INTERVIEWS

An Interview of Markus Alexander by Bernhard Mueller

Thank you again, Markus, for letting me learn with you. About this interview with you as an expert in the EXA-field: if the seminar yesterday was an experience for you as well, how do you describe it? What did you really do yesterday?

(Smiles) It is pretty simple, really. It's like when you go for a walk in the woods and there is already a trail there. I don't think I made a new trail; I went down a trail that I know, and the season was a little bit different and the people were different, but there was a kind of familiarity with the woods and with the trail so there was a kind of relaxness. There was also a delicate excitement about taking people on a trail that I know and they didn't know. I wasn't exactly sure which trail we would take since there are lots of different trails in this wood, but I basically had a sense of where in the woods we are going to go and how far in the woods we are going to go. So there were definitely some surprises for me, but it's important for me to go into the area of the woods that I know so that if someone is feeling lost I can get them back on the trail.

What do you mean by trail? What is a trail?

Last night I talked about taking a safe risk. It seems like taking a safe risk means that the participant is trusting that the facilitator has some idea of where he is going if he is saying "follow me." The trail is maybe like a trail of thinking that I have about how to get somewhere...or a trail of logic, a trail of unfolding, a trail of a sequence of events in order for IT to arrive. So I am not going to a totally new place; I've been down this path many times over the last many years, so yes, it wasn't a strange place for me, it wasn't a totally new place. It was new because it was this group of people, and every time I work it's different, but I didn't want to project a kind of confidence that wasn't real. People could sense that and say, "Ok I'll go."

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