Change

This one little word has been important to me from my earliest memories. 

As a small child, I often imagined things changing or being changed.

When it was Summer, I wanted the season to change. 

I wanted Christmas to come. When I wanted to travel by myself, I wasn’t allowed to.

There were other “No’s” to my curiosity and compelling sense of “When I’m 

grown I’ll do things differently.”  

Later, as a young professional nurse, I wanted to change the field of nursing. I showed and was rewarded for my initiative and creativity. Then, when in a training position for a nursing staff, I thought I would be met with enthusiasm when I introduced a new change project. I was not. Oh, there was so much about change and not change that I had to learn. 

Later, during my studies, I completed a semester course simply called CHANGE. So, for 17 weeks I delved into theories and strategies for implementing personal and systemic change. Now, decades later, I still advocate for change but from a very different perspective. 

I realize that we don’t have to make change. Change is the pattern of the very Universe at all levels of being and for all beings. We could not stop change if we tried. But what I now also realize is that while we cannot control change, we can learn a great deal about flowing with change. In fact, we can make change our friend and our superpower. 

Through a series of classes that colleagues and I now offer and plan to offer in the near and more distant futures, we unveil the many benefits to conscious change and we offer multiple maps for navigating change so that it affirms and enriches our lives, our visions, relationships within our lives, and our endeavors to use change as an instrument for transforming lesser life patterns and choices into far more empowered, wise, and caring ones. 

The Living Classroom is our way of stepping into our richness to share it with you in hopes that you will realize its power within your lives and continue to pass your learning and well-being along to others. We draw upon wisdom from many traditions, parts of the world, cultures, and lives well-lived. 

As one of my treasured teachers says, “Watch this space.”

I hope to see you along the way.

Margaret

September 17, 2024