression of WEL-Systems can evolve in a way that maintains the integrity of the material….and includes you!

We have a large yet simple vision for The WEL-Systems Institute.

To create a global network of people who live from a WEL-Systems perspective and who have a desire to share it with others, in a way that works for them.

We will continue to offer world-class NLP certification programs, however, we have redesigned the programs to better reflect the WEL-Systems context in which we have been expressing NLP all these years.

We encourage you to stay tuned as this transformation takes shape in the coming months. Please visit our completely revised Partners in Renewal web-site at www.partnersinrenewal.com. Expect a more expanded and enriched program schedule to be one of the features of our transformation.

As always, we welcome the opportunity to talk with you about what these changes mean for you. Our business, after all, is about people in conversation with one another!

Today's Thought

"Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin’."
Lillian Carter

Coming Attractions!

We are pleased to offer you the following seminars, workshops and programs -each one designed to provide thought-provoking and life altering experiences for your on-going personal and professional development.

Experiences in May, June, July

Fredericton

Toronto

Ottawa

Phoenix Rising The Freeing of Human Potential		June 15-16	June 6-7
Igniting the Self WEL-Systems:NLP Practitioner Certification	June 10-16		July 8-14
Resourefulness in Action WEL-Systems:NLP Field Experience	June 10-16		July 8-14
Biology of Belief How your Thoughts affect your Genes	June 12		July 10
Influencing with Intention WEL-Systems:NLP Master Practitioner Certification			July 16-25
Huna: An Introduction Applying Ancient Hawaiian Wisdom			July 27-28
Self Directed Healing in a WEL-Systems context		June 8-9

For more details and the complete program schedule, see http://www.partnersinrenewal.com/schedule.htm

Did you know?

The human heart can repair itself.  In a study that turns on its head the traditional view that the heart cannot help heal itself, scientists have found evidence that the organ may indeed harbour stem-cell reserves capable of regenerating damaged tissue.

Thought Waves

Choosing with Power, Purpose and Intention

The toughest part of life - whether personal or professional - is making the right choices. We teach our children that smart choices make for successful lives. Is that just empty rhetoric? Or do we really know how to make those smart choices for ourselves… at work and at home.

In the cause/effect equation of life, cause is a more powerful place to stand. For many of us, our experience of work is that we are at the effect of (or victim to) the system. Being at the effect of something implies that we are without the capacity to choose; without the ability to cause something to take place and are at the mercy of the choice someone else has made. The capacity to choose implies the presence of power. And yet, the power is not in the choice itself but in the process of the choosing.

The power does not reside in the end result of the choice but in the ability to choose again, and again and again, allowing each subsequent choice to reflect new information, new experience and new wisdom. We sometimes make choices and then believe that we must now live forever with that choice; that we cannot change our minds and choose again, or choose differently. And yet, movement is a sign of life. Each subsequent choice allows for the movement that is required in order for us to get on with our lives; to grow; to create new things to experience. Without movement, there is no indication of the presence of life. Without movement, things eventually die. With the power of choice comes the experience of creating. With the power of conscious choice comes the awareness that we have always been creating - and can choose to create again and restructure our worlds.

The key to living at cause is noticing our response and deciding whether it gives us power or keeps us victims. When I think, "My team is making me do things I hate" "My boss is making me work too much overtime", etc. I ask myself: how does being a victim serve me; what rule do I have that says I have no choice; what responsibility am I avoiding; who would I become if I spoke my truth about this?

More choice begins by noticing what I say that gives power to others. I write those down. Then I practice responses that let me live at cause … and I notice the fear that brings up.

Dr. Victor Frankl survived the Nazi death camps by discovering that he ultimately had choice in his emotional response to what was done to him. Do you or I have any less choice?

Louise LeBrun & Gwen McCauley

The WEL-Systems® Institute
( Partners in Renewal Inc.)
Leaders in WEL-Systems:NLP Experiences
9 Antares Drive
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K2E 7V5
Tel: (613) 254-7218
info@WEL-Systems.com