An Inspiring Dedication...and Health

Our schedule on this trip was really busy; training on Spiral Dynamics level 1 and 2, presentations to various groups and one on one meetings with Ministers, members of Parliament, business leaders and academics.

Dr Beck insisted on attending the last meeting scheduled yesterday with Professor Yaar ( The Peace Index Project), before he admitted to us that he was feeling really ill. What worried me the most was his heavy breathing and sharp pains. We rushed him to the hospital were he underwent all kind of tests. The doctors wanted to make sure they monitored him for 24 hours before being released. I was worried about him and about Pat, his wonderful wife, recieving the news in Texas and not being able to be next to him. Pat was very supportive and calm, and kept telling Don that she has a strong intuition that everything is ok. That calmed both of us down...

The next day we tried to be at the hospital around 7 am, knowing that once Don wakes up he would want to leave immidiately. Hospitals and Don don't mix. We waited until the doctors told us everything was ok, and left. He felt much better the next day, but the trip back to the US was also taxing on his health.

Don is giving his all to this initiative, as he does to any initiative he is working on all over the world. He is one of the most dedicated people I have ever met. Many people talk "the integral talk" but do not walk the walk. Don is one of the few experts in the world who are working on Large Scale Change in cultures and countries. People we met in the region were hanging on the every word he said, and knew that what he is proposing is promising, realistic and has a lot of potential.

"His track record is impressive and his design is fresh, complex and well thought out," a well known politician in the region said that about Don to me.

It is a true honor for me to be working with someone like Don. I call his work spirituality in action...