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A Rebirth

We wish you, your associates, friends and your families a wonderful 2008. This article is intended as a gift for all of you, as you begin the New Year. Please feel to share it.

As we move down the path of this new year, we leave behind us years of experiences - good, bad and ugly.

It is true that each one of us carries prominent, and sometimes hidden, memories of things that we have done and things that have happened to us.

It does not matter if these memories are good or bad, or even if our mind has chosen to "forget" some, or all of them. It does even not matter if all, or any, of the other people "involved" remember "what happened", or what we, or they "did."

It is by these incidents, in our lives, that our judgments and actions are formed. They strongly form the very foundation of our beliefs and behaviours. And they often sub-consciously guide the results that we achieve in our lives.

It here that our relationships and friendships will be strengthened or weakened. It is here that our lives will be sharpened or dulled. It is here where we become victims, or victors. Where we will be prejudiced in our judgments, or open.

Each of these distorting or enhancing lenses, to our view of life, will have been formed in highly emotional times. As such they will be etched into our cellular memories.

Louise Hay…

Herein lie our fears, our phobias, our cravings, our excesses and according to experts - such as Louise Hay - theses are the very keys to our health and happiness.

"Negative thoughts and memories can emanate in our bodies as dis-ease." She further says, "

"Over the years I’ve learned that there are really just two mental patterns that contribute to disease: Fear and Anger.

Anger can show up as impatience, irritation, frustration, criticism, resentment, jealousy or bitterness. These are all thoughts that poison the body. When we release this burden, all the organs in our body begin to function properly.

Fear could be tension, anxiety, nervousness, worry, doubt, feeling not good enough or unworthiness. Do you relate to any of this?

We must learn to substitute faith for fear if we’re to heal. Faith in what? Faith in Life! I believe we live in a "Yes" Universe. No matter what we choose to believe or think or say, the Universe always says "yes" to us.

If we think poverty, the Universe says "yes" to that. If we think prosperity, the Universe say "yes" to that. It's up to us! The Universe wants us to experience anything we desire.

So let's say "yes" to all good. Be a "yes" person, living in a "yes" world being responded to by a "yes" Universe."

Self Healing

If you find yourself with some sort of disease(s) that is/are not listed in (the book) Heal Your Body, become your own investigator and healer.

Ask yourself, is it one of the forms of fear or is it one of the forms of anger? Are you willing to release those thoughts. And replace them with positive affirmations? Loving yourself will also contribute greatly to healing your body for love heals.

So how do you love yourself? First of all and most importantly: Cease all criticism of yourself and others. Accept yourself as you are. Praise yourself, and others, as much as you can.

Criticism breaks down the inner spirit, praise builds it up. Look into a mirror often and simply say: I LOVE YOU, I REALLY LOVE YOU. It may be difficult at first, but keep practicing and soon you will mean and feel what you say. Love yourself as much as you can and all of life will mirror this love back to you."

Local South African training organisation Paradigm Shift Training run Louise Hay courses in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. And would be delighted to fly anywhere to bring change. (Similarly qualified specialist facilitators are trained by Louise Hay, to do so elsewhere in the world. Check out her website for more info.)

Our family have recently attended 2 day courses and our results have been incredible. There is an incredible peace to be seen in each person, as they handle and clear their own deep seated fears and angers. This is a peace that we all deserve. Including you.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Another widely used technique that is bringing almost instantaneous release, to fears and angers, is the EFT technique (see below for the link.) It is simple, incredibly effective and can be used for almost any ailment or past trauma.

On his web site - Gary Craig - talks of his recent successes with Vietnam veterans, and various practitioners talk of their own successes with anything from asthma to alcoholism, to fear of heights, to sexual abuse and xenophobia.

Interestingly Gary Crag has never charged for consulting in his field and makes all of his material available at very reasonable prices. In fact, you can get all of the basic information in a FREE 79 page eBook. (Gary Craig's EFT site.)

Face to face clearing

I carried a childhood incident - relating to an uncle - for decades. It deeply embarrassed me at the time. And I never forgot!

At every opportunity, as I grew older, I would indignantly ask anyone who cared to listen, "How can a grown man treat a small child like that?"

I was angry for many years. I told, and retold, the story. It gained power and cut deeper into my memories.

Until one day, soon after my fortieth birthday, I cornered him and retold my story...

" How could you treat a child like that I demanded to know?" He looked at me with sad eyes, as he apologised, and said, "I don't remember doing that. I wish I could. Please forgive me, I am so sorry."

As I watched the pain in his face, I felt a deep sadness leave me. I suddenly realised that it was I who should apologise, not him. My understanding grew in a flash.

As a young inexperienced uncle, he had made a silly comment, to a small easily-embarrased child. He had said it only once. I had repeated it and continuously maligned him for years. He now was the victim of my actions.

As I apologised to him, years of separateness and sadness was lifted from both of us. I could again see him as a person. A man like me, with feelings, aspirations and normal human frailties.

At that moment I set myself free from a tiny incident in a far away dining room, that was embarrassing to a 6 year old. At that time, in my life, I did not have the human experience to understand. It was one of the many incidents, that I had taken way past its sell-by-date.

A great way to start each new year, is to go to those who you have kept out of your life - and clear with them face-to-face. It will set you free, as it did me.

A better way is never to go to sleep with anger or sadness in your heart. Clear it before it becomes an emotional scar.

Each day is a new dawn

The Chinese have a saying which goes something like this, "each day is a new dawn."

We too believe that each day is our opportunity for a cleansing, a rebirth and the emanation of the positive future that once awaited us at our birth. We start each day afresh, albeit with new experiences to teach and guide us.

Should each of us in this country and around the world, cleanse ourselves of our negative emotional memories, we will positively transform our ways and the future of our world.

Your way may be better...

And there are obviously many other ways to cleanse your spirit.

You may find spiritual ways, or that psycho-analysis, prayer, meditation, affirmations, chanting or simple quiet time will work for you.

Whichever way you choose to refresh and purify your soul, please remember to regularly give a little time to yourself.

Spend good energy on building your spirit. And you will transform your life and your world.

Transforming Teams

We delight and specialise in transforming people, teams and companies, in South Africa and around the world.

Please visit our other websites:-

http://www.africa-dreams.com
http://www.celebrating-humanity-projects.com/articlelive/

And read our articles, at:-

Teambuilding for Diverse Teams

Best wishes

Brian V Moore

10/1/2006 (revised in January 2008.)

Mthimkhulu International - Diversity & Management Training and Transformational Team-building Specialists
"At the level of Respect all people are Equal."

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• Cross-cultural Clashes?
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• Silly Time-wasting Workplace Disputes?
• Frustrating time spent in Dispute Mediation ?
• Unnecessary Labour Lawyers' fees?
• Misunderstandings and Mis-communications.
• Inability to communicate with diverse clients.
• A lack of Professionalism and Accountability.
• Excessive Absenteeism.
• Racism and Prejudice.

If so, then you and your team will derive long-term benefit from a Celebrating Humanity© intervention...

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You can, instantly take the stress out of managing and leading your team and free up your team and leadership to do what they are paid to do!

Mthimkhulu International will:-

• Place the challenges of workplace diversity management firmly in the hands of your team/s and let them manage interpersonal interactions on an ongoing basis!
• Develop respect and united teamwork within your team in just a few days!
• Help to remove Prejudice, Racism, Gossiping, Backbiting and Negativity and set your willing team up to to manage that for you!
• Create an interpersonal code of behaviour and values – with your team. Your team/s will mutually decide and agree on what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.
• Put in place a "team-managed and ongoing relationship management program" to protect yourself from wasting time managing and stressing out on inter-personal and inter-diversity challenges.

You simply need THREE things:

• A United Diverse Workforce that owns and manages its respect for self and each other!
• A team completely clear of past inter-personal challenges and united in it's commitment to the future!
• An "uncomplicated" solution that fully involves you and your team/s and allows you much more hassle-free time to lead your team to greater successes!

... All of which are perfectly reasonable demands!

The Celebrating Humanity© Transformational Team-building program will give you and your team the skills and ability to:

• Reduce wasted management time and unnecessary stress from day ONE!
• Use professionally-designed processes to easily implement workplace transformation with exceptional results!
• Be a part of the process to ensure that it is on track.
• Clear interpersonal challenges with and in your team for a fresh start!
• Ensure that the power-bases do not form and that all team members are equally protected - including YOURSELF!
• Handle the actual challenges facing each team with total buy-in of all team members!
• Powerfully and positively transform the way that you do business in a long-term and effective intervention.

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By Mthimkhulu International

Brian, Lliam and Arthie Moore
Celebrating Humanity© program founders with their eldest son.

The Celebrating Humanity© Program

Workplace Diversity

South Africa

The Celebrating Humanity© program is a highly successful transformational teambuilding program, incorporating intra-personal, inter-personal and inter-diversity awareness and skills training, teambuilding within diverse teams and a peer-driven workplace diversity management and conflict program.

International

The International Celebrating Humanity© program and its contents are adjusted for the country, company, organisation and region in which it is facilitated. Facilitation teams are client-focussed and adjust activities and processes according to the needs of their customers.

Celebrating Humanity© has been proven to be a highly successful and World-class transformational teambuilding program, incorporating diversity training, teambuilding within diverse teams and a peer-driven workplace diversity and conflict management program.

Community, Family and Social Diversity

The early elements of the program have been proven to transform personal, interpersonal, family and social relationships. Public programs facilitated with people from differing backgrounds, organisations, communities and the many other diversities, have proven to be "life-changing."

Some Outcomes

There are many outcomes to the Celebrating Humanity© program. These are personal, team-based, social and family.

Personal, Social and Family

• Improved understanding of self and accountability for communication and actions.
• Enhanced relationships with self, family and others.
• Personal motivation.
• Greater respect for self and others.
• Improved Communication.
• Skills, awarenss and ability to enhance future relationships.
• Personal shift from conflict to caring.

Team-based

• United Professionalism
• Open & Clear Communication
• Team accountability for actions, communications and outcomes.
• Peer-based and peer-managed workplace diversity management/ leadership.
• Team conflict resolution structure.
• Team clearing of past inter-personal challenges.
• Team Recognition of individual and team performance and achievements.
• Team-accountability for developing communication, understanding, support and discipline.
• Team managed exclusion of negativity, conflict, backbiting, gossiping and other negative behavoiurs.

Methodology

The non-threatening, fun, inclusive and effective Exhilarating Learning© methodologies actively encourage and support fear-free participation and allow for deep shifts in limiting beliefs and paradigms.

Schoolyard Diversity

The Dream Dynasty© program, initiated in the USA by Mthimkhulu International and Times2 Academy in Providence RI, has shown that the adapted methodologies and processes can transform schools and the learners/ students path through life.

Clients

Past and current clients include:-Eskom Ltd, Toyota SA, First National Bank, Times2 Academy, Providence, RI - USA, Ethekwini Municipality, Dept. of Transport, KZN - RSA, BMW SA, Standard Bank - SA, Bank of Zambia, Discovery Health, SunCoast Casino, Monte Casino, BoE Bank, Engen, SA Weather Services, Assmang Manganese.

The Celebrating Humanity© Program

A graphic overview of the full Celebrating Humanity Harvest© program is included below.

(The breaks shown, between programs, are variable and are dependent upon organisation size and team availability.)

Each program is available separately and can be facilitated individually, as a team-build, diversity training program or a workplace diversity harmony management program. (For more info email)

• 1 day Eye-Opener©
• 2 day Foundation©
• 3 day Foundation© & Values Circle©
• Full Harvest© program, as shown below.

* Support includes the monthly Celebrate newsletter and email/ telephonic support for graduates.

Public programs are more focussed on individual transformation and the individual's interface and interactions with themself and humanity in general.

Diversity interventions - Standing at a Crossroads.

Companies and organisations are either under pressure to transform and include people from all backgrounds in a fair and equitable manner, or once transformed are often challenged by poor inter-diversity relationships and understanding of the need for transformation.

Companies and organisations who need this type of intervention are at a crossroads of danger and opportunity.

The danger lies in the potentially divisive nature of such interventions and yet there are huge hidden opportunities to build individual, teams, organisation and to an extent the future of your country.

Transformation and diversity management programs that isolate, intimidate and ignore people are self-defeating. If any person/ sector/ department or group feels threatened the process will be wasted and more so it could negatively impact your organisation.

The opportunity to build is found in the wisdoms, uniquenesses, talents, skills and histories of the group.

The methodologies ensure that transformation is non-threatening, unifying and inclusive as possible.

Learning is fun, motivational and exciting.Inclusivity has two main dimensions, firstly, everyone feels valued and valuable and secondly all levels of the organisation/ team participate fully in the program.

“In our early days in this field we operated through the shock therapy style of presentation. Some people survived and some didn’t! The main challenge was that we worked from a paradigm that judged people by their backgrounds. We now, through studying international learning methodologies and through personal experience and introspection, have found fun and non-threatening methods of bringing understanding, building relationships and accountability.” Brian Moore - M.I.

Transforming ourselves, our teams and our lives

In order to develop ourselves and our team at work we need to develop an understanding of our dependency, independency and inter-dependency.

Once we understand that we need each other to survive and succeed we will observe that our actions, positive or negative, impact ourselves, our teams and our dependents.

It is true that the quality of life that we lead, the clothes that we wear, the humanity that we exude, the food on our table, the education of our family depends on the quality of our relationships within and outside of the workplace.

When seen in this context we begin to understand that there is a vital need for teamwork for us all to succeed. And the more diverse the backgrounds, skills and talents of the team, the more we win. The challenge is that diverse teams will only win through respect, tolerance and understanding and that is our starting point.

Knowing who we are...

An ongoing process of humanisation and communication builds the group at a human level. Communicating and developing understanding of the commonalities and uniquenesses that we all bring.

The next steps would be to develop an understanding of our intra-personal uniqueness and the ability to assess the uniqueness in other people in terms of their personality types and learning/ communication styles.

These simple skills will develop and enhance interpersonal understanding and communication.

Accountability for who we are...

When we take responsibility for our attitudes, our communication and our behaviour we can create a safe environment for ourselves, our families and other people.

To further develop a nurturing environment we develop problem-solving and solution-finding skills and learn to handle reactions to external stimuli.

Often we act out of historical programming when a short time for thought will break the cycle of anger. When we use the feeling of anger as a signal for thought, "Why am I feeling this anger?" or "Is this person saying this to hurt me?", we have an opportunity to respond rather than react.

This can saves lives, families, sales and relationships!Who adds to me and what do we contribute from our backgrounds, cultures, experience and traditions?

Through enjoyable, safe and non-threatening methodologies and processes we are able to learn - from each other - more about our lives, history, cultures and religions. In teams, selected by delegates on the basis of "who adds to me", we are able to compete in fun and respectful ways on issues of diversity.

In this way a safe environment of communication and life-long learning is created.As these processes unfold team members will begin to identify and break down old prejudicial paradigms and the foundations are laid for an ongoing respect based inter-personal team agreement.

At this point the 2 day Foundation© session ends.

Accountability for how we behave.

(1 day - Values Circle Process - by team and/ or department)

"At the level of respect all people are equal."

Most companies and organisation send down a list of management-decided values.

Very few people know, remember and subscribe to the values, especially management. These values are only paraded at disciplinary hearings. In order for individual change to be perpetuated within the team it is critical that the environment is kept safe and empowering by a team-decided and managed set of interpersonal values.

These values are set to manage how team members interact and do not impact or negate corporate values.

This people-centred guidance system, if properly designed and implemented, will develop an ethic of praising and honouring the praiseworthy.Those who have personal challenges will often need professional support and those who continuously break the rules must be disciplined.

Regular meeting time must be committed to allow the development of understanding and to offer guidance to those who break their self-chosen values.

The greater team manages the ongoing process offering support, guidance and discipline in a properly constituted system. In this way we will have developed accountability and responsibility for our actions, within our team and an ongoing values structures to maintain respect and teamwork at the level of human interaction.

This will definitely and positively impact family and social interactions.A good leadership team will be part of the development and ongoing implementation of the program and will be subject to the decisions of the structure.

A follow-up team-build, assessment and adjustment program known as the Gathering© is facilitated approximately 12 months after the Values Circle process is formally constituted.

With a 1 year history of monthly meetings, individuals and groups will have transformed substantially and be ready to cement the process into the future.

Through the Transformational Team-building© program Celebrating Humanity©, people will understand their amazing relevance as individuals, team members & members of their organisations

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