Hello Everyone,
We have received a tremendous amount of positive feedback and support for the new BG5 Business Institute. I’d like to take this moment to share my instructions from Ra Uru Hu that led to its creation.
When Ra asked me to step into the role of IHDS Director in 2010, he made it crystal clear how he wanted me to take BG5 out into the world. You could say he gave me my marching orders! And I happily responded in the affirmative.
I think it’s important for the Human Design community to understand BG5 was never intended to be another aspect of Human Design, or another personal growth or awareness tool. Ra was very clear that BG5 is not here to wake anyone up. It is a methodology created to help people with their material lives. It is a way for people to better their circumstances and the lives of their family.
Ra was passionate about how BG5 was for everyone, and how it could change lives and potentially create more ease for people in their careers. We discussed it at length, and I feel he would be proud of how we are bringing BG5 into the world. In cooperation with Jovian Archive and Ra’s wishes and vision, we created a website to give BG5 its own identity and the prominence it deserves. We also developed Courses and Reports to support BG5’s knowledge to be more accessible to the business world. www.bg5businessinstitute.com
In Ra’s words:
“What we’re going to do is not try to eliminate the not-self, but try to turn it more and more into a potential wisdom simply by being able to impart specific techniques to our client. So, let me give you an example. Let’s start with the Spleen. Now, when I was first working with a colleague, in the very first months of our working together, because he was always afraid that the business community would run away from something that essentially is esoteric, his real concern was we could mask it as much as possible in order to get in the door, in order to get them to see the validity of it.
And so terminology was something that we worked with. In other words, to some extent I felt it was necessary to change the vocabulary in order to be able to appeal to what has been the traditional consultant language and the way in which business people on the whole, the kind of language that they are comfortable with. An undefined open center is not really anything that we want to talk about (in traditional Human Design language) because that automatically leads into a mechanical description. In other words, what it is open.
And we’re not going to be in the business of necessarily teaching them how Human Design calculation works and the way in which you read a BodyGraph. That’s not our job in that situation. We’re there to be a consultant.”
The BG5 Business Institute is all about training consultants to apply the knowledge to their client’s career and business lives from a highly practical standpoint. We teach consultants to talk to people about their careers and businesses in terms that they are familiar with … terms that they can relate to. We focus on potential issues and possible solutions in a way they can understand.
In Ra’s words:
“And one of the things that is important is that we need to have a language; that is, we need to have a descriptive language to be able to deal with not-self themes. So what I refer to in my dialogue with anybody at this level, in other words, working with somebody in an Alpha One analysis, what I talk about is not their openness. It’s not their lack of definition. It’s their shadow. It is that place that brings them problems. It is the black cloud that can get in the way of their shining light. It’s their shadow.
We have to be very realistic about what we see. And then objective in what we see. And then we have to deal with the situation. That’s the thing that’s so fascinating about BG5. BG5 doesn’t say, all right, we’re going to smash you down and we’re going to start you all over again. It doesn’t. It takes a little bit off this, and adds a little bit to that; it smoothes out the hard aspects of the shadow to turn the shadow into something productive.
When you speak to somebody in a simple language that they understand, remember we have this great potential, we have this wonderful tool.”
The response from the public, students and BG5 Consultants about the new terminology has been extremely positive. Karen Sherwood, BG5 Instructor and Certified BG5 Consultant has been in the Business Coaching and Management business for over 25 years. When asked about using the new terminology with her clients she replied, “It’s become easier to communicate with my clients; the new business terminology is more powerful and has more impact in the business world.”
BG5 Consultants have told me that their clients readily accept and understand the information. It makes sense to them right off the bat. Clients are more open and understand the BG5 concepts quickly and easily. They say, “Now BG5 can be accessible to a wider audience.”
At the BG5 Business Institute, our goal is for our BG5 Consultants to be successful and we are doing everything we can to help them succeed with their clients. Using terminology that fits into the business marketplace is one very important way to accomplish this.
The foundation of the knowledge is intact. Its application is intact. (In fact, students receive the original Ra Uru Hu BG5 transcriptions as student manuals and are able to purchase his original teaching to supplement their learning.) We have simply used a descriptive language that is more understandable to the business world— to people not necessarily involved in Human Design. In this way, we reach a much wider audience where more and more people can use this knowledge to improve their career and business lives.
The BG5 Business Institute’s Core Value: By helping people excel in their work, an overall well-being is created that increases their quality of life. Their quality of life impacts their family and community, and ultimately helps to better our world.
I also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the BG5 Students and Graduates! I am so impressed with the quality of students and professionals we have attracted to the Institute. They come from diverse and admirable business backgrounds. We are making the world a better place with this caliber of individuals going out and sharing this incredibly life-changing information, and this makes me very happy!
Lynda Bunnell
