Our Forgetting 2 Remember Weekend

What an amazing weekend we had at Bradford Woods bridging the gap between fear and love!

We ended up with 20 people total with staff, participants and of course me.  The new location was perfect and the weather cooperated beautifully as well.

As always I’m blown away at the courage and strength that these incredible people display.  Everyone participated with a whole heart; mind and spirit! Everyone pushed past the road blocks in their lives and let go of some BIG stuff! 

I’m humbled to be a part of this remembering and re-connecting that we all get to witness.  

Staff:  Without each of you the weekend would not be possible.  The “behind the scenes” can be challenging and unbelievably crazy.  All of you worked so hard to make it seamless.  Thank you for all you did to help the participants and support me.  I’m so blessed to be so loved and supported!

Participants:  Wow!  All of you amazed me!  All of you stepped outside that box of comfort and embraced the opportunity.  Participants stay focused, keep your flashlights shining brightly by continuing to remember, reflect and grow.  Keep up with your journaling and I will see you all soon at the one month re-union. (June 26, 10am-12pm)   I’m counting down the days already!

And for everyone the next retreat is July 16-18 at Bradford Woods.  Please share your experience and if the weekend touched your life please invite others to attend. 

1^st testimony already received:  “Well thought out and seamlessly executed event.  The passion and encouragement of the Facilitator was extraordinary.  I appreciated learning the mirroring technique of communication.  The weekend was enlightening.”

Are You Ready?

Retraining you mind is essential to personal transformation.  You can not continue to do, say and think the same way if you are wanting change in your life.  To help in retraining your mind ask yourself the following questions in all circumstances:

1. Do I choose to experience peace of mind or do I choose to experience conflict?
2. Do I choose to experience love or fear?
3. Do I choose to be a love finder or a fault finder?
4. Do I choose to be a love giver or a love taker?
5. Is this communication ( verbal or non-verbal) loving to the other person and is it loving to me?

To have inner peace and to experience love, we must be consistent in what we think, say and do.  The choice is always ours!

Happy Thursday to all you seminar goers! It was nice talking with each of you tonight and thank you for the great questions. The first big step is allowing yourself to show up fully and to participate with all that you have.  Keep discerning with your flashlight on, it is almost show time!

Feedback, comments and suggestions

Do you welcome those things in your life?   Does opening yourself up to others thoughts and ideas bring up fear?  For many it does.  We take it personally.  We think that it is about us and forget that the feedback, comments and suggestions are for us not about us.  We have the opportunity to learn, accept or reject anything that come from that conversation. 

If for some reason the feedback you are getting feels hurtful that is because you already had that place of pain inside you and it is being hit.  Can you stand back and see the bigger picture of the suggestion or idea?  Can you see that it is not about you?  Instead someone’s idea or opinion of how something could be different or better.  From that view great discovery can be found.  Changes can be made or you might even find a greater commitment  and confidence to your own ideas. 

I welcome your comments, suggestions, ideas, thoughts and  feedback always.  Let me know what you think.  I look forward to the conversation that open, honest communication provides!

Face to face

This seems to be something that we as a society are getting further and further away from.  We text instead of call.  We e-mail invites and cards instead of going to the store, picking out something and adding a personal message to it. 

We have an opportunity with the technology of today to communication and be in relationship with other people without ever uttering a word to them or spending a moment of  time  meeting face to face with them.  I feel that we are missing out on a huge experience of connection. 

I just finished two days of training to be able to facilitate something special in the next, Forgetting 2 Remember, July Seminar.  In this group, twelve people were meeting for the first time all with the same goal in mind.   This facilitation training required eye contact and face to face communication.  I was shocked to see just how difficult this has become for people. 

So in effort to bring about reconnection, what do we need to do?  How about call  instead of text or stop and meet eye to eye for conversation.  Sounds like a great start to me.  What do you think?

I’m sure, without a doubt, that much less misunderstanding in a  conversation or a relationship would take place  if we just simply went back to showing up as human beings meeting other human beings.

One bold thing a day, part two!

How far would you be willing

to go if you knew you could

not fail?

 

 

One bold thing a day! 

 

This past Monday, June 6th, was the end of my  21 day challenge to do one bold thing a day.  It was so successful for me that I have decided to make it a part of my daily living.

I want to share with you just a few things that happened from taking that bold step each day;  new companies interested in networking with Forgetting 2 Remember.   A newspaper interested in writing a story about us.  Contact with lost family that this bold move has opened a line of communication.  A very successful launch weekend May 22-24.  New logo.  A great July 24-26Th weekend seminar well underway.  New staff for the weekend…….  (I could go on for 21 days but I think you can see the results)

This is never too late to make one bold move a day part of your life.  Once you step out of the box there is NO going back!  I’m hooked! 

Living life out loud!