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Our America

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This story is by Georgette Duncan, and it tells why she created the ‘Our America’ project in Landmark Education’s Team, Management and Leadership Program.

Our America! TELEVISION FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD

Every year, 1.4 million immigrants come to the United States seeking
a better life. They follow in the footsteps of all Americans who’ve come to this land over millennia to weave a wonderful tapestry of culture and history. This is the chronicle of our journeys, our struggles, our stories:

Our America showcases the individual and community stories that capture the essence of millions of lives today. In each episode, we tell the story of individuals and families from one particular country. By following immigrants and highlighting their home country, we capture the rich and diverse contributions of many cultures to the American experience.

Celebration:

Each week we celebrate the struggles and successes of immigrant families. Regular segments highlight special issues, from immigration
law to workplace diversity, education, and the arts. My name is Georgette Duncan and people call me Juja. I’m a First Generation Immigrant.

Before Landmark one of my stories was – I’m talking broken English, people can’t understand me, or I’m talking funny, I’m not American, my customers will prefer Americans (it is easier to work with them), people do not take me seriously for very bad accent. With one word – not accepted. After I’ve realized my story (even look so real to me); the possibilities of love, acceptance, affinity and unity arise and an idea for the Immigrant show pop up as a bigger picture of the struggles immigrants face to be accepted in their new country.
I intend to create a one hour weekly TV program, the “Our America” Show for Immigrants as a space where immigrants are shown with the
differences in their upbringing, culture, religion, traditions, trades, values and possibilities – they are being accepted, loved and appreciated for who they are.

The Intention of my Game in the World is to produce and emanate 6 TV shows locally, the program to be picked up by a National Network
and, January 2008, to start the first national weekly Immigrant show “Our America”. The Our America show will generate itself. The existence of a new TV program will create a need for Immigrant Magazine an Immigrant’s newspaper.

The Opportunity: Be a part of Our America.
Coming to America is just the beginning…

Families Having Fun Together!

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Sitting in a room with almost 600 people in Orlando, my first Team Management and Leadership Weekend was pretty intimidating yet transformational.  The leaders were incredible!  They knew just what to say.  I remember thinking, “Everybody is sharing and inspiring, everything has a meaning, but, what will my contribution be?”  I was blank.

It was not too long ago that I was living in Prince George in Northern British Columbia.  My kids and I would spend the entire day in the park playing “hide and seek”, roasting hot dogs on an open fire.  The game, “Forest for the World” was played in a real forest with a huge lagoon in the middle.  Some days we met black bears and moose – it was a pretty wild place. One day, another family joined us spontaneously to play.  Wow!  That created memories that I will never forget!

When I came back from Orlando all pumped up, I started enrolling a team for my Game in the World: creating Fun Raisers, a project where kids and their families would discover the fun in simply playing games outside together. My vision was that Fun Raisers would inspire other communities to follow in creating more Fun Raisers all over the world.

My team includes my son Klaus, 17, who came up with the name Fun Raisers. (What a huge contribution to this game!) Another team member is Jennifer, a real estate colleague. There is my friend, Michael, from whom I often seek wisdom and guidance and, my good friend, Raman, with whom we spend great times playing with our kids.

My game quickly picked up momentum as the team created newsletters and invitations and delivered them to thousands of people all over the world. Thanks to the internet, our message was received throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Mexico, South America, South Africa, and Japan.

To my surprise, at our first event, that first weekend of Fun Raisers, only four people showed up: Jennifer, her kids, Samuel and Olivia, and me. I thought, what is this?  My friends Michael and Raman aren’t here? I thought I’d been being an “enrollment machine”! With coaching from my team, I realized that I had not been being enrolling at all. I had been doing what I do best: telling people what to do. That was my €˜team concept’. Clearly, it didn’t work!

I looked at where I’d been being inauthentic, the impact on me and on my team, and created the possibility of being vulnerable and open. I can’t believe the difference that made!  Now, the project is moving forward.  I can’t imagine where I’m going to be at the end of my first year on Team.  I wake up every day excited about what it is that I – and my team – will discover.

Fun Raisers inspires me everyday. It is bringing people together around the world.  We are making a difference!

— Eduardo Fritis, Team Vancouver

 

Being Profitable, Being Green: Green Conference Creates a WIN! for Everyone

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Green ConferenceI’ll be brutally honest. The way I’ve lived most of my life is according the point of view “I’m not important, I’m insignificant”. But lately, it’s getting harder and harder to believe that!

My team and I are creating an influential conference about “Green” business for Southern California. This month’s latest tour de force has been securing a major celebrity as our conference keynote (we would love to say who that is, but we’re committed to not gossiping). Not only that, but we are continually receiving acknowledgment from our community partners, sponsors and attendees, who are appreciative of our commitment to create community around sustainable business in Los Angeles. And the list goes on and on.

What shifted was that I got the power of sharing who I am as a possibility every day.  That I am not my “identity”, but rather, who I am is a world leader causing sustainable and profitable business globally.

As a result of this breakthrough, we have been fulfilling on the outcome of our game that everyone experiences the difference they make in nurturing our planet and our lives.

Some key distinctions of what HAS NOT WORKED: making my business partner wrong, being snappy, judgmental and (if you hurt me) vengeful. That last one really does not work!

What HAS WORKED? Sharing from nothing. We shared with hundreds of people about our conference, even before we had a location, a date for the event, before we had a single speaker, before we had a team, or anything else for that matter. Why? Because we had a possibility! That possibility, which wasn’t even fully distinguished, was nurturing sustainable leadership. From there, the rest emerged.

Another thing that worked has been putting together a line-up of world-class speakers. How did we enroll and register them? We created a TEAM that ACKNOWLEDGED them for who they are for the world in sustainability, and SHARED our possibility. They got it.

Oh, and most importantly, INTEGRITY works for us. We have honored our word to make this a world-class event, and we continue to work very hard to ensure that.

This conference will impact the city of Los Angeles and beyond, by uniting business leaders who want to run their companies in such a way that they BENEFIT the environment and the people in our society.

Ultimately, we are building a world that is sustainable! One that is fun, exciting, wise, and prosperous.

— Mike Flynn, completed Team 2 Aug 07, Team Los Angeles

Opportunity Green

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Note: the article below was written by C.K. Lin as he created a team to launch Opportunity Green as his Team Game in the World in Landmark Education’s TMLP. Since then, Lin and his team made the project a full-fledged reality, creating a Landmark conference, and Opportunity Green is now flourishing (see the website below). Here is Lin’s article from the 10/26/07 TMLP Times.

Opportunity Green 2007

www.opportunitygreen.com

Possibility of being global leadership in sustainable business enterprises

Outcome: Southern California is leading the world in inspiring sustainable business enterprises that has the planet flourishing

Description: With the public’s attention primarily concentrated on the debate over whether or not our lifestyle is destroying the environment, there is little focus on those actively striving to promote change in the way business impacts it.

A number of TMLP graduates looked at this information gap and created a conference called Opportunity Green. Our intention for Opportunity Green is that we transform the business enterprises in Southern California from the zero-sum gain mentality to the triple bottom line mentality—that they make a difference in our community, minimize our impact on the planet, and most importantly produce profit for the enterprises. The founders envisioned a place where those interested in sustainable business could converge to foster further interest in helping the environment and conceive new ways to establish the burgeoning movement towards a world filled with environmentally conscious businesses.

As a result of our efforts, a group of these like-minded people are coming together at the University of California, Los Angeles on November 17th for Opportunity Green, a conference for those on the cutting edge of environmentally friendly business. The event is being headed by a group of collaborators on the forefront of the green movement, including Kevin Wall, the founder of Live Earth, and John Picard, a well-known environmental builder and technologist. Picard also founded the US Green Building Council, which helps to make environmentally unfriendly poor companies with an interest in changing their ways become more sustainable. Those in attendance will include executives, professionals, investors, and bloggers, all hoping to build bonds with people who share similar interests while discussing methods for developing businesses that can be sustainable and environmentally friendly while remaining profitable.

Opportunity Green was conceived just five months ago, and has rapidly grown from a simple idea into something much greater. As the result of what we are causing, OG has evolved into a conference backed by some of the biggest names in the environmental movement, and has the potential to greatly shift the manner in which business operates. As we create a legacy that sustains the momentum of the event, the world shall see Southern California as the model for sustainable business enterprises.

— CK Lin, Team 2, Quarter 3, Team Los Angeles

Graduate starts progressive school, overcomes fear of flying, and becomes author

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My name is Lucy Heavens and I am 36 years old.
I have a company called Juicy Lucy Designs, and I design and
manufacture greetings cards, stationery and gift products which are
sold in the U.K and in other countries around the world.

I did the Landmark Forum in April 96, and have participated in
numerous Landmark programmes since then.
When I did the Landmark Forum I was an unfulfilled,
frustrated primary school teacher. My dream was to set up an Alternative
School, as I was disillusioned with State Education.
I just didn’t believe it was possible to do this as ‘who would take me
seriously? I’d probably have to be over 40, or have done a Ph.d …or
be a MAN!!!’…..When I did the Forum I realised that anything was possible….
and within 18 months of completing it I had set up The Lighthouse Learning Centre
in Brighton. It was the first learning centre of its kind in the U.K.

Also when I did the L.Forum I was in a rather shaky new relationship, the way it was
going, we would have almost definitely split up. After doing the course our relationship
was transformed. We have been together for 11 years, married for 7 and have a 2 and
a half year old son.

I also transformed my fear of flying; before the L.Forum I swore that I wouldn’t
fly again. In the course I got present to all that I was missing out on!!!
Before the course I didn’t mind as ‘I wasn’t an adventurous person…I’ll just be happy
taking the Eurostar to Paris’….After completing the Forum I thought…’I COULD be an
adventurous person!’…For our honeymoon we went around the world for a year long trip,
visited over 20 countries including Central and South America…and took 13 flights.
It was a completely magical year,and it was all made possible out of this work.

I have loads of other miracles I could share with you….

At the moment my Team Game in the World is ‘Fulfilling my childhood dream’.
When I was 6, my dream was to be an authoress and live on a farm.
In January I moved to Wales (a miracle created from the Causing the Miraculous Seminar!)
to a house called ‘The Old Farm’. It seemed fitting to take on fufilling this dream….( I have been
procrastinating for over 30 years and doing so in earnest for 7 years.) Out of this course
I have done something with my writing which I never normally do when I am writing….which is
ASK for HELP and allow myself to be contributed to!
I am just completing my first book and intend to have it printed in time for Christmas.
It really feels like a dream come true….I can’t explain the relief of finally doing something
that I have planned to do for all that time, but have been resisting!!!!
The hardest bit of it all was giving up the resistence…after that it was easy!!!!
I created the possibility of being ‘completely free to play’… pretty useful when you are writing
a fairy story!!!!

Help for aids orphans struggling against the odds

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Sweet Waters is a South African community dying of AIDS. Currently 196 homes housing in excess of 500 children are parentless and without adult supervision. These orphaned children live in a culture being shredded by AIDS.

Love Is All We Need is a charity committed to diverting what will be a catastrophic outcome for children, communities, a country.

The Hope Centre is a haven that houses children affected by and infected with AIDS and reaches out into the Sweet Waters community taking measures to care for these children.

Presently children in the community are being raped and robbed, living in homes ill-equipped to meet their needs and struggling to survive against insurmountable odds. They are unable to attend school due to lack of funds for fees and uniforms putting their futures in jeopardy.

At present The Hope Centre has set up a mobile mother scheme where 8 local women between them visit 90 homes a day. They earn a box of food and the equivalent of £10 a month. This is a positive step to making a difference.

Sponsor-a-mother is a project being set up to fund the existing mobile mothers and 12 more in the next 2 months. The aim is for these mothers to be earning the equivalent of £70 a month to honour them with a decent wage.

Other immediate projects that Love Is All We Need is taking on for this community include a campaign to have 500 children to start a new school year in January 2008 and to provide each home with a small, safe cooker.

Ultimately we are in the process of working towards building a village inside the community that we believe is a long term solution for restoring hope, love and security.

This describes one community.

THE VISION:

To utilize resources locally from the community eg. People in the community making bricks and being employed to build.

The project is child-led!! Children here funding the project there are leading it in conjunction with the children in the Sweet Waters community eg. The children decide what shape they want their houses to be.

While the village is being built there are skills around building that are being taught. Mark who will oversee the project is an experienced construction worker and has built in Africa before.

A real sense of community is restored inside of hope and possibility for the future.

The homes are safe dispelling childrens fears of what will come in to them from the night under ill fitting doors and through cracks in the walls.

Bridging Communities Transforming Poverty in Honduras

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honduras-bridge.jpgWhen I took on my project, my intent was to enhance the life of a community outside of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, by putting in a bridge. My project transformed this quarter, to a partnership with the government which is committed to changing a counhonduras-b-june-2007-145.jpgtry with extreme poverty to a country of prosperity – RIGHT NOW!

At the end of June, I went to Honduras for my game and what I saw was a beautiful country that is on the edge of going under. It is a country of 7 million people – 70% are under the age of 14 and 60% live in extreme poverty – and they are demanding a change. The key government people I met with on my trip are looking for a different way of doing things because what has been done in the past hasn’t worked. The money has gone where the votes are and not where it’s needed. They asked me to partner with them in turning around poverty in their country.

My original team was Rafael, a pastor in Honduras, Pastor Don Miller who is head of our international missions here and the University of Wisconsin, Madison chapter of Engineers Without Boarders. I am now in the process of forming 45 teams that will address specific issues such as health, sanitation, disease control, infrastructure, clean water education and many more. I created the possibility and outcome and I have an idea of what I want to accomplish and it is from this, that I get calls and emails from people who I don’t know me but they have the expertise to do what’s needed are want to help. People are contacting me daily. My teams now consist of some of the following groups: Volvo Construction, Rotary International, the Minnesota National Guard, the South African Embassy, a local structural engineering firm, Doctors and Dentists Without Boarders, Dole Fruit, Cargill, Sea Foam and many more. A strong team player that has shown up unexpectedly is the government of South Africa. We have started conversations about what is possible through an alliance between the two governments.

I have watched the growth of Rafael. In just the past month alone, Rafael has been given a new office in the municipality building including admin support, he has been added to the city board, he is working daily with the mayor on the community, weekly meetings with top government officials and today, August 3rd, he met with the President and the First Lady to review our ideas and vision for the country. It’s not what you would expect to see for a pastor in a poverty community. This is only the beginning for him.

Ingiero Cesar Salgado is head of the Fund for Social Inversion in Honduras (FHIS) and second-in-command in Honduras. He knows the information on the extreme poverty in Honduras inside and out. I got to see his heart for the people of his country. Ingiero Salgado is not a bureaucrat, but someone who wants to make a difference in this country before it is too late.
In Honduras I experienced communication at whole new level. It wasn’t the words that were spoken but the love I saw these leaders have for the people of their country. It radiated from their souls. It was the unspoken communication of the children who lived in extreme poverty but their spirits had not been broken. It was in all of the single mothers who despite everything they face, love their children more than I can express in words.

I envision a country that will not be the same in three years. They are demanding it and there is a sense of urgency. It will not be because of what is specifically done but it will be a change in thinking that will push this country to its tipping point that will send a ripple affect across Honduras and through Central America in what’s possible.

Who I am is leadership, love and generosity.
— Kathy Powell-Larson, Team Minneapolis

Real Estate Agent Negotiates Working 1/2 the Time and Making the Same Income

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My name is Catherine Beagley, and when I joined the Team Management and Leadership Program, I was working as a Sales Manager in an real estate agency.

The first thing I did was to resign from my job, where I was working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, with a phone stuck to my ear often having 6 phone numbers ringing at the same time.

With the same company I created working for 3 days a week for the same money which freed me up to create my own business. Within 6 months of starting I have a team of 5 people working for me for free (for now anyway as they are soooo inspired), and have had agreed in principle funding of 3million pounds.

My life works, there are ups and flats but never downs.

Not bad for 9 months training!

Bringing 'Nurtured Heart' to Detroit

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This story is from the August 2007 Landmark Education TMLP Times, with the story written by course participant Mary Myers.

My possibility is being love and creativity, free to be fully alive and expressed, with the outcome of parents and educators united and excited in creating new ways of communicating powerfully with all children, energizing and supporting success and positive choices.

The main vehicle for change in my game is the Nurtured Heart Approach, developed by Howard Glasser of Tucson, Arizona. His books, “Transforming the Difficult Child” and “The Inner Wealth Initiative, the Nurtured Heart Approach for Educators” form the basis of the information portion of my game. Bringing people together and creating teams for support and expansion form the dynamic network necessary to take it into the world.

A child’s intensity is a gift that needs to be nurtured. Rather than suppressing it with drugs, or treating it as a problem, the Nurtured Heart Approach gives parents and professionals the perspectives and strategies to shift children into using their intense energy in beautiful ways.

I am committed to bringing this information to as many people as possible, in the service of building inner strength, self-esteem and cooperation in all children. They deserve to have transformed lives and the world needs their contributions!

My intention is to bring people from all walks of life together, from all over the Detroit Metropolitan area, in schools, churches, homes, counseling centers, family service organizations, etc. Beyond teaching the basics of the Nurtured Heart Approach, I see a need for ongoing support groups to be formed to keep the growth moving forward in action.

Our plans include utilizing local media to reach people, both as an educational and parenting tool and to bring people together. We have met with teachers, parents, school counselors and social workers, leaders of non-profit organizations, church members, neighbors, and others interested in making this happen. The organizations represent children from nursery school through high school.

Before I took on this game, I was being enthusiastic, committed, caring and alone. Who I am being now is related, powerful and a leader, as well as being enthusiastic, committed and caring. I am no longer alone! And the work is moving forward and outward exponentially. We are connecting with educators in Flint, Kalamazoo, New York and Ohio, among others.

People expect me to be knowledgeable, courageous, bold and unstoppable and I show up that way because this is who I am. This game will continue to grow as I intend to continue it in my next quarter. I intend to create leaders of additional groups, as well as supporting people to learn to deliver the program. It will become self-generating as time goes by.

We are building a world of young people who know their goodness, their power, their ability and their connection with all other life on Earth.

— Mary Myers, Landmark Education TMLP, Team 1, Quarter 2, Team Detroit

Parachute jump raises £3,300 for homeless

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YIPPEE !!! I have won my game, with freedom, ease and barely a drama in sight!!

I got a team of 6 people together to do a parachute jump, raising money for a brighton based homeless charity. The original goal was 20 people jumping to raise £2,000 all together. We ended up raising £3,300!!! between just 6 of us!!! A Game well and truely won.

The money is providing the homeless service users to do activities they have never had the chance to do, and self development workshops and life skill seminars. This game has been sooo much fun, I got to throw myself out of a plane, at 12,000 ft, with my husband and some of my best friends and raise a great sum of money, creating opportunities for others.

What had my game happen with complete freedom and ease was enrollment from the very beginning and then the whole team being accountable and causing each other. Thankyou to the whole team for who you all are, I acknowledge you all, my life continues to suprise me how amazing it is and you are all a big part of that now and always will..LARA.

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