[Neurons] Self-Actualization Workshop in Mexico

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From: L. Michael Hall

Self-Actualization Workshop - Mexico 

September 2007



In September I had the privilege of delivering the Ultimate Self-Actualization Workshop two times in Mexico, once in Mexico City and once in Monterrey. One thing that really stands out everywhere I go to present this training is that the idea of actualizing your highest visions and best potentials is one that captivates the minds and hearts of human beings everywhere. And at all levels of society regardless of economics, status, education, history, and experiences, we are a class of life in whom self-actualization is an innate drive. Maslow said that it is a human drive based in our biology.

This workshop presents the self-actualizing process as a drama -the human drama and as a drama in three acts. 

In Act I we enter the Construct to work with meaning, to discover meaning, to reclaim our powers of meaning-making, to explore the scale of meaning, the dimensions of meaning, to climb the ladder of meaning, to experience the Matrix of meaning, to extend meaning, to suspend meaning, to extinguish old ineffective meanings, to create layers of rich and robust meanings, to sacrilize and to become meaningful to the core. At the end of Act I people discover where meaning lives and their creator powers to invent meaning and to even do so "on the spot." 

In Act II we enter the Crucible. Actually we create it using 7 elements transformation so that we have a place-a sacred space for the melting down of old meaning forms and the reconstruction of new expressions. Unlike the Axis of Change Model, this is a very different change model. It lets change do its work on our constructs so they shape-shift as we enter the Crucible. 

In Act III we enter into the Zone. This is where we work on our actual performance and demonstrate the making-real of our potentials and capabilities. Here we at in an optimum state expressing our highest and best.

The trainings in Mexico were excellent.  What made it great for me was to work with people who are so absolutely passionate about actualizing their best!  The passion, commitment, and fun that they brought to the training made it a real delight.   The trainings were translated to Spanish (as was the 100 page Training Manual).  And that in itself presented numerous challenges.  Even the very term "self-actualization" does not translate well. So the term auto-realization was used, "to make real the self." 

While in Mexico City I had the opportunity to work with a dozen of our new Meta-Coaches, partly in preparation for the next Meta-Coach training there and partly to explore with them in more depth the Crucible change model of Self-Actualization. Until now I have not really understood how the Crucible works. Sure there's facets of it that I can explain or at least posit a hypothesis, but I have not been able to explain all of the dynamics that people experience. But I am getting closer and closer to understanding it. This was my first time for presenting a structural form for the Crucible and tying it more fully to the writings of Maslow, Rogers, Perls, etc.

While there I learned that there is in Mexico a "Human Development" movement, a movement of people who use Carl Rogers and those who are Gestalt Therapists (which is actually a pretty vigorous and vibrant model there). Juan Lafarga Corona was a colleague of Carl Rogers and in fact, was the person who translated his books into Spanish. He created a Journal for Human Development and has been the spearhead for keeping it alive there. So unlike the demise of the Human Potential Movement in English-speaking countries, there seems to have been this branch that continued ... at least using Rogers and Perls. Perhaps that's why Maslow's books in Spanish are still in print there.

Anyway, one of the new Meta-Coaches, Analu (also director of the first chapter of the MCF in Mexico), has made it possible for me to meet with Juan Lafarga Corona and perhaps to interview him at the Meta-Coach Training in October. If that happens, I will see if we can get that recorded so we can make it available.

So a big thanks to Omar Salom, Neuro-Semantic NLP Trainer in Mexico City and his partnerships with Pepe, Carlos, and Marisa and their team and to Maria Luisa Jimenez who is the NLP and Neuro-Semantic Training in Monterrey and director of the Training Center.






L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
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