Workshop Overview
There is a well-known tradition of creating resolutions before the new year on January 1st in the United States. We create goals we want to accomplish, habits we want to break, ways we want to be, things we want more or less of in our life. We create our resolutions with the best of intentions and strong commitments to keep them, and yet it is not uncommon come mid-February, that these resolutions become “some day’s,” “one day’s,” “I’ll start Monday’s.” Ultimately, they become wishes, hopes, and dreams, rather than the seeds of real creation and transformation.
In this workshop, we will create visions rather than resolutions. We will create possibilities rather than goals. You can fail at accomplishing resolutions and goals, while you cannot fail at a vision or a possibility because there is always an opportunity to live within and for a vision. For example, Mother Teresa’s vision and mission was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. She may have had many goals within this vision—to bring food and clothing to x number of people or communities, to create shelters in certain areas, to change legislation on certain matters, to create charities, on and on. Many of her goals she did successfully accomplish, and there were many that she very likely failed to accomplish.
See the thing is, when you have a big vision, when you have a profound possibility, there is a never-ending list of goals that get created within this vision. Yet if the vision is kept alive, if it is regularly nourished and tended to, new goals are constantly generated. Failure is not a problem because within a true vision, there are endless opportunities to create new goals, to learn, to change and shift. Within a vision, reality itself gets altered, and YOU are the catalyst for this transformation.
Mother Teresa’s vision of loving and caring for those in need of love and care created changes in the very laws, agreements, perceptions, and actions of society and the world itself. Her single vision changed the world. Martin Luther King is another great example of someone with a vision, within which there were many goals, both successes and failures, yet whose vision changed the way we lived and acted as a society.
Our visions are incredibly powerful and they can transform—this is not some mystical conceptual manifestation, this can be seen throughout history through individual and group visions. When we create and tend to our vision, we can create, we can transform, we can fail without it meaning anything, we can generate miracles.
Workshop guide describes the basic idea of the workshop
Workshop Details
This hour-long workshop will include a guided meditation for intention-setting, brainstorming and creating a clear vision, supporting through any blocks, challenges, “cannot’s,” “should not’s,” “don’t know how’s,” sharing of inspiration and visions, and setting each person up to create a “board” or visual of some kind for this vision.
There will be a follow-up workshop in January to share our vision boards and visuals, to share any shifts or miracles, as well as receive coaching and support around specific goal creation or potential breakdowns in living into your vision.
These workshops are donation based, no one will be turned away for lack of funds, and we request $10 per person and per workshop for those who are able to afford this fee.
The first workshop will be held December 2, 2023 via Zoom from 11am - 12pm PST. The second workshop will be held in late January and we will have the confirmed date by the first workshop.