A life rarely reveals itself as a straight line. There are experiences that shape us before we understand them. This Soul Biography traces the arc of such a life where somewhere inside a profound loss, an early knowing returned: that life might be asking something more.
What begins as a yearning for freedom can become something quieter and more radical – the recognition that freedom may not depend on our limitations, wounds or circumstances disappearing. In the stillness, another possibility can emerge. Not free from. Free with.
Fierce Love ~ a mirror held to what is broken. Not to condemn but to awaken. This is a film for those who know they now have no choice. For those who know that it’s time. Their time.
When did you last declare what you need? When did you last speak it out loud and into the world with a knowing, a steely certainty born of the challenging and conscious work of uncovering what it is that you truly need?
This is unusual. Filmed Fall of 2019. This 30 minutes of footage is pretty much uncut. Insights, admissions and all. It is deeply reflective and revealing of where this work is now to be pointed, and the contrarian nature of life and purpose finding you rather than you heading off to find it.
Sir John Whitmore was the pioneer and godfather of coaching in the workplace. He fills these few minutes with many provocative questions concerning a life lived traveling an original path.
As we stand in strange uncertain times, or perhaps as we fall to our knees under the sheer weight of not knowing, did we hear what it is that this age is asking of us?
Beyond the far edge of all he knew, was the only place in which discovery would happen. The kind of discovery that would solve the predicaments of a life weighed down by much that is human. As is its nature, such discovery would seek him out.
I made this film back in 2007. It’s a film about many things. A resilient dream being one. Alejandro was running for President of Guatemala. He didn’t win. He won at his fourth attempt and is currently President of His Country, despite having been a quadriplegic.
Perhaps with understanding comes the falling away of judgment. And with the falling away of judgment comes the ability to see another with a profound accuracy. And perhaps with such an ability to see comes the opportunity to share in a wealth beyond measure. Filmed in a maximum security prison in Central America.