ACEP 2008 Convention News
The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology held their 10th annual International Convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico May 15 - 18th. I stayed most of the week and had a lot of fun. This is me at the right delivering my lecture and yes, I wear glasses when I multitask between computer, audience and screen several feet away. This is not the most flattering picture of me with eyes closed and mouth open (thank goodness, no flies landed), but here I am in mid-lecture on the whys and wherefores of Energy Coaching. Dr. Michael Galvin was kind enough to snap this and pop it through email to me. I stuck in the slide in the background as it was out of the frame on the original.
*f0t05h0p r00lz* (ask any fifteen year old)
Saw all my friends and met some more. So wonderful to be in glorious Gloria Arenson’s presence, and had memorable meetings with Grant Connolly and Dr. John Hartung, Gary Craig, Dr. David Gruder and Dorothea Hover-Kramer. Grant had just minted his "9 Minutes to Bliss" CD (you can get it here: http://zpointforpeace.com) and I was honored to receive a copy of it. A must-listen!
Fred Gallo gave a truly rousing keynote and it was so wonderful to see the old board members I served with again. Also the new - CEC grad student Betsy Muller has taken over my old job as Director of Communications. It was wonderful to connect with her and she looked so very well, fit and perky.
Had the pleasure of being seated between David Gruder and Gary Craig at an author’s signing table that also included Dorothea and keynote speaker, Anodea Judith. Turns out Anodea and I know a lot of the same people from the goddess community in the Bay Area.
Author table was fun and we all got a chance to kick our shoes off, rest a bit, catch up on chat amongst ourselves, and meet folks. I signed books for some really nice women and got to know some folks I’d never met before who’d been following my work for years. That’s quite something to hear, that someone has been following what you’re doing over a long period of time.
Takes you up a peg. Makes you straighten your collar, adjust your stance and pay more attention to the needs of those you’re in service to. Mom would have been proud of me for getting this. It truly is all about service.
Also met someone who’s been a great customer of mine and been on my newsletter list for many years, all the way from Nigeria - Chief Iwowarri Berrian James. Iwowarri has an energy psychology center in Lagos and is doing many fine things with people there who have suffered much trauma. It was amazing to meet him and reflect that the work ACEP is doing is so important that Iwowarri came not just this year but last year as well to our conference. I’m so grateful to people like this. They are the true heroes. Iwowarri attended my lecture and took notes with an intensity that made me hope I’d communicated well to him and all the rest in attendance.
Makes you sit straighter and try real hard to give the most value you can.
Nilhan from Turkey was there and we met for the first time. Such a beautiful energy she has! Joseph Guan, our man in Singapore, was not here this year, and we also missed Hartmut (Teddy) Gerber, our dear friend from Stuttgart. Suprisingly Teddy was awarded the honors for the person who had done the most during the year to spread information about energy psychology. He’s been tireless in bringing the benefits of energy therapy to Germany and western Europe. Ted’s been a bit under the weather and couldn’t make the conference, but hopes to visit the San Francisco area in September with a short junket to Esalen. Woohoo! It will be so much fun to see him again.
Conferences - one of the best reasons to do them is to see folks you don’t get to see any other time of the year!
My lecture went well, I filled the time and could well have gone on for another hour or two - anyone who’s seen me lecture knows that. (my poor Advanced Energy Coaching students are in for somewhat of a "stuffed" time with me this coming June!) It went very well and the demo client, Michael, who stepped forward to work on the Waking the Avatar working was absolutely the right person and a joy to work with.
As a very sweet end to the proceedings, a lovely lady gave me a small purple silk bag after the lecture was over, which contained a handmade booklet, a process and instructions on how to use the process. This is an item she was selling and I found myself inordinately touched that she should gift me with one. So much so that I forgot my laptop cable and spent a frantic hour or two running around the hotel the next morning before I found it - the crew had stuffed it in a niche behind the podium. Thank goodness, it was still there.
The book went down well and if the little party in my room was anything to go by, more and more people want to know how to write a book and get it published! The folks at the bookstore could not have been more helpful. They put out my books, sold thirty odd (over 3,000 sold in these first few weeks the book has been out, btw) and Blair was kind enough to clue me in on a lot of backroom bookseller workings. Every author should know this stuff.
So much happened and I could go on for pages and pages, but will end here as it is now time for other things. Thanks Anodea, Gloria, Nilhan, Michael, John, Betsy, Iwowarri, Joe, Ted, Dorothea, Gary, and everyone else - this year was beautiful!
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