Stories for your Transformation
at Landmark Graduate Stories
New Beginnings in New York City
What would you do - if one day you went to your office that was on the
hundredth floor, and found out that it was all gone … ? How did you
produce your seminars and programs and call people - when all the
phones, records, computers were reduced to ashes at the Ground Zero?
Armand DiCarlo
invents and fulfills a new possibility.
Read first-hand account from the Center
Manager of Landmark Education in New York City.
A Quiet Commitment, Now Openly Expressed
A firefighter's story: Rob Keating had just ended his workday but
immediately went to the Ground Zero as the event of September 11, 2001
took place in New York City.
Healing, One Brushstroke at a Time
When the two
towers tumbled to the ground on September 11, 2001, artist Maureen
Bennett O'Connor was determined to do something and used her
participation with a Landmark Program to make a difference to help
people cope with the tragedy.
Our
appreciation
to
Landmark Education
for making available full scholarships to the Landmark
Forum which ended on November 30th, 2002 - as an acknowledgment, for many
active duty firefighters/policemen-women in our lives and in commemoration
of September 11, 2001.
Wednesday September 12,
2001
Hi everyone,
I wanted to take a few minutes and give you an update about our
Landmark Education New York Center and Staff.
We are very, very fortunate in that all our Staff members are safe and
unharmed. There were some 'near misses' yesterday. One Staff member was
in the first tower hit and it took him over an hour to get out of the
building and got out just before it collapsed. Another Staff member had
just gotten off the train at the World Trade Center and was in the
lobby.
 As of 1:00 p.m. EST today, (Wednesday September 12, 2001-ed) the NY Center began operating from a
temporary office in mid-town. This office was offered to us by one of
our graduates. The Staff members are in the process of downloading graduate
records into computers so that they can be in communication with people
today.
All of the Staff are either at the temporary office or in the NJ Center
working today. The Staff shared about their experience of yesterday -all
of them reported the kindness and generosity of the graduates and all of
the people of NY and NJ. One of our visiting Staff from Australia was
taken in by a couple from NJ, another Staff member from NY was literally
wandering around the streets and picked up by a graduate who took her
home with them.
We had an all Staff conference call today to be with them and every
Center around the world (regardless of what time it is for them) was on
the call. The support and camaraderie made you cry. There was no one
anywhere in the world who was not impacted or effected in some way by
what happened here. The most moving share was from the Center Manager of
Tel Aviv. Of all places, they are the ones who can most profoundly
relate to what happened and what people are dealing with. They are at
risk for repercussions from the attack here yesterday, and in spite of
this, are more present to and standing for world peace. Israel declared
a national day of mourning today in honor of those who died here
yesterday.
Harry Rosenberg spoke about the intention of yesterday's actions were to
be a brutal disruption in people's lives. While we want to have space
for ourselves and others to have our thoughts, feelings, etc., we also
have the opportunity to not be disrupted in who we are and what we are
up to creating in the world. The executives spent a lot of time
yesterday looking at what we should do. The biggest contribution we can
make now is to be open and available to all people.
With the exception of NY and LA (who was closed due to the proximity of
the Center to the airport), all of our programs went on as scheduled
last night. This weekend, the only programs that will be cancelled are
in NY. Landmark Forum Leaders are driving to locations all over the US
and Canada to have our work be available. (Jinendra is driving from San
Diego to Phoenix, Jerry is driving from Florida to Texas, Margaret is
driving from New York to Montreal).
Many of you have asked how you can be kept up to date with what is
happening or how to be of assistance.
Please feel free to pass this communication on to anyone who you know
would want to be informed about our NY Center and Staff.
(The email, forwarded all over, that
kept us, Landmark Graduates, grounded in our moments of grief.)
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After two weeks
of test-run, our former website formally went on line as
iLovePossibility.f2s.com on September 9, 2001.
 In the morning of September 11, 2001, I
was working at home to resolve some of its design issues when my neighbor,
visibly upset, came in rushing and turned the television on. So
I joined millions of others to watch one of the most horrifying events of
my life.
 After the first shock, I reached for
the phone
to find out if my graduate friends and the Staff at the Landmark Education
New York Center were OK. An hour later I got the news from a fellow
graduate who assisted
at New
Jersey Center confirming that no one was in the Landmark Education office at the Trade World
Center at the time
of the attack.
The next day this message at
left was forwarded to us ...
That evening, in deep grief and worn out
from watching the news, I went ahead to attend our session 10 of the
Velocity Seminar in Charlotte, NC. Our seminar leader did
an amazing job to have us to be present to what was present. We were posed
with a question: " ... how do you invent a new possibility
amidst this immense national tragedy?"
In that Landmark seminar, that evening of
September 11, 2001, my first reaction was, what was the point to create a website
such as this one, given what had happened? ...
Then out of nowhere - a possibility
emerged - I realized that was the point exactly, of why I created and maintain
www.iLovePossibility.info ...
 To celebrate
and to share that awesome human spirit that
I witnessed that evening in that Landmark seminar ... In the midst of one
of the greatest upsets of all time, Landmark Forum Graduates and Landmark
Education in many places in the world, were in action, and ready to cause transformation.
We refused to be defeated by the circumstances of our lives.
A year later, unthinkable on that day, we
have created partnerships with many other graduates communities.
Today we renew our promise to celebrate and share the dignity of the human spirit
in causing new worlds for possibilities - as a tribute to and in honor of all whom we
lost that day.
Thank you
for who you are and
for your commitment to living a life you love,
Han Dana,
and all of us at
www.iLovePossibility.info
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