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um like to begin by just noting that in

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academic circles we all tend to have tag

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lines we like to refer to ourselves as

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psychologists or mathematicians or what

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not well I play that game too i refer to

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myself as a humanist and I use that I

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say that in order to make the point that

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I'm not a psychologist other than the

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fact that I kind of study that the

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larger context of the human condition if

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you will but as a humanist I'm

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interested in the interior experience of

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the interplay of the human and the

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divine and i would say that in quoting

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one of the Philosopher's I studied in my

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studies Pico della mirandola 15th

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century renaissance scholar he said that

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we exist in a middle space being neither

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a heavenly being nor an earthly being

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and in this middle space he felt that

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human beings can range between the level

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of the lower things or the higher things

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I believe that we are a microcosm of

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that entire spectrum but we are gifted

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with a freedom that enables our movement

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our ability to change to grow and

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develop and I became interested in the

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monoi Institute because of its process

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for exercising our freedom to explore

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the full range between the lower things

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and the higher things using the hemi

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sync technology and many of you are

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familiar with Bob Monroe's work that Bob

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developed TMI programs off the

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opportunity to tune in two different

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states of consciousness like tuning a

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radio in two different stations alright

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that's an effect that most everybody who

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goes to TM I have some experience of but

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what I was really interested in knowing

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and trying to understand it was the

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basis of the study was while the effect

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can be pretty dramatic I have often

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wondered how participants have

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integrated their experiences into their

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lives what difference has attendance at

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a TMI program

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difference in terms of tuning in to

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different levels of consciousness made

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in the nature of their personal

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relationships there are interests and

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accomplishments their growth and

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development if you will so this is what

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the basis of the study that I begun and

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this is only the beginning of this study

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there are several phases yet that I will

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be exploring but this initial study

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started with two groups I looked at

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people who have attended just simply the

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Gateway Program which was the first

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program in the series and everyone's

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required to go through before they can

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attend any advanced programs there

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approximately 360 respondents in the

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Gateway group then I looked at another

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group called multiple program attendees

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people have attended three or more

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programs and as you'll see more than 75

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percent of this group attended actually

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four or more programs all had attended

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at least one program since 2000 alright

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but some of the multiple program

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participants had gateways experiences

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being back into the 1970s I was an

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online questionnaire there was one

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section demographics psychographics

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program affects about 61 questions and

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then there was an optional section

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looking at personality typology now let

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me just simply kind of summarize some of

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the independent variables came out of

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this on the demographic differences some

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of the key examples here is obviously

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for the multiple program group they're a

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little bit older they've been going to

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TMI longer all right their education

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they have a higher percentage of people

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with advanced degrees all right they

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also have a length of change in social

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status in the meaning that they've been

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widowed or diverse divorced those

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individuals have been widowed or

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divorced had been a for longer period of

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time they digested to that change and

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then income level was a little higher so

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there are some of the you know

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independent variables between

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demographically between the two groups

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on the psychographic 11 there were

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really two key differences I ask people

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you know

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why did you choose to attend to your

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mind gave him a list of 10 different

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reasons you could select any or none and

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you could select them as many times as

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you wanted to two dimensions came out

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between the two groups that was

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sadistically significant difference one

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was curiosity the multiple program

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attendees had a greater degree of

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curiosity and their reason for attending

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TMI and the second one was self

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knowledge that his ire to understand

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themselves better these were two

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distinctions between the two groups and

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then in terms of personality typology

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it's really interesting about the group

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is both of them have pretty much the

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same typology you know a little bit

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beyond norm in terms of extraversion

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that was a little unexpected on my

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apartment but their dominant function is

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in his intuition and their auxiliary

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function primary auxiliary functions so

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for for most people it was like in the

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40 percentile a 40 percentage basis for

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what i call this dominant function of

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intuition the secondary function was

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feeling and then as an axillary function

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intuition was still the highest so on

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the two dominant and auxiliary

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determinants of personality typology

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intuition is the highest descriptor of

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the personality type ologies of the

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people going to TMI now let's just take

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a look at the findings and go kind of

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jump to the bottom line i did a fact

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analysis around 34 program effect items

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came up with four categories in which i

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loaded those items on personal efficacy

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life satisfaction job satisfaction

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career performance then we did a

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regression analysis looking at

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controlling for these variables these

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differences in demographics

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psychographics and we came to a rather

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interesting conclusion here is that

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those people attending multiple programs

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actually had

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statistically significant higher

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personal efficacy and life satisfaction

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and those who just attended gateway now

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what's also interesting is the r-squared

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there I don't believe I have enough

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variables to account for TMI as having

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much to do with that high but what I can

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say is that TMI acts like a strange

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attractor of a certain kind of

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individual who comes through there okay

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now I want to go a little too fast sir I

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want to point out some of the questions

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in terms of program effects and look at

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this correlation between gay way only

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respondents and multiple program

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respondents I 34 questions looking at

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questions like I have a more expansive

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vision of how the parts of my life

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relate to a hold on every one of the 34

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questions multiple program attendees

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more strongly agreed with that question

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than with then the Gateway only and here

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are the ones whether the strongest

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difference I tremendously you know a

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major difference here on some of these

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questions the additional questions

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besides these this to give you a feel

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for this I'm a more effective decision

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maker I am more composed under pressure

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I'm more able to listen non defensively

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to criticism I'm more productive at work

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I have developed new friends so I'm

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looking at aspects that would point to

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this question of quality of life life

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satisfaction if you will and on every

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one of those questions the people

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attending multiple programs had a much

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higher satisfaction or strongly agree

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with that now

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that's one aspect of this study the

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other one which I find even more

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interesting is what I'd call the

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qualitative analysis because I asked a

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series of open-ended questions and one

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in particular was what's your most

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memorable experience and I got back a

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you know 200 pages of written comments

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single spaced and so I had to be filled

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through all that and begin to try to

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organize it around some set of

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categories and here were four categories

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in which I could pretty easily put most

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everybody's response I'm going to look a

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little bit here at this personal

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learning and development share that with

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you now here is a sample of responses

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from the Gateway only group and I've

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highlighted a couple places here would

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pay attention to the language because

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the language is key to kind of a mental

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functioning the way people are

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structuring meaning from this experience

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so I'm accepting my limitations I'm

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forgiving myself I've cried with oneself

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of the young time together a meeting

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having cried with oneself of the young