Author Archive for Brooke Warner
2 poems by Robert McDowell
Robert read two of his poems during Saturday’s class:
400 Apples
The Sheep That Feeds You
Awakening Your Whole IQ (Sept. 16-Nov. 4)
Awakening Your Whole IQ: Transforming Your Reactivity into Creativity is an 8-week class (Thursdays from 2–3.15pm PST || 5–6.15pm EST) that will develop your awareness of the unique and significant value of your Whole IQ—your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences—and how you can access the energy, feelings, thoughts, and forms that correspond with each intelligence to transform a challenging circumstance or belief in your life.
Through learning how to attune your awareness to your Whole IQ by creating personalized intentions and Whole IQ mantras, you will awaken your ability to be intentional and creative rather than reactive when facing challenges. You will also cultivate your intuitive ability to utilize the full power of your Whole IQ when making decisions and open yourself to collaborating with the Universal Intelligence in actively orchestrating your life rather than living on autopilot.
Week 1 (Sept 16): Identifying how your challenging circumstance or belief blocks your Whole IQ. Learning how to attune your Whole IQ.
Week 2 (Sept 23): Creating intentions and Whole IQ Mantras that keep you in Life Artist Consciousness vs. Con Artist consciousness.
Week 3 (Sept 30): Watching for Daily Winks of Inspiration and Awakenings that awaken your awareness.
Week 4 (Oct 7): Activating greater trust through your Whole IQ. Discovering where you betray your self.
Week 5 (Oct 14): Activating greater faith through your Whole IQ. Discovering where you
constrict your collaboration with the Universal Intelligence.
Week 6 (Oct 21): Finding the balance between receiving and giving through your Whole IQ.
Week 7 (Oct 28): Awakening your Whole IQ and the connection to your karmic potential.
Week 8 (Nov 4): What has shifted in your challenging circumstance or belief? How you can continue to become a more conscious creator in your life.
Living as a Life Artist (Nov 11-Dec 9)
This four-week class (Thursdays (excluding Thanksgiving) from 5–6.15pm PST || 8–9.15pm EST) awakens your awareness of the distinctions between living as a Life Artist, someone who is committed to living a more authentic and vibrant life, and being at the mercy of the Con Artist, the aspect of yourself that dims your light. You’ll learn to address limiting beliefs and frustrating circumstances in your life by becoming familiar with the Life Artist Color Palette, which consists of the nine colors Willingness, Courage, Curiosity, Inspiration, Vulnerability, Learning, Dreaming, Gratitude, and Remembering.
Each of these colors (or contexts) are access points that activate your creative potential by supporting you to grow your Life Artist’s awareness of the natural resources available to you in your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, or your Whole IQ. Without this awareness of your built-in natural resources, your Con Artist is likely to misuse or negate them and compromise the meaning and passion of your life. For instance, a Life Artist will use the color of Courage to live in the energy that most naturally uplifts and fulfills them, while under the influence of the Con Artist, a person might use Courage for the sake of pushing and proving something because they feel like they’re never good enough.
In addition to leading you through an exploration of the Life Artist Palette, Michele McHall will show you simple ways to break free of the reactive nature of the Con Artist and illuminate the natural flow of your creative potential.
Week 1. Primary Colors: Connecting to the Creative Flow within Your Self
Week 2. Colors of Trust: Creating Trust with Your Self and Others
Week 3. Colors of Faith: Collaborating with the Creative Flow of Universal Intelligence
Week 4. Embodying Your Life Artistry: Manifesting Forms that Inspire Your Passion
Living as a Life Artist (Thursdays, Sept 16-Oct 7)
This four-week class (Thursdays from 2–3.15pm PST || 5–6.15pm EST) awakens your awareness of the distinctions between living as a Life Artist, someone who is committed to living a more authentic and vibrant life, and being at the mercy of the Con Artist, the aspect of yourself that dims your light. You’ll learn to address limiting beliefs and frustrating circumstances in your life by becoming familiar with the Life Artist Color Palette, which consists of the nine colors Willingness, Courage, Curiosity, Inspiration, Vulnerability, Learning, Dreaming, Gratitude, and Remembering.
Each of these colors (or contexts) are access points that activate your creative potential by supporting you to grow your Life Artist’s awareness of the natural resources available to you in your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, or your Whole IQ. Without this awareness of your built-in natural resources, your Con Artist is likely to misuse or negate them and compromise the meaning and passion of your life. For instance, a Life Artist will use the color of Courage to live in the energy that most naturally uplifts and fulfills them, while under the influence of the Con Artist, a person might use Courage for the sake of pushing and proving something because they feel like they’re never good enough.
In addition to leading you through an exploration of the Life Artist Palette, Michele McHall will show you simple ways to break free of the reactive nature of the Con Artist and illuminate the natural flow of your creative potential.
Week 1. Primary Colors: Connecting to the Creative Flow within Your Self
Week 2. Colors of Trust: Creating Trust with Your Self and Others
Week 3. Colors of Faith: Collaborating with the Creative Flow of Universal Intelligence
Week 4. Embodying Your Life Artistry: Manifesting Forms that Inspire Your Passion
Reflections from Your Heroic Journey Class 2
Day 2 of Your Heroic Journey yesterday. Everyone on the call was particularly moved by this teaching about the land. Robert’s prompt to us: write about the land that’s sacred to you.
Get a taste of Robert’s class
Your Heroic Journey started yesterday and it was an inspiring and thought-provoking class. Here’s a little sampling of Robert talking about how the experience of poetry mirrors the classic hero’s journey. We’ll be posting small excerpts from the class from week to week.
Blah blah blah
I love this poem and SoulCollage card created by my mother, Gail Warner, and so I’m taking the opportunity today to share this with her permission:
Blah Blah Blah, by Gail Warner
Save me from the blah, blah, blah
of stories that I tell myself.
Be the skeptical fish who swims beyond
the blah, blah, blah
buoyed by a popcorn cloud.
Be the torn edge of life
open and tenderized by the tearing
and the tearing.
Be the yellow bird
reaching for the single
sweet dew drop.
Be the YES!
emphatic about not
drowning in the blah, blah, blah.
The Promise of the Inner World, A Weekend Retreat Guided by Mark Nepo at The Sophia Institute, Charleston
The Promise of the Inner World
A Weekend Retreat Guided by Mark Nepo
Sophia Institute, Charleston, SC
September 24-26, 2010
Click here for more information and registration.
Life has always hidden like a secret in the open. And living has always been the art of drawing life out by staying in the open ourselves. In this, the promise of the inner world is nothing less than making God, by whatever name, and the Oneness of the Universe, by whatever means, visible and tangible through the full use of our humanity. Not only might we live more fully, but we might see and receive and experience the totality of life more completely. And so this weekend retreat will explore the promise of the inner world that always waits like sun behind clouds and roots waiting in the earth. Through listening, reflecting, and expressing, we will attempt to animate ourselves by being present to each other and the dynamic flow that animates the world. Please bring a journal.