I am copying here a recent email I sent to the "Nonviolent Communication and Abundance Project" that I co-founded with fellow NVC trainer, Francois Beausoleil.
It's about a topic that has a lot of juice for me lately -- how does the notion of abundance and sufficiency relate to Compassionate Communication.
Some questions that have come alive in me:
Q: Can I be in integrity receiving money in exchange for sharing NVC?
Q: Are NVC and Abundance Consciousness in harmony? Are they the same thing?
I want to share with you the single most effective "Key to Success" I have found in creating an abundant income for myself sharing NVC:
** Breathing Life into events that I organize **
WHAT DO I MEAN BY "BREATHING LIFE" INTO AN EVENT?
I hold events as though they are living organisms that require care and nurturing, much like a puppy dog requires nurturing from its mother, or human baby needs nurturing from his or her caregivers.
Too often, I perceive that facilitators and organizers "go through the motions" of organizing and promoting an event -- reserving a room, writing an email, hanging up a few fliers -- however if the event was a living organism, it would be on life support.
The event seems like it's hanging out in thin air, just waiting for someone -- anyone -- to \ breathe life / into it.
Although this might sound ambiguous, my objective is to bring the event to life, so that it becomes a living organism.
In other words, I BREATHE LIFE into the event. The way I think about it, the way I talk about it, and the way I feel inside myself about it is FULLY ALIVE.
When I do this, an amazing thing happens -- people show up.
They show up with curiosity; they show up with intrigue; and most of all, they arrive ready to learn and integrate what I have to offer.
MY QUESTION FOR YOU:
So my question to you is this: Are you willing to think the thoughts, feel the feelings, and take the actions necessary to create your work so that it's a living organism?
Are you willing to "breathe life" into your work in such a way that it comes alive and becomes an attractive force for others to join with you?
1 comment:
I wonder if your input of life energy into your work is similar to what a parent does for a child ... I know a lady who works with a challenged child, and she does see their wholeness and so breathes life and wholeness into the child - and has seen great results.
More to your point, however, is my awareness that I don't breathe life into my work - & that I don't often breath life into myself. That makes any effort to positively inflate an aspect of my world exponentially difficult.
Its only been when doing some form of exercise or meditation that I think to positively inflate myself. I do things from "have to" and not from "want to". A few times I've gotten it, to value myself, to love myself, but I've never taken it further - into my work.
Your comment is an act of extreme consciousness and I applaud you for it.
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