Five years ago, my youngest sister married. The middle sister was the bridesmaid, and I, the eldest tasked with maid-of-honor. The day of the wedding, as we had dutifully rehearsed, middle sister, started down the aisle to the alter just after I – very slowly and nervously – had made my way. She took just two steps and went down – plop, fell flat on her bum as I was told later as my back was to her. Middle Sister is fierce; she quickly pulled herself together, got right back up and continued gracefully down that aisle, head held high.
Her fall did not make into the wedding video and was not captured in any of the pictures that I saw.
For me, The Fall was one of the most profound and powerful moments of the wedding – exceedingly symbolic of marriage and The Life Journey itself: the falling and getting right back up again!
Why do we just want to preserve the “perfect” and leave out the profound - where “perfect” does not tend to reside.
Through The Belizaire Agency LLC, I want to create and help create event experiences that are profound, juicy and rich on a Soul and cellular level. I am not interested in perfection. I am interested in teaching, in inspiring, in sowing wisdom seeds, in wonderment, in curiosity, in bravery, in stretching and broadening, in stepping outside one’s comfort zone and daring greatly, in intellect and emotion, in learning and growing and deep, meaningful, real human connections. This is the point of a Gathering - the good use and significant return on investment of the precious time, talent and treasure that goes with attending or participating in an event experience.
I am not interested in perfection; I am interested in the profound – which comes from a state of mind that is in relaxed diligence, a term I borrow as I so love what it stands for: consciously and intentionally doing your very best in the planning and then surrendering, letting go to allow the Universe to do what It is going to do, to allow things to unfold as they must – therein lies the powerfully transformative moment of Magic – the indelible surprise – at a gathering that can rarely be planned or obsessively orchestrated.
The Belizaire Agency was birthed to co-create intimate, immersive event experiences and intentional gatherings (from workshops, fundraisers, major life celebrations) that consider both people and planet.
The aligned client/co-creator for us naturally loves people and relishes deep human-to-human/eye-to-eye authentic connections made, and conversations had, over delicious, wholesome food made with love served in a beautiful, thoughtful, gracious setting.
The aligned client/co-creator for us is laid back, low-key in nature, tends to lean more toward introversion and spirituality, truly care for people (placing them over process), and are conscious of how their actions and the choices made in planning the event affects people and our beautiful planet as a whole.
The aligned client/co-creator for us is not looking for perfection in the event experience, but for how best to make a difference/have an impact, to inspire, empower, honor and profoundly move the people/Souls present at the Gathering and, perhaps, the Souls they - the attendees - will later touch after the event (that ripple/reverberation effect).
As event experience professionals, we intuitively know that we are not for everyone and every client/co-creator is not for us. That is just fine and wonderful! The goal here is that sweet spot - to attract that relatively small tribe of clients/co-creators to build a strong, longtime, ever evolving relationships and a community that is truly, and in every way, a "win-win."
