ChoicePoints February 2004

"The greatest gift you can offer another human being is the depth of your own clarity."  _{Louise LeBrun}

This issue released: Wednesday February 4, 2004

Spotlight On - people, products and pronouncements
Today's Thought
Coming Attractions!
Quick Updates
Thought Waves

Spotlight On — WEL-Systems Change Agent ™ Certification

Our workplaces don't seem to be getting any less frantic ...timeframes keep compressing, benchmarks keep rising. We know that we need to keep learning and growing, but who can stay awake for evening classes or afford a week or two away from the office for in-depth education.

Keeping the demands of equally busy home and professional lives in mind, we've created a modular certification program for anyone interested in engaging the topic of change. Our new WEL-Systems Change Agent certification process is a modular one that allows for flexibility of scheduling and customization of needs and interests. Operating from the generative presuppositions of WEL-Systems, we invite participants to notice that without people there are no organizations.

In the Power of One, our mandatory 2-day base module, you'll explore the power of one person to influence those around them. You'll discover ways that you look at change that are not useful to you and what you can do about it. And along the way you'll be introduced to a number of models that you can apply in many different workplace situations to improve the results you are able to produce.

You also get to choose 2 optional 1-day programs from an extensive menu, depending on your specific interests in the change conversation. Taking Care of Business in Changing Times develops life long change skills; Communicating with Intention examines effective communication in a changing world; Connecting with Confidence explores change in team settings; Your Self Directed Career invites you to step into the driver's seat of your career; and From Survival to Thrival invites you to shift your conversation about stress.

Move through our modular WEL-Systems Change Agent™ 4-day certification process in the order that works best for you and at the speed that is useful given your schedule and commitments. And when you have become a Certified WEL-Systems Change Agent, know that you will have what you need to create your own change programs or that you can obtain intellectual property rights for modules you want to deliver in your company or practice. If you'd like more information, visit www.progenerations.com/programs/CA.htm or call Gwen at (613) 254-7218.

Today's Thought

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you,
the better you will hear what is sounding outside"

Dag Hammarskjold

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.

WEL-Systems Experiences: February to April

The listing above only shows the first scheduled date. For more details and the complete program schedule, see www.WEL-Systems.com/schedule.htm

Quick Updates

Attention Toronto

In an effort to bring a WEL-Systems experience to you, we invite you to consider the following opportunities for discovery.

• Louise and Gwen will be in Toronto the first week of March. Here's your chance to meet privately and explore how a WEL-Systems program experience can help you create the life you want. Whether it's solving problems or shaping your future, we can help you determine if our services will make the difference for you. Contact Louise@WEL-Systems.com or Gwen@WEL-Systems.com to book an appointment for you and/or your friends/colleagues.
• We're bringing an opportunity for accelerated consciousness and generative change to Toronto! Register now for Self-Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit, March 6 and 7, at the Valhalla Inn. Don't take our word for it - check out what people have to say about their experience in the Self-Healing Spotlight. There is a maximum of 20 participants so don't miss out - contact us now to reserve your place.

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Privacy Policy Update

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www.WEL-Systems.com/privacy.htm

If you wish to update your information, send an email with your current information to:
Privacy@WEL-Systems.com

Some people missed receiving the January 2004 issue of our monthly newsletter ChoicePoints. An archive of our newsletters is maintained online at: www.WEL-Systems.com/newsletters/archive.htm.
If you are a recent subscriber, review what you have missed and share the information with your friends and colleagues.

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Attention budding entrepreneurs!

If you dream of starting your own business and you missed last month's announcement of Gwen's new one-on-one coaching program, Exploring Entrepreneurial Savvy, visit www.progenerations.com/programs/ExplSavvy.htm for the latest information.

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Evolving Through Practice …and Practice Evolving

Attention WEL-Systems Practitioners, Master Facilitators and Catalysts

Another Evolving Through Practice series is about to be launched in both in-person and teleclass editions. Offered exclusively to WEL-Systems alumni, Evolving Through Practice is an opportunity for you to continue your growth by engaging The CODE Model™ for on-going evolution …and for improving your skills in working with others.

The next Evolving Through Practice is offered by Gwen McCauley at the WEL-Systems Institute Program Centre on Saturday mornings from 9-12 on March 6, 13, 20 and 27. Maximum 6 participants are accepted. The format is an Open Forum exploration of what's unfolding in your life through the lens of The CODE Model. Under the guidance of a skilled facilitator, you have the opportunity to coach others through their life challenges using The CODE Model as your guide. And you discover just how resourceful you while learning how to make working with others a playful experience! For more details visit www.PortalsPassages.com/programs/alumni.htm#evolve

The next Evolving Through Practice Teleclass Edition is offered via teleconferencing on Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9:00 p.m. EST on March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and April 5th. Maximum 4 participants are accepted and the same Open Forum approach applies. For more details visit www.PortalsPassages.com/programs/alumni.htm#tele

Thought Waves

The following is the first installment of a four-part article that chronicles one person's journey of discovery through the four program levels of Portals Passages - intensives for accelerated consciousness and generative change. Koreen Kimakowich is an experienced police officer, with a long career in working with others in often difficult and sometimes dangerous situations. A Certified WEL-Systems Catalyst and CODE Model Coach™, Koreen shares her evolution with you and invites you to consider the potential for your own. This month, Koreen shares her Igniting the Self experience.

The Passage Way Back to Me

While I wasn't aware of it in the moment, the clarity of it now is simply awe inspiring. I came to realize that through WEL-Systems, I would find myself. As I discovered and wrote during Catalyst… "there comes that moment where trust in the MOMENTUM of your highest intention is what gets you there. That moment is now!" As I moved through the four levels of Portals Passages Certifications, I re-ignited my own Fire. It was a release filled with trepidation: a moment of suspension and then, gripping the awaiting trapeze, I engaged.

The coming thoughts reflect the passage way back to 'me' as I entered into the WEL-Systems, Portals Passage Certification Programs. At each level I chose to know, to live and to be at the deepest level of tissue that is me. While each of the Program Certifications increased my ability to engage effectively with others in their journey of self-discovery, it was clear to me that before any of that could take place, I had to find myself . "You can't give what you haven't got" became so very telling for me as I ventured through the Program Levels.

Igniting the Self (ITS) - The Awakening

The environment created for the Program experience invited me to engage 'self' and others in a way that compelled me to explore that which had long been put aside and forgotten. The choice was now mine to reclaim and re-ignite that flame that I knew existed and beckoned. Dying embers awaiting a breath of life - a breath that only I could give myself permission to inhale and release to feed my soul.

So I sought, became courageous in the room, and realized in the very initial opening days that life could no longer be about language alone. We are so much more. Language is what we use to externally express ourselves and yet, so much more is going on internally before the language is formulated and spoken. We must begin to pay attention to the body. It has so much to impart and does so willingly - yet because unseen, we dismiss it. It became time, "to wake up". Igniting the Self was the venue for that to occur to the degree that I was willing to engage… and like the plane awaiting take off, full throttle was I.

The program facilitators in their gentle, genuine knowing, created massive space for the unfolding to occur. No judgments, no opinions, no humiliation - just plenty of beautiful space to begin the discovery.

Prior to Igniting the Self, my life was quite likely very much like your own. Using logic and reason and the intellect to determine my path, I would frequently check outside myself - defer to other people and rules and expectations - to determine how to live my life. And then, quite suddenly and without warning, magic occurred for me… and within one process and a brief 30 minute time frame, I chose to take back my life!

A dis-ease that had for years plagued, bothered, inconvenienced and shamed me, simply had no more ways in which to serve me. Without the need for logic and the intellect, and without the need to talk about it and explore it and tell the story about it; and based solely in the energetic wave of information that moved through my body at phenomenal speed, a profound and significant reclaiming occurred. The message, or intelligence, that the dis-ease carried was finally given the space required to move through me and in that moment, I discovered myself to be so much more than my intellect! With the dis-ease's original intention realized or 'metabolized' by the exceptional organic bioprocessor that I am, I could now make room for a new and more resourceful response. In that moment, the dis-ease disappeared and to this day is simply non existent. I call that the First Wave.

I concluded Igniting the Self with a sense that my decision to continue this journey through these portals and passages and the four levels of certification was made completely out of my conscious awareness. For once in my life, I chose to hear and listen to my intuition. I had no idea where it would lead me… and I knew that I would not be disappointed!

Koreen Kimakowich
December 2003

Part II - Resourcefulness in Action - will appear in the March issue of ChoicePoints

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