"Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?"

You might have recognised it as the refrain from Lewis Carroll’s Lobster Quadrille – a beautiful gentle poem, and an invitation to join the dance.

I love the idea of offering an invitation to join a different world – whether it be through coaching,  NLP, writing for self-expression or finding ways to tell a different version of your story.

It reminds me of the very famous "Invitation" written by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, a poem that went flying around the world when she first wrote it.  And you can understand why – it’s a piece of writing that once read you feel compelled to pass on.   You’ll see what I mean from this short extract…

… It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive…

And the invitation opens up another a new metaphor: of life as a dance. 

Dancing as the adventure of being alive.

Which brings us back to the question: will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?