iTS mentor
For a long time, I was also looking for the possibility of change on the surface. I expected that once my circumstances settled, once people around me behaved differently, or once I finally made the right decision, what pressed on me would stop.
Circumstances did change from time to time. The mechanism, however, carried on — in new situations, with new people.
I came across the iTS approach through a friend. In our conversations it slowly became clear that I did not need another solution. What I had to see was how my own thinking creates and sustains the very thing I was trying to escape.
That led me to the four-day iTS introductory training, and then to the one-year iTS Counselor programme. That year did not hand out comfortable answers. There was uncertainty, resistance, silence — and quite a few moments when it would have been easier to return to what I already knew.
The real turn did not come from a new thought, but from recognising that change is not merely a matter of will. As long as we try to change ourselves from within the same structure of thinking, new scenery appears on the surface while the play stays the same.
After completing the one-year programme I began working as an iTS mentor. I am also part of the eighteen-month Master Circle of the iTS Institute, where we continue working on the practical and professional application of the approach. Its participants become founding members of the iTS Institute now taking shape.
In my work I do not aim to lead anyone toward my own point of view. Together we examine what is there — behind the explanations, judgements and habitual answers attached to it.
Because it is possible to live differently. But first we have to see precisely how we live now.
My son also completed the one-year iTS Counselor programme and is a member of the eighteen-month Master Circle.
