The Power of Listening,

Families Setting Goals
David Cunningham is one of 54 men and women from around the world who lead The Landmark Forum personal development program for Landmark Education. He recently took part in a radio interview where he discussed communicating effectively within families.
Interviewer: With today’s families, the way we have so much going on with our kids, especially when they start getting into teenage years, all of us are going in so many different directions. I want to know what ways that we can create a family plan that includes goals for both the parents and the children, so that we can keep our unit cohesive and on the same page?
David Cunningham: I think the most important thing here is that when you do a family plan and you say “Ok, here’s what were out to accomplish, this month or this year”, is that every person in the family can see that something important to them is included in that plan, and that nobody’s left out. You just keep working on the plan until you find out a way that everybody has the experience that something really important to them is going to get accomplished and everybody else in the family is for that, behind them, as committed to that as they are their own thing. So that’s one really important thing in making a family plan of any kind is that something important to everybody is included in it. That would be one thing.
Interviewer: Right, and you at Landmark Education, you have courses, right, that help people, help families create these goals together?
David Cunningham: Yes, in Landmark Education, one really important aspect of the work we do with people is creating new possibilities for themselves and others. An important aspect of that is to keep expanding what people think is possible for them. By the time we’re teens, there’s so much that we’ve decided is out of reach; there’s so much we’ve decided we can’t do. Or so much we’ve decided, that we’re not the kind of person that will do that. Or so much we’ve decided that other people won’t let us do that. Or that we already missed the opportunity.
So an important part of the work we do at Landmark Education is to really clean the slate for people so that the past is complete and where they end up in the conversation is that anything and everything is possible for them. There’s nothing out of reach. And when people really have that kind of clean slate, then what’s real for them is that anything and everything is possible for their life. Then when they go to say, “Here’s what I want to accomplish this year.” It really is something that will fulfill them. It’s something that will inspire them, inspire others, and it’s actually something that you’ll find is also almost always a contribution to others, and people are truly free and anything is possible for them.
Almost every time people say here’s what they want to accomplish, it’s not only great for them but it’s also great for others. So yes, an important part of the work we do for people is to clean the slate from the past and to give them the opportunity to really invent new, what we call, breakthrough possibilities for themselves in their lives.
Interviewer: That’s exciting. So David, if somebody wanted to take Landmark Education course where can they learn more?
David Cunningham: Well, the easiest way is to go right on our website, Charlene. It would be www.landmarkeducation.com. If they wanted to, Charlene, on that website, we actually have what’s called an online introduction they could go and really in a very short period of time, just a few minutes, about 15-20 minutes, really could get a very good sense of the work we do and an introduction to programs. And then they could find out all the different locations it’s in and the dates, everything right on that website.
Interviewer: That’s wonderful. I actually saw the introduction and I’m in Denver and you guys have quite a few courses around Denver all the time so that’s real exciting stuff. I plan to be registering here very soon for class, and I wanted to get into some of the things for kids.

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