Today I would like to share a story of one young African woman’s determination to launch her career regardless of the challenges that needed to be overcome to make that happen.
I met this young woman at my Master’s program in Peace and Conflict Management at the International School of the University of Haifa. She was far away from everything she knew in the small village she calls home in Cameroon.
She was in a country with a different language, full of Jewish people who did things very differently than her native Christian believers did back in Cameroon. The work week in Israel is Sunday through Thursday with Friday night at sunset being the start of Shabbat with all Jewish businesses including the taxis stopping operation to get ready for the Shabbat at 4 PM on Fridays. Saturday all the Jewish shops and services are closed till Saturday at Sunset when Shabbat ends.
We were located in Haifa, Israel so with a large Muslim population that lives there, and still my second week in Isreal I had gone to the Muslim section and found that there was no way back to the campus without the help of a Palestinian to tell the school representative where to pick me up. He stayed with me for 45 minutes till I was picked up. This was my first encounter with a Palestinian in Israel outside the university. Given the events of today, it is important that I demonstrate that Palestinians are kind people. It is their leaders that cause the problems for them and everyone else.
This young woman was able to navigate her way through the two years she was at the university completing her studies and then went home to Cameroon. She got married and had a baby which made her very happy, but there was something missing. That something was her desire to do something of real value for her people back home with her career.
Over the course of two years, she applied to universities to further her education but she did not have the money for the English tests she needed to take being from what was a French colony with French being the main language along with her native African language. This even though she had gained entry to an English-based international university far from her home previously.
Last week we were messaging on WhatsApp when she informed me that she was leaving for Washington D.C. in two weeks to do a fellowship at the American Red Cross.
One of her dreams was to visit the US even though I did my best to inform her of the destructive politics and degrading of the cities over the time I had no longer lived there. She was determined to see what the US had to offer and she found a way to get there and find out for herself.
The main lesson here is that one needs to have clear goals and never allow them to be dismissed just because reaching them is a hard thing to make happen. This is even if the goal is a bit ambiguous because one never knows what opportunities will show up to bring one where one wanted to go in the first place.
I am very proud of this young woman who will never allow anything to deter her from reaching her goals. Where she will go after her 18 months in the US is anyone’s guess, but she is building her resume to build her career and that is admirable.
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Suzanne Kellner-Zinck founded Dawning Visions Hypnosis in 2002, She has become an innovator in the use of hypnotism and neuro-linguistic programming in the areas of obsessive compulsive disorders such as: eating disorders, sexual addiction and substance abuse as well as working with those with anxiety and mood disorders.
Her clients have come to work with her from across the United States and as far away as Africa to help them to finally be freed from these emotional issues that once ruled their lives. Today she is in the process of bringing her work to many more in the form of ebooks and other downloadable formats.
She is a member of American Holistic Medical Association and the American College for Advancement in Medicine.
Prior to founding Dawning Visions Hypnosis, Kellner-Zinck worked within vendor programs for the mentally ill working to help them to live up to their fullest potential. Many of her previous clients were able to move out on their own and find fulfilling work.
Kellner-Zinck is a Certified Trainer of Hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic programing through Tad James Company, Inc. and a Master Hypnotist and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming through Advanced Neuro Dynamics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in education and political studies from Curry College.
Dawning Visions Hypnosis is teaching people that they can indeed leave their unwanted behaviors behind as they move forward to living fulfilling and joy filled lives.