The Edge San Diego

The Edge

Attend Thursday evening

7-10pm for only $50.

The Edge changes peoples’ entire experience of personal interaction, it converts it from fear to fun, from exhausting to enlivening and transforms occasional successes into abundance. It does this by providing the participants with insights both into themselves and their interactions with others revealing precise healing and unlimited power, motivation and energy leading to balance and peace.

The quality of your life has a lot to do with human interactions. The Edge reveals precious insights about angles of interaction, that free you, replacing fear and embarrassment with lightness and humor.

I have taught The Edge to hundreds of people and always with the same sort of life enhancing results. I invite you to join us in The Edge. If you are interested in having deeper more intimate relationships with others, or if you would just like to learn about your own internal topography this course is for you. While you can use The Edge to earn money in the marketplace it also works wonderfully in close personal relationships.

If you would like to enrich all your relationships, both with yourself and others then please join us at The Edge.

We all have a certain reactions when our world is compared to the world of another. The border between these worlds is the edge. As children this border is non existent and we learn and play naturally. Resistance at this border impedes the natural flow of energy and information essential for your development and success.Softening this border allows greater love and fun to effortlessly flow into your life as you discover that you are capable of much more than you thought.

The Edge returns you to a sense of power and ability. It does this by allowing you to know exactly where you are and where you are going each moment. While there is no way to eliminate paradox from the process of getting to know yourself, The Edge reveals that between the poles of paradox is a playground where you can master the fun and delight of being truly yourself each moment. This is done by dancing between dichotomies.

Dichotomies are composed of a pair of opposites. Black and white is a dichotomy. Good and bad, right and wrong, and win and lose are all dichotomies. There is no difference between poles of a dichotomy but there seems to be. We often get caught up trying to determine whether something is good or bad or better or worse or right or wrong: this is an unsuccessful attempt to simplify the exploration of the world by dividing it into pieces. When you do this you lose the sense of wholeness and connectedness so essential to both peace and prosperity.

Dancing between the poles of dichotomies enhances your flexibility and awareness. They allow you to be satisfied independent of content, as you move through the different dichotomies you begin to sense a natural, organic flow to life making every aspect more fun and fruitful. Being present is the natural result of exploring The Edge and Dancing with Dichotomies.

How The Edge Works

Dancing with Dichotomies

The Edge teaches you how to become the master of your own satisfaction, how to interact with others effectively and with compassion, how to interact positively and passionately with groups of people, how to come to grips and fall in love with your mind and finally how to connect with deep, personal spirituality

Please join us at a course soon. You will have an incredible time and take away tools, insights, and realizations that will enhance every aspect of your life.

For information or to register e-mail or call us at 706.754.7540

Life is chock full of transitions making it quite an adventure. One moment we are a small child, soon we are a teen then an adult and finally an old person. Each day we are faced with smaller transitions in which aspects of us change and other parts of ourselves remain the same. These transitions or rites of passage, can teach us a lot about ourselves. The Map, a model which Jerry created about ten years ago reveals not only specific stages of life but assists greatly in the transition between stages.

Trauma and resistance to the fundamental transition from the first stage, Individual, to the second stage, Comparative, is the root of most of our insecurities and suffering. The Edge offers the opportunity to revisit this transition with new and powerful tools freeing you from trauma and making every aspect of life more fluid and tempting. The Edge is a short cut, while it isn’t therapy it is very therapeutic, providing firm footing on shaky ground yielding necessary healing and retiring repetitious patterns and limitations that simply don’t serve you anymore.

The Edge is a huge breakthrough in self discovery and sets you free to be fully human.

Trying to explain The Edge to you is a bit difficult. The Edge must be experienced, which

is why we suggest that you come to the course. If you are ready to lighten up and let go The Edge is for you.

More Course Dates

Course Dates:

The Edge
San Diego California
January 19-22, 2012.

Technology of Awakening
August 11-15, 2011

Personal Renaissance
Residential Clarkesville GA Sept 8-12, 2011

Free you to be your own best friend.
Lighten you up and reduce stress.
Mend bridges between the spiritual and mundane.
Quiet your inner dialogue.
Allow you to tackle big things without fear.
Show you how to celebrate each moment.

Maximize the quality of your relationships.
Result in more intimacy.
Welcome in unconditional Love.
Reduce stress in relating.
Encourage infinite and finite to dance together.
Have you fall in love with yourself.

A philosopher when you need one!

Jerry Stocking is a modern day Thoreau living in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in North Georgia with a view of our culture from the outside. Each day in his mountain retreat is an endless exploration of existence, consciousness, and feeling what it is to be a human being. Being present and mapping the terrain back to who we really are is Jerry's main occupation. His thirty-two acre farm creates an atmosphere conducive to introspection, opening, and playing, which are often lacking in our fast-paced world.

Jerry has two children, Emily (23), Judson (18), and a growing cast of friends and players. There is a continuous stream of fascinating and interested people traveling to the farm. Home to various seminars and retreats, it has unlimited areas for wandering, ponds for dipping, a rock garden for Chi Kung, owls, deer, coyotes, great oak trees, a blueberry orchard, and a daily sunrise and sunset inviting reverence.

Jerry’s credentials are impressive in education and experience alike. A Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Jerry has been studying and using NLP for 18 years. He is an Associate Instructor of the art of Chi Kung. He has done extensive training in other-than-conscious communication and no-fault psychology. He graduated in 1974 from Northern Michigan University with degrees in psychology and philosophy. Still learning and exploring daily, Jerry has reached a point where he is able to give back some of what he has learned in hopes that it will improve the quality of life for others. In addition to personal coaching he now hosts frequent tele-classes, and leads workshops in NYC, throughout the USA, and abroad. His courses and coaching are a mixture of art and craft uniting mind and body into a personal and pragmatic alliance.

Hasn’t always lived in the mountains. He used to live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and drive to work wearing a suit and tie. He was a successful financial consultant at Shearson-Lehman Brothers. His past careers span the gamut of experience from owning two retail stores, to industrial design, to selling investments. Yet all of Jerry's occupations have some things in common; he was successful at each of them and all of his job changes required a greater commitment to people and an increased ability to relate effectively with clients and co-workers.

Jerry loves people and is committed to finding out what is possible for "us" as human beings. His love of people and desire to contribute to them are apparent in his writings, books, and seminars. Jerry is founder of a non- profit educational corporation, A Choice Experience, Inc., which focuses on exploring human possibility and gently exposing illusion. He also runs a publishing company named Moose Ear Press.

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“Jerry is the American version of Obi Wan Kenobi. His light saber cuts through your stressful patterns.”

Barry Kilzer

“Jerry provides new and practical insights that enhance relating with others and have me fall deeply in love with myself.

John Farrin, MD, Emergency Physician

Dance with Life or Wrestle with it?

If you ever find yourself in Peoria Illinois on a hot, windy summer weekend when the circus is in town you are in for a treat. The circus rolls in like a moveable town all its own. Elephants, acrobats and, before the setup of tents even begins the meanest, toughest wrestling bear. Plop down your five dollars and you can fight with the bear. You won’t win of course, but you can give it a try.

People take turns wrestling with the bear as the elephants pull tent lines and an entire, temporary magical world takes shape. Late in the same afternoon the gates open and visitors are entertained by high wire, trained tigers clowns and more. At one point out comes “the dancing bear”. It is the same bear as before but now he is graceful on his feet, loud music plays and he is a furry Fred Astaire. The people are captivated at his grace and ease and someone from the audience has the opportunity to dance with the bear. This evening it is a tall, thin attorney from Peoria. He is cumbersome and the bear is the picture of grace, but in a very uncharacteristic moment the attorney relaxes and follows the bear’s lead.

The crowd may not understand the change but they feel it. They are watching two lovers spinning around the ring. The attorney has surrendered to the dance discovering that his decades of resistance made him old, stuck and stiff and had him miss the flow and ease of life. In this moment, he spins and flows and smiles.

Most people wrestle the bear, and they lose. A few learn to dance with the bear and occasionally someone is able to relax, surrender and let the bear lead.

Are you ready to dance with life? Join us at the edge where you will lighten up, let go.

Join us at The Edge Thursday evening January 19th, and all day the 20th, 21st, and 22nd. Tuition for this transitional course is $695 per person.

Call us to register or if you can’t make the whole weekend, even a little time at The Edge will transform aspects of your life.

To register for The Edge, call us at 706.754.7540 or email us at wayne@achoiceexperience.org

The Edge focuses on the border between inside of you and outside of you. It is at this border that most human trauma occurs and it does so because we were forced to attend to other people before we knew ourselves thoroughly.

The Edge offers simple and powerful tools for meeting and embracing aspects of yourself fully, effortlessly healing old wounds and insecurities and tapping into the upside energy available from knowing and flowing who you really are.

Virtually anything you might want from enlightenment is available simply by growing up. At The Edge you will grow up whole, complete, confident and competent. The techniques you learn at The Edge apply to every aspect of your life. What a treat.