The Motivation Source

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In order to follow through on creating a conference, let alone anything else time and energy consuming, there has to be a motivating purpose.

In the case of Psychosynthesis: At the Heart of Systems Transformation, this came  from the Divine Source of guidance on one's life path.  The Divine came to me in a personified form, a woman who had been a friend, a colleague, a guide in my own psychosynthesis training, and a role model to me.

Her name is Martha Crampton, one of the original pioneers in bringing psychosynthesis to North America. She moved on to a non-physical realm in 2009, but her Soul still had some unfinished business - to assure that life coaching and psychosynthesis would become dance partners.

This is how it happened.

The pioneer of transpersonal life coaching in North America trained Martha. In the course of their relationship they created a psychosynthesis life coaching training which never got saved for future editing and presentation. Pat Williams related to me that Martha was committed to life coaching being introduced to the psychosynthesis community for various compatible correlations between the two. He added that empowering the will of a client  to act on a life purpose was a difficult part of the healing process and that  his life coaching approach was a valuable addition.

Didi  was creating a transformational coaching course about the same time that Pat and I were having these conversations. She offered research reports that had been done and pointed out that life coaching was gaining popularity in the the world of healing arts.

A North American conference was coming up.Messages from Martha in meditations indicated that the conference would be a perfect dance floor for introducing life coaching to psychosynthesis practitioners and psychosynthesis to life coaching practitioners.

Pat was asked, and he accepted to present the opening keynote at the conference. Didi was asked and accepted to present psychosynthesis transformational coaching at the closing of the conference.

A concerted effort was made to reach out to life coaches, especially in the area near where the conference would be.  Thousands of coaches were contacted. None came forward. I have to confess that to do this was not communicated by Martha in my meditation time where I received her guidance.

There was a good deal of controversy around this strategy which soon subsided as psychosynthesists resigned to the direction we were going, perhaps beginning to understand why. I never mentioned, until the last few weeks, that I was receiving guidance from Martha in my meditations focused on the conference.

I found two photos I took many years ago, of Martha. I put them together in one frame. One showed her with her most beautiful and radiant smile that communicated loving acceptance to the receiver. The other was a side view where her strong will was a constant reminder that the direction of this conference was correct.

The conference proceeded as was intended and was a total success.  I have only heard one person remark that she has not bought into coaching still - but that is fine - the plan was not to produce buy-ins, it was to affirm the coaching dynamic in psychosynthesis already present and to clear the transpersonal dance floor for psychosynthesis and life coaching to strut their stuff in high style.

 Done.

Yes, the Divine can be called God and Martha could as easily have been a face of Jesus. I, however, am who I am and have  learned to pay attention to the still small voice resounding from my heart, which comes in a vast reservoir full of metaphors and images, appropriate for the moment.

Who is a personification of the Divine for you - other than the traditional divinities of your religion - who in essence guide you through the impossible?