PAWÒL APRANTI-SAJ

Working at planning my next US Lecture Tour: September-November 2006, with one main lecture whose tentative title so far is:

SYSTEMIC VODOU MENDING

And a possible sub-title:

Introduction to Vodou Keys as restorative tools to the fragmentary modern ways.

Comments welcome.

~Djalòki~

 

The "Professional Title" I will now use, until another one imposes itself to me is:

PARADIGM SHIFT FACILITATION

One sub-title will be:

Postmodern Keys for Global Balance and Sustainability.

While I am still open to new formulations, I will now focus on finding possible neologisms to tentatively express those ideas in one word or two. Ideas that came are:

- Transconsciencing

- Metamidwifing

- Wholikeying

- Globainment (and related Globainability) [for Global Balance and Sustainability]

- Syshamanism (for systemic shamanism)

- Key Mending

Yet more suggestions for Djalòki's professional title
(With permission from the authors - the replies from people who have not yet expressly given their agreement for sharing their comments are not included)
____________________________________________________________
May 19, 2006

- Maybe companion is enough to say.

- I just checked out the latest on your blog and like the May 14th comments. Especially I agree with the remark that it is time for you to say how you see yourself. Also, the point that this next tour will continue to evolve and expand your consciousness and you want to leave room in however you define yourself for this expansion. There appears to be a group of supporters on this journey with you, but in the end, it is up to you to choose the direction of your path, as well as the words to describe it.

Even more suggestions for Djalòki's professional title
(With permission from the authors - the replies from people who have not yet expressly given their agreement for sharing their comments are not included)
____________________________________________________________
May 14, 2006

I like the business card of May 13 - concise yet,
provocative. On the back, one usually 'raises'
awareness, not 'teach' it. The 'keys' concept is
good, too and I heard from another person the title -
'Djalòki's Keys' - has a nice alliteration.

It is really up to you how you want to come across.
You ARE a shaman, of a sort, but do you want to be
perceived as that, or do you want to have a more
'professional' veneer such as consultant? [I LIKE
shaman but it does have other connotations] What is
it you are doing - acting as A guide, not the only one
out there - so how to distinguish you? I like the
front of your business card, but are you a
transformer? You don't look like one, no electrical
wires..... [joking] But you are a vodounist - but
that definition does not necessarily get to all the
aspects of that identity, either. You will have to
settle, and anyway, after going on this next tour, you
will learn more, change more and rename yourself and
what you do, so perhaps something broader, more
encompassing - we will create our own Dja theasuarus
by the time we're through. Simpler is better - you
say in five words - transforming paradigms through
visionary vodou- what you do and it doesn't need a
title. I think people will give you their own title.
For me, I would say compadre, and I do like
co-inspiritor, or even Inspiritor! Just reading
through the suggestions I can see that each of us has
our own concept of you, as will everyone you speak to,
so it time for YOU to say how you see yourself. In
ten words or less.....

Still more suggestions for Djalòki's professional title
(With permission from the authors - the replies from people who have not yet expressly given their agreement for sharing their comments are not included)

____________________________________________________________
May 13, 2006

- Intercultural connector for the awareness of a new, peaceful and universal (or spiritual) reality

- I liked the point about taking out "cross" from cross-cultural -- cultural is enough by itself, because the journey is not simply being aware of other cultures, that's only step 1, really, but also becoming aware of our own culture and how it interacts with and affects all the others, that no culture is an island but mingles with the rest and influences and is influenced by others, both for good and ill.

- this site has some thoughts, fyi - I like spiritual midwife, but the gender is problematic I suppose, although it shouldn't have to be... [...]
http://www.anamcaraproject.info/history.php3
-My goodness, it is a mindboggle to 'name' the multifaceted being you are, as the work/play before you unfolds....First thought: In private work with people, who you are is credential enough within your circle of friends and could possibly support you just as well, financially on your journey, as public events. If you have a suggested donation (which your friends can suggest, so you don't have to), you can avoid any concerns with legalities, I would think. Here in NC, procuring one of those interfaith ministry licenses even allows any hands-on work to be involved legally. So, it is my feeling that it would be a great thing to go ahead and offer your gifts in the way you would like to proceed.

Out of all the suggestions, a merging:

front of biz card:

21 Jenerasyon
.Transforming Paradigms through Visionary Vodou

Djalòki Ntjitjagagi Jean Luc Dessables
Ayitian Peace Delegate

address/phone/email/blog information
on the back:
~ Committed to collective transformation and global justice
~ Teaching multicultural awareness and respect as keys to the future
~ Activating leadership on the cusp of new insight
~ Guided meditation & Inner Journey facilitator

To me , you are a kind of link or bridge between what I feel and apreciate about life , and the verbalization of those ideas. I felt as if you were a sculpturer who let my spiritual and metaphysic ideas show up..You were the master who was able to discover to the "public"what a student has inside and is unable to expres because he/she does not even know that it was there. You are like the masterpiece to my personal interpretation of world,live ,etc.You are like a transalator of the just coming reality , a helper, a holder of one´s hand when you wanted to cross the wild river of knowlegments.
You were the interpreter of all the information that was inside me .You opened my eyes to a new dimension, you gave shape and forms to what I had in my brain.
I would say you are a: an interpreter of the new universal reality ,The secretary for the organization of a new and necessary, universal awareness, an intercultural connector for the spiritual knowledge.

____________________________________________________________
May 07, 2006

- i don't think a title reads well if it is too long or has slashes and such in it. eg spiritual/cultural director. "Facilitator of Cross Cultural Awareness" is so far the only thing that jumped out at me although it is pretty long. maybe switch around: Cultural Awareness Facilitator. the Cross may be redundant and isn't always even true--you also do cultural awareness among Haitians, right?

- I in all honesty think you are way more than a coach - I like facilitator better. More depth. Like you. I also like visionary.
I think Postmodern Shaman is good (if YOU are comfortable being called a shaman...) and something else like Visionary Leadership and transformational facilitation, and healing.....

- SEE BELOW IN CAPS
[...] It is becoming clearer to me that the message I transmit has at least 3 aspects which are directed at 3 different groups of people, at different planes and with different formats, languages and focus.YOU CAN DO THIS WITH BULLETS RATHER THAN FLIGHTS OF LANGUAGE. AMERICANS READ IN SHORT BITES. YOU CAN DO THIS WITHOUT RUN ON SENTENCES. THAT FLOW OF CONNECTED IDEAS IS YOUR SEMINAR, NOT YOUR LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.
The smaller aspect is global social justice and peace, from a Ayitian perspective.EXAMPLE: - AN AYITIAN (HAITIAN) PERSPECTIVE: GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ESTABLISHING PEACE.
- CROSS CULTURAL AWARENESS: A NON-WESTERN VIEW, SHAMANISTICE PERSPECTIVE - RESPONSES TO A WESTERN PARADIGM.
[...] I seem to be more and more able to help them make sense of the accelerated unusual transformations occuring around them and inside them. I intend to do that more and more, on a formal basis, and I would like this to be clearly expressed in the "title" I will use to present myself.
AGAIN - THIS FLOW IS FOR YOUR SESSIONS, SIMPLIFY AND BULLET COMMENTS AS IN . . .
-MOTHER EARTH A HOLISTIC VIEW OF HUMANITY. . .

[...] IF YOU HAVE A PH.D YOU ARE "DOCTOR." OTHERWISE WE HAVE TO "TRANSLATE" WHAT YOU WISH TO BE A TEACHER, SCHOLAR (AND STUDENT OF), GUIDE, PROFESSOR, MEDIATER???

- someone stated well my reservations to being too ephemeral in commenting that he had spent a lot of time in San Francisco and was hesitant about "New Wave" pop culture.

I still believe that there is something mille foilles (spelling?), about getting a message out. That one has to tell a focused story, adding many chapters as correspondence evolves . . . opening layers in careful timing rather than offering an encyclopedia all at one time.

- Front side: Lecturer/Consultant in Cross-Cultural Awareness Studies. Back side: a list of all your services, like Guided Imagery; Shamanistic Healing; Spiritual Transformation; Cosmic Shift Facilitator; etc...

- I find you to embody a great respect for individuality and belief, including those different from your own. I am challenged by the accountability you call yourself and others to....accountabilty to live authentic and intentional lives that integrate the complexities and uniquenesses of our personalities. Through the commitment you yourself have to grow and integrate values and practices in your own life, you embody a seeker philosophy and have developed a diverse repitoire of experiences and ideas to share which can be considered, learned and integrated by other seekers. You reach both into the past and the future to embody the complexities and simplicities of life and to apply meaningful philosophies to everyday life.
Maybe what I'm coming to is, that I understand you to be a person committed to collective transformation through individual and communal learning and listening.

- I would not use coach, facilitator or animator - not least because the people in the US do not understand animator, and even I do not find a a very good translation that encompasses its meaning in French/Kreyòl. I like Inner Shift - Coordinator? Assembler? Sorter? those are not right. Shaman is really the only term that fits, and I think Post-Modern describes where you are coming from. Post-modern Shaman, shifitng inner and outer paradigms through visionary vodou. I do try to boil it down to one sentence, long as it may be. Please continue to share these ideas, it will all come together soon!

- you don't want to come across sounding too new age...it cheapens things. Something more along the lines of say of alan watts/krishnamurti rather than deepak chopra.

- I liked the words "shift coach" [...], and think that might be an excellent title for the 3rd piece of your work to put on your cards and correspondence. I like it because, as someone remarked in one of the responses you sent, you want to avoid New Age-sounding stuff, that would categorize you in a limiting way. But Shift Coach or Spiritual Shift Coach seem to me to be opening statements, opening the door to questions and reflection. Shaman, to me evokes sort of older, ritualistic practices and to me you are all about moving into the future while maintaining awareness of the past.

Also, some of what people responded was in true title form, labeling you as an object, Shift Coach, whatever, as I just did. I think I actually preferred the action words, defining what you do or the process, which will be changing and evolving as you go along. I like to think of you as yourself, Djaloki, who does certain things, participates in certain processes, as opposed to labeling you. But this might be too picky.

Engineering Postmodern Spiritual Healing is very nice, although do you really think of yourself as engineering the process?

I liked activating leadership on the cusp of new insight, in fact the card layout and concepts and wording were awesome and maybe you could just work with that and polish it a bit. It seems complete and only a little more wordy than you want.

___________________________________________________
May 06, 2006

- Postmodern Shaman available for shifting paradigms and psychic healing, inquiries welcome

- Transformation Specialist

- Postmodern Engineer, Transforming Paradigms through Shamanistic Healing

- Transformational Engineer and Paradigm Shifting Shaman

- Paradigm Shifting Shaman, Engineering Postmodern Spiritual Healing

- Are you ready for the jump? Come be guided by a [vodou] visionary through transformations already occuring in our world today

- Multicultural transformation specialist focusing on peace and justice

- Inner Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Coaching

- Applied Postmodern Shamanism

- Lectures, Workshops, Guided Visualization, Coaching

. I think Facilitator of Cross Cultural Awareness is a great title and describes very well one piece of what you do. This maybe should not change.

. Definitely "Future" should be used. Or maybe "Futurist"?

. As far as your 3rd area of focus, I think a word like companion or guide might evoke the appropriate sense of accompanying someone on a personal journey of change.

. Perhaps our language doesn't contain the most descriptive words for these kids of concepts and we'll have to invent some :)

. I still like Cross Cultural Awareness Facilitator, so maybe something like Personal Change Facilitator would work.

What keeps taking shape before me at the moment is your business card -- this is my first offering to the brainstorming process (not the last). I'll try to approximate the text/layout -- not perfect via email. Would something like this work:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
21 Jenerasyon
Supporting the re-creation of the world in our time,
drawing on wisdom from the primordial to the postmodern.

Djalòki Ntjitjagagi Jean Luc Dessables
Founder and Animator
Workshops, lectures, guided meditation, individual coaching:
~ Global justice and peace from an Ayitian perspective
~ Cross-cultural awareness and respect: keys to the future
~ Activating leadership on the cusp of new insight

address/phone/email/blog information
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I send this off in the true spirit of brainstorming, knowing that the above might be helpful, or might be really off the mark.
Of course you can elaborate on all the points in a brochure, and provide clarity about your menu of lectures/workshops/etc., what things go together, various pre-requisites, etc -- similar to your blog.

What I'm sending does not include a crystal clear description of the very critical role of facilitator and co-counselor, helping people who have been called to provide vision and special leadership -- activating and accelerating their growth. All I say is "activating leadership on the cusp of new insight." . You can write something about your coaching of people poised for important leadership in the brochure, but I think brevity is the way to go. The people who need you (and I humbly but with self-awareness include myself in this group) will be directed to you one way or another.

A thought in my head -- now remember I lived in San Francisco for many years -- is to avoid language as much as possible that people associate, in a largely negative way, with "new age" things. Everything you are doing is of course the best of the hope that the "new age" sensibility is longing for, groping for even. But when I think of a title for you, I want to avoid things that could turn people off who really are on your frequency, so to speak. We don't really use the term "animator" in the U.S., but it has been in my mind and so I included it.

- "spiritual/intercultural director". In my experience, spiritual directors are counselor sorts of people, often licensed clinical social workers or psychologists who have done a fair amount of training at a spiritual institute and then they integrate their faith perspective and insight into deeper questions of life (big scale or one's personal scale) to their counseling.

- The phrase that keeps coming to my mind is spiritual translator, yet I don't think that is quite right. The word shaman keeps creeping back in also, yet I think you are looking for something more "modern" - "shaman for our time" is what I actually think but that doesn't exactly sound catchy and concise. I see you as a bridge between planes - a foot in different worlds, translating back and forth. Spiritual interpreter? It's hard to find something expressive that doesn't sound pretentious. Then again, people who need you will understand almost anything you call yourself.

More suggestions for Djalòki's professional title
(With permission from the authors - the replies from people who have not yet expressly given their agreement for sharing their comments are not included)

____________________________________________________________
May 07, 2006

- i don't think a title reads well if it is too long or has slashes and such in it. eg spiritual/cultural director. "Facilitator of Cross Cultural Awareness" is so far the only thing that jumped out at me although it is pretty long. maybe switch around: Cultural Awareness Facilitator. the Cross may be redundant and isn't always even true--you also do cultural awareness among Haitians, right?

- I in all honesty think you are way more than a coach - I like facilitator better. More depth. Like you. I also like visionary.
I think Postmodern Shaman is good (if YOU are comfortable being called a shaman...) and something else like Visionary Leadership and transformational facilitation, and healing.....

- SEE BELOW IN CAPS
[...] It is becoming clearer to me that the message I transmit has at least 3 aspects which are directed at 3 different groups of people, at different planes and with different formats, languages and focus.YOU CAN DO THIS WITH BULLETS RATHER THAN FLIGHTS OF LANGUAGE. AMERICANS READ IN SHORT BITES. YOU CAN DO THIS WITHOUT RUN ON SENTENCES. THAT FLOW OF CONNECTED IDEAS IS YOUR SEMINAR, NOT YOUR LETTER OF INTRODUCTION.
The smaller aspect is global social justice and peace, from a Ayitian perspective.EXAMPLE: - AN AYITIAN (HAITIAN) PERSPECTIVE: GLOBAL SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ESTABLISHING PEACE.
- CROSS CULTURAL AWARENESS: A NON-WESTERN VIEW, SHAMANISTICE PERSPECTIVE - RESPONSES TO A WESTERN PARADIGM.
[...] I seem to be more and more able to help them make sense of the accelerated unusual transformations occuring around them and inside them. I intend to do that more and more, on a formal basis, and I would like this to be clearly expressed in the "title" I will use to present myself.
AGAIN - THIS FLOW IS FOR YOUR SESSIONS, SIMPLIFY AND BULLET COMMENTS AS IN . . .
-MOTHER EARTH A HOLISTIC VIEW OF HUMANITY. . .

[...] IF YOU HAVE A PH.D YOU ARE "DOCTOR." OTHERWISE WE HAVE TO "TRANSLATE" WHAT YOU WISH TO BE A TEACHER, SCHOLAR (AND STUDENT OF), GUIDE, PROFESSOR, MEDIATER???

- someone stated well my reservations to being too ephemeral in commenting that he had spent a lot of time in San Francisco and was hesitant about "New Wave" pop culture.

  I still believe that there is something mille foilles (spelling?), about getting a message out. That one has to tell a focused story, adding many chapters as correspondence evolves . . . opening layers in careful timing rather than offering an encyclopedia all at one time.

- Front side: Lecturer/Consultant in Cross-Cultural Awareness Studies. Back side: a list of all your services, like Guided Imagery; Shamanistic Healing; Spiritual Transformation; Cosmic Shift Facilitator; etc...

- I find you to embody a great respect for individuality and belief, including those different from your own.  I am challenged by the accountability you call yourself and others to....accountabilty to live authentic and intentional lives that integrate the complexities and uniquenesses of our personalities.   Through the commitment you yourself have to grow and integrate values and practices  in your own life, you embody a seeker philosophy and have developed a diverse repitoire of experiences and ideas to share which can be considered, learned and integrated by other seekers.  You reach both into the past and the future to embody the complexities and simplicities of life and to apply meaningful philosophies to everyday life. 
Maybe what I'm coming to is, that I understand you to be a person committed to collective transformation through individual and communal learning and listening.

- I would not use coach, facilitator or animator - not least because the people in the US do not understand animator, and even I do not find a a very good translation that encompasses its meaning in French/Kreyòl. I like Inner Shift - Coordinator? Assembler? Sorter? those are not right. Shaman is really the only term that fits, and I think Post-Modern describes where you are coming from. Post-modern Shaman, shifitng inner and outer paradigms through visionary vodou. I do try to boil it down to one sentence, long as it may be. Please continue to share these ideas, it will all come together soon!

- you don't want to come across sounding too new age...it cheapens things. Something more along the lines of say of alan watts/krishnamurti rather than deepak chopra.

- I liked the words "shift coach" [...], and think that might be an excellent title for the 3rd piece of your work to put on your cards and correspondence.  I like it because, as someone remarked in one of the responses you sent, you want to avoid New Age-sounding stuff, that would categorize you in a limiting way.  But Shift Coach or Spiritual Shift Coach seem to me to be opening statements, opening the door to questions and reflection.  Shaman, to me evokes sort of older, ritualistic practices and to me you are all about moving into the future while maintaining awareness of the past.

Also, some of what people responded was in true title form, labeling you as an object, Shift Coach, whatever, as I just did.  I think I actually preferred the action words, defining what you do or the process, which will be changing and evolving as you go along.  I like to think of you as yourself, Djaloki, who does certain things, participates in certain processes, as opposed to labeling you.  But this might be too picky.

Engineering Postmodern Spiritual Healing is very nice, although do you really think of yourself as engineering the process?

I liked activating leadership on the cusp of new insight, in fact the card layout and concepts and wording were awesome and maybe you could just work with that and polish it a bit.  It seems complete and only a little more wordy than you want.

___________________________________________________
May 06, 2006

- Postmodern Shaman available for shifting paradigms and psychic healing, inquiries welcome

- Transformation Specialist

- Postmodern Engineer, Transforming Paradigms through Shamanistic Healing

- Transformational Engineer and Paradigm Shifting Shaman

- Paradigm Shifting Shaman, Engineering Postmodern Spiritual Healing

- Are you ready for the jump? Come be guided by a [vodou] visionary through transformations already occuring in our world today

- Multicultural transformation specialist focusing on peace and justice

- Inner Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Coaching

- Applied Postmodern Shamanism

- Lectures, Workshops, Guided Visualization, Coaching

.  I think Facilitator of Cross Cultural Awareness is a great title and describes very well one piece of what you do.  This maybe should not change.

.  Definitely "Future" should be used.  Or maybe "Futurist"?

.  As far as your 3rd area of focus, I think a word like companion or guide might evoke the appropriate sense of accompanying someone on a personal journey of change.

  .  Perhaps our language doesn't contain the most descriptive words for these kids of concepts and we'll have to invent some :)

  .  I still like Cross Cultural Awareness Facilitator, so maybe something like Personal Change Facilitator would work.

  What keeps taking shape before me at the moment is your business card -- this is my first offering to the brainstorming process (not the last).  I'll try to approximate the text/layout -- not perfect via email.  Would something like this work:

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        21 Jenerasyon
        Supporting the re-creation of the world in our time,
   drawing on wisdom from the primordial to the postmodern.

             Djalòki Ntjitjagagi Jean Luc Dessables
                           Founder and Animator
 Workshops, lectures, guided meditation, individual coaching:
 ~  Global justice and peace from an Ayitian perspective
 ~  Cross-cultural awareness and respect: keys to the future
~  Activating leadership on the cusp of new insight

                        address/phone/email/blog information
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  I send this off in the true spirit of brainstorming, knowing that the above might be helpful, or might be really off the mark.
  Of course you can elaborate on all the points in a brochure, and provide clarity about your menu of lectures/workshops/etc., what things go together, various pre-requisites, etc -- similar to your blog. 

  What I'm sending does not include a crystal clear description of the very critical role of facilitator and co-counselor, helping  people who have been called to provide vision and special leadership -- activating and accelerating their growth.  All I say is "activating leadership on the cusp of new insight."  .  You can write something about your coaching of people poised for important leadership in the brochure, but I think brevity is the way to go.  The people who need you (and I humbly but with self-awareness include myself in this group) will be directed to you one way or another. 

  A thought in my head -- now remember I lived in San Francisco for many years -- is to avoid language as much as possible that people associate, in a largely negative way, with "new age" things.  Everything you are doing is of course the best of the hope that the "new age" sensibility is longing for, groping for even.  But when I think of a title for you, I want to avoid things that could turn people off who really are on your frequency, so to speak.  We don't really use the term "animator" in the U.S., but it has been in my mind and so I included it.

- "spiritual/intercultural director". In my experience, spiritual directors are counselor sorts of people, often licensed clinical social workers or psychologists who have done a fair amount of training at a spiritual institute and then they integrate their faith perspective and insight into deeper questions of life (big scale or one's personal scale) to their counseling.

- The phrase that keeps coming to my mind is spiritual translator, yet I don't think that is quite right. The word shaman keeps creeping back in also, yet I think you are looking for something more "modern" - "shaman for our time" is what I actually think but that doesn't exactly sound catchy and concise. I see you as a bridge between planes - a foot in different worlds, translating back and forth.  Spiritual interpreter? It's hard to find something expressive that doesn't sound pretentious. Then again, people who need you will understand almost anything you call yourself.

Suggestions for Djalòki's professional title

(With permission from the authors - the replies from people who have not yet expressly given their agreement for sharing their comments are not included)

- Postmodern Shaman available for shifting paradigms and psychic healing, inquiries welcome

- Transformation Specialist

- Postmodern Engineer, Transforming Paradigms through Shamanistic Healing - Transformational Engineer and Paradigm Shifting Shaman

- Paradigm Shifting Shaman, Engineering Postmodern Spiritual Healing

- Are you ready for the jump? Come be guided by a [vodou] visionary through transformations already occuring in our world today

- Multicultural transformation specialist focusing on peace and justice

- Inner Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Shift Coaching

- Spiritual Coaching

- Applied Postmodern Shamanism

- Lectures, Workshops, Guided Visualization, Coaching

.  I think Facilitator of Cross Cultural Awareness is a great title and describes very well one piece of what you do.  This maybe should not change.

.  Definitely "Future" should be used.  Or maybe "Futurist"?

.  As far as your 3rd area of focus, I think a word like companion or guide might evoke the appropriate sense of accompanying someone on a personal journey of change.

  .  Perhaps our language doesn't contain the most descriptive words for these kids of concepts and we'll have to invent some :)

  .  I still like Cross Cultural Awareness Facilitator, so maybe something like Personal Change Facilitator would work.


  What keeps taking shape before me at the moment is your business card -- this is my first offering to the brainstorming process (not the last).  I'll try to approximate the text/layout -- not perfect via email.  Would something like this work:

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        21 Jenerasyon
        Supporting the re-creation of the world in our time,
   drawing on wisdom from the primordial to the postmodern.

             Djalòki Ntjitjagagi Jean Luc Dessables
                           Founder and Animator
 Workshops, lectures, guided meditation, individual coaching:
 ~  Global justice and peace from an Ayitian perspective
 ~  Cross-cultural awareness and respect: keys to the future  
     ~  Activating leadership on the cusp of new insight

                        address/phone/email/blog information
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  I send this off in the true spirit of brainstorming, knowing that the above might be helpful, or might be really off the mark.

  Of course you can elaborate on all the points in a brochure, and provide clarity about your menu of lectures/workshops/etc., what things go together, various pre-requisites, etc -- similar to your blog. 

  What I'm sending does not include a crystal clear description of the very critical role of facilitator and co-counselor, helping  people who have been called to provide vision and special leadership -- activating and accelerating their growth.  All I say is "activating leadership on the cusp of new insight."  .  You can write something about your coaching of people poised for important leadership in the brochure, but I think brevity is the way to go.  The people who need you (and I humbly but with self-awareness include myself in this group) will be directed to you one way or another. 

  A thought in my head -- now remember I lived in San Francisco for many years -- is to avoid language as much as possible that people associate, in a largely negative way, with "new age" things.  Everything you are doing is of course the best of the hope that the "new age" sensibility is longing for, groping for even.  But when I think of a title for you, I want to avoid things that could turn people off who really are on your frequency, so to speak.  We don't really use the term "animator" in the U.S., but it has been in my mind and so I included it.  

- "spiritual/intercultural director". In my experience, spiritual directors are counselor sorts of people, often licensed clinical social workers or psychologists who have done a fair amount of training at a spiritual institute and then they integrate their faith perspective and insight into deeper questions of life (big scale or one's personal scale) to their counseling.
- The phrase that keeps coming to my mind is spiritual translator, yet I don't think that is quite right. The word shaman keeps creeping back in also, yet I think you are looking for something more "modern" - "shaman for our time" is what I actually think but that doesn't exactly sound catchy and concise. I see you as a bridge between planes - a foot in different worlds, translating back and forth.  Spiritual interpreter? It's hard to find something expressive that doesn't sound pretentious. Then again, people who need you will understand almost anything you call yourself.

Sanble baskilay la (shift) ap pran vitès plizanplis.  Se desizyon n ap pran kounye a ki pral suiv nou atravè gwo boulvès ki kapab vini. Sanble si nou fè wout sou kote kounye a, nou pap gen tan mete nou anplas pou lè siklòn dife a ap sou nou.  Se pou nou pran pozisyon nou pou dènye gwo etap inisyasyon an.

Hello dear friends,
Honor and Respect to you !

Many of you have offered valuable suggestions and advice for the brainstorming (below) I am doing. It is an honor and I feel very grateful. Thank you for this privilege.

I will give a few more days to the process. Some of you have expressed the interest to hear about what others are saying. I intend to post the (non private) replies relevant to my request on my blog (www.djaloki.blog.com), but I will only post what I am authorized to. So, if you agree to have your comments shared with other people, please take a minute to tell me, either by e-mail or on the blog. I won't post what I consider private or irrelevant to the topic, but if there is something specific you don't want to be shared, please tell me too. I won't share anything from you if you say nothing.

Reverence.
~Djalòki~

On Apr 25, 2006, at 07:09 PM, Djaloki wrote:

Greetings my very dear friends,
Honor and Respect to you !

I am now in Philadelphia for 2 more days, working on my next lecture and workshop US tour, possibly this coming fall (sept - nov 2006 ?)

THE PROCESS (IMMEDIATE PRESENT)
Along with - or even prior to - working at diversifying and increasing the lectures, workshops and guided imagery sessions I offer and designing promotional materials, I am also rethinking about the way I want people to perceive me and what I do when they get to hear about me, or when I first present myself. I am including you in this thinking process because I need help and I highly value your insights and wisdom, on top of the fact that you are already part of this exciting experience of mine, partly but significantly shaped by you too.

THE BASIS (RECENT PAST)
Last year, I have presented myself focusing on the "Cross-Cultural Awareness Raising". I have used concepts like Consulting, Facilitating, and International Lectures. My old contact card described me as the "Founder and Word-Bearer of 21 Jenerasyon"; (21 Jenerasyon is the one member organization I created for the lectures, workshops and guided imagery sessions - see http://djaloki.blog.com/64630/, http://djaloki.blog.com/ENGLISH+-+Echoes+and+Trail+of+21+Jenerasyon/, http://djaloki.blog.com/80524/, http://djaloki.blog.com/64664/). The current contact card presents me as a Facilitator, raising cross-cultural awareness.
My tour last year did not include worshops or formal guided imagery.

THE GROWTH (NEAR FUTURE)
This year, I will include workshops. Some will feature guided imagery sessions.
I also would like the spiritual side of what I do to come across when I present myself. Let me explain briefly: It is becoming clearer to me that the message I transmit has at least 3 aspects which are directed at 3 different groups of people, at different planes and with different formats, languages and focus.

The smaller aspect is global social justice and peace, from a Ayitian perspective.

The intermediate aspect is cross-cultural awareness and respect, from a shamanistic (non western) perspective connected to the western paradigms through postmodernism.

The greater aspect is the cosmic shift Mother Earth and Humanity are presently going through, from a holistic spiritual perspective rooted in the ancient primordial human traditions, but oriented toward the future. One very important part of this aspect for me is my growing ability to be a facilitator and co-counselor for special people who are being called during this shift to be leaders (usually spiritual leaders, healers or teachers) during or after the shift. I seem to be more and more able to help them make sense of the accelerated unusual transformations occuring around them and inside them. I intend to do that more and more, on a formal basis, and I would like this to be clearly expressed in the "title" I will use to present myself.

A PROFESSIONAL "TITLE"

So I need some sort of "title" or professional label, something concise, but clear and impacting, easy to remember. It can be a sentence, or a group of words followed by a more explanatory sub-titled. It does not have to describe me; it can describe areas of activity (like raising cross-cultural awareness). The smaller aspect (social justice/activism) does not necessarily have to be expressed in my "title", but the 2 others have to. I will put it on my future contact card and on all my promotional materials. The formulation is important for me, not only because it will shape the first perception and understanding people will have about me, but it will also act as an energy that will guide what I will be doing. I don't think it is something that has already been used, or at least not widely. It is a futuristic profession and that is going to be my profession. Let us brainstorm all together if you will.

I will also share this message with some close friends and family who I think can have interesting creative ideas.

Thank you very much.
Reverance.

~Djalòki~
djaloki@gmail.com
www.djaloki.blog.com