COLLABORATION AND OWNERSHIP

“She’s my participant. I got her so it’s not right for her to go to your training. Now if she goes to your training, then you will owe me 50% of the fee she pays.” “That is my territory, so you can’t hold a training there. You have no right to my territory!”

I’ve exaggerated the statements in the quotes above in order to make a point. The point is that you, as a trainer, do not and cannot own a territory or a client. The premise in that statement is non- sense. After all, how does one person “own” another? This way of thinking is actually a thought- virus that infects people and sickens communities. Like gangs arguing over territory in an urban area, it turns people against each other and initiates unnecessary conflict. In addition it also violates all of the Self-Actualization premises that we have built Neuro-Semantics upon. Behind the idea of “owning” is the frame of scarcity which then feeds a ruthless competition wherein we treat each other as “the enemy” from whom we have to protect ourselves.