The Button Lesson
I had an interesting conversation with my youngest son this morning while he was getting ready for school, putting on his uniform (which, I realized, is getting a bit small for him):
Me: Do you need help with that?
T (chuckling): Let me do it. I’m not grade four anymore.
Me: Ok.
T (proceeds to button his uniform): Actually, I don’t know when I started learning how to do it.
The change work that we do is a lot like that.
Change work that is done well works on the other-than-conscious part of us. It is work done on the belief and identity level, which are often out of our conscious awareness.
It is like having a headache, then a couple of hours later, you realize the headache is gone and you’re not even aware of exactly when that happened. You just know you feel better.
When change work is done well, the client usually has no awareness of how or when it happened because it is done respectfully, in alignment with who they truly are. And so it feels natural, like going home to something familiar.
And, like my son’s experience this morning, a beautiful part of that experience is the realization that we have everything we need within us to create and realize the outcomes that we truly want.
The question is always, simply: what would you like?
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