Landmark Education, Appreciative Inquiry, Strengths Theory? I studied them all (and more); each self help philosophy gave me a piece of puzzle. Landmark Education provided my first exposure to the field of transformation and how language was the source of our lives. Appreciative Inquiry turned my focus from problem solving to creating more of what I wanted in my life. Strengths Theory taught me to build the best in me.
Each one, including Landmark Education provided something, but it wasn’t enough. Writing the book, A Life Worth Living was a process of understanding and answering the unanswered questions and filling in the holes that my education to date hadn’t provided for me. For example, at Landmark Education, I felt as if I was always looking at the dark side of myself as an access to creating some new. Freedom was only to be had by pushing myself “through the eye of the needle,” breaking through to find freedom. The problem was, my day-to-day experience was spent in a pressure cooker always having to “confront” that which I wasn’t able to transform yet. I had no interest in living that kind of life.
Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths Theory opened up a new avenue to me. They both taught me that it was possible to focus on the good in life and myself as I moved forward. So I got clear what my strengths were, I knew what I wanted more of in my life, but that didn’t seem to make the difference I wanted it to make in my life. This book fills in the gaps that Landmark Education and other theories miss. It answers the questions that Landmark Education and these other fields of study couldn’t answer, or at least, didn’t answer for me.
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