Archive for the ‘2010 Lessons’ Category

Summer Wrap-up

Well, we had a full and lively two sessions over the summer.  Here’s what we covered:
SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCT
We started by reviewing the four primitive urges–food, sex, sleep and self-preservation–and drew our attention specifically to the self-preservation (SP) urge.
Each living creature has a built in instinct to survive, including human beings, which kicks in at the moment [...]

September 6, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments

April Review-Working with Resources

As we started April and our second quarter, I asked everyone to reconnect with their year long vision and check in with the first set of milestones.  I suggested that the places where people were consistently hitting their targets were related to how much they actually feel connected to the value of those targets.  Often [...]

April 27, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments

March Review-Wood Element and Self-Esteem

Wood Element
We began the spring session talking about the wood element, which predominates in Nature during this time of year.  Aspects of the wood element are similar to what we experience in the dawning of spring, including:

strength and flexibility (like bamboo)
a return of warmth, generosity and fecundity
a strong seeking to grow and expand
budding of ideas [...]

April 26, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments

February Review: Leadership and rubberbands

We began February further clarifying our vision for 2010. The first three rounds of visioning involved three criteria which I supplied:
1) What is nourishing to me?
2) What is inspiring to me?
3) What is realistic for me?
The fourth round of visioning involved looking at one’s own values criteria, what I refer to [...]

February 24, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments

January 24: Visioning, Next Round

1/20/2010 Yoga Notes (thanks, Laurie)
Third criteria - Is my vision realistic?
How do I know if it’s realistic? Having a realistic sense of myself, my world, my gifts, my limitation–these are loving assessments, not wet blankets that I’m throwing on my creative dreams.
1. I am not in denial of the reality of my physical conditions. [...]

January 24, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments

January 14: Visioning Questions

Courtesy of Laurie Jerva’s great note taking:
1/13/10
Homework for next week:
* get a buzzword for each one of my visions - an example might be Peace as the buzzword for the Health vision
* look at brainstorms
- should feel authentically nourishing
- ask yourself - is it inspiring?
if it’s a should then it is a secondary - want [...]

January 14, 2010   Posted in: 2010 Lessons  No Comments