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True Nature
When does a story start? Who knows where the threads that make up the fabric of a life come from or when they first showed up? There are three main threads in this story, and the first seems to have begun the day I started school, aged 5. I was enthralled by the whole experience. I loved my teacher, Miss Forehead, and made up my mind, on day one, that I would be a teacher when I grew up. My decision never wavered - and so seventeen years later, I experienced another first day at school, this time as a maths teacher. But it was not everything I’d dreamed of. I loved to teach, but my ‘disciplining’ was ineffective, and when my daughter was born a few years later, I swapped teaching for mothering. Not long after that, I discovered that I loved to teach adults, but it was to take many more years before I discovered what I really wanted to teach, and why.
Posted on 02 Apr 2009 by Marian Way in Life Purpose
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A Heart that Knows
When I attended the NLP Conference at Regent's Park in June 1999, little did I realise that this was the first in a number of steps that would change my life. I had heard of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling, but didn't really understand what it was, so when I heard James Lawley talking about Double Binds I was unprepared for the effect his talk would have on me. Here was someone who seemed to understand what it was like to get all tied up in knots by one's own thinking, and who offered hope that knotted thoughts may be able to be unravelled. I volunteered to be the demonstration subject and was soon sitting on a stool describing my metaphor landscape to the whole audience. Within three questions James had helped me to identify 'a heart that knows'...
Posted on 19 Sep 2004 by Marian Way in Life Purpose, Metaphor
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