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The privilege to make a difference to my community. Tito Labarta My friend first told me about Landmark Forum while I was in Business School. I was interested, but didn't have the time or money. One day coming home from a baseball game, I met a lady on the train who shared with me about the Landmark Forum. Afterward I went to a Special Evening about the Landmark Forum and registered on the spot. I did the Landmark Forum in August 2001 in New York. It was one of the last Landmark Forums to be held at the former New York Landmark office in the World Trade Center. The most important breakthrough I had in the Landmark Forum is how it transformed my relationship to my father. The Landmark Forum Leader told us about "What Happens" and the "Story" we made up about what happens and how one perpetuates the other, and formed the “Vicious Circle”. I realized then that I still resented my father for the way he treated my mother when I was young. The story I made up about my father was that he didn't love me. When I distinguished that I had just made this up, suddenly something awesome happened to me! It gave me the space to forgive him and create a loving friendship with him. Before the Landmark Forum, I barely spoke to my father about my life and what was important to me because I found him annoying and thought that he didn't understand me. In the Landmark Forum, I was able to see how lonely and frustrating it must be for him not to really know about his only son's life. Now I share everything with him and this in turn has given me confidence to be self-expressed with everyone in my life. As the result, I am no longer the shy person I used to be. What I love most about my participation with El Foro Landmark in New York is having the profound privilege to make a difference in a community that is very important to me. I love my Hispanic heritage and am honored to take on the accountability for bringing transformation to my community. I am clear that El Foro Landmark will give access to people for a greater sense of love, relatedness, and inspiration in their lives. I am committed that everyone in the Hispanic community is empowered to live the life of their dreams.
I was at the New York Center one night and the
Team Leader of the previous El Foro Landmark in New York, Eladia
Rodriquez, invited me to a meeting with the rest of the Leadership Team
and our Center Manager, Armand DiCarlo. Eladia said that I could
assist in any fashion that I wanted, but that they are committed to having
El Foro in New York every month by 2007 and that they would need leaders
who speak Spanish. I was already an Introduction Leader and I said
that I would love to lead the Introduction to the Landmark Forum in
Spanish, little did I know what that would lead to. I left the
meeting confronted about what my role would be, at first thinking that I
would just be helping out on occasion. After a conversation with June Paley, who was the person to bring the First El Foro to New York, I was asked to be the Team Leader for the next El Foro Landmark in February 2004. I was so confronted that I had to think it over. I already planned to take on another assignment at The Landmark Assisting Program, but this accountability was much larger! As the Team Leader, I take the enormous responsibility to generate El Foro Landmark, which will impact the lives of 150-200 people. It is both very exciting and scary. Luckily, I have a great team to support me. In addition to June and Eladia, there are Joe Rojas, Yoani Soriana, Lilliana Morales, Carolina Cordero Dyer, Rebecca Sanchez, and Aleli Benitez who are on the Leadership Team. We are each committed to seeing that this El Foro Landmark is the greatest ever. That is our promise, and we invite you to
participate with us in any way that serves and empower you. We request
that you let everyone know about us! Thank
you, Tito
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My name is Daer Labarta, but I have gone by Tito since my grandfather gave me that nickname as a little kid. I was born and raised in Queens, NY in 1973. I grew up with my parents and two older sisters in a 2-family house in Richmond Hill, Queens and lived there for 24 years until we moved to Long Island in 1997. My father is Cuban and my mother is from Ecuador and I've been to both countries. I went to Cuba in 1998
and met family that I had never seen before. It is my inspiration that all
people in all countries will have the opportunity to do Landmark Forum.
And for now I am the commitment to have the next El Foro Landmark be successful in
New York.
Tito Labarta graduated from St. John's University, with honors in 1995 and received a Certificate Achievement for High Scholarship in the field of Quantitative Analysis. In 1999, he went to New York University - Stern School of Business - and received an MBA in Finance in May 2001, where he earned a Merit Based Director's Fellowship Award and was a Teaching Fellow in Statistics. Tito Labarta worked for a hedge fund as an investment analyst for two years and is currently studying to earn the Chartered Financial Analyst degree, as well as looking for a position in Corporate Finance at a major financial services firm in New York.
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November 18, 2003
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