STAND TODAY
STAND TODAY
STAND TODAY
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What if, what we are doing right now, ripples out beyond what the eye can see?
How do we weave both the ache and the awe into our calling? What do we already know about the grief living inside of us for our deep love for the world? What have we seen that we cannot unsee? What do we now know that we cannot unknow? What are our soul’s deepest longings? What are the gifts we have come to Earth to give? What if what we are contributing to is a part of a bigger picture that we may never see in our lifetime? How can we still wake up as often as possible, now knowing what we know, and dedicate our lives to the undercurrents of our vision? How can we weave these questions into our service to the whole, into our service to the future ones? And then once we begin to grasp the knowing, can we set it free into the river of not knowing and lean back into a deeper trust of mystery?
"There is no UNKNOWING: A Vision Birthed of our Wails for These Times" is a guided group space to support individuals in their own empowerment to realize (and/or clarify) their callings. The facilitator will not do it for you. It’s not about being filled up with someone else's answers, it’s about encouraging you to remember the medicine you already carry and your unique way of bringing it that is actually exactly what we need. Your gift(s) is not an accident.
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Questions, external resources, exercises, poems and songs will be offered with hopes that it might create deepenings on your own path. We will be encouraged to use our imaginations and dare us to live our souls' wildest dreams as members of this vast ecosystem called home. What is your part? What are the gifts you have to contribute to the whole? And are you willing to risk living it? Are you willing to risk rejection? Failure? For the sake of your soul's aliveness?
In this 6 week series we will combine what brings us grief for the world with what brings us awe and woven in with the gifts we have to share. The INTENTION is for you to finish the 6 weeks having more questions that strengthen the clarification of your soul path.
Each week we will move through an arc (see more details below) as a group. On our calls we will journal, work in breakout groups, sing, listen to poetry, hear stories, group share and have group work outside the container with other participants.
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This series is inspired in part by teachers such as Joanna Macy, Francis Weller + Bill Plotkin and draws upon many interpersonal relationships with colleagues, guides and friends such as Leticia Nieto, Aaron Johnson, Laurence Cole and more.
What this IS:
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A place to be reminded that you can’t do it alone, but no one can (or will) do it for you
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A place for you to ask yourself questions
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A place for you to explore imposter syndrome
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A place for you to challenge a belief that your gifts aren’t wanted or needed
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A place for radical honesty
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A place to be inspired by a group process
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A place to find mentorship (defined as: supporting you to ask yourself questions and mentor offers personal experience as examples)
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A place to find peer support
What this IS NOT:
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A place where the facilitator will figure anything out for you
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A space where you will be promised an answer
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A space where you are promised to leave feeling resolution or closure
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A space to pedestalize anyone, including the facilitator
Week 1
Connection Opening Circle
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Week 2
Our Wails for These Times
a 2 hour grief circle
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Week 3
Awes + Visions
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INTEGRATION WEEK
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Week 4
Weaving What We Know
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Week 5
Risk It Circle
2 hour group harvest of
what we are clarifying on our visions
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Week 6
Integration Closing Circle
closing thoughts + practices
The Series
Who is facilitating?
How/When will we meet?
Dates/Time
Thursdays 5-7pm PST, beginning March 28, 2024
Live attendance is required. We will not be recording sessions.
Thursday March 28, 5-7pm PST
Thursday April 4, 5-7pm PST
Thursday April 11, 5-7pm PST
INTEGRATION WEEK - NO CLASS on April 18
Thursday April 25, 5-7pm PST***
Thursday May 2, 5-7pm PST
Thursday May 9, 5-7pm PST
*** i acknowledge that this lands during passover... apologies in advance - due to scheduling these were my availabilities
Alexandra "ahlay" Blakely... read more about me and my lineage here
Spots?
What's Included
12-16
12 hours of facilitated group work
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1, 15 minute one on one with ahlay
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One 1-hour small group call with your pod (pooled from active participants) from our group between calls each week for peer support and mentorship. Each week, you will be grouped in a different pod.
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2-5 hours of “homework" per week outside the calls + depending on what you decide to put into it. (Journaling, researching, imagining, daydreaming, wandering, dreaming the unimaginable, embodiment practices, nature practices)
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Supplementary resources