Day 3, Wednesday, June 23, 2015

Today was a pretty delightful day. I got good sleep, I was so exhausted. Woke up in the morning in the Hotel Estia in the little Greek coastal town of Finikounda. I took a walk down by the shore, and it was the most peaceful thing. When clouds of any kind show up in the sky around here, as they did yesterday, it’s a newsworthy item, so today (and just about every day) the sky was bright blue, and the sea was a gorgeous, deep azure blue. Truly beautiful.

On my walk something actually occurred to me to do in my presentation tonight on healthy relationships, which was great because up until that moment I didn’t have a clue.

Came back, ate a little breakfast and went down to the beach. I forgot both my book and my earplugs, though. That was not too bright because I didn’t want to go swimming without my earplugs, given my possible ear infection, and I had been looking forward to just vegging out and reading. But it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because something actually occurred to me to do for my weekend retreat on Working with People One-on-One effectively from the Inside-Out. I’m not usually this unprepared before sessions but my mind had been too cluttered.

Ate lunch (the very gluttonous pastitsio), found Richard, who had arrived in a daze after driving and getting lost late into the night last night—it’s always great to see him—took a nap, prepared for my presentation, and suddenly it was time for it.

This was primarily for a group of ex-patriots who had settled in Greece, and had had some small exposure to the Principles before, on account of Mick holding meet-up groups where they watched videos.

The presentation went pretty well. I decided anything would be false if I didn’t deal with my own relationship woes up front and head-on, and I told people what I had noticed and observed from it, which had implications for all relationships. That seemed to work because it was certainly real.

People asked a bunch of questions and the discussion was fairly lively. Susanne really surprised me when she volunteered how much her life had completely changed since she had started my Extended Professional Training—her face has even changed; looks so much more relaxed—and Richard was very eloquent about how he came through his fear in the caves in Spain.

By this time it was too late to eat dinner, but I went out with a few people anyway and ended up having a light salad.