Rock 'N Roll Will Save Your Soul - Hoffman Institute Foundation
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During the past 25<br />
years, David Fishof,<br />
a 1999 graduate<br />
of the Process, has<br />
been hailed as one of<br />
the most innovative<br />
entertainment producers<br />
and successful sports<br />
agents in the world.<br />
In 1997 he founded<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy<br />
Camp, where rock<br />
dreams become reality.<br />
David recently spoke<br />
with <strong>Hoffman</strong> CEO<br />
Raz Ingrasci about his<br />
fascinating journey.<br />
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Contents<br />
Donor<br />
Acknowledgements.......3,4<br />
Graduate Pages.........5,6,7<br />
2008 Process<br />
Schedule .....................9<br />
teacher Feature ..........1 1<br />
<strong>Hoffman</strong> InstItute foundatIon<br />
LIgHt news<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> <strong>Will</strong> <strong>Save</strong> <strong>Your</strong> <strong>Soul</strong><br />
A discussion with<br />
David Fishof,<br />
Process graduate<br />
and founder of<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong><br />
Fantasy Camps<br />
by Raz Ingrasci,<br />
Edited by Ellie Weiser<br />
Raz Ingrasci: David,<br />
you went from being<br />
one of the country’s<br />
top sports and entertainment<br />
agents and a<br />
best-selling author, to<br />
creating <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong><br />
Fantasy Camp. How<br />
did your career as an agent start?<br />
David: I started by booking acts like Henny<br />
Youngman and Milton Berle at hotels in the<br />
Catskill Mountains in upstate NY. At the<br />
time I was also writing a gossip column for<br />
a Jewish newspaper. One of the people I<br />
interviewed for the paper was Ron Bloomberg,<br />
who played for the Yankees. After<br />
interviewing him, he introduced me to his<br />
teammate, Elliot Maddox, with whom I<br />
struck up a friendship. In 1976 Elliot asked<br />
me to represent him as his agent, so that’s<br />
when I started in sports.<br />
LN: Was it common for athletes to work<br />
with agents back then?<br />
David: No, I was one of the earliest sports<br />
agents. My work was about helping professional<br />
athletes with their contracts and outside<br />
endorsements.<br />
LN: Who were some of the sports figures<br />
you represented?<br />
David: NY Giant’s quarterback and CBS<br />
Sports analyst Phil Simms, baseball greats<br />
Lou Piniella, Dave Magadan, Randy Myers<br />
and many, many others. At one time nine of<br />
the NY Giants were my clients.<br />
LN: You also put some of the most famous<br />
rock and roll bands together for reunion<br />
tours. How did that come to be?<br />
David: As I was launching my sports business,<br />
someone asked if I was interested in<br />
representing a band called “The Association.”<br />
Because I remembered their old hits,<br />
I decided to do it. After I said yes I learned<br />
that it was a 20 year old group with no one<br />
interested in them! In searching for a way to<br />
do something with this band, I thought the<br />
country would enjoy seeing bands like the<br />
Turtles, the Grassroots, Gary Puckett, and<br />
Spanky and Our Gang, on one bill, so I took<br />
them on tour in 1984 and called it the “Happy<br />
Together Tour.” We booked ten shows,<br />
then the movie “The Big Chill” came out<br />
and the whole country became interested in<br />
nostalgia music. That tour went on to do 125<br />
cities!<br />
LN: Whoa!<br />
WINtER 2008<br />
David Fishof (second, right), Roger Daltry, Slash and legenday musicians celebrate <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N<br />
<strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy Camp’s 10th anniversary.<br />
David: Yeah! The idea caught on like wildfire.<br />
In 1985, I was on another tour and at<br />
3:00 A.M. in some random hotel I happened<br />
to catch a rerun of the television show<br />
called “The Monkees,” which I remembered<br />
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Mike Ingrasci
David Fishof<br />
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from my youth. So I went and put the<br />
Monkees back together.<br />
LN: You brought talent forward and<br />
let people remember what they loved<br />
about some of the great acts.<br />
David: In 1986, while producing the<br />
Monkees’ tour, I worked on the 7th<br />
floor of 1775 Broadway in NYC, and<br />
unbeknownst to me, on the 8th and<br />
9th floor was a fledgling network<br />
called MTV. I’d ride up and down the<br />
elevators with Tom Freston and Bob<br />
Pittman, who ran the network. One<br />
day I ran upstairs and said to Bob, “I<br />
just signed the Monkees,” and he said,<br />
“We’re going to air their television<br />
show 24 hours a day -- let’s work together.”<br />
So we did and that wound up<br />
being an incredible success.<br />
LN: Collaborating with MTV during<br />
their earliest days – what a coup!<br />
David: It was, and soon they founded<br />
VH1, and several comeback tours<br />
followed.<br />
LN: I love this quote of yours, “Creativity<br />
is the key to business. You must be<br />
able to come up with ideas and implement<br />
and execute effectively in order<br />
to succeed.”<br />
David: It’s been my philosophy<br />
throughout my career.<br />
LN: It seems you’ve been most interested<br />
in showcasing and supporting<br />
talent. Now, with <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy<br />
Camp, you help every day people<br />
discover and express the talent inside<br />
of them, and they have the chance to<br />
perform with musicians who are their<br />
heroes. It’s a wonderful thing.<br />
David: Well <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy<br />
Camp is my “give-back” to what the<br />
entertainment industry has afforded<br />
me.<br />
LN: How so?<br />
DAVID: I’ve spent my career around<br />
so many talented people -- for 15 years<br />
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Roger Daltry (left) of The Who coaches a camp participant.<br />
I was on tour with Ringo and the All<br />
Star Band, and I saw firsthand why<br />
rock stars belong on that stage – what<br />
makes them so special. Every day<br />
people would ask me, “What’s this<br />
musician like, what’s that musician<br />
like?” I wanted to share it with the<br />
public. So I decided to create <strong>Rock</strong><br />
‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy Camp as a way for<br />
people to meet these musicians, play<br />
with them, and discover something<br />
bigger inside themselves.<br />
LN: David I’ve known you since you<br />
did the Process. I’ve seen you change<br />
in amazing ways - constantly moving<br />
toward greater experiences of light<br />
and love, both personally and profes-<br />
sionally. Over the years I’ve seen you<br />
act with courage. How did you finally<br />
decide to leave the business of being an<br />
agent?<br />
David: In my early days as an agent<br />
I genuinely wanted to help people,<br />
but in time it became about “SHOW<br />
ME THE MONEY!” I used to think<br />
‘the minute I make a million dollars<br />
I’m going to be the happiest person in<br />
the world.’ But when I made a million<br />
dollars I was miserable. Through the<br />
Process I found that money is not the<br />
only thing in life and slowly I had to<br />
own up to the fact that I wanted to<br />
leave the business and that a part of me<br />
felt “it’s not in my blood anymore.”<br />
LN: Was there fear in leaving?<br />
David: Yes. My parents were holocaust<br />
survivors – my father lived in a concentration<br />
camp in Auschwitz and he<br />
had everything taken from him. The<br />
message during my childhood was ‘be<br />
a success -- make money so you’re not<br />
stuck.’ I was praised at home when<br />
I made a deal, and that to me was<br />
love. I was raised Orthodox and I still<br />
practice the Orthodox religion. My<br />
son-in-law’s a rabbi, my brother’s<br />
a rabbi and my father was a cantor.<br />
One day my brother, the rabbi, called<br />
and said, “Listen, you do this <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N<br />
<strong>Roll</strong> Camp better than anybody and<br />
you love it…why don’t you just do it<br />
“The message during my childhood was ‘be a success -- make money so<br />
you’re not stuck.’ I was praised at home when I made a deal,<br />
and that to me was love.” --D. Fishof<br />
already?” I said OK, and that was that.<br />
LN: How did you go about creating<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy Camp?<br />
David: Ten years ago I called Nils Lofgren<br />
and Clarence Clemons from Bruce<br />
Springsteen’s band, who both played<br />
on my tours, to ask if they’d be willing<br />
to appear at a <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy<br />
Camp, and they said “yes, let’s do it!!”<br />
So I did my first Camp with 25 people<br />
and the response was amazing. Now<br />
ten years later we host several Camps<br />
a year, in NY, Las Vegas, Hollywood<br />
and in the UK (at Abbey Road studios!)<br />
with more locations coming soon.<br />
Mike Ingrasci<br />
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<strong>Will</strong>iam R. Lutwick<br />
Dianna Lyda<br />
Patricia Lynch<br />
Georgia MacMillan<br />
Kelly MacVittie<br />
Michelle Manna<br />
Katherine Mapother<br />
Judy Marcus<br />
Norman Margolies<br />
Belle Marko<br />
David Markowitz<br />
John Martin<br />
Rosilene Martins<br />
Kara McKay Mathiason<br />
Cynthia Matzger<br />
Irene & Kent Maul<br />
Harry Max<br />
Monica Maye<br />
Shawn Mcandrew<br />
Erin McArdle<br />
Jeff McBrayer<br />
Ed McClune & Leticia<br />
Ontiveros-McClune<br />
Mary McClung<br />
Rana & Brad McCollum<br />
Cynthia McCoy<br />
Sally McCue<br />
Anne McCullough<br />
Sara & Bill McDonald<br />
Seana McGee & Maurice<br />
Taylor<br />
Karen Mcginn<br />
Deborah McGlauflin<br />
Robert McGlauflin<br />
Shannon McGuire<br />
Denise McIntosh<br />
Timothy McIntyre<br />
Kathleen Reilly McKenna<br />
David Meckley<br />
Barbara Meister &<br />
Tim Sylvester<br />
Christie Mellor<br />
David Memel<br />
Beth Mersky<br />
Vic Meskill<br />
Kendra Michielssen<br />
Andy Milberg<br />
Tamara Mills<br />
Abbay Milnor<br />
Harold & Sonya Milton<br />
Sarah Mitchell<br />
Judith Moll<br />
Diane Moller<br />
Jennifer S. Montgomery<br />
Lloyd Morgan<br />
Betsy Morrell<br />
Patrick Morris<br />
Wendy Moskow & John Ammons<br />
Tim Mulholland<br />
Dan Murphy<br />
Judy Nadler<br />
Suzie Neas<br />
Lori Nelson<br />
David Nesmith<br />
Carrie Niederer<br />
Robert Ninneman &<br />
Lisa Baratta<br />
Monica Norcia-Kepke &<br />
Bernie Kepke<br />
Sirpa Nousiainen<br />
Lynn Oddo<br />
Ron Ogulnick<br />
Rene Oldsman<br />
Catherine Olsen<br />
Elizabeth Opalenik<br />
Joel Orr<br />
Mark Osborn<br />
Alisa Oswalt<br />
Hisa & Kris Ota<br />
Anne Ottinger<br />
Daniel Pailas<br />
Char Parada<br />
Anthony Parrish, Jr.<br />
Aita Passmore<br />
Carolyn Patterson<br />
Susanne Paynovich/<br />
WaterGym<br />
Don Pelham<br />
Brandon Pelissero<br />
Luiza Pellerin<br />
Ashley Pennebaker<br />
John Pent<br />
Joe Perez<br />
Rosemarie Perla<br />
Joyce Perry<br />
Melanie Peyser<br />
Susan & Paul Phariss<br />
Nancy & Steven Phillips<br />
Sue Pike<br />
Marcia Piper<br />
Sharon Plache<br />
Jean Poindexter<br />
Charlene Porter<br />
Dr. Bruce & Eileen Price<br />
Jane Purchall<br />
Bryony Carys Quinn<br />
Elliott Rabin<br />
Tracy Raetz<br />
<strong>Will</strong> & Gerda Randolph<br />
Devi & Raul Razo<br />
Marcus Reinders<br />
Sandra & Malcolm Reinhardt<br />
Matthew Rener<br />
Sue Renner<br />
John Rigney<br />
Annette Rivlin-Gutman<br />
Ronald Robeck<br />
Herron Roche<br />
Jeffrey & Sharon Roe<br />
Debbie Rogers<br />
Dr. Lawrence M. Rosenberg<br />
Amy Rosenthal<br />
Pam J. Ross<br />
Jeff Roth<br />
Patty Rouas<br />
Trudy Rucker<br />
Linda & John Ruffin<br />
Beth Ryan<br />
Eddy Ryan<br />
JC & Rick Ryder<br />
Jennifer Sadugor<br />
Hugh Saenz<br />
Claudia Sagan<br />
Michael Sailor<br />
Dr. Maher M. Samaha<br />
Deborah Sanborn<br />
Walter Sanford<br />
Sharon L. Sasse<br />
Lee & Shirley Schackmann<br />
Susan Schaffer<br />
Jonathan Scharfman<br />
Steve Scheetz<br />
Hans Schillinger<br />
David & Mary Schindele<br />
Sheryl Schlackman<br />
Janice & Peter Schma<br />
Lisa Schmelzer<br />
Molly & Gudrun Schoeck<br />
Molly Schoeck<br />
Cort Schwanebeck<br />
Kenneth Schwartz<br />
Sally & Neil Schwartzbach<br />
August Schwarz<br />
Sheryl Scott<br />
Marc Scruggs<br />
Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka<br />
Suzanne Seay<br />
Ralph & Marie Selby<br />
Martin Katz Sensei<br />
April Serr<br />
Sita Shapiro<br />
Georgia Shaw<br />
Karen & Eric Shearer<br />
Molly Shearer<br />
Cary Sheldon<br />
Javid Shenasi<br />
Jennifer Sheridan<br />
Justin Sherman<br />
Amy Shoemaker<br />
Tamerie Shriver<br />
Andrew & Monique Shurman<br />
Lynne Silbert<br />
Kelly Simcox<br />
Drew Simon<br />
Dr David Singer<br />
Steve Smaha & Jessica Winslow<br />
Lisa Smedley<br />
Robert Smedley<br />
Stacy Smith<br />
Jacky Hagan Sohn & Rick Sohn<br />
Estelle Sontag<br />
Laura Spaulding<br />
Kristin Speakman<br />
Margret Spinella<br />
Jamie Spooner<br />
Dana Springs<br />
Deborah Starr<br />
Janet Lynn Steele<br />
Benjamin & Sandy Stefancic<br />
Stanley & Marianne Stefancic<br />
Dr. John Stephens<br />
Ed Sturgeon<br />
Martin Sturman &<br />
Sara McGovern<br />
Michelle Sullivan<br />
Sunrise Springs Resort Spa<br />
(thru Judy Herzl)<br />
Mark & Annie Susnow<br />
Lana Sutton<br />
Nancy Swaim<br />
Patricia Swanson<br />
Andrea Szekeres<br />
Edward Szymanoski<br />
Tamsel Tack<br />
Joe Teeples<br />
Sandra Teeples<br />
James Theall Patti Theall<br />
Claire Thiebault<br />
Hillary Thomas<br />
Judith Thomas<br />
Joseph Thompson<br />
Melissa Thone<br />
Gary Timmons<br />
Roberta & Daniel Tisch<br />
Kimberly Tomlinson<br />
Nora Tong<br />
Susan Smith & Jay Trees<br />
Laurel & Adam Troner<br />
Nikki Tureen<br />
Chris Ulrich<br />
Lynda Beth Unkeless<br />
Cheryl & Dennis Unterman<br />
Janet Valette<br />
Anyes Van Volkenburg<br />
Susan Vandewalle<br />
Kevin Venable<br />
Judy Vennes<br />
Carroll Vincent<br />
Andrea Volker<br />
Lacey Wafford<br />
Cheryl Walker<br />
Christine L. Walker<br />
Jennifer Walker & Chris Wettstein<br />
Angela Wall<br />
Jaclyn Wall<br />
Janet Walther<br />
Bob Walton<br />
Jeffrey Ward<br />
Sally Ward<br />
Nicole Couglin Ware<br />
Dina Washington<br />
Marisa Wasserman<br />
Emily Weaver<br />
Roger & Maddie Weinreich<br />
Ellie Weiser<br />
Ken & Joan Weiss<br />
Peter Weiss<br />
Lisa Wenger<br />
Ann West<br />
Sarah West<br />
Jean & John Westervelt<br />
De Bora Wheeler<br />
Daria White<br />
John Wigle<br />
Linda <strong>Will</strong>iams<br />
Scott <strong>Will</strong>iams<br />
Marnie Lee <strong>Will</strong>iston<br />
Jill Winkelstein<br />
Hilary Winslow<br />
Gregory Wisniew<br />
Jennifer Witt<br />
Nelda Wojsznarowicz<br />
Leslie & Christopher Woods<br />
Caroline Woolley<br />
Barbara Wuest<br />
Jacques Wulffaert<br />
Wendy & Phil Wyatt<br />
Donnovan Yisrael<br />
John Zehrer<br />
Robb Zelonky<br />
Joanne Zippel
Kevin Carney<br />
Graduate Groups - Continuing Connections<br />
Acknowledging the Graduate Group Facilitators of 2007<br />
We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all 2007 facilitators. These amazing<br />
people, who lead out of their passion and heart-felt love for the <strong>Hoffman</strong> tools,<br />
volunteer their time and energy to support and lead local <strong>Hoffman</strong> graduate groups. While<br />
it takes a number of graduates to co-create a community, the facilitators are the driving<br />
force behind these groups. We honor you and appreciate your contributions to the service<br />
of others.<br />
Current Graduate Groups and Facilitators<br />
CA, Chico/Butte County - Lamia Alger*<br />
CA, East Bay - Sarah Ackerman &<br />
Cary Sheldon<br />
CA, Los Angeles - Marni Battista<br />
CA, Napa Valley - Joelle Gallagher<br />
CA, San Diego - Cheryl Cash<br />
CA, San Francisco - Cynthia Cummins<br />
CA, Santa Barbara - Linda Ruffin*<br />
CA, Santa Cruz -<br />
Carmen Fuentes-<strong>Will</strong>iams<br />
CA, Thousand Oaks Area (Westlake<br />
Village) - Sara McGovern<br />
CA, Marin (Mill Valley) -<br />
Tarika Lovegarden<br />
CO, Aspen - Erik Larson<br />
CO, Boulder - Nancy Hart<br />
CO, Denver - Cindy Rold<br />
CT, Guilford - Ann West, Jim Lamb<br />
GA, Atlanta - Michal* &<br />
Shmuel Spiegelman<br />
HI, The Big Island - Jeanette Foster<br />
IL, Chicago - Jenny Walsh<br />
KS, Kansas City - Tamie Mills<br />
KY, Louisville - Katherine Mapother*,<br />
David Weinberg*<br />
MD, Baltimore - Kathleen Liparini<br />
MA, Boston - Hilary Illick, Maddie<br />
Weinreich*<br />
MI, Grand Rapids - Pat Pritchard<br />
MN, St. Paul/Minneapolis -<br />
Nancy Blasberg, Maisie Wolszon<br />
NH, Keene - Maddie Weinreich*<br />
NM, Santa Fe - Celina Cavalcanti<br />
NV, Las Vegas - Sharon Lea<br />
NY, New York City - Jane Wong*<br />
OR, Ashland - Brenda Brown,<br />
Rebecca Hutchison<br />
OR, Portland - Brooke Gaab, Beth Estock<br />
VA, Lexington - Kip Brooks<br />
VA, Potomac Falls - Emily King<br />
WI, Madison - Beth Kubly*,<br />
Kelly MacVittie*<br />
(* indicates 3 or more years service or special service to the Graduate community.)<br />
Special acknowledgements to: Mary Calvillo, Roberta Falke, Victoria Sloan, Michal<br />
Spiegelman and Maddie Weinreich for their contributions to the 2007 FTC and their onoing<br />
support of graduate groups.<br />
Retired facilitators of 2007: Roberta Falke* (5 yrs+); Linda Elmer & Crystal Jenkins (3 yrs+);<br />
Brad Axelrad, Dianne Bischoff, Simin Shirazi, Victoria Sloan*, Mary Wendell Lampton,<br />
Elaine Boucher, Sonya Milton*, and Hal Milton (to 3 yrs).<br />
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve.<br />
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.<br />
You don’t even have to make your subject and<br />
your verb agree to serve...<br />
You only need a heart full of grace.<br />
A soul generated by love.<br />
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
HOFFMAN<br />
INSTITUTE<br />
FOUNDATION<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Myron A. Wick, III, Chair<br />
Giles H. Bateman<br />
Joan Belkin<br />
Steve Belkin<br />
Thomas Driscoll<br />
Jean M. Halloran<br />
Gerald Harris<br />
Liza Ingrasci*<br />
Raz Ingrasci*<br />
<strong>Will</strong>iam Johnson<br />
Barbara LaTour<br />
Betsy Manchester**<br />
Pete Neuwirth<br />
Randy Perkins<br />
Michelle Schmitt<br />
Stephen Seligman<br />
Susanna Thompson<br />
*Executive Management<br />
**Director Emeritus<br />
Advisory Council<br />
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., Chair<br />
Margot Anand, Ph.D.<br />
Ward Ashman, Ph.D.<br />
Anat Baniel<br />
Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.<br />
David Bork<br />
Matthew Budd, M.D.<br />
Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.<br />
Ken Druck, Ph.D.<br />
Lee Lipsenthal, M.D.<br />
Rev. Hal Milton<br />
Claudio Naranjo, M.D.<br />
Bruce Price, M.D.<br />
Michael Ray, Ph.D.<br />
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi<br />
Tony Schwartz<br />
Anne Simon-Wolf, M.S.S.W.<br />
Marianne H. Stefancic, M.F.T.<br />
Eileen Sullivan, Ph.D.<br />
Siavash Tabrizy, M.F.T., Ph.D.<br />
Barry Taylor, N.D.<br />
Eric Utne<br />
Sirah Vettese, Ph.D.<br />
Brenda Wade, Ph.D.<br />
Joseph Wu, M.D.<br />
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Kevin Carney<br />
HoffmAn teleClAsses:<br />
teleclasses; Ideal for both<br />
Recent and Seasoned<br />
Process Grads!<br />
The New Year kicks off with several of our most<br />
asked for Teleclasses, including Create <strong>Your</strong> Vision,<br />
which will help you move into 2008 fully connected<br />
to Spirit!<br />
Opening to Spirit’s Intentions (formerly Spiritual Intentions<br />
& Practices); teacher Stan Stefancic. January 22 at 6:00<br />
PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern<br />
Create <strong>Your</strong> Vision; teacher Ed McClune. January 23 at 4:30<br />
PM Pacific / 7:30 PM Eastern<br />
Tools for New Grads; teacher Ginger Buckley. February 7 at<br />
4:30 PM Pacific / 7:30 PM Eastern<br />
Intimate Relationships*; teacher Stan Stefancic. February<br />
12 at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern<br />
Still No Partner; Are You Sure There’s Nothing Wrong<br />
With Me?; teacher Sharon Kennedy. February 27 at 5:00 PM<br />
Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern<br />
Intimate Relationships*; teacher Ed McClune. March 5 at<br />
5:00 PM Pacific / 8:00 PM Eastern<br />
*Note: Each Intimate Relationships Teleclass contains different<br />
content. If you’ve been on Ed’s call, try Stan’s. Or vice-versa!<br />
• Each Teleclass (1 hour in length) is $25, which is nontransferable/non-refundable.<br />
• Participants must call from a landline (cordless ok), in a<br />
quiet location (sorry, no Skype or cell phones).<br />
• Please register by 3:00 PM the day before each Teleclass.<br />
To register call 800/506-5253 or go to the Teleclass section<br />
of our site at www.hoffmaninstitute.org.<br />
• Please sign up early; many of our Teleclasses fill well in<br />
advance!<br />
Questions? Call 800/506-5253 or email us at<br />
graduates@hoffmaninstitute.org.<br />
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GRADS, DIAL IN and<br />
SHARE YOUR HEARt<br />
- Monthly Intro Calls Let You<br />
Share the Process -<br />
Are there people in your life who want to<br />
know more about the Process directly from<br />
those who lead the organization, the teachers and<br />
other Process grads? For them we offer a free,<br />
informative, once-a-month conference call, where<br />
people from coast to coast dial a toll free number<br />
and join others on an hour-long discussion about<br />
the Process.<br />
<strong>Hoffman</strong> Managing Director Liza Ingrasci and<br />
a Process teacher lead the informal call, where<br />
people ask questions or simply listen to the discussion.<br />
Process graduates are invited to join in,<br />
and they often do, sharing their experiences and<br />
offering personal insights to those who are considering<br />
whether the Process is right for them.<br />
We look forward to speaking with you<br />
and your friends!<br />
When: The first Tuesday of every month at 5:00 PM<br />
(Pacific time)<br />
phone: 866-322-7998 (Toll-free). Password: 86157#<br />
(Note: you must include the #)<br />
Cost: Free! No RSVP required, simply call and enter<br />
the password above.<br />
“ Who knows what wonderful adventure is waiting for you just<br />
behind your fears? Whenever a transition is called for, view it as your<br />
soul knocking at the door of your life, bearing more gifts for you to<br />
bring to the world. Change is a call from your soul to grow.”<br />
- Sonia Choquette
To exist is to change, to change is to<br />
mature, to mature is to go on creating<br />
oneself endlessly<br />
-Henri L. Bergson<br />
In the fall of 2005, Erik Larson wasn’t<br />
looking to change his life. He was<br />
a successful CPA living in Aspen<br />
Colorado with his wife and two young<br />
children. But in October of that year,<br />
Erik was served with divorce papers,<br />
and ready or not, change had landed.<br />
Fortunately for Erik, some of his<br />
friends were Process graduates.<br />
One in particular, Lloyd Herman,<br />
suggested the Process, but as the son of<br />
a Lutheran minister, Erik saw religion<br />
and spirituality as one and the same,<br />
and “more religion was the last thing<br />
I needed.”<br />
After doing enough research to<br />
squelch his skepticism, Erik participated<br />
in the Process in November 2005<br />
just after his 40th birthday. As he describes<br />
it, “everything changed for the<br />
better.”<br />
When asked to describe himself<br />
David Fishof<br />
Continued from page 2<br />
Erik Larson<br />
Graduate Erik Larson with Luke, 6, and Anja, 8<br />
LN: What aspects of your Process do you bring to your<br />
work?<br />
David: The Process changed my attitude towards the music<br />
business and taught me about giving back. When I committed<br />
to do <strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy Camp, I decided to take much<br />
of what I learned at the Process and incorporate it. I noticed<br />
that the more of the sensibility of Process I put into it --- joy,<br />
connection, risk-taking, community, and so on --- the more<br />
people would say, “this experience is life-changing.”<br />
LN: How did the Process change you personally?<br />
DAVID: The Process gave me permission to come out of<br />
my shell, to know that there’s this beautiful person inside<br />
with great passion for life. Before the Process I surrounded<br />
myself with stars and I hid behind them. I took care of everybody<br />
else but not myself. I hurt my marriages, my relationships<br />
with my children and my mother, because I let<br />
the industry take over my life. It’s an industry where it’s<br />
easy to forget your purpose and you start to think you’re<br />
invincible. Thank God I didn’t turn to drugs or alcohol, but<br />
I did turn to ego. Every day of my life I think of the Process.<br />
I direct people to the website every day.<br />
LN: In light of your personal growth, it seems perfect that<br />
Continued on page 10<br />
before the Process, Erik tosses out<br />
words like “angry, conservative, Type<br />
A, and reactionary,” all hard to fathom<br />
when you meet the warm, loving,<br />
free thinking man he is today. “A few<br />
days into my Process, two people commented<br />
that they’d been afraid to talk<br />
to me because I had an angry scowl on<br />
my face. That helped me know how far<br />
ahead my dark side was.”<br />
At the Process Erik connected with<br />
his own compassion, authenticity and<br />
love and he realized that more than<br />
anything, he wanted to be a great<br />
parent. “The connection I have with<br />
GrADuAte spotliGHt<br />
my kids now is something I didn’t<br />
think was possible,” says Erik about<br />
Luke, 6, and Anja, 8. “My kids call the<br />
Process ‘better mommy and daddy<br />
school’ and they actually get excited<br />
when I go back (for a Q2), because that<br />
translates for them into “We’ll have<br />
more daddy.”<br />
The <strong>Hoffman</strong> community is a big part<br />
of Erik’s life. He facilitates the Aspen<br />
graduate gatherings, which encompass<br />
the Roaring Fork Valley. The group has<br />
well over 40 graduates, many of whom<br />
attend the monthly meetings. He also<br />
has a great knack for guiding people<br />
to the Process; in two years 50 people<br />
have enrolled at Erik’s recommendation.<br />
“People see the changes in me and<br />
they want what I have. It’s the furthest<br />
thing from a hard sell…”<br />
“I’ve taken my life to an entirely<br />
new level since the Process. As I tell<br />
everyone who will listen, “it’s the<br />
greatest gift I’ve ever given myself. My<br />
life’s not perfect, but now I’ve got the<br />
tools I need to respond to any of life’s<br />
challenges.”<br />
The Guest House<br />
This being human is a guest house.<br />
Every morning a new arrival.<br />
A joy, a depression, a meanness,<br />
some momentary awareness comes<br />
as an unexpected visitor.<br />
Welcome and entertain them all!<br />
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,<br />
who violently sweep your house<br />
empty of its furniture,<br />
still, treat each guest honorably.<br />
He may be clearing you out<br />
for some new delight.<br />
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.<br />
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.<br />
Be grateful for whatever comes.<br />
Because each has been sent<br />
as a guide from beyond.<br />
--Jelaluddin Rumi<br />
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FebrUAry 00<br />
If you are a Process graduate, particularly<br />
one who received a partial<br />
scholarship, you might consider Paying<br />
it Forward; making a donation to<br />
the Scholarship Fund, which gives<br />
others with financial constraints the<br />
chance to experience the Process.<br />
The Scholarship Fund provides over<br />
$400,000 in partial scholarships annually,<br />
ranging from $50 to $1,200.<br />
If you know someone with a strong<br />
desire to take the Process, but who lacks<br />
financial resources, encourage them to<br />
apply. According to HQP graduate and<br />
scholarship recipient Marisa Lopez,<br />
“I’ve learned that love has no price tag,<br />
but we pay a great price for living a<br />
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<strong>Hoffman</strong> Events Calendar<br />
Feb 1-8 HQP - California<br />
Feb 5 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#<br />
Feb 6 Grad “Create a Group” call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361#<br />
Feb 7 Ceremony of Integration - CA<br />
Feb 7 Teleclass: Tools for New Grads, teacher Ginger Buckley, 4:30PM<br />
Feb 12 Teleclass: Intimate Relationships, teacher Stan Stefancic, 6:00 PM<br />
Feb 15-22 HQP - California<br />
Feb 21 Ceremony of Integration - CA<br />
Feb 22-24 Q2 Graduate Intensive - CA<br />
Feb 27 Teleclass: Still No Partner, Are You Sure There is Nothing Wrong with Me?,<br />
teacher Sharon Kennedy, 5:00 PM<br />
MArCh 00 Mar 4 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#<br />
Mar 5 Teleclass: Intimate Relationships, teacher Ed McClune, 5:00 PM<br />
Mar 5 Grad “Create a Group” call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361#<br />
Mar 7-14 HQP - California and MA<br />
Mar 13 Ceremony of Integration - CA and MA<br />
Mar 14-16 Q2 Graduate Intensive - CA<br />
Mar 21-28 HQP - Harvard<br />
Mar 28-April 4 HQP - California<br />
April 00<br />
April 1 *Process Intro Call 5:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 86157#<br />
April 2 Grad “Create a Group” call 4:00 PM. 866/322-7998, password 49361#<br />
April 3 Ceremony of Integration - CA<br />
April 11-18 HQP - California<br />
April 17 Ceremony of Integration - CA<br />
April 25 - May 2 HQP - California<br />
the Process Scholarship Fund,<br />
A Great Way to “Pay it Forward”<br />
loveless life. Thanks to my scholarship,<br />
I was able to stop focusing on the price<br />
tag and start loving myself instead.”<br />
We raise money (we are a non-profit,<br />
501 (c)(3) from <strong>Foundation</strong> grants and<br />
through the extraordinary generosity<br />
of you, <strong>Hoffman</strong> graduates.<br />
Requests for scholarships are evaluated<br />
based on financial need, followed<br />
by one’s readiness to take advantage of<br />
the Process. Scholarship applications<br />
are reviewed on a first come, first serve<br />
basis, and once funds for a specific Process<br />
are allotted, no more are available<br />
for that course. For that reason, we encourage<br />
people to apply early.<br />
How to Give<br />
The <strong>Hoffman</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> is a nonprofit<br />
501(c)(3) Organization. We<br />
rely on gifts to make many of our<br />
programs possible. To make a taxdeductible<br />
donation, please call<br />
Brenda Paulucci at 800/506-5253,<br />
ext 103 or mail your check to<br />
<strong>Hoffman</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
1299 Fourth St., Ste 304, San<br />
Rafael, CA 94901. To donate online,<br />
visit at www.hoffmaninstitute.org<br />
and designate the program you<br />
wish to support.
2008 HOFFMAN QUADRINItY PROCESS SCHEDULE<br />
NApA vAlley, CAliForNiA<br />
January 25 - February 1<br />
February 1-8<br />
February 15-22<br />
March 7-14<br />
March 28 - April 4<br />
April 11-18<br />
April 25 - May 2<br />
May 9-16<br />
SheFField, MASSAChUSeTTS<br />
March 7-14<br />
March 21-28 (Harvard Process)<br />
By Leah Herman<br />
The Q2 Graduate Intensive is a place<br />
to make changes. It provides the<br />
opportunity to get focused and delve<br />
into specific areas in your life that you<br />
want to transform.<br />
In late 2005, a year after my Process,<br />
I was single, healing, and ready to lay<br />
my heart into somebody’s hand. So I<br />
set my intention and imagined myself<br />
in a mutually respectful, joyful relationship<br />
with a man who loved me, who I<br />
loved back.<br />
Two weeks later I met him. He was<br />
gentle, intelligent, handsome and funny.<br />
And to top it off, shortly after we<br />
began dating he said, “I know I want<br />
to marry you. I’ve known it from the<br />
moment I saw you, but I don’t want to<br />
scare you.”<br />
It was amazing – here was EXACTLY<br />
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what I wanted! Then my patterns<br />
kicked in and I WAS scared. I started<br />
to feel uncomfortable and soon the vibrant,<br />
accepting woman he loved began<br />
to disappear. I felt it happen, but<br />
the reactions came up in me faster than<br />
I knew how to stop them. I wanted<br />
this relationship, but I couldn’t accept<br />
it. My patterns had me wrestled to the<br />
mat under a cacophony of negative<br />
voices.<br />
And then I heard it, quietly and unceasingly,<br />
the clear voice of Spirit that<br />
had guided me to this point. It said, “I<br />
don’t know where this relationship will<br />
or will not go, but I’m not going to screw<br />
it up because of patterns.” I signed up<br />
for the Q 2 , completing the homework<br />
assignment telling the deepest truths<br />
I knew. I pre-coached with a teacher,<br />
mapped out patterns and set my Q 2 in-<br />
July 18-20<br />
(in Chicago)<br />
August 15-17<br />
September 12-14<br />
tention. Then I bashed, dialoged and<br />
recycled my heart out for three days!<br />
When the Q 2 ended I drove straight<br />
to his house. He had roses waiting, in<br />
case I stopped by. When I arrived, he<br />
looked into my face, now free of so<br />
many recently bashed patterns and<br />
said, “Wow, so here you are.” Five<br />
months later he proposed. We’ve been<br />
married for eight months now, and the<br />
relationship continues to grow. For me,<br />
that Q 2 was pivotal to creating what we<br />
have now.<br />
Through a wonderful turn of events,<br />
I now manage the Q 2 for the <strong>Hoffman</strong><br />
<strong>Institute</strong>. I invite you to look at the areas<br />
in your life where you recognize a<br />
chorus of negative voices and you want<br />
to make palpable change, and pick a<br />
Q 2 date. Then call us. We’ll set you up,<br />
and see you at registration.<br />
October 10-12<br />
November 7-9<br />
Register online at www.hoffmaninstitute.org, and click “Graduate Programs and News,” or call 800/506-5253.<br />
Tuition is $1,150 with a $250 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit.<br />
Please register early – most Q2s fill quickly.<br />
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David Fishof<br />
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you went from promoting celebrities<br />
to celebrating people.<br />
David: There’s joy in this work on several<br />
levels. In watching the corporate<br />
executive who thought he was running<br />
the show come to<br />
camp and learn<br />
“Hey, if I’m going<br />
to be in a band<br />
I’ve got to listen to<br />
the bass player, the<br />
guitar player, the<br />
keyboard player.”<br />
I’ve noticed that<br />
business success<br />
can breed the notion<br />
“it’s all about<br />
me.” I try to give<br />
our campers what<br />
I got at the Process,<br />
which is the notion<br />
that it’s not only<br />
about me, and that<br />
when you give,<br />
good things happen.<br />
LN: Were you surprised that so many<br />
great rockers love participating in the<br />
Camps?<br />
David: That was the turning point for<br />
the business. When Roger Daltrey came<br />
back for his fourth Camp, when Vince<br />
Neal come back for a second Camp<br />
and Paul Stanley of KISS came back for<br />
his second, I saw that the Camp takes<br />
them back to their roots, it reminds<br />
them of the hunger they had, and why<br />
they got into music in the first place.<br />
At the Camp they meet people who<br />
just want to write a song and play with<br />
them; that’s the attraction for them….<br />
the joy of music.<br />
LN: That kind of experience opens the<br />
passion and creativity that’s inside every<br />
person.<br />
David: That’s what the Process did for<br />
me; it took me back to a time before I<br />
had all the hurt in me, and it showed<br />
me who I really am, and what was truly<br />
inside of me.<br />
LN: In the Process we say that when<br />
you make a commitment to yourself,<br />
to your own spirit, the world moves<br />
to support you. Once you made this<br />
choice, with the guidance of your<br />
brother, who’s a rabbi, so it was a spiri-<br />
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tual choice, the world organized itself<br />
and you found great support, interest<br />
and excitement around it.<br />
David: It’s true, and now Raz, I’ve got<br />
the second greatest job in the world<br />
Simon Kirk (right) of Bad Company jams with a camper.<br />
“If I hadn’t found<br />
this sensibility and<br />
understanding of<br />
another person, if I<br />
hadn’t been given the<br />
opportunity to see<br />
what I’m really made<br />
of, I couldn’t have<br />
created the Camp.”<br />
-- D. Fishof<br />
-- next to you. The gratitude I see every<br />
day, and how we change people’s<br />
lives…is wonderful.<br />
LN: You can see it in people’s eyes<br />
when they break through barriers and<br />
discover things about themselves they<br />
couldn’t even imagine.<br />
David: Whether you’re the president<br />
of a company, a lawyer, a doctor, or an<br />
18-year-old vocalist, when you come<br />
to this Camp you find something new<br />
about yourself.<br />
LN: Tell me about the corporations that<br />
are creating their<br />
own rock bands.<br />
David: That idea<br />
came from the<br />
campers; executives<br />
who attended the<br />
Camp. They said,<br />
“this is an amazing<br />
team-building experience.<br />
It would<br />
be great if you<br />
could bring this to<br />
my company and<br />
help us put a band<br />
together…” So we<br />
created a corporate<br />
division where we<br />
do corporate parties<br />
and seminars<br />
on team building.<br />
We pull talent from<br />
within the company, put them into<br />
bands and they perform at the show on<br />
the final night. People have fun and get<br />
really excited about it.<br />
Mike Ingrasci<br />
LN: What else do you have in store for<br />
the Camps?<br />
David: This summer we’re doing a<br />
Tour of America of one-day Camps.<br />
The regular Camp is expensive and<br />
time consuming, so I’ve created the<br />
one-day Camp in which campers will<br />
come in one day, attend the Camp<br />
and then open for a major rock star at<br />
House of Blues in the evening.<br />
LN: David I’ve seen your Camps first<br />
hand and I know you’ve created an<br />
amazing and transformative experience<br />
for people. I wish you every success<br />
in the world.<br />
David: Raz, I have to thank the Process.<br />
If I hadn’t found this sensibility<br />
and understanding of another person,<br />
if I hadn’t been given the opportunity<br />
to see what I’m really made of, I<br />
couldn’t have created the Camp. Now<br />
every manager in rock and roll comes<br />
to me and says, “You know Fishof, if<br />
I would have thought of it first I’d be<br />
doing it!” And I tell them, “Just go to<br />
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Ginger Buckley was born in 1949,<br />
to Mary and Peter Wright of Bank<br />
Street in Greenwich Village. When she<br />
was nine months old, her father drove<br />
the family north, in search of a more appropriate<br />
place to raise a family. They<br />
settled in Rhinebeck, NY, a lovely village<br />
on the Hudson River surrounded<br />
by acres of forest, streams, and lakes.<br />
Ginger played a big role in rearing<br />
her five younger siblings, so much<br />
so that by the age of 12 she knew she<br />
wanted to be a ‘free woman’ and not a<br />
mother! She was raised Catholic and<br />
attended Catholic schools so religion,<br />
prayer and spirituality were important<br />
in her early years. Nature was another<br />
one of her teachers. In the midst of the<br />
chaos inherent in a large family, she<br />
found peace by spending time reflecting<br />
in nature’s calm.<br />
From a young age, Ginger’s father<br />
encouraged her to be self-reliant and<br />
a free thinker, and her mother, by example,<br />
taught her to love nature and<br />
spirituality. This combination instilled<br />
in Ginger a quest for truth, freedom,<br />
and adventure! Many times in her life<br />
she would surrender comfort for quest,<br />
venturing out from the known to travel<br />
towards the unknown.<br />
After graduating from college, Gin-<br />
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Slash of Guns N’ Roses (center) with Ken Lesnik (left) and David Fishof (right).<br />
the <strong>Hoffman</strong> website and sign up. Then you’ll find what<br />
YOUR passion is.” [Chuckles]<br />
LN: Thank you for sharing your wonderful story. Maybe<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> ‘N <strong>Roll</strong> really can save the world, right, David?<br />
David: A combination of <strong>Rock</strong> and <strong>Roll</strong> and the <strong>Hoffman</strong><br />
Process and we’ll be all set!<br />
Ginger Buckley<br />
ger taught elementary school, got married,<br />
and earned her graduate degree.<br />
Then she left for India to follow a spiritual<br />
path. She first heard of the <strong>Hoffman</strong><br />
Process in a most unlikely time<br />
and place. While entering the gates of<br />
an ashram in India, she met fellow New<br />
Yorkers, and when she asked what<br />
they did, they said they were <strong>Hoffman</strong><br />
teachers!<br />
Another of Ginger’s adventures<br />
took root when she returned to the<br />
“world” after many years of ashram<br />
living. She met her husband Cheshta<br />
in 1984, and after buying a home in<br />
Marin County, California, they were<br />
called to join friends for a Trans-Pacific<br />
cruise on their 38 ft. sloop, the “Wendy<br />
Mike Ingrasci<br />
teACHer feAture<br />
Ann.” Setting-sail in 1990, they cruised<br />
through the small islands of the Pacific<br />
for more than two years, covering 8,000<br />
(often terrifying) miles.<br />
After returning from their sail, first<br />
Cheshta, then Ginger did the Process.<br />
In 2000 Ginger was certified as a<br />
Process teacher and it was an answer<br />
to her prayers; finding fulfilling and<br />
meaningful work was part of her lifelong<br />
vision.<br />
Continuing on her quest, Ginger recently<br />
graduated from the ‘Claritas <strong>Institute</strong><br />
of Inter-spiritual Mentoring and<br />
Inquiry,’ started by Joan Borysenko<br />
(who Ginger lovingly calls her “soul<br />
sister”), Joan’s husband Gordie, and<br />
Janet Quinn. “The Claritas Program<br />
helped me deepen my spiritual practice,<br />
improve my listening skills, and<br />
connected me to a community dedicated<br />
to bringing deep peace to the planet<br />
by way of spiritual guidance and mentoring.”<br />
Ginger now serves as both a<br />
Process teacher and a spiritual mentor<br />
to those who are called to deepen their<br />
spiritual connection.<br />
Ginger and Cheshta make their<br />
home on Cape Cod, closer to her family.<br />
While there she bird-watches, sails,<br />
swims and basks in the mystery, beauty<br />
and natural peace of the island.<br />
Ceremony of Integration<br />
CD-Set Now Available!!<br />
The Ceremony of Integration, the powerful, guided<br />
visualization that happens near the end of each Process,<br />
beautifully celebrates the Integration of the four<br />
aspects of the being; intellect, body, emotional self and<br />
spirit.<br />
We’re happy to announce that the Ceremony of Integration<br />
is now available on a 2-CD set, so you can reexperience<br />
the Ceremony anywhere, at anytime!<br />
<strong>Hoffman</strong> teachers Ed McClune, Devi Razo, Linda<br />
Hartka-Reiss and Mary Arden recently went in to the<br />
studio to lay down the tracks, which were digitally<br />
recorded and mastered. Each section of the 90 minute<br />
Ceremony is recorded as its own track, allowing you to<br />
jump to your favorite tracks with ease.<br />
To purchase your Ceremony of Integration CD<br />
set please call 800/506-5253 or go to www.hoffmaninstitute.org/shop.<br />
Each CD-set is $20, including<br />
shipping.<br />
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In This Issue!<br />
iN ThiS iSSUe!<br />
Raz Ingrasci interviews David Fishof, Process<br />
graduate, successful sports and entertainment<br />
agent, and founder of <strong>Rock</strong> `N <strong>Roll</strong> Fantasy Camp<br />
Acknowledgement of 2007 Donors<br />
thank you to 2007 Graduate Group Facilitators<br />
Profile of Process teacher Ginger Buckley<br />
and More!<br />
David Fishof (right) with<br />
Paul Stanley of KISS.<br />
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