[Oe List ...] Inspired by Carlos, Lynn, Margaret, Marshall & Randy

[Robert A Griffin]

Right you are, Randy, and many of us have seen it happen, magically, again and again.

In 1977 or '78 I was on the Shinkansen [Bullet Train] headed for a LENS in western Japan.   The participants were going to be few, but the Shinkansen was loaded with businessmen in their dark blue suits and white shirts.  I thought, 'before the stop at the LENS site, could I find the ten men who were proficient enough in English that they would change their plans and invest the requisite three to four days that might change their lives forever?'  What a presumption that they had even open HOURS to change as they might want!

Ten years later, 1985 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ICA was invited by the president of the Alberta Mortgage and Housing Corporation to enable a LENS involving their 80 top managers from their locations across Alberta.  ICA gathered 14 to facilitate and led by Lee Early, lives were changed and the $80 million Canadian oil money was put to transforming lives across Alberta.  The president and vice presidents of the corporation KNEW something radical was required to bring a new unity and purpose for the investment and work of the provincial corporation.

In 1983, heading toward "Sharing Approaches that Work" Muriel Griffin and Ilona Staples called on the Kipotaka Tribal Council and with the acknowledgement that the ICA had spiritual undergirding a chain of events resulted in the Kipotaka people sending 10 of their own to Delhi and on around the world.  

The impact of their contacts with native communities in Australia and New Zealand led to the gathering of 800 Native Canadians and Americans in 1985 at Williams Lake in British Columbia.  They came together to share approaches that were working toward ending the abuse of alcohol and drugs in their communities 'by 2000.'  In 2007 Muriel and I traveled with David and Adele Pogue across BC and Yukon Territory and people told me of changes which had taken place in their communities and in the lives of local residents.

Lives have been, and continue to be, existentially changed where the methods are trusted.

Keep the faith and the march going forward, Bob Griffin in the Pioneer Valley, western Massachusetts






 
'That's what everything in the curriculum, from RS-1 to LENS, was designed to do, and they all did it without exception.'  Randy Williams

 		 	   		  
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