ChoicePoints June 2006
This issue released: June 08, 2006
"As we open to, embrace and trust the truth of our own experience, we become the model to our sons and daughters for the journey of their own evolution. When we betray ourselves, we are all diminished – and the world weeps."
Louise LeBrun
We also invite you to read the ChoicePoints Archives for items you may have missed.
Spotlight On — New Book Now Available!
Hot off the press!
Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius
How does a powerful woman get that way?
How does she define 'power' for herself?
And when she discovers that power, how does she live?
This latest offering from the WEL-Systems Institute Publications is a collaborative book project created and led by Louise LeBrun, with the contributions of 17 amazing women.
“I’ve spent my life working with women…watching them move through huge challenges and finding their way back to themselves. The women of the Sekhmet Rising book project are living examples of how we can all make a difference in our own lives – right now! - just being who we are. And they are clear in their recognition that the first thing each of them had to do was come face-to-face with herself”.
Written by women, for women and about women, each chapter is a unique expression of the life of its author. Powerful, provocative and authentic in its invitation to you to reconsider your own life, each of the women in this book opens her life to you so that you become more willing to explore your own.
Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius is a recognition of and celebration of a woman's journey into her own power. These women are invitational... motivational... inspirational! In the pages of the Sekhmet Rising book, you'll meet women who are engineers, artists, police officers, physiotherapists, economists and university professors. You'll step into the lives of women who have healed themselves from depression, MS, Crohn's, panic attacks, eating disorders - considered impossible in an allopathic medical model. You'll journey with women of all colors, shapes and sizes; from first-time writers to experienced published authors who range in age from 26 to 81.
For women, Sekhmet Rising is a tapestry of potential, with the lives of each woman a strand that tells the story of their own unfolding. Each story invites insights and reclaimed personal assurance in knowing that if she can, then so can you! Let yourself be awakened and guided by these courageous women.
For men, Sekhmet Rising opens a window into the world of how women move so differently through the challenges in their lives. Consider the women in your life – mothers, mates, sisters and daughters – and be the one to offer them a new path to living their lives more powerfully.
Are you living the life you want or the one you think you’re stuck with?
Browse the stories or read from cover to cover. Almost 300 pages that will inspire, amuse, challenge and entertain you! You’ll begin to awaken to an awareness inside yourself that if it’s going to change, it’s up to you.
Order your copies now!
Special
Offer: Until
September 2006, get your copies now at the reduce price of $20 (plus
applicable taxes, S/H - regular retail price is $25 each)
Consider Sekhmet Rising as your gift to the women you care about. Get your
copy and an extra for your friend… daughter… sister… mother! Imagine how
much more powerful your conversations could become!
Order additional copies to share with others! Consider creating your own clusters of women in conversation for their own potential, letting Sekhmet Rising be your guide.
Book Signings Coming Up: Check out the Book Signing Schedule for your opportunity to meet your local Contributing Authors. Take a break – and make time for yourself to explore and discover in conversation with other women on a similar journey. Books will be available for sale.
Today's Thought
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. "
John Stuart Mill
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: June to August
Self Healing and Recovery from MS (SHARMS™)
with Eva Marsh - recovery from MS and other neurological disorders. |
June 28 |
Sekhmet Rising: The Call to Awaken
Women gathering in conversation with other women. |
July 13 |
Resourcefulness in Action
WEL-Systems Coaching Practicum. |
July 15 - 21
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Igniting the Self
WEL-Systems Facilitator Certification. |
July 17 - 21
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Influencing with Intention
WEL-Systems Master Facilitator Certification. |
July 24 - 30
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Sekhmet Rising: The Call to Awaken
Women gathering in conversation with other women. |
August 8
Fredericton, NB |
Sekhmet Rising: The Call to Awaken
Women gathering in conversation with other women. |
August 10
Saint John, NB
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The listing above only shows the first scheduled date for Ottawa Ontario. For
more details and the complete program schedule, see
www.WEL-Systems.com/schedule.htm
Quick Updates
Toronto – Sekhmet Rising Book Signing
Join Louise, Gwen and other Contributing Authors from the Toronto area! You’ll have the opportunity to be among the first to get your copies of Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius.
Toronto – June 17 th – Valhalla Inn – 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Pre-registration required; light refreshments provided.
To reserve your space email: Toronto@WEL-Systems.com
Attention New Brunswick : Sekhmet Rising Events in August
The Call to Awaken will be offered in Fredericton and Saint John , New Brunswick in August. You’re invited to engage with Louise and Pat Donihee – a Contributing Author to the Sekhmet Rising book project – in a full day of conversation for exploration and discovery.
Pre-registration is required. See links above for details and to register.
Catalytic Conversations - 2 New CDs Now Available!
The list of compelling conversations continues to grow!
We’re adding to the growing list of compelling conversations with two new explorations: Parenting and Women and Leadership.
Join Louise in conversation with Jackie Zirpdji of Ottawa on Parenting; and Cathy Carmody of Halifax on Women and Leadership.
To order your copy, visit our Product's Page.
Art & the Power of Women – July 13 & 14, 2006
Gwen McCauley & Dominique Dennery combine their passion for art with their organizational expertise and leadership wisdom to offer women in corporate environments an opportunity for a refreshing new exploration of the power and leadership conversation. Based in their strong belief that we are all innately creative, Gwen and Dominique use painting and sculpture as the vehicles for exploring aspects of leadership and power that can’t be seen from traditional approaches to these conversations.
Participants will have the opportunity to rediscover just how creative they are and their capacity to bring a sense of play and curiosity back to their leadership so that they can produce even more powerful results. For more information visit Art & the Power of Women or e-mail Art@Wel-Systems.com.
Registration deadline is July 11th.
Recovery from MS – Workshop in Ottawa
Eva Marsh, WEL-Systems Catalyst and CODE Model Coach, will be at the Institute June 28th to offer her ground-breaking workshop on self-recovery from MS. SHARMS™ (Self Healing And Recovery from MS) is an opportunity to find out more about and experience Eva’s secrets for her own process of recovery from MS. For more information or to register, contact Eva@evamarsh.net
Igniting the Self and Resourcefulness in Action – July Offerings
It’s not too late to register for Igniting the Self scheduled for July 17-2, 2006. June 29th is the registration deadline!
Igniting the Self has become a 5-day experience fully focused on the power of WEL-Systems to support you in reconnecting to the essence of Self and discovering your capacity to live life creatively and with great passion. Igniting the Self is a powerhouse invitation for you to rediscover what has gotten lost or glossed over from the pressures of daily living.
For more information, visit www.portalspassages.com/programs/its.htm. To register, visit www.portalspassages.com/flame/register07.htm or contact Louise at Louise@WEL-Systems.com.
If you’ve already completed Igniting the Self and are ready for more it is likely time for Resourcefulness in Action. Take your growth and evolution to the next level. Discover deeper truths about yourself and your perceptions of the world around you. Learn about yourself through your engagement with others, guided by daily coaching experiences. While there is no requirement to move on to Resourcefulness in Action, it is not unusual for there to come a time when our clients begin to feel restless, when a desire for more begins to move in the body, when the urge for big, meaty conversations cannot be denied!
Scheduled in Ottawa for July 15-21, 2006, more information about Resourcefulness in Action is available at www.portalspassages.com/programs/ria.htm.
To register, visit www.portalspassages.com/feather/register07.htm or contact Louise at Louise@WEL-Systems.com.
It’s a Happening World - Interviews on the Web
Two new interviews are available on It’s a Happening
World this month. My money conversation with Mike
DiLauro, CMA continues with Part 2. This time we talk about Meaning
Trumps Money .
I also met with Lorna LeBrun and we chatted about what it is like for her to become a published author at age 81. Listen to It’s Never Too Late to hear Lorna’s perspective on the experience of contributing a chapter to the new Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius book.
Visit It's a Happening
World to
hear all my Interviews on the Web.
Your Opportunity to Make a Difference
In the coming year , we'll be working on a new book that will pull all of the WEL-Systems body of knowledge together, in one place - from its origins in the mid-80's to its current expression. Right now, you would have to read three books (Fully Alive from 9 to 5! , Phoenix Rising and When the Horse Dies, Get Off... ) to cover the context (WEL-Systems model of the world), the framework for enquiry (The CODE Model™) and the intervention/experience (Quantum TLC™ - and there would still be information missing.
By this time next year, there will be one book that covers it all. The working title for this book is: Portals Passages: The Magic of WEL-Systems ~ The Miracle of Your Life. If your life has been touched by the magic of a WEL-Systems perspective, we'd like to include your story in this new book.
We want to hear from you! We know that our clients have
profoundly reshaped their world and how they move through it from something
as simple as reading one of our books or listening to our original and cutting-edge
audio material, or through completion of the more extensive and intensive
Mystery School experiences. We also know that your willingness to share
the truth of your own experience is often the key to inspiring someone else
to take the leap to creating a more meaningful life for themselves. Allowing
others to bear witness to your personal transformation is their encouragement
and invitation to experience their own.
If you'd like us to include the story of your WEL-Systems journey and its impact on your life, send us an email at Louise@WEL-Systems.com and let us know. No need to worry about how it's written - we'll work with you so that it says what you want it to say.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Magic and Miracles
Read about Jackie Zirpjdi's continuing discoveries from her Igniting the Self experience:
"I entered the Igniting The Self (ITS) experience five years ago. I remember distinctly the feeling that I had registered for a course that would support me in developing the skills I required in my new career as coach. I discovered much more than a set of skills in that experience. What I discovered was the beginning of a journey of self-discovery, discovery of beliefs and strategies that were playing out in my life in ways that were not serving me. I began the journey of reclaiming my Self. It no longer became about coaching. It became about me and who I was in this world, wherever I went whether that be as coach, as mother, as participant in this world.
Five years later, I know that I have found many things that you may also be looking for. I have found my sense of purpose. I have found my voice. I have found a context that guides my conversations and my decisions, those that happen inside of me as well as those that happen with others. I have reclaimed the power of my body to process information. I have found a community of people that are awake to the realities that they see around them and are hopeful that there is a better way for us to engage life. I have found an acute awareness of the responsibility that I have in creating my life and the freedom that accompanies that responsibility and I have found a desire to share that hopefulness with others. These discoveries are at the core of how I engage life at so many levels in the day-to-day events and decisions of my life. I would not want to be coach or mother, the two things that I hold most preciously in my experience of life, without having made the discoveries that I did in Igniting The Self.”
Jackie Zirpdji, Transformations+, Chelsea, Que.
The next offering of “Igniting the Self” in Ottawa will take place July 17 – 21, 2006.
Thought Waves
When the Game of Learning
Equals
Silencing the Signal from SELF
by Céline Levasseur Burlock
The following thoughts on school and its connection to - or disconnection from! - the growth of our children is offered by Céline Levasseur Burlock. A Certified WEL-System® Catalyst and CODE Model Coach™, Céline is also a contributing author to the just-released Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women's Genius.
Would it be idealistic to see your child going to a school made up of a collective who shared one vision and intention: the creation of a space where students could pursue their own evolution in ways that are meaningful to them? The implication would be: no precise curriculum-based outcomes; no externally-referenced authority as power; no organizational inner structure that created homogeneous behavior; no time schedule; and, certainly, no marking or ranking. Pure and simple - individuals taping into the genius of their own inspiration, freedom of choice, inner direction, a higher order of thoughts and inquiries and, most of all, their unique expression of Self purely engaged from moment to moment. Nothing less.
What have we modeled?
I’ve worked with countless clients who have been both children and parents. I’ve also been an educator in public schools for approximately 12 years, during which time I’ve engaged with students of all ages, with educators and with parents. And do you know what I’ve discovered? I’ve discovered that we all agree on one thing: our family and educational systems are collapsing. The way we used to know it to be, is disintegrating and trouble prevails. There is a growing need for a higher level of inquiry and new ways of looking at what we’ve created. Intuitively or deep inside there is a knowing - a sense that our educational system is failing to deliver the promise of its declared mission, not always supporting the needs and demands of the diversity of its young members’ population.
The educational system’s rigorous demands to follow, implement and deliver a curriculum based on outcomes pre-established by the so-called experts on the matter of a child’s education, is increasing the demand for memorized content and certain acceptable behaviors to fit the Newtonian perspective - a worldview that reinforces external referencing. All individual responses are assessed against this external standard with the intention to mold the young students’ responses to reflect the norm of the collective.
Parents, for the most part, are creating environments that are totally unsupportive to the upbringing of their own children. As a result of all of this, we witness our children rebelling, exhibiting destructive behaviors towards themselves and their peers, and parents feeling more and more un-resourceful, at the end of their rope, and powerless. Educators are experiencing a daily Fire raging within their bodies, expressed as frustration, helplessness, and desperation.
What I’ve noticed is that our kids are the mirror of our own reflection of our disconnection from Self - the godforce that we are. The more we create externally referenced experiences, the more we disconnect from Self. The more we witness and say it is something else, lie about it and pretend, the more an incongruence is expressed through our bodies, actions and speech and the more our kids pick up on that signal.
Our children are showing us the fruits of our creation and what we have become. Yet when they show us, how do we respond? We quickly silence them, in body, mind and spirit. We lie, we become inauthentic to ourselves and to them by dismissing the truth of their own experience often proclaiming that what they see and experience isn’t real. We pretend and cover up, use corporal punishment, verbal, emotional abuse, mind control, and the last one - which I will elaborate on later – that of medicating for the sake of learning, conformity and control. That’s right! The practice of medicating our kids to silence them to bring submission, to comply with the systems – adding to the mind-share of homogeneous sustainability and predictability. This conversation brings up huge internal Fire for lots of people.
I invite each of you who wants more – is longing for more! - to actually give yourself at least the permission to consider that there are other ways to perceive the intelligence of what our kids are expressing from that label of ‘ADD’ – consider the intelligence behind it. Meet your own Fire, it holds lots of wisdom.
Personally, to even consider that medication is the ‘solution’ is a lot of ‘bull’ to me. How many of you actually know from personal experience - when you go to see your medical doctor, and talk a bit about your so called problems - how quick they are to give you a prescription to alter your moods? You can now buy them just like Smarties. How many of you know that using these drugs does not solve your issues? Never has and never will! You will always come face-to-face with yourself every time you look at your reflection in the mirror. The use of prescribed drugs doesn’t give you the opportunity to claim your life back. Yet, we do to our kids the same thing, with the illusion that this is all in the name of learning and focus and who knows what else!
Maybe it’s not what it seems.
Maybe it’s about paying attention. Paying attention to something else - to the intelligence behind the expression of what we have come to call ‘ADD’. Behind what we perceive as behavioral problems and challenges; the lack of attention, focus and clarity - all of that which is behind the label of Attention Deficit Disorder. This article is not written to be nice about what is perceived to be - the “this is what it is”. This article is written to challenge what we perceive to be the “is” - to challenge the status quo. What we hold in mass consciousness is true and real in our interaction with our kids. The invitation is huge to meet with our own Fire within, so we can come face-to-face with ourselves. WE are the creators of what we now witness in our kids. What we now see - rampant as ADD - has intelligence. Our kids are showing us some valuable information. Are we ready to be honest with ourselves?
What I’ve discovered for myself, and as I have engaged with my clients, are the gifts that our children are to us. One thing I have noticed, relating to the experience of so-called ADD, is that when there are conflicts within parents, between what they are told they are experiencing and what their external reality should be; and, the truth of their own inner experience, children experience this as internal confusion/chaos. You would have your head spinning as well if you received mixed messages. The messages that are coming from your external world and who you are told you are, (or what you should be experiencing), are not congruent with what you are actually experiencing and processing in your body. In the midst of it all, what we actually model to our kids is to mistrust ourselves, to disconnect from our own knowing and inner wisdom. One big way we continue to stay disconnected, is by using prescription drugs.
Without exception, every time I have worked with parents and children who exhibit an expression of what our allopathic medical model calls ADD, the child was in the presence of conflict between family members - mostly parents - at a personal level, around parenting styles and opinions, power struggles, or unprocessed issues from parents – all adding up to incongruence between what the child was told was happening in their family system and what the child actually experienced and sensed. I, myself had to come face-to-face with that one in my own creation of my own family.
One common belief that members of the ADD association hold and actually speak of as educational information, is that children are born with ADD as if it is a dysfunction. They claim it is genetic. To that I strongly say bullshit!. With new discoveries in quantum science we know this is not how it really unfolds. We now know that we are not controlled by our genes, that DNA is not the driver of the body. Our mind, our thought patterns and our beliefs shape our DNA and our body. Not the other way around. (I would invite you to read The Biology of Belief by Dr Bruce Lipton, for more information). If we can change our mind, we can also change our biology. Isn’t it exciting to know that you can actually take your life into your own hands and can shape it the way you intend? And yet, for some people that is too much responsibility and they prefer giving their power of choice to DNA. No matter what, we always create it all.
Is it really about learning?
Maybe it is no longer about learning. Our kids are often expressing how they are bored. We almost never ask them how they want to engage their day, almost never discuss what interests them. We just hold the presupposition that they have to explore subjects in an environment called school and that somehow, all of that will serve them, eventually. Because the school systems were created to homogenize the collective to create good/conformist employees for the industrial age, doesn’t mean this is the age we are in. We are now in the quantum age and our kids are more attuned to what they want and do not want.
Let’s face it. Is it really about learning - collecting data and details, storing them in our intellect? I can watch the news and learn that there has been an earth quake and that people are dying everywhere. I am sure you watch the news as well. And yet really and honestly I’m asking you this question - did this practice ever transform your life? Science is now telling us that the Newtonian worldview - that mechanistic, take it all apart, break it down to make sense of it, worldview, is the foundation of our learning institutes. Our school systems are fractals of that, imbedded ways of looking at the world. Personally I am clear that it is not about learning, it is about growth.
Growth as a biological imperative.
The new science also tells us that our body is a quantum biological processor designed to process huge amounts of information. We as living organic beings, and we thrive when we are growing and evolving. In order to grow, three things are required: Space, Movement and Flow. Growth is the biological imperative of an organic living system. All living organisms have a natural intelligence. In order to sustain ourselves as a living experience, growth is necessary. The creation of open loop systems will sustain the experience of the life force in our bodies, minds and spirits, which will then be reflected back to our work, school and family systems - our own created systems body - fractals of who we are. With growth as a biological imperative the promise is that we will always unfold and become more.
What we’ve been creating so far is sustaining the experience of closed loop systems - with our illusion of control, sustainability and predictability.
Our kids want to thrive and grow. They demand truth and authenticity. They want to be part of sustaining and supporting open loop systems. My sense is that the reason we witness youth gangs being formed, is that the system they are in, is just not doing it for them. So they create their own family/educational unit with the intensity of the rage/Fire energy they carry related to the previous one they had to let go of.
Regardless of how painful it is for us to acknowledge it, what we’ve created is deadly. Can we trust ourselves enough to know that we all have what it takes inside of us, to rewrite our history? Are we up to even dealing with the truth of our own existence? We’ve created the environment for our children - they didn’t. We’ve created these deadly systems harboring predictability, control and closed loops. The systems were there before our children arrived on the planet and they are mirroring our insanities - showing us that what we’ve manifested as a collective is no longer working, nor is it life sustaining. Are we paying attention? Or are we continuing to have the same conversation over and over, contributing to sustaining and adding to the status quo of saying yes and participating with the flow of mass consciousness birthing the same insanity? Who have we become in this process as a society? The question to be considered is, who are our children becoming? As I grow older, I certainly hold the desire to manifest only what will sustain my life. One sure way for me to do this is by staying awake and continually being aware of what I am manifesting as I engage with this young generation.
Céline Levasseur Burlock, B.Ed. is a seasoned Certified CODE Model Coach™, a WEL-Systems® Catalyst, Reiki Master/Teacher. She is the founder of Life Unlimited…and Potential, a business to which Céline brings a deep commitment and passion for leading individuals to experience massive transformation. Catalyst for Growth and accelerated evolution, writer, entrepreneur, educator, program leader, Céline creates space for individuals to discover their own innate brilliance and unlimited potential.
Céline is a contributing author to the newly published book ‘Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius’. You can reach Céline at levasseurcel@yahoo.com.
