Thoughts and Reflections on The Beauty Engine Guide Training with Kazu, Katzu, Kuzuki, Naoko, Yumiko, Atsuko (name spelling?) From Professor Violet Mission Control in March, 2007
The following are reflections on our first Guide Training session here at Mission Control-San Francisco with our Japanese friends.
Together we went on an amazing 4 day journey; with much learning, sharing and connecting occurring, all with the assistance of the Beauty Engine framework. Core themes such as Cocreation, Authenticity, Joy, Passion, Playfulness, Accountability and Creativity were explored as positive factors in assisting with building and maintaining successful community. Each of our guides-in-training proved to hold much wisdom and understanding of the 6 core Beauty Engine concepts we explored during that period. I experienced an amazing level of focus, dedication, curiosity, openness on behalf of each participant and was consistently impressed with the level of depth and intention behind every question poised. Language and cultural differences poised very valuable and often funny challenges to the learning process and only served to bring us closer together as a group. Each guide proved to have very distinct and valuable gifts and offerings which were enjoyed by all. By the third day and final Beauty Engine Salon, the group shared a wonderful quality of connection I have always dreamed could be possible with Beauty Engine. As guides, we found that we all shared a powerful vision and commitment to facilitating experiences, being of service to Planetary Renaissance, playful learning, personal empowerment and smooth group process.
The final closing session was the most powerful for me and the most meaningful. We all shared such a sense of connection and committment that I felt quite emotional and teary-eyed, a good thing! My sense of connection to these guides which most I had only known for a short time was quite intense. Overall, I felt as sense of overwhelming Unity and Peace, being together in circle with these exemplary human beings. An incredible warmth came over me, a feeling as if all my life efforts in service to a world of Harmony, Beauty and Joy were being received by equals As a result of our efforts and our willingness to be open and learn from one another, to share our visions and dreams, our laughter….I felt a very real and powerful ‘Rainbow Bridge’ establishing itself between us and our collective organizations/communities. I left this final experience with a feeling that these guides-in-training from Japan were truly dedicated to integrating and applying the Beauty Engine framework into their projects, communities and lives. If Beauty Engine were a tree, in that moment more than any other before…i could feel its branches and roots spreading out, going forth- The new growth of green leaves shimmering in the light of a New World.