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Group Peer Support Events & Series:

New Year’s Intention Mapping Celebrations

  

Come with materials, memorabilia, intentions, and collage your heart’s desire. Or come with empty hands and your mind a blank canvas.  Come ready to discover this year’s intuitions—of the light and the shadow.

Since 2013, I've been hosting this reflective process among kindred spirits early January. With our family's courageous relocation to Burnsville in 2018, I wanted to share this tradition with my new community: starting with blank poster board, unsure really of what I want for myself for the new year, then after perusing magazines together, talking, and ripping out images and words that resonate, direction becomes clearer... and so do I. Now in 2023, after two years of pandemic hiatus, and after a family tragedy, I still want to
rally to revive this event. And I'd love your support holding space for this brave vulnerability: for me and for yourself, too.

Often I don't understand why I'm called to include particular images or words on my intention map (or as some say, vision board or collage). But by the end of the year I understand, often shockingly. We can keep the intention map central in our homes to remind us daily of the year's mission. Sometimes what comes of it can be quite a surprise.

What may manifest—via both conscious wants and higher inspiration—for your new year’s intentions?

Here are some things new this year: a move from Burnsville public library to Mt Mitchell Eco Retreat, an introduction to the healing modality Wholeness Energetics, and a volunteer sampling of muscle testing with vision boarding. Event listed also in
 Celo's Cabin Fever University calendar.

Interested?  Here's how:

  1. Contact me below to reserve your place with payment before noon Friday, January 13th. I'll reply with payment links to PayPal, Venmo, and Zelle. If you don't see a reply from me, check your Junk folder and/or add my RHH email to your Contacts.

  2. Let me know then if you need handicapped parking & access and/or if you're also available next Sunday the 22nd if we need to postpone due to weather.

  3. Gather materials ahead, if you like. Want your own magazines? Aside from friends and family, local libraries and recycling centers often provide them. Want eco-conscious backing? Repurpose cardboard or boxboard from your recycling bin. Want your own scissors & glue? Dollar stores sell them, though I'll provide poster board sections & some craft supplies.

  4. Reflect on intentions ahead, if you like.

  5. Bring a dish to share; optional materials, mask, and hydration; plus a few dollars as a "love offering" for MMER's donating of space, tea & coffee.

  6. Arrive SLIGHTLY BEFORE 12:30 so we may create a safe container together. MMER address: 430 Otter Rock Road, Burnsville. MMER directions: from 80 a left onto Clear Creek after the Carolina Hemlocks campground, a right onto Otter Rock before the bridge, then second right into the "Overflow Parking" lot.

  7. Park in MMER's "Overflow Parking"  and walk up to the main lodge, unless you've arranged ahead for 1 of 3 handicapped parking spots.

  8. Stay as suits you, with event ending at 4:30pm.

  9. Put your map in a central location, visit with it daily, and begin manifesting.
  10. Check-in on map on our own with journaling or socially with a partner or groupusing the prompts below through the year.

  11. Schedule 1 or more Wholeness Energetics Sessions with me to discover & dissolve what may be subconsciously blocking your manifesting.

  12. Repeat next year....

4th Annual New Year’s Intention Mapping
Event Date: Sunday, January 15th, 2023
Snow Date: Sunday, January 22th
Time: 12:30-4:30pm
Venue: Mount Mitchell Eco Retreat
Cost:  Donation of $5-$35 ahead
Reserve Your Place with payment 
by noon Friday, January 13th
40 places available
Contact Me below if interested

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Quarterly Check-Ins

  

Though for 2023, I'd hoped to introduce and facilitate quarterly check-ins on our maps, I need instead to pull in resources for my own grieving this year after our son's unexpected death. So instead I'll empower each of us to decide if we want to check inon our own with journaling or socially with a partner or groupusing the prompts below. Then come December 2023, I'll host an end-of-year reflection on 2023 maps before making new 2024 maps in January.

NYIM 2023 End of Year Reflection:
Sunday, December 17th, 2023
Venue: TBA

Cost:  Donation of $10-$30 ahead
Reserve Your Place with payment by noon the day prior
Contact Me below if interested

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Intention Mapping Reflective Prompts

  

Beginning of Year

  1. What surprised you about the process or product this year?

  2. Which items do you know—or think you know—the meaning of?

  3. Which items remain a mystery? What may you hypothesize?

  4. What obstacles, of which you’re consciously aware, may stand in the way of actualizing this map? (I may help you find and release the subconscious obstacles as well.)

  5. What strengths, advantages, or qualities of yours, of which you're consciously aware, may facilitate your actualizing this map? (I likewise may help you find and activate your superconscious gifts as well.)

  6. How may you incorporate your map into your contemplative practices (meditation, prayer, Tai Chi, Qigong, yoga, self-created ritual), perhaps in addition to periodic journalling?

  7. What other specific, measurable, daily, weekly or monthly action steps may go with which items? (from Helen G)

  8. In what ways may you benefit from the help of of others, actualizing this map? Who and how?

  9. Where will your map live? Why there?

Mid Year

  1. What’s actualizing? What’s surprising you?

  2. What synchronicities are you noticing and grateful for?

  3. What obstacles are you noticing? May they be coming up for healing?

  4. What strengths, advantages, or qualities of yours are coming to your aid? May they be reminding you of who you truly are?

  5. What resources are you making use of in actualizing this map: practices, action steps, help from whom how?

  6. What did you--or may you want to--add, take away, or paste over re your map?

 

End of Year

  1. What came to fruition on this map this year? What didn’t? Why may that be?

  2. Which items remain a mystery? Why may that be?

  3. What obstacles, external or internal, stood in the way of actualizing aspects of this map?

  4. What strengths, advantages, or qualities of yours did you allow to help you in manifesting this map?

  5. What do you only now realize, looking at this past year’s map?

  6. What was significant this past year that you do not see reflected in this map? Are you sure? Or why may that be?

  7. What items on this map may be thematic and carry over into next year’s map?

  8. How may the experience of this year’s map inform next year’s map?

What other prompts may you suggest?

Please send them my way!

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