Way back in 1975 a young Physics student named Clinton Callahan realized he was not learning what he truly longed to learn at California Polytechnic State University. He eventually became frustrated enough to post flyers for a meeting to discuss alternative possibilities. To his fearful surprise, more than seventy-five fellow students showed up, even though he had never given a talk before in his life... After that nerve-wracking evening he met weekly with a smaller group of these explorers to support each other moving through their personal and social blocks, learning what they truly wanted to learn. Clinton's Box meticulously documented whatever the team discovered that was useful. By 'accident' in 1991 Clinton's hobby of navigating nonlinear discovery spaces became his profession when he was hired as a secretary in a small Arizona training company. Then in 1995 the universe grabbed Clinton by the scruff of his neck and dropped him in the middle of Europe where people were more open to abandoning their birth culture and trying out new thoughtware. Finally, in March of 1998 (over twenty years ago...) Clinton delivered the first prototype of Expand The Box training in Hamburg, Germany. Within a couple of years graduates were demanding next steps, so Possibility Labs were invented. As individuals stepped into their own authority they began delivering Expand The Box and Possibility Labs themselves and became the first members of the Possibility Management Trainer Guild.

In 2016 Marion Lutz spearheaded the creation of a new and comprehensive Possibility Management gameworld website (http://possibility management.org), and by December of that same year the Trainer Guild had matured enough that Clinton could step backwards away from being the main spaceholder of the Trainer Guild and could become merely one of the Possibility Trainers, starting over with his own personal website and newsletter.

In March 2018 the next exciting chapter of the Trainer Guild emerged, namely, taking full responsibility for serving the request for stable local Possibility Trainer-Training circles in various new countries around the world. Thus the need for this website emerged, to introduce the Trainer Guild globally.

Then at the April 2018 Trainer Research Lab at Möglichketenraum in Steinhagen the Trainer Guild spontaneously invented a non-hierarchical self-organizing meeting and decision-making procedure called Torus Technology.

For sure this is not the end of the story! Visit the Museum of Possibility Management for a more complete story.

Possibility Management encompasses a spectrum of innovative soft skills which allow you to liberate inherent but often overlooked resources. To these tools we combine core elements from other important teachings, such as Transactional Analysis, originated by Eric Berne, and Parent Effectiveness Training, originated by Thomas Gordon.

However, most of Possibility Management has been derived empirically, by trial and error experiments repeated over many years.

This is why Possibility Management delivers such a fresh and remarkably effective impact. It is, for the most part, different from anything you've ever seen before. Why is that? Because Possibility Management is an evolving co-creation space that uses thoughtware, tools, and processes that emerge from the context of radical responsibility.

Possibility Management is not derived from the fields of psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy, or any of the works of Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung. Possibility Management is not religion and not philosophy. There is nothing to believe.

Possibility Management is freely available and not bound to any copyright.

Possibility Management was initiated by Clinton Callahan in 1975 and has been steadily emerging through private experiments by small circles of individuals in Europe and North America.

Since 1998 Possibility Management has been delivered in Expand The Box trainings and then Possibility Labs as well as other training formats by members of the Possibility Management Trainer Guild.

Thoughtware from Possibility Management is published in a number of books in German:

• Edgeworker by Nicola Nagel (now Nicola Neumann-Mangoldt) and Patrizia Servidio (now Patrizia Patz)
• Gefühle  and Emotional Empowrment by Patrizia Patz
• Wutkraft by Friederike von Aderkas
• Die Kraft des bewussten Fühlens by Clinton Callahan, translated into German and published through Next Culture Press by Marion Lutz.
• Wahre Liebe im Alltag by Clinton Callahan translated into German and published through Next Culture Press by Marion Lutz
• Gute Nacht Gefühle by Clinton Callahan, illustrated by Timo Wuerz, translated into German and published through Next Culture Press by Marion Lutz.
• Abenteuer Denken by Clinton Callahan, translated into Ger,man and published through Next Culture Press by Marion Lutz

...and also books in English:

• Conscious Feelings revised and updated 2022 by Clinton Callahan
• Radiant Joy Brilliant Love by Clinton Callahan re-released with a new title but same contents in 2020 as Building Love That Lasts
•  Goodnight Feelings by Clinton Callahan
• Emotional Empowerment by Patrizia Patz.
• ...and more books are coming from http://thoughtwarepress.org!

Many additional writing, video, and audio projects are available, including:

• SPARK Experiments
• Next Culture Radio
• S.T.A.R.R.s
• Jewels Of Possibility
• Distinctionary.xyz
• YouTube Videos
• Museum Of Possibility Management
• Spaceport
• StartOver.xyz, the free-to-play massively-multiplayer online-and-offline thoughtware-upgrade matrix-building personal-transformation real-life adventure-game!

Dive in if you want to!

One logo shows the cube and the sphere symbols from Possibility Management, where the cube represents current reality and the sphere represents unlimited possibilities. The connection between the cube and the sphere symbolizes the ever-present possibility of transformation - the mythical 'sphering' of the cube.

The other logo associated with the Trainer Guild is an infinity-sign surrounded by a thin circle, which represents the archetypally initiated adult feminine everythingness creatively collaborating with the archetypally initiated adult masculine nothingness of next culture - archearchy - the culture that naturally emerges after matriarchy and patriarchy have gone their way.

The Trainer Guild finds resonance with both of these symbols because we have discovered that 'coincidentally' Possibility Management is thoughtware for archearchy. It is the commitment of the Trainer Guild to upgrade human thoughtware so that humanity has a better chance at having a future on Earth.

It is no small thing to Take A Stand to be a Possibility Management Trainer. There is so much to be aware of and skillfully responsible for.

You will find a list of Expand The Box trainers at the http://expandthebox.mystrikingly.com website, and a list of Possibility Lab trainers at the http://possibilitylabs.mystrikingly.com website.

But there are twice as many people as this in the Trainer Guild.

Who are they? How did they get there? And... what do they want?

Good questions!

Their biggest claim to togetherness is that we are really good friends, the best kind of friends you could ever want.

At the same time, we are adventurous creators trying new things together for the benefit of others. For example, Michael Pörtner, Michael Hallinger and Dagmar Thürnagel just returned from delivering the first ever Expand The Box trainings in Australia, and Anna Norambeuna with Julia Neumann from New Zealand and Maciek Antkowiak from Poland just took a stand to be spaceholders for developing local Trainer Circles in their respective countries. Lisa Kuchenmeister communicates problems and possibilities between the Trainer Torus and our website developers, and Ralf Kolem and Marina Deeken just quit the Trainer Torus to move to Costa Rica and be... well... trainers. Anne-Chloé Destremau was just teaching carrot-breaking to the youth at Demokratische Stimme der Jugend during a MoveLab with Clinton Callahan, and Katharina Kaifler and Georg Pollitt just delivered an ETB and PLab in Oregon, USA, to New Culture people, while Matteo Tangi and his friend just invented a 'Being Retreat' called Being Together and offer it in Portugal, and right this minute Patrizia Patz and Michaela Kaiser and Michael Pörtner are downstairs delivering a Trainer Skills Lab to a dozen enthusiastic new Trainer-types (except for the guy in a liquid state who is barfing and shivering on the couch by the fireplace...) ...these are the sorts of people you might expect to find in the Trainer Guild. To see what Possibility Managers are up to please check out http://possibilitymanagers.org

Centuries ago, in the bad old days, there were a number of professions that everyone knew about and called upon to handle problems that no other professionals were trained to handle. Longstanding feuds raged on between neighbors, cows had trouble giving birth, people could not express their deep love to each other, arguments and fights erupted in personal and business relationships, emotional and psychological breakdowns ripped people's lives to shreds, illnesses wouldn't heal, and youth desperately wanted to become adult in a culture that was vastly different from the one they were born and raised in. The evolution of consciousness was not well supported by the religions, nor was it understood in the educational system as a crucial element of a healthy human society. All of this together meant that the transformational and nonlinear healing professions were quite busy serving their villages.

Then the Catholic Inquisitors came along and the witch burnings started. This was a nasty turn of events for the edgeworkers.

What we have discovered in Possibility Management is that burning a witch does not end her career. It only postpones it a little.

Declaring that alchemy is blasphemy, or that researching the structure of the universe is heretical does not stop the alchemists, sorceresses, shamans, healers, researchers, and wizards forever. It just delays the wealth of new understanding and possibilities they can provide.

These days, in the modern capitalistic patriarchal empire... with smart phones... the situation is only a little better.

The part that is better is the lack of witch burnings.

This means that all of you who decided never to come back and challenge the status quo again for fear the authorities would catch you and burn you and your house and your children... again... you can come out from hiding now. It is safe to get back to work.

We need you.

It's time to keep serving the world at its heart center, researching the fringes, providing transformational services in areas most important to a truly human life. This is what Possibility Trainers are here to help you do.

An Educator provides already known information for you to think about in classes.

A Trainer upgrades the thoughtware you are using to think with in trainings.

An Educator adds content to your mind.

A Trainer shift the context of your Being.

In classes you learn something new through studying what others have already figured out.

In trainings you become something new through navigating the liquid states of leaping away from the known and discovering new territory.

Clearly both Educators and Trainers are needed in a healthy society.

Modern culture promotes education as if knowing the right stuff is everything. But duplicating the already known is terminating life on Earth. Skills for navigating the unknown are crucial to inventing humanity's next cultures that will be regenerative.

Where are the Trainers?

If you are trying to deliver trainings in an educational environment the authorities automatically freak out and will unconsciously do whatever they can to kill you.

Trying to deliver trainings in a gameworld that wants you to deliver classes is like trying to be a midwife in an old people's home...

...not very appropriate.

Perhaps you have been serving as an Educator but your true calling is to serve as a Trainer.

If that is your situation, you might want to change the gameworld in which you are playing...

Gaia is desperately in need of Trainers these days.

One way to understand archetypal initiations is to regard each person as inhabiting five bodies... physical, intellectual, emotional, energetic, and archetypal.

The first four bodies are rather straightforward to make sense of. For example:

• The physical body has organs with sensations like smell, touch, taste, color, pressure, sound, vibration, temperature, moisture, and physical pain.
• The intellectual body has a mind with ideas, concepts, opinions, beliefs, attitudes, rules, superstitions, constructs, stories, and attention.
• The emotional body has a heart with feelings and emotions, and strong mixed emotions such as shame, disgust, jealousy, guilt, aggression, depression, despair, excitement, nostalgia, melancholy, hysteria, etc.
• The energetic body has a Being with the capacity to experience presence, connection, will, intention, vision, commitment, and to ally with the transformationally creative qualities actively at work in the universe.

Modern culture teaches us to identify ourselves with the intellectual and physical bodies, educating and feeding them far out of proportion to the emotional and energetic bodies.

But what happens when you

educate and train your emotional and energetic bodies to a more balanced internal collaboration?

(This process, by the way, is part of Inner Permaculture... much of the central foundational work in Possibility Management is Inner Permaculture.)

What happens is that the four bodies become a stable platform upon which the Fifth Body (your Archetypal Body) automatically wakes up and comes online. You have 5 Bodies. Your Archetypal Body starts breathing to life a new world for you, a wider world, a multi-dimensional world... with new perceptions, new discernments, new powers, and new responsibilities. It is no wonder Hollywood is pumping out superhero movies these days. The human race is preparing itself to welcome Archetypal Bodies.

As you might imagine, it requires significant preparations to prepare yourself for being intimate with another person in your Archetypal Body...

But when you are ready... your readiness does something astonishing, nearly inexplicable. It makes life worth living. It makes all the other bodies and life experiences fit into place in a way that makes a whole new level of sense. It opens a mysterious gateway to vast domains for exploration, enjoyment, fulfillment, and wonder.

You're right... this does not actually answer the question, "How does the Trainer Torus deliver archetypal initiations?"

Hmmm... what it does do, however, is hopefully inspire you to directly experience the answers to that question yourself.

It can help if you get into Possibility Labs where you can Stellate your Four Feelings. (Stellate means to turn up to an archetypal level of intensity.) Each successful stellating process activates one of the four character structures in your archetypal body (Warrioress/Warrior through archetypal anger, Lover through archetypal sadness,

Sorceress/Magician through archetypal fear,

and Queen/King through archetypal joy).

You will depend on these characters to take actions for you with their unique intelligence and energy to bring your Archetypal Lineage online in your life as an Earth Guardian, Intimacy Navigator, Evolutionary, or Gameworld Builder.

...with a very clear answer.

Please find a complete support program for creating an Expand The Box training in your area at this dedicated website:

http://createanexpandthebox.mystrikingly.com

Please let us know what else we can do to support you.

- The Trainer Guild