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Stephen Victor

Stephen werkt op een bijzondere manier met de velden van energie en informatie, dragers van alles wat wij denken, voelen, doen. Hij combineert Opstellingen met Andes-mystiek, NLP en een fijngevoelig intunen op wat nodig is in de groep. Dit werk doet hij op diverse plekken op de wereld met groepen, bedrijven, en soms individuen. Hieronder Stephen's informatie over zichzelf. Nog veel meer over zijn werk en visie op werk en leven op zijn website www.stephenvictor.com

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ABOUT STEPHEN VICTOR (his own text)
Growing up in small rural towns and on farms in middle-North America granted me a childhood spent largely out of doors: climbing trees, playing in fields and woods, hunting and fishing, puttering on farm machinery, and mending fences with an eighty year old neighbor. By my early teens, play had turned to labor, and at sixteen, returning after a summer spent working for a twenty-seven year old who had a family and farm, I heard my father lament,“ Steve worked like a grown man.” The mid-west work ethic began early and runs deeply.

As I looked at the young men in the community in which I was living, I feared that were I not to leave, I would become someone I would neither liked nor respected. My way out: the U.S. Navy. Being at sea and seeing aquatic life were wonderful, as were my experiences of other cultures and people. I worked in personnel administration. Regarding Viet Nam, my ship’s role and the Navy? I was ignorant and ambivalent. Had I been older, it’s unlikely I would have enlisted. Returning to civilian life, I worked as a deputy sheriff and police officer and went to college. I found my courses and professors uninspiring. My work placed me in close proximity to absences of civility and ubiquitous violence. I was incredulous! How could people to do such things? If only people could talk with one another? How can we, humanity, do things differently?

Discharged. Divorced. Degreed. I began a journey into self and into a fuller life. I began to read. I participated in personal growth workshops, began my study of applied neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and various modalities of individual and organizational change, growth. Relying on the respectful change-work patterns and skills acquired in NLP, I launched my career as facilitator, trainer, consultant and teacher.

I lead personal growth seminars, trained NLP Practitioner Training Seminars and worked in businesses and organizations that were rife with interpersonal conflict and its requisite consequences. Whether with executive or project teams, or inter-or intra-departmental angst, interpersonal aspects were cleared. I mediated interpersonal disputes between individuals in the presence of their colleagues. Collegial relationships reconciled, teams coalesced in the process of the courage demonstrated in engaging my process. Repeatedly I asked myself, “What is the underlying structural origin of the angst? How might I address it?”

Three events conspired in response to this query: an introduction into poetry, a Peruvian initiation into an Andean spiritual cosmology, and my experiencing Bert Hellinger’s work with families and organizations. Each endeavor uses intellectually indefensible means into venues and realities unacknowledged in Western societies. Preschool was over. I set my training wheels aside, suspended the ideologies of my upbringing, acculturation, education, training and experience and embraced my awakening and becoming. My time for opening to mythic life-affirming realities had arrived.

Later, I realized I had never mediated conflict during all those years in organizations; I had instead mediated love. Every time those conflicted and I got to the bottom of the angst, love was present: whether collegial love, the love of a project, love of belonging, or the love of a challenge. Whatever the issue, love was present, perceived and experienced. Love is also the solution. It is the only solution. Now to the underlying structure: Love’s pathway.

My work became accessing the unseen fields and systems that individuals, businesses and organizations are a party to. I became a spokesperson of the “informing fields,’” surfacing love’s impediments and illuminating the pathways of Wisdom’s realities. These are realities of confluence and reconciliation with what is present and what wants to be born, expressed, and experienced: success, peace, freedom, spaciousness and your desired results. This, however, is not the bottom line. The bottom line is something different entirely. I'll offer a word on this in a moment.

Reconciliation is not mine to offer. My job, as Love’s assistant, is to reveal what the fields inform. Clients either muster the courage and compassion to open mind and heart to their place in the greater context and to what they long for, or not. My job is to love, whether the client acts on what the informing fields offer, or not to.

I work in the United States, Europe and the Middle East in public and private settings with individuals, business, and organizations. My journey continues. As of this writing, April ‘08, I serve as a midwife to Love as humanity labors to receive more access to our wholeness, our poetry.

Oh, and the bottom line? Success isn’t it? The boon is reconfiguring your relationship to life and Love. It is living your own life instead of the one others’ want you to live. It is living poetically. From this place, your place, your true creativity and expression begin.

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