Squeal!
Only 4 days until we touring the town of Orange, before creating a Strategic Life Map, as part of the Design Your Life on Purpose retreat.
There are still a couple of places remaining, so if you have been thinking maybe this is for me, let me break it down for you.
What happens exactly?
Optional Town Tour:
If you are going to travel to Orange in regional NSW, you may as well experience some of what the location offers. For those that can get away from early we have a half day town tour and winery visit. A lovely way to orient you around the region and start the retreat on a relaxing note.
Day 1
Day 1 is about making sure you have a big long juicy list of items to work on for your Strategic Life Map, for 2021 and subsequent years. To achieve this, we do 2 things:
Reflect:
There is a need to review the last 12 months and determine what you want to change. This is like a having a vent session with yourself, where you will purge the things you do not like about the last 12 months.
I find that if people do not complete this, then it is harder for them to imagine a future life that they do desire. It becomes a release.
It is also important to acknowledge that the year wasn’t completely rubbish and reflect on the things that were great in 2020. This creates a kind of “As Is” view of your life right now.
Dream:
Now we have released 2020, and reflected on what was good and not so good, we need to unearth possibilities. Unearthing possibilities is around dreaming, capturing every dream you could possible think of. We use a number of strategies to free your inner dreamer, including getting some hands-on creativity.
Hands on creativity we deploy is watercolour painting. Watercolour is interesting in that you cannot always predict what will happen, water being water. It allows you to free yourself from expectations. This session is delivered by an amazing local artist, Helen Chegwidden.
The dream portion, starts to build that “To Be” version of your life.
Day 1 is completed by having dinner at one of the many very excellent local dining establishments.
Day 2
Day 2 we put all the hard work, from day 1 into an actual plan, a Strategic Life Map for 2021, again in 2 stages.
Design
This is where we take the dreams for 2021 and work out how we are going to achieve it, mapped against the year. We need to take into considerations the BIG’s that are also happening in people’s lives, milestone events, finishing a course, big or little birthdays (all birthdays are important, the number that makes them big or little, but always significant).
This is where the bulk of the Strategic Life Map takes shape.
Act
There are a number of anchoring activities and strategies that will increase the chances you are successful in achieve your dreams, via your strategic life map. This part of the two days, is about making sure you have the tools and techniques to support you going forward. It includes anchoring to your values, your why and setting a one-word contextual beacon for 2021.
We visit a local café for a lovely lunch, to celebrate all the good work completed over the 2 days.
So that is an outline of the 2 days to guide you to complete your very own Strategic Life Map for 2021.
Ready to come along
You can register directly here for November 21st and 22nd, this Saturday and Sunday.
Incahoots exists
To guide professionals who have deferred their dreams, to unearth possibilities to design a strategic life map that answers the question - now what?
About CMM
Christina Morgan-Meldrum (CMM) is a coach, facilitator, author, change professional and creative. She particularly loves helping people and organisations unearth what’s possible to design a future that suits you perfectly (aka Strategic Life map).
She has cultivated the ability to walk into any industry; see what is not seen, distil what is complicated, and simplify the chaos. This skill has been forged in a deliberate and concentrated way for over 20 years, through Personal Coaching and working in Organisational Change Management.
Christina fills her time on various side hustles, blogging, creating and learning the piano. If you are looking for her, she is likely at her spiritual home JB Hi-Fi, exploring stationery stores or artisan markets.