A "Professional Title"
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
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
