To win in life you have to reach inside for the special genius and unique abilities that only you have. You don’t have a say in what happens to you. That’s up to life. You do have a say in how you live, and what you do with what you have been given. That is what the weekend is all about – bringing ‘you’ out into life. Go for it!
In addition to transforming the quality of my personal and family life, the skills I learned in the Training have been of direct practical value in my work as an investment manager. Not only have they helped me overcome the whipsaw of fear and greed of the marketplace, but they have also enabled me to take effective responsibility for difficult staff management problems, which hitherto I would have ducked.
I want to thank you for the most exciting weekend of my life. The word ‘I’ is now a very powerful word for me and I am beginning to appreciate myself for who I really am. I have been a furniture designer for many years and whenever I designed a new piece of furniture, I have lived and breathed the process. But I failed to notice that what I produce also actually contains me and is a part of me as well. Reflecting on this brings me real joy and happiness. I am beginning a new journey, and I am in it.
The More To Life Weekend I attended was the first and only such weekend I had ever signed up for, and I did so with grave reservations. I was suspicious of ‘quick fix’ self help courses, and anxious about committing my time and money to an unknown process, but I had met one of the Trainers and found him both kind and insightful. On a mutual dare my husband and I registered and we have not regretted our decision. The experience rearranged our lives and provided us with skills we continue to use in our marriage, our work, our friendships and our faith. The course is a hard challenging one that I recommend to anyone seeking more clarity about the forces that shape his or her life.
Early this month, I managed to slip away for an unforgettable life-changing experience. It was an intense 35-hour training session, familiar to many of our laity but unfortunately known to few clergy. I can say now it ought to be on our required experience list. It has profoundly touched my life with the most ingenious and creative application of truth and spirituality I have ever experienced. One need have no fears about its ‘orthodoxy’: it's all about truth-telling to ourselves and others – and wow, did I realize how badly we need more of that!
I learned more on this weekend than I did in years of reading about psychology. Not only is it educational, it is exciting, entertaining and moving: both an intellectual and an emotional experience. There is no area of my life which has not benefited from this.
I see the More To Life Weekend as a response to the various psychological courses available in America which fostered the ‘me’ generation. It demonstrated how much we excuse ourselves, how much we take the easy option by ‘economy with the truth’. It taught the absolute value, not just of telling the truth but of living within the truth.
During this course I found what I've been searching for: a sense of purpose about my life, a desire to make a difference in the world, and the conviction that my contribution really counts. Being involved with this work continually inspires me to give of myself, and live life to the full.