You can give a person a fish and feed them for a night
or you can teach them to fish and they will feed themselves
for the rest of their lives.
That's the difference between a teacher and a facilitator.
A facilitator teaches you how to fish,
so you can feed yourself for the rest of your life.
You know the difference.
You don't like fishing.
I don't like fishing.
I like facilitating, though.
You're a terrible facilitator. Sorry.
I'm glad we had this conversation.
Now we know.
What is an Access Consciousness facilitator?
One of the questions we get a lot is,
What is a facilitator?
Bars Facilitator, Certified Facilitators,
or we like to call them certifiable facilitators,
because that means two or more doctors
can have you committed.
A facilitator, by definition, is someone whose job is
to make something easier for somebody else.
From our perspective, it's about making easier
this journey of consciousness for you,
getting to the awareness you already have
that you don't know you have.
That is the awareness that will actually set you free
and set you free to create everything you desire.
That's different than a teacher.
A teacher is, "I am here and you are the pupil.
I have the answers. You do not.
I'm greater than you. You are less than me."
No. A facilitator is somebody who acknowledges
the greatness of you, who recognizes that
we are all in this journey together.
The awareness that I've gotten
on this journey, along with these tools,
can facilitate you to your own awareness,
to the experience of your own greatness.
A facilitator of Access Consciousness
is about empowering you to know that you know.
Asking questions, being there for you.
Even if your awareness – and especially
if your awareness – is different than the facilitator's ...
That‘s okay. Because it's your awareness.
It is not only okay, it’s essential that you have that,
because the facilitator...
One of the fundamental concepts of this is:
You know more about your life than we do.
You're the only one who knows everything about you.
We are looking from the outside, doing our best
to contribute to you,
which is our job, to actually contribute.
When you have some awareness
that's different than the facilitator‘s.
Cool.
If you have an awareness that's similar to the facilitator‘s.
Cool.
If you have an awareness, that is exactly the same.
Cool.
Fishing & Facilitating
If you're out there and you don't like fishing,
you can't be conscious.
There's a story behind this.
This ought to be good.
I had an older brother. Tell us a story.
Enough said. I had an older brother,
and he would go fishing with his friends.
Do you know what my job was?
To bait the hook.
My job was to sit there and roll bread.
I just realized that my job was to sit there
and roll up all the balls for them,
so that they could go fishing.
Maybe that's why I think fishing is boring.
This is the way it works.
This is literally how it actually does work.
Yes, I know. We're not kidding.
That's literally how it works.
Because you'll say something that you feel, like ...
Fishing is boring.
Then I thought, "Hang on a second.
What is fishing to me?"
Rolling bread balls.
Maybe you could say, rolling bread into a ball is boring.
I don't enjoy that very much.
This is literally how it works.
You have that. I don't have any resistance.
I'm okay If it's boring for you.
Cool. No problem. You're not wrong.
When you're not wrong, you look at it and say,
"Wait a minute, that's not enough for me."
Having this place where I've got to
resist something is not enough.
You ask the question, "What is this for me?"
You get the awareness.
As a facilitator in a class
it works exactly like this.
I would say, "Okay, would you like to let that go?
Would you like to change it? Can we change it?"
– Yes. – Okay, cool.
Everything you decided fishing is and was
and everything that it's actually not for you,
everywhere you associated it with rolling bread balls
and you call that fishing,
everywhere you wanted to have a connection
with your brother, which he rejected,
which he would not allow, because it was too much for him
that somebody adores him that much,
everything that is, times a godzillion, will you destroy and uncreate it, please?
Yes.
Right and wrong, good and bad, POD and POC, all 9, shorts, boys, POVADs and beyonds.
You wanted to hang out with your brother.
Yes.
Have him acknowledge you, love you and be a big brother.
Yes.
Everything that is, will you destroy and uncreate it, please?
Yes.
Right and wrong, good and bad, POD and POC, all 9, shorts, boys, POVADs and beyonds.
This is exactly how facilitating works.
Where that leads to, you allow it to unravel.
Right now, that's unraveling in my world.
You can perceive the pieces going here and there.
This may seem so small, fishing and the connection
to my brother, the connection to anyone.
You create a point of view based on desiring
to create a connection, and it all gets mixed up
and confusing throughout your entire life.
You ping these small things and everything collapses.
And have more of you, you have more possibilities
and more awareness.
That's the way it works.
When you said everything collapses,
the solidity collapses and leaves a space
for a different awareness.
It always amazes me how this goes:
We have a seemingly innocuous conversation about fishing.
One comment you made had an energy of something,
“I'm bored”.
And it’s like when the dog goes, "What do you mean?"
That is the string that leads to this
motherload of things you never knew how to get to.
That's the exploration of consciousness right there.
You never know what's going to get you
to what you're asking for.
Your request to have something different
opens the door to being willing to have
that awareness. If you are with a facilitator
they can walk you through that by saying,
"That energy was a little weird,
let's talk about that.
Let's use the tools to change that.”
There's no such thing as a small thing.
Very true.
The number of times we've both personally,
but also while facilitating, we’ve had somebody who said,
"I know this is a stupid question."
There is no such thing as a stupid question.
When I first came along to Access classes,
Gary would refer to things and he'd say,
"This is a tool you could be using with your clients."
I was looking at him thinking, "What clients?"
I'm coming here for my business.
I was so intrigued with these tools
and how I could use them to increase my business.
Within six months
I thought that I would love to learn more about this.
I said to Gary, "Can we do a facilitators’ class?"
He said, "You need at least 12 people for me to do
a facilitators’ class."
I said, "12 people. Okay."
We found ourselves in Houston, Texas,
in someone's lounge room with 12 people.
He should have said 12 people more.
– Yes, exactly. – You should have said 15.
– Exactly. – OK, done.
There were 12 people in this lounge room,
and he did his own registration.
I remember him sitting there,
and we all lined up and everyone was paying for the class.
Gary was amazing. The business I had at the time,
I was doing stickers and magnets
that had empowering questions or statements.
They were awesome, they had things like,
"What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?"
or "Make today a great day".
I remember seeing those I thought, “I want to meet her.”
I met your stickers before I met you.
Stickers and magnets before I met you.
"Whoever made these, I want to meet her."
I went to the registration at the first facilitators’ class with Gary.
I had no money. I was in debt.
I wasn't doing that great.
Even getting the ticket to go to America, to Houston,
to go to the facilitators’s class was a big thing for me.
I ended up sleeping on someone's loungeroom floor
for a couple of nights, because I couldn't afford
a hotel room the whole time.
Gary very kindly said to me,
"You can pay me in stickers and magnets."
I went with my big box of stickers and magnets
and gave them to him.
At the time I thought it was
a good business transaction, not willing to see
how much he was willing to contribute to me
and the kindness of how he chose that.
I thought that now he could sell the stickers.
I had to justify it in my world at the time.
Later on, I realized, "God, this man is just so kind
and desires to choose what would work for me as well."
Because he could see that I was asking, "What is this?
Give me more, tell me more."
The desire to contribute to somebody who gets
what you're talking about.
Who desires more but also has a similar point of view
about what they desire the world to be.
And you can tell.
Yes, you can.
You had stickers and magnets which...
when I saw them, I thought,
"I love her. I want to meet her."
Because somebody who had that as their fundamental point of view,
and those were the tools that you had at the time
that you could bring to people.
For me, I had chiropractic.
I thought that's how I was going to change the world.
That’s what we do.
A lot of you guys out there that are watching,
you've been doing a lot of things
that are based on what you know is possible,
and maybe nobody else is talking about it.
Please know it's possible and recognize
there are a lot of other people out there
that desire it, too.
Whatever you are currently choosing,
don't make that an answer.
Keep moving forward.
If I had made that business the answer
and said, “This is it,”
then that is all I would have known.
I wouldn't have been able to go any further.
When I met you guys and I just said,
"This is great!"
I recognized it.
Today, every single day … Today, I was getting ready,
and I was asking myself,
"What can I contribute to consciousness today?"
It's always being in question and moving forward.
Always.
No matter what, no matter who is choosing
anything around you.
Not from resistance and reaction,
or alignment and agreement with anyone.
Choose you and keep that motion of moving forward.
Never quit. Never give up.
– Never give in. – And try something.
One of my favorite things that you've said is,
you've made more bad choices than most people
have been willing to choose.
How many people just sit there, trying to figure out
what that choice is going to be?
Just choose. You are going to stumble and fall.
You're going to say, "Oops, maybe you shouldn’t
have chosen that one."
Sometimes you're going to soar.
Sometimes you’re going to get married.
You're going to marry that bad choice.
– I'm kidding. – Or not kidding.
You talked about,
keep going, don't make that a conclusion.
We do that every day in Access, too.
Access is not something like, "Here's Access."
We change what Access is every day.
We get new information, new ways of doing something.
Something we get will create greater –
We change it instantly.
You can do that, you can always
be aware of the possibilities that are greater
and how those can be presented to you.
Every single person that comes along
and asks a question changes Access.
Yes, literally.
There are things that we know,
each of us knows, that we don't know that we know.
You're in a class, you ask a question,
and I can't tell you the number of times
somebody asking the question has changed
the face of Access to what we knew was possible.
It opened a door that we'd been looking
to open forever, and it took this person
and their awareness in that moment
to ask a question that allowed us to look
from a place to give them the information
or the awareness they were asking for,
the process or the way of changing something.
It contributes to everybody.
It's an amazing gift.
Being a facilitator of Access Consciousness
is not about getting it right.
It's about being in question.
We currently have three facilitator classes
around the world,
and they're getting bigger and bigger.
We have over 10,000 facilitators in various topics and forms
in Access Consciousness.
If you look at that: We started with
that first facilitators’ class that you and I went to,
with 12 people in a lounge room in Houston, Texas.
And it's fun. Can I say it? Facilitating is fun!
When you see someone's entire life
change in front of them
or them getting that lightbulb moment.
That generative energy where they ask, "I can change this?
I don't have to have this or I don't have to have that?
I can choose something different?"
Yes. I can choose something different.
It's awesome.
A lot of fun. So good.
What future do you desire to create in the world?
Discover more at accessconsciousness.com/facilitator