CCI Aotearoa 2012 is over!

Written by Niek | 12 January 2012

Auckland, January 11 The CCI meeting in the Southern Hemisphere, Aotearoa/New Zealand is over. Mixed feelings are the result at this moment. There  was no email contact after arriving the second of January at the venue; 'belonging' was the workshop item and 'death' and 'young life' were for me very acknowledged on the background. Now a week ago there was a funeral at the venue.  At this time, a week later, there is a celebration for Dave, a member of the New Zealand CCI community who passed away the night before the closing circle of this international CCI meeting.

The 'young life' was very present, as our host celebrated his  7 month old  first grandson, who came over from Europe with his parents for  the festivities around the New Year. We came over for the CCI meeting half way December 2011 and paid, with our host and hostess, a visit at the north side of the South Island.  We picked sherries a few days before Xmas which is unusual in northern Europe! A report about this CCI meeting has to wait until we are back home in about a week. Some impressions around my own contribution for the next issue of the New Zealand's Opening (community newsletter) must do for now.  

a range of CCI meetings

In my range of attended international CCI meetings, the one of 2012 in Aotearoa focuses on sharing the possible answers to the question: 'what are we doing here' (?) and why are we doing what we do? And now it seems to me, that there is a kind of process unfolding itself for me in this range of CCI meetings.

Because CCI USA 2007 for me focused on the introduction of the CCI session ingredients, translated in the CCI sign language, to overcome some language problems in now 9 different languages (with the benefit that it is – as worker – easier to neglect a suggestion done by sign than by words, and easier may be to learn practicing as well. 

CCI USA 2009 was focused on ' the core of CCI' where, in less than 2 hours some 15 international CCI members/trainers, mentioned 72 CCI core principles. While CCI USA 2010 was focused for me on a new approach of the concept of CCI  World News Service and CCI Europe 2011  in Hungary, was that on answering the question what are we doing within CCI – and why are we doing this all?

This last question was not new for me. From the very beginning of my CCI awareness in 1982, I had difficulties in wording for outsiders what I was doing and why. 'Managing my emotions in a for me suitable way' was an acceptable escape. After CCI Europe 2011, in a CCI teachers meeting, the answer started to evolve into: 'I want to live in peace with my past,  my present and my future'. And CCI 2012 in Aotearoa, at Tauhara Retreat Center in Taupo, is a special place to give this expression a go!

peace

So I shared this vision (for now), about living in peace with my past, my present and my future, at several places during this meeting. Besides, I realized that 'setting the CCI culture' has nothing to do with answering the question 'why we do what we do'.  This has everything to do – in my vision – with how we do what we do.  The vision of living in peace with the past, the present and the future is, also in my vision, easy to use for promotion of this CCI approach. Hoping that it may evolve in a way that contributes to the well being of its practitioners and their communities. And the night after the closing circle of CCI Aotearoa 2012 brought me the answer why I do this all: 'to intensify my awareness of living!'