Pip Wilson bhp

Alesund Airport, Norway
homeward bound
full up
full up with feelings
experiences
wonder
stretch
relationships
old friends
new.

I feel I belong to this community
It is 'Fame - we gonna live forever'
it is a Folkhighschool which we don't have in the UK.
A buzzing 'University of Wholeness'
It is a centre where staff love each other
and it shows
working
smiling
all the non verbal
as well as 'positive word of mouth'.

This visit had an invasion
staff from other such places
from all around Norway
beautiful humans
connecting humans
passionate humans.

Into their midst came a stranger.
Who did not give a talk in the lecture time
a beautiful human with a strange tongue
needing translation.
Who did not use the Bible in a Bible Lesson.
Who used large visuals
and small words
and large group time
always in triads -
a place where none can be a loafer.

Strange this stranger
leading these 100+ humans
into a mass role play
disrupting the neatly lined seats
disrupting the comfort zones
inviting all on a journey
into a new place
because
"Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable".

He disturbed the comfortable
and
comforted the disturbed'.

Starting with a common experience
with feelings triggered
feelings energised
minds spinning
outwards to family, children, relationships.
Minds spinning
as the gut was spinning
"I don't want to be here-
but this is extraordinary
I am in free fall".

"I have just become a ten year old child
and I am grown-up wo/man.
Why do I feel so different?"
"How easy was that to do -
I am shocked in who I have become - in one minute"!
I am beautiful.
"I am beautiful".

And then comes the reflection
the objectives become clearer.
The experience is a senses surge.
The experience is bring real life into one room
real life into everyone present,
reality - yet
yet ............a facilitated learning experience.
Beauty - full ...............

Shalom
Shalom was the theme.
Wholeness
not finding it here
but an introduction to the road less travelled
and an invitation to join it
step on it
lift the eyes and walk into the unknown
choosing life not security.

"I will not
sacrifice freedom
for security"

That Pip Wilson strange-man was shaking too
That Oyvin Sonnesyn, translator extraordinary, was shaking too.
The feelings truly common.

When it was all over
(it will never really be 'over')
flashbacks began
reflective flashbacks
reflective learning.
Conversations related to 'experiences'
rather than the performance of 'the speaker'.
Wholeness being experience
Shalom being experienced.

100+ humans will be carrying this in their chests right now.
Retention from a lecture is 5%
Retention from this stuff is 75%

The experience lives on
the reflection lives on
and the Shalom of God that passes all understanding ...........