Good morning from Merida. I believe this will be my last recording from here, but I’m not sure. I’m still enjoying myself. It’s been a wonderful visit. I believe my next stop will be San Francisco, but I haven’t quite pulled the trigger. Anyway, I want to talk today about MEA again. This will likely come up many times over the coming weeks. My experience there was very rich. I’m unpacking it. I’m not sure what I want to talk about or when it will come up.

I don’t want to reveal too much of the experience except for to say that the way it’s designed is that the experience in every workshop allows the participants to get to know each other from the inside out. That’s the best way to say it. We got to know each other from the inside out. The very first evening, they explained what to expect over the coming days and we introduced ourselves. We went around the circle and we were asked to start by saying this I am Constance Klein, and if you really knew me, you’d know dot, dot, dot.Of course, everyone got nervous because you’re sitting before all these perfect strangers who know nothing about you, not what you do. Not your last name. Nothing about you. And you start with that. If you really knew me. And it takes just one intimate share for people to really open up. What a terrific icebreaker. If you really knew me, you’d know, fill in the blank.

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