Svaha: the time between seeing lightning and hearing the thunder
I will be eternally grateful for your great gift of taking in to the fullest extent what it is that I have to offer, living it, and then reflecting it back in terms of the potential experience of others. You have given words to a process that defies words. And you’re constantly in a position to help me continue to hone that, deeper and deeper and more and more resonantly, who I am and what I offer, which is truly invaluable. — Jon Hansen, The Remembering Room, Richmond, Illinois
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Working together was absolutely key, and I think that’s what made it such a great experience. I felt like you were my partner in this. I felt like my success was your success. To me, someone who has that attitude and the skills to go with it — that’s an unbeatable combination! — Daniel Stone, www.danielstone.com, Washington DC, New York City, Delaware, South Carolina, and India
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I have a website I’m proud of — but for me, the hugest benefit has been increased self-confidence. Because of the process we went through, and the validity that came with the process, I trust what I think and I trust myself to speak about it. I have greater confidence and clarity in my message about who I am and what I do. — Bev Dwane AICI CIP, www.bevdwane.com, Durham, North Carolina
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I had been working with coaches, with teachers, and in marketing groups, and I was always at a place of frustration because I couldn’t access what it was that I truly offered, and how I could present that to other people.
I will be eternally grateful for your great gift of taking in to the fullest extent what it is that I have to offer, living it, and then reflecting it back in terms of the potential experience of others. You have given words to a process that defies words. And you’re constantly in a position to help me continue to hone that, deeper and deeper and more and more resonantly, who I am and what I offer, which is truly invaluable.
My feeling is that whomever you work with, it will always be a two-way process. You’re always willing to learn as much as you’re willing to give. That’s the level that allows you to access the essence of what someone has to offer and then reflect it back in words, because you truly allow yourself to understand it. You have the space, compassion, and intelligence to take it in, understand it, and feel it in yourself and reflect it back. And you constantly show a sense of diligence, responsibility, performance, and project management that very, very few people that I’ve experienced through my life were capable of mastering.
I acknowledge you for your amazing loyalty and dedication to the task at hand. Not only in the particulars, but in the larger sense of helping someone come to a deeper sense of their self-understanding, and in turn how that can be expressed back to the world.
You have a dogged determination, you have a relentless spirit, in not hedging, not stopping, not shirking that obligation you make to someone — to honor it in the deepest way that I’ve ever seen that anyone can offer to another. And you have the skill and the capacity to understand what it is that someone has to offer, of who someone is, and the skill and the ability to find the precise words — an artistry of words to express that.
Full disclosure: out of the work we did together as each other’s clients, Jon and I are now business partners and good friends.