A Woman’s Journey II

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?’ – Mary Oliver.

This quote is the inspiration for the journey we’ll take this cycle. When you hear one wild precious life, what comes up for you? What does it mean to you? Are you living a wild, precious life now? If not, what stops you?

These are some of the questions we’ll be exploring in A Woman’s Journey 2: Your One Wild and Precious Life. Together we’ll get to the heart of how we each live our life. We have the power to make new choices and make changes. Let’s embrace every day, grow together, widen our horizons and play bigger in the world. So fasten your seat belts – we’re in for quite a ride.

Commitment, Attention, and Mindfulness

Making and keeping the right commitments requires paying attention and living mindfully.

In this series we will evaluate our relationship with commitment, including understanding what it takes to make and maintain commitments. We will investigate what gets in the way of us maintaining our commitments and learn how to overcome those barriers.  We will investigate the role of attention in maintaining our commitments and our integrity, and we will explore how mindfulness can support us to live in integrity.

Communication: What’s your message?

Motivational speaker Brian Tracy says, “Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.”  Are you ready to improve the quality of your life by improving your communication?   

In this agenda series, we will explore communication from a number of different perspectives.  We’ll share how we already communicate effectively and learn how to enhance our ability to send and receive communications.  There are many different ways to communicate in our world today – let’s explore them together!!  Whaddya say?

Fun

Women have forgotten how to have fun. We spend most of our time taking care of others and doing tasky stuff. We all know that we have to do it ourselves, but we forget we don’t have to do it alone.

Come join us around the kitchen table with a new buddy and goal system where we create deeper, more meaningful relationships with the women in our lives. In this series we will be exploring ways to have fun in our everyday lives.

By thinking outside the box, we are able to find/see/feel the fun and the gratitude in a purposeful way. When we find ways to have fun, we increase our levels of happiness.

Giving, Receiving, and Self-Acceptance

Imagine looking in the mirror and thinking, “I am fantastic just the way I am.” The passing of time as etched in your face represents your victory and triumph; lessons learned and mastered. Other people’s opinions make you grin. You are simply content being yourself.  Imagine the peace and easy way of living that comes from unconditionally accepting yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. Imagine your relationships elevated to new heights because you are open and able to give and receive without resistance. You live life on your terms, without fear or doubt.

Topics we’ll be discussing

• How do I deal with feedback/criticism?
• How can I give feedback/criticism in a way that works?
• How do I handle compliments?
• What stops me from receiving love? How well do I give love?
• How am I as a mentor? Do I know how to be a ‘mentee’?
• How do I know how much I accept myself?
• How can I accept myself more?
• What role do compliments play in my self-acceptance?
• How can knowing myself better help me to have the life I love?

Gratitude

Gratitude engages the heart as well as the mind. Gratitude is a key to living the lives we love, even when those lives are filled with challenges. In this agenda series, you will learn to recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate all the gifts in your life, including the hidden blessings in your challenges. You will experience the three-part harmony of complete gratitude as we journey together and discover the power of gratitude.

Happiness: Enhancing our happiness and the happiness of those around us.

In this agenda series, we will explore the heart and science of happiness, what gets in the way of our happiness and what we can do to increase our happiness and the happiness of those around us.

Chasing happiness is a major motivator in our modern world. People talk a lot about happiness and these are the kinds of things we hear: “I just want to feel happy,” “I’d be happy if I lost 10 lbs/made $5000 more a year,” “I left that job/marriage because it wasn’t making me happy,” “Everyone around me is stressed and unhappy,” “I can’t be happy as long as she/he is in charge,” “I would be happy if I had made a different decision in my past,” “I would be happier if X had not happened to me when I was young.” There are lots of things that seem to get in the way of us being happy, or happier. It doesn’t have to be this way! Come and join us and “get happy”!

It’s Your Life – Choose How You Live It!

What are the traits and behaviors you’d ideally like to have and live by in your day-to-day life? What governs how you behave, the respect you give and receive from yourself and others; how you honor your commitments; and whether or not you carefully think things through before taking an action or opening your mouth? When you set and hold personal standards, you set guidelines to follow and live up to. You are more conscious of what’s really important to you, and how you will plan and act, to really take responsibility for your relationships and your life.

In this series of agendas, we explore our personal standards and our relationship with making and maintaining them. By the end of our six months, we will each know our standards. We will have greater insight into our areas of strength and where we are lax around maintaining them.  We will also review and develop tools to help us maintain our standards in our lives and in our relationships.

Making Your Positive Contribution in the World:  Personal Mission Makeover

• Are old ideas dragging you down – keeping you from living to your fullest potential?
• Do you struggle to be consistent and move ahead in your life?
• Are you tired of a diet of woulda, coulda and shoulda?
• Do your mental closets need decluttering – clearing out the old to make way for the new?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes!” join us to answer them during this agenda series: Making Your Positive Contribution in the World: A Personal Mission Makeover!  We will be answering these questions, as we examine our responsibilities as women: to ourselves, to our families, to other women, to the Family of Women, to our communities and to the world.  We will discover how to use our Power Within and Power With to continue to grow as individuals, while remaining connected with and in service to our communities.  We will explore where we are successful in making a difference in our worlds, and what gets in the way of making the differences we want to make.  We will determine the next steps we need to take to embrace our Mission and to truly make a positive contribution in the world.  If not now, when?

Join us; together we will take our places in the world!!

Mind, Body, and Soul

True ‘Wellness’ is the harmony between our mind, body, and soul. 

Do you want more out of yourself, your life, your relationships? Do you focus on one aspect of your development only to find something else you feel is lacking? Do you ever want the whole picture of you to crystalize and know without a doubt who you are and to love yourself?

Frequently we examine aspects of our lives as individuals, as partners, friends, daughters, mothers, and so on. We also spend time looking at ourselves from various perspectives. In this series – Mind, Body, and Soul – we are seeking full integration of ourselves, discovering what makes us whole and stepping into that Ideal Self. 

You will have the tools that work to balance your mind, your body, and your soul. You will be inspired to be your Ideal self and be the best you that you can be. This agenda series will give you the inspiration for you to live the life you love. 

“Your body, mind, and soul were designed to act as one. Connect the three and you will align with the life of your dreams.” – Roxana Jones, Life Coach and Author

Mission of Feminine Power

In this series, we will be looking deeply into ourselves and how we bring the best of us out into the world. We will be spending each meeting breaking down important parts of the Family of Women Purpose/Mission Statement since that is what we all stand for, and because it is a guide to who and how we want to be as members of the FOW. Our Purpose/Mission Statement exists to provide clarity and give a sense of the purpose we are working toward together. It defines who we are and how we will live as women in the Family of Women.

Money and Sex – A Window Into You In Relationship

Everything, everything, everything is a reflection of you in relationship, and this applies to your relationship with money and your relationship with sex.  Often the relationship we have with money and/or sex and what we learn about ourselves in exploring these hot button topics can give us insight into our barriers to success in many different areas of our lives – our relationship with ourselves, our relationship with our significant other and our relationship with our friends and families.

This agenda series will give you an opportunity to explore your relationship with money and sex – your preconceptions, your issues, your barriers, your successes, your learnings and your triumphs.   And, if you have a successful relationship with sex and/or money, please come and share your wisdom!

Resilience

“Resilience is defined as the ability to flexibly adapt to challenging, adverse, or traumatic life events. Resilience is not a trait that you either have or do not have; rather, it is a set of strategies that can be learned and practiced.” (Dr. Arielle Schwartz)

In this meeting series, we will explore what resilience is and is not. We will review strategies that will enhance our resilience to the stresses and strains of life. The premise is based on a fundamental principle of the Family of Women — that we can choose how we are in the world and choose how we interpret and react to things that happen to us. Join us to exercise and build up your resilience muscles!

Risk and Reveal

Are you ready to take the risks necessary to own your greatness and to get the life and relationships you desire, really? Do you celebrate the success of each risk? Do you ask for encouragement and support so that you’re not doing it alone? Do you risk in some areas of your life and not in others? Are you ready to have the life of your dreams?

By courageously taking risks together, we will create intimate relationships and enroll others in our life and purpose. With vulnerability and trust, we will discover and reveal our true selves. We will learn the tools to be successful and become accountable for our actions and decisions.

Want a Breakthrough? Take a Risk and join us!

The Secret to Living the Life You Love

Are you ready to take the Family of Women 160-day challenge? Together we will explore what our dreams are, what gets in the way of having our dreams, and how we can work together to achieve them. Are you ready to cross the bridge between having a purpose and really living it? between knowing your personal standards and living them? between having goals and achieving them? These six months will be jam-packed with tips, tools, and techniques to keep you on track: being the woman you’ve always wanted to be and the woman the world needs you to be. Come live that life!

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!

Team – “two or more people working together.”  Everywhere you interact with others, you are actually acting as part of a team!  In this agenda series, we will be viewing our lives as parts of a number of teams working in alignment to achieve something together.  This can apply to our marriages, our families, our jobs, our volunteering, shopping, problem solving … anywhere we interact with others.  If we adopt the mindset of being a good team player, we can assess how we are doing in each area of our life. We’ll discover concrete steps we can take to move ahead as good team members, working towards a common goal and towards living the lives we love while making a difference in the world. TEAM … Together Everyone Achieves More!

You Have the Power!

Imagine realizing the following vision:

“I discover who I am and gain clarity about where I’m going and how I show up in the world and my life. I believe in myself and that my dreams are possible, valuable, and Hell, YES! I am ready to go after them and make them happen! By risking, I bring all of me to my relationships and they naturally move to a deeper level.”

This cycle, dream bigger than you’ve ever dared.  Set long-term goals to achieve those dreams and learn some new Power Tools to help you stand in your power and make those dreams happen.

This cycle agenda series is the first of a two-part series.

You Have the Power!

Imagine realizing the following vision:

“I discover who I am and gain clarity about where I’m going and how I show up in the world and my life. I believe in myself and that my dreams are possible, valuable, and Hell, YES! I am ready to go after them and make them happen! By risking, I bring all of me to my relationships and they naturally move to a deeper level.”

This cycle, dream bigger than you’ve ever dared. Choose to make powerful, life-changing decisions and stand in and embrace your personal power!

This cycle agenda series is the second of a two-part series.

Hopefully you already completed the first part, but don’t worry if you didn’t. This series includes a recap to get you up to speed on all the tools you will need.