A man shares his experience of making a difference via participating in the Landmark Assisting Program:
This was the first weekend that I ever assisted in the Landmark Forum and I was absolutely floored by everything. I did the Landmark forum last July and immediately took the seminar series right after. I’ve since created amazing breakthroughs in many different areas of my life but nothing prepared me for this weekend. A lot of people who’ve been part of the Landmark community always tell me that assisting in the Landmark Forum is amazing because you always get a lot more than you actually give. I now know totally what they mean.
For Saturday noon, I was tasked to help out some participants during lunch. My job was to basically help out some of the participants with the task that they needed to do. I shared with them about my particular difficulties about clearing things up with my father. During my Landmark Forum, what inspired me to do this was another participant who actually made it possible to have a relationship with her biological mother who she never really knew. If she could do that, why couldn’t I talk to my own father? My situation wasn’t nearly as bad as hers and she was able to do it! After the break, one of the participants that I talked to came up to me and told me that he called up his dad. He hadn’t talked to his dad in years and he barely recognized him as a father. He was alright with how things were with his dad and him and he didn’t really care about it. He got inspired to talk to him though and he came up to me afterwards. He told me that it was the very first time that he heard his dad tell him that he loved him.
I was just so amazed. Clearing things up with my own father was awesome enough but actually just sharing that and inspiring someone to do something much bigger is a feeling that I just can’t describe. I’ve talked about it a handful of times over the weekend and I still have to stop myself from crying every time I do. That guy was going to go through life never knowing how his dad felt about him. To actually inspire him enough to do such a huge thing is such an indescribably humbling experience. I never really share anything about the Landmark Forum because I’m honestly afraid that some people might think of me as a freak. This experience is just too amazing not to share though. I’m just too overwhelmed by it.
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