My life is undoing considerable loss this year. My godson suicided, my Mum passed sweetly, my grandson moved, my publishing company is closing, and my corporate facilitation practice and U Vic are done. My beloved Prius was written off after hitting black ice, my basement flooded, my tenants moved. So many roles have changed: godmother, daughter, grandmother, publisher, teacher, driver, landlady.

Who am I without all these stories?
Without these roles and responsibilities?
Who are YOU without yours?

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How do you know that you know?

It’s a good question and one that I now return to regularly when training facilitators. How do we know when something is true, real, correct?

AND, does it even matter when teachers, trainers, instructors just have to ‘get through the curriculum’?

I’m laughing at how broccoli has woven its way through my work.  As a child, I never really cared for broccoli.  I like it, it’s alright now, but I’m really not talking about the par-cooked, bright green vegetable that arrives on my plate beside my steak.  It looks fine.  I know it’s very good for me and I eat the broccoli.  But that’s not what I’m talking about.  I’m talking about broccoli, the fractal.

I must say, I’m pretty surprised at the title of the first chapter.  Something arose in class today that jolted this entire process into action. In response, the first conversation with myself is about celebrity, what it does in the classroom (or anywhere else the dynamic shows up), and how to manage/utilize it for the greater good.

In all of my classes, I constantly seek feedback.  Participants write it on cards, it’s anonymous, and they tell me something specifically that I did well that day that helped them to learn.  Then they tell me something very specifically that I could do for them the next day that would make it even better for them, to make it even better.  It is their learning after all and I am simply the facilitator of their learning so I need to know what’s going on.

On a feedback card, a student wrote about the apparent ‘clique’ of students who have worked with me in the past, and how some of the newcomers were actually feeling excluded or separate from this group.  As I read this piece of feedback out to the class the next morning, there was an immediate stirring of conversation.  Several of the veteran students who have worked with me before, jumped in (I could call it defensively…) to explain further what they really meant about this clique – this ‘Cult of Leslie’ they called it.  I moved from ‘caution’ to ‘alert’ when I heard this wording.

Several people said, ‘Yeah, it is. It’s like a Leslie Clique. It’s a Leslie Cult’ and it’s like they have inside knowledge, they’ve been through an initiation of ‘extreme andragogy’ or things vibrational.  They were feeling very much like they were on the inside of something.  They were very enthusiastic and very excited that others were about to go through this process, which I could see as a ‘good thing’.  Yet, in their enthusiasm, they were setting up a very different dynamic in the class.  One that excluded the others, that frustrated the others, made them feel ‘lesser than’ because they knew that there was something they needed to ‘get’ but they had no idea what it was or how to get it!

This place of having my own ‘cult’ it would seem then provided me with a very interesting energetic positioning.  The ego part of self, that misplaced, incorrect place, energetically speaking, was like, “Wow, I’ve got a cult!  How cool is that?”  Every other part of me was on high alert and concern about the incorrectness of this position.  There is no power there.  This is NOT a place from which to model the subtle nuances of facilitating adult learning.  We’ve had far too much of that in our school systems.

We’re used to being followers and fans in this culture of ours where every movie star has their fan club.  On Facebook, ‘I’m a fan of that’ or ‘I’m not a fan of that’ is the kind of languaging that we get on this world of texting and instant messaging.

And so I charged the class with walking their own talk rather than following me.  By all means, keep observing and learning from me and from each other, but when they put themselves in the position of being the ‘follower,’ that’s all they are.

Your thoughts?  Experiences?

The content of this book has been brewing in me for ten years or so and then downloaded through me in a catalytic pressure cooker created during a five day intensive summer delivery of Facilitating Adult Learning at the University of Victoria in the summer of 2009.  Thoughts, feelings, ideas, concepts kept pressing on me to be written even as I was waking or making breakfast in preparation for the day’s class.  I reached for a tape recorder and began talking and basically this is what came out.  The intensity of the downloads increased in step with the intensity of classroom discussions.

The purpose of this book is to record the beginning of a movement I feel is happening to reform teaching and learning as we know it.  Increasing vibrational frequencies plays an important role in the raising of consciousness as the shift happens. Einstein said we can’t solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it.  We can shift consciousness by increasing vibrational frequencies.  It’s a highly effective and sustainable option…if only we dare to go there.

And so, the languaging of this book is conversational.  It has not been edited for grammar or punctuation.  There is no APA referencing…yet.  That will come later as the conversation deepens and its form makes itself known…or not!  This book is simply a raw recording of a conversation about vibrational facilitation…as it emerges.  There is a refreshing clarity in just that.  Video clips are being made to continue the conversation online.  An Association of Vibrational Professionals is forming.  A PhD is becoming and will place this work firmly in the Academy for reference.  A movie is beginning with audio and video clips and early conversations with movie makers and funders.

The call is out.  Many people are being drawn into this conversation with their own ideas and perceptions and questions.  Now is the time.  We are the people.  Welcome in!