The Transformation of a Great Mentor
What to write when words seem so inadequate to express the feelings I am sitting with right now? Funny, but the word pride keeps on surfacing. If I follow that thread I guess that is what Stan and HAI helped me to find within myself.
My memory of Stan is from a lovel 2 SLI workshop when my anger surfaced and boiled over. I felt so ashamed and frightened. Stan mentored me through that and ended up kneeling before me and bowing his forehead to the ground, in front of the whole workshop, to honour my process. In that moment my struggle to transform shame into pride began.
How many of us struggled with our shame in workshops? I love my memories of how we all supported and mentored each other in our effort to transformed our shame into pride? I feel this was the gift that Stan gave to me and countless other HAI participants.
Stan also manifested Shirley and Steve, our first Australian HAI parents. They provided me with a HAI family when mine was fragmented through illness and life challenges. Yep, I did a lot of growing up in HAI and my youngest daughter is testiment to the ripple effects of the seed Stan sowed all those years ago.
Thank you Stan for all the incredible people you manifested that touched my life in ways too numerous to mention. Thank you for HAI, for all the healing, mentoring, support and love. Most especially, thank you for mentoring me to embrace pride in myself and my achievements.
As my tribute to his passing I will take the time to grieve this amazing man. As an expression of my love and gratitude I will sit in the blackness and honour the pain and sense of loss I am feeling. Above all else, I will continue to choose pride over shame at every
opportunity.
Thank you Stan for your humility, transparency, strengths and weaknesses. Thank you for honouring my anger and helping me transform shame into pride.
Bless you Janet, I add my heartfelt love to the mix of countless others in the hope it might give you some degree of support and solace.
My memory of Stan is from a lovel 2 SLI workshop when my anger surfaced and boiled over. I felt so ashamed and frightened. Stan mentored me through that and ended up kneeling before me and bowing his forehead to the ground, in front of the whole workshop, to honour my process. In that moment my struggle to transform shame into pride began.
How many of us struggled with our shame in workshops? I love my memories of how we all supported and mentored each other in our effort to transformed our shame into pride? I feel this was the gift that Stan gave to me and countless other HAI participants.
Stan also manifested Shirley and Steve, our first Australian HAI parents. They provided me with a HAI family when mine was fragmented through illness and life challenges. Yep, I did a lot of growing up in HAI and my youngest daughter is testiment to the ripple effects of the seed Stan sowed all those years ago.
Thank you Stan for all the incredible people you manifested that touched my life in ways too numerous to mention. Thank you for HAI, for all the healing, mentoring, support and love. Most especially, thank you for mentoring me to embrace pride in myself and my achievements.
As my tribute to his passing I will take the time to grieve this amazing man. As an expression of my love and gratitude I will sit in the blackness and honour the pain and sense of loss I am feeling. Above all else, I will continue to choose pride over shame at every
opportunity.
Thank you Stan for your humility, transparency, strengths and weaknesses. Thank you for honouring my anger and helping me transform shame into pride.
Bless you Janet, I add my heartfelt love to the mix of countless others in the hope it might give you some degree of support and solace.
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