You were born with vast potentials, and profound mechanisms that assist you to reach those potentials.
Our world is full of great problems, yet human history is a continual story of triumph over great problems. What impedes the solution of current problems is not their “greatness” but how we feel about them. Frustration, fear, sadness, anger, bitterness and exhaustion slow or corrupt every teacher, counselor, or reformer who truly cares, and immobilize those that care but haven’t yet taken a stand.
Humanity’s next truly important technological breakthrough will be the widespread healing of human pain, anger and fear. Immense strides have been made in this area. The crucial realization was that lasting emotional healing can only take place in a radically caring and hopeful context. “Institutional” relationships fall short of the necessary depth, sincerity and commitment. Despite their often heroic attempts, counselors who listen to fifty to eighty people per week — with no one to listen to them — cannot stand up to the substantial lifetime abuse that mostly everyone endures in this society. Without training, it’s very rare for a counselor to maintain enough uplift in their life, enough inspiration-courage-love-beauty-hope-healing, to counter the downtow of all their clients’ struggles and all their own struggles, on top of the downtow of the world we live in.
In the model the Institute for Basic Change uses you develop a team of your own choosing, learn skills for overcoming relationship tensions – for deepening trust and commitment, and create a think-tank devoted to the excellence of your life and work. With your think-tank of trainers you do the strategizing, analysis, training and emotional healing necessary for that excellence. You make a reciprocal commitment to the life and career quality of the members of your team. Members of the think-tank equally exchange training, support and counseling without charge, so most of the benefit you receive is entirely free.
Another decisive advantage of these trainings over traditional therapies is that everyone is instructed in playing the role of trainer/counselor. When one is in this role: hearing/considering/inspiring your training partner, and their struggles are similar to yours, there is a great, life-changing freedom to see solutions to one’s own personal struggles which weren’t apparent before. These same skills make you a priceless source of encouragement to friends, co-workers and family.
In our culture of quick fixes, this crucial work never goes as quickly as you would like it to, but your life consistently becomes better than you imagined it could. No matter what roads you have been down, you have an untouchable, brilliant core of humanity in you, which can move you toward the future you deserve.
