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Interview with Dr. John Hanley - Page 11 INT: Just coming back to the historical development. Lifespring was involved in all these cities and obviously you've now taken the technology and taught and presented it in various formats. You mentioned Asiaworks being someone that took it and moved on in another organizational format. How did that transformation go, from where you were in multiple cities as a corporate entity called Lifespring, to where it is today, where it's really manifested in a multi-faceted and variegated corporate environments and training companies? JH: Well, I think that people saw that the risk of entry into the transformational field was fairly low and that, in other words, it wasn't like owning a car dealership where you had to spend you know, $3-4 million in inventory and build a building. So, given the ease of entry, I also think that with given people's passionate commitment to make a difference with others, you put those two together and the word spreads. Of the thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of people who've taken the training, a lot of those people had strong desires to spread the word, and some of those people who took the training and were trained by us, they felt like they'd like to strike out on their own. Initially, I was concerned about that, but I got over it and I saw that really this wasn't something that I owned; it was something that I was the caretaker of for the first 20 or 25 years, but really my job was to bring it into being, to socialize it in a way that it had roots and that it could carry on apart from my personality, to develop the technology such that it could stand on its own, and to see that no one except skilled and capable individuals could take that technology and replicate it and get the job done. So I really feel that we didn't have a patent on it. We did have a copyright and I suppose we could have been tougher about that--we could of taken on a bunch of these organizations and shut 'em down, but at the same time we also tried to walk the talk, and the talk was about everybody winning, and the talk was about everybody goes, and the talk was about let's have a world work for everyone. So you know, somewhere in there between my own selfish, competitive desires and sort of a bigger mission, the thing evolved, and I'm very pleased with its evolution and think of the old adage, "if people are copying what you're doing, then it must be pretty good stuff." So, it's actually wonderful now that people in all walks of life--be it in high tech or in religious circles--have their Lifespring-esque organisations and are doing very well with them and producing results. Hey, so much the better. |
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