The 4th Advanced Course in the Manila
I completed the Advanced Course in November, 2004. At the time it cost Php 22,500.00 which was way over my income then. I remember being in a registration conversation with my dear friend Nico who - bless his heart inspired me with this golden liner:
"Be a clearing for miracles and allow the universe to occur for you."
So I registered. At the time I was working as a writer for a congressman; doing house bills, research, and motions. I learned a great deal about policymaking on the job but, being a government employee did not afford me an income that can accomodate the tuition for the Advanced Course.
Having been "in the conversation" since the first Landmark Forum in May 2002, I had access to the power of declaration and the committment behind it. I got that being powerful is not deciding on a course of action determined by the favorable circumstances surrounding it. Being powerful is making a committment to a result in the face of disagreeable circumstances and contingencies.
I had no idea where I was to generate the money for the rest of the tuition. What happened within a week of my registering is that I actually got a job interview in a growing locally-owned contact center and miracle of miracles: I was hired on the spot!
What was more astonishing is that the company gave me a contract that offered 30% more money than what I asked, and with it a position in management. I couldn't believe my excellent fortune! Imagine, I invented my career in Training and Organization Development during my Landmark Forum, and I was reaping the benefits at the onset of my Advanced Course!
Just over a year after my Advanced Course, I am now a manager in human resources and the chief organization development resource in my company. Aligned with the possibility and committment I declared with my batchmates in the course, I have registered 13 people from the company to the Landmark Forum and 4 of them are participating in the Advanced Course next month.
As I share this with you, I got what "being a stand" is all over again. Nico did not give in to my reasonableness in his registration conversation and I got how committed he is to my life. A lot of times we get stopped in our registration conversations in the face of strong reasons fed to us by the people we are committed to contribute to.
Had Nico been stopped by my reasons and did not let me fill out the blue registration card anymore, then the possibility that I am, and the self-expression in the world that I am - now living in the lives of others, would be dead.
To the Advanced Course registration team, be unstoppable in the face of no agreement. We are speaking to people who get what possibility is and it's our blessed work to engage them in this joyful conversation.
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The Advanced Course
Create a future of your own design.
Each of us has a sense of something possible beyond the ordinary. Each of us has moments when something about our lives, our family, our community, our world awakens in us a sense of possibility. Each of us has glimpses of that most fundamental of all possibilities - that life really could be extraordinary. The Advanced Course is based on the premise that each of us can enjoy that life now - an extraordinary life, a life of possibilities.
Almost everything we know argues that living powerfully is accomplished by skillfully building on the past. The Advanced Course poses that exactly the opposite is true - that the most important determinant of our success, of who we are, and of how we function, is not the past but the future.
The Advanced Course reveals the true power and possibility available to each of us as human beings - a power derived not from what is predictable but from what is possible. This course leaves you with the technology for creating and designing a future that is informed by the past but is in no way limited by the past. It gives a completely different quality to life in the present - a freedom to live powerfully now.
In This Program
You will:
• Generate a life vision,
anchored in reality, in
which you and others
can become fully
engaged.
• Acquire the know-how to
translate your vision
into practical,
effective action.
• Step outside familiar,
habitual ways of thinking
to invent new
perspectives and
approaches to being
and acting.
• Develop a facility for
recognizing things as
they are - distinct from
your hopes, preferences,
and fears.
• Stop trying to "get
somewhere," stop
"becoming," and
experience joy and
satisfaction in being
yourself now.
• See your worries and
concerns from a
different light so that
they no longer diminish
your effectiveness, but
actually forward your
commitments.
• Gain power in dealing
with day-to-day issues
and upsets. Be able to
address them
consistently, powerfully,
and effectively.
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