Within a few hours of leaving the meetup drama ensued. Why am I posting this? its an easy blog entry and is related to yesterday's first post. This was not my drama and did not effect me, I was just a witness to it. The remaining members of the group began a succession drama. Who would take over? and what would the group become in my absence? This has nothing to do with me and is not about my vibration I'm leaving. But the change of me pulling the rug out from under the group was contrast. I think some of the expansion will help me as people will see they want my advice/guidance once they experience the new meetings, and come to me for one on one coaching. But a lot of it was about the group co creating a new meeting based on their preferences.
So within a few hours someone stepped up, based on seeing the announcement from meetup.com that the The Santa Monica/Venice Abraham Hicks Meetup Group was going to be deleted if an organizer didn't step up. This individual runs his own Law of Attraction meetup already and wanted to fold the meetup I just abandoned into his. His meetup is based on his own teachings influenced by Abraham as well as other metaphysical teachers, and his practice as a clinical psychologist. But the group title has Abraham Hicks in it and is under the meetup.com category Abraham Hicks. His own group is under the Law of Attraction category, a broader category that really allows for personal teaching, as well as other authors interpretations beyond the Hick's. This caused some serious upheaval. Oh yeah and he wanted to charge $10 a person for each meeting, which I think rattled more people then the shift in subject matter
This was the email drama I woke to today. Happily the emails directed to me were just appreciation for my years of facilitating the meeting and wishing me well in my new endeavors. But I was blind CC'd on some emails to this Dr. Ray guy. And saw his emails to the group at large doing his best to straighten things out which included one of the less flattering emails he got from a member of the group. In the end I was inspired to send him an email telling him that I was staying out of it and letting Law of Attraction handle it, but that I did have a preference I was not attached to that I would express to him and he could take it or leave it. His response to my email, that he was going to let those interested know about the group he already led, and then step down. Within minutes of his relinquishment of control a member of my original group stepped up. Her email to the group didn't emphasize that she was going to keep it purely Abraham-Hicks based but that it would continue to be FREE. This seem to support my thinking that his charging of $10 was a bigger issue then the new content, and it supported my leaving to pursue getting paid for my coaching. People have told me leading the free group could attract clients to my paid coaching but I was beginning to believe that the community coming to my free meetings was a little lack focused and wouldn't "pay for the cow if they could get the milk for free." I saw that I'd have to leave that environment so I could see past those particular lackful people and manifest paying clients as well, as to push those who really were coming for my wisdom to realize they needed to pay to get the best of me as a coach. Having one of those people as I saw as one of the lack oriented ones step up to lead the group just seem to support my decision
Since this morning I received two emails that really helped get me in a great mood and supported my decision to move beyond hosting the monthly free meeting and stepping up to be paid for my coaching. One was from a long standing member who became a co-organizer at one point telling me to ignore the drama, and that he and his partner really supported my decision, that I'd make a wonderful one on one coach, and that members of the group would be seeking my paid counsel soon after not being able to get it for free anymore. And the second was from writer who is an acquaintance and Facebook friend. She and I have yet to meet. We were introduced by a mutual real world friend, so that I could consult on a script she was writing for a screen play. The screenplay involved the Netscape IPO, deadheads and the death of Jerry Garcia, which happened the same week as the Netscape IPO. I am a former deadhead of sorts as well as a former employee of Netscape although I got there shortly after the IPO. I read her screenplay and gave her feedback she said was very helpful. The email she wrote to me today involved my life coaching was auspicious in its timing, it supported my decision and brought up a future project she would like to involve me in. All is well.
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