Mapping Beauty

A client sent me this wonderful story/poem shortly after we had worked together on their Core Process. What my client didn’t know is that my wife is called Dawn!

Mapping beauty is like the dawn.

The sun rises, illuminating the world with soft and beautiful light, a start of a new day whatever went before. It can be softest blue, pale orange, deep red… infinite variation. The colours can meld and blend into each other with a whisper touch or they can be big and bold and there. It can be cloudless sky or cloudy for life giving rain.

In some places, the dawn is enticingly gradual, slowly illuminating the land with the softest palest light shimmering with clarity and luminescence. In other places, it is drama, going from clear black inky darkness to deep intense light within the shortest of times. Infinite time span, instant time span. All around the world, constantly moving and evolving.

Each new dawn brings a new day, it maps out beauty for each day for each one of us, as individuals, as people, as communities as one, united. We all live under the dawn, under the sun. It unites us all.

Even in the middle of the darkest day, the darkest night with no diamond stars to light our way, there is always the approaching dawn. We just need to wait.

Mapping Beauty brings that dawn.

Once upon a time there was a man wandering around in a deep, dark forest. He thought he knew where he was going, but in truth he was lost. Periodically the man thought he could see landmarks he recognised through the trees but then the wind would blow and the branches and leaves would block out them out.

Quite by chance he stumbled across a kindly woodsman who, instead of showing him the way out, directed him to the home of the Forest Wizard. The Forest Wizard was a wonderful man, kind and wise, who started to ask the man some simple questions. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, the man realised that he had been on an emotional journey with a wonderful outcome – he found LIGHT!

So now the man was able to find his way out of the forest using the light and, now, can walk safely in the forest whenever he feels like it.

As you will have guessed I, Philip de Lisle, am that man. The woodsman is my good friend Tom Evans and the Forest Wizard is Nick Heap. And the light is Mapping Beauty, my Core Process. Together, along with Christine Clacey and Esther Ewing, we form the Flame Institute whose mission is to bring Core Process to as many people as possible so that the light grows even brighter.

Core Process was developed by Chris Bull and Janet Mills working at ICI in the early 1970’s so it has a strong background in the corporate world. Indeed I have helped several corporate “players” to discover their Core Process and the overwhelming response has been better than positive!

So what does Core Process do for you? For me, it explains why I am on the planet. “Mapping Beauty” means so much to me that I felt as if I had been punched in the solar plexus when the phrase appeared. I know exactly what it means even if it leaves others scratching their heads (although those that know me well see it immediately). In one sense it is my personal mission statement – my compass through life if you like. And in another sense, it is a gyroscope that can never be toppled and so keeps me upright.

If you want to find out more, please contact me via this blog or my website.