Tell me your story...
How are you doing?
Typical responses in the early days of the pandemic were - "Fine", "Bored", "Anxious" and/or "Lonely".
Now that we're in year two, there are more shoulder shrugs and something now described as "languishing".
Let's rephrase the question: What are you doing? or What are you doing differently?
We're prescribing an energizing process that participants in our Memoir, Never Too Late and Artist's Way programs experienced last year. They will attest to the fact that when we came together - or even just preparing to - we were never languishing!
So consider joining us - formally in a facilitated group - or informally - on your own - we'll provide the prompts.
We'll come together weekly with one mission in mind - "being good ancestors".
You're invited to invest some time in creating a #PandemicPresent.
The recipe is simple.
Take your present moment, add a bit of focus, a dose of playful curiosity, and the structure of a weekly look at your family's story between the forties and the 21st century - in seven year increments.
What to with it? That's up to you.
You might choose to create a collage, a scrapbook, a photo album, a binder of stories, paintings, an audio file of reminiscences, or a video collection of narrations.
At it’s core - this is introspective. You need not share it with anyone.
We all have the capacity to compose the story of our life and embrace the whole of it - or simply appear as a footnote in someone else’s.
The idea is to emerge from this experience with a compendium that is a tangible representation of where we are, where we have been and what has shaped us and our worldview.
Someone, someday will ask us what we did during the pandemic.
Won't it be lovely to have something share?
Join us, set up a call for more info, or simply follow us here.
LNG & Clean-Fuels Supply and Origination
3 年I'm in
Principal, Empowering Change
3 年Thank you, Jonathan McKeown. I had a pull up, designed & then printed by two teams of professionals which stood in my space or travelled with me to many events (even high traffic BizCamps). After an #ABCBusinessNetwork session, a colleague also pointed out a significant typo. We didn't know each other well at the time & she made an observation that brought home a cultural divide I'd observed but hadn't been able to articulate. I'd often say that #Homecomers & #Blowins bring a very different energy to this place, but when blow-in to blow-in she said, "Eve, I wouldn't point this out if you weren't American...", I got it! What distinguishes you & the many successful McKeown enterprises is the energy & enthusiasm that belies our (thankfully fading) 'whatever-you-say-say-nothing' way of being here. Which underlies the #Why of the workshop. We come into the world as whole & wise humans. We fracture the wholeness & bury the wisdom with each adaptive survival skill we embrace. Until we do the necessary archaeological dig, we don't throw off those weighty adaptations and embrace the 'thrival skills' that do serve us. Stay tuned! There's a Fall version of the workshop to explore 'Storytelling to repair our world' .
Program Scheduling Manager - GCF at Turner Construction Company
3 年Great idea!! I may think about this one.