What is on your Radical Well-being Menu?
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What is on your Radical Well-being Menu right now in your life?
On Saturday night, I had the honour of standing up in the breathtaking art strewn dining room of Rancho la Puerta and introduce the theme that I am co-presenting this week with my co-conspirator Dr. Lilli Rosenberg from Victoria Canada:
Living Awake: Grief, Grace and Gratitude
I am here to create comfort with discomfort, maybe flirt or even fall in love with awkwardness, and have the most important conversations we are NOT having. All this to grow sexy radical Well-being in our day to day lives and relationships: with ourselves, with each other and with this place.
We will explore Many topics around this, and here are some highlights to inquire into in your own life:
Spiritual Intelligence is our compass ‘at the edge’…
Living Awake requires that we venture to the edge of what we know… and embrace uncertainty. Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) provides a deep sense of what life’s struggles are about, enabling us to respond (rather than react) to the difficulties in our lives. Although this intelligence is a universal human potential, SQ requires awareness, attention, and proper cultivation in order that it may contribute beneficially. In this presentation, Lilli will outline the tenets and principles of spiritual intelligence, and explain how our innate capacities for grief, grace, and gratitude are integral for SQ’s growth and development.
Lilli with Katheryn
Living awake: the art of becoming comfortable with discomfort:
We tend to resist, and understandably, try not to feel difficulty, pain or discomfort. We can become more resilient and healthy as we learn how to live more fluidly. We increase our ability to live response-ably to life’s natural disruptions. Life offers us a huge range of experiences: grieving, living, dying, celebrating, which, though challenging in different ways, are not a problem. From in depth lifelong study and Katheryn’s own experiences with the ‘Big C’, discover how being with what is actually happening and humour heal., Explore the increased grace and awakeness of becoming more comfortable with discomfort. Come dance with paradox.
Katheryn with Lilli
Learned Happiness
The concept of happiness is surely the sun at the centre of our conceptual planetary system, and has proven just as difficult to look at directly. Considering how powerful a motivational force the quest for happiness is, it remains a surprisingly misunderstood concept. Misguided beliefs and common misconceptions about happiness are one of the greatest sources of unhappiness. Through this presentation on Learned Happiness, Lilli provides an accessible framework to comprehend happiness, since, like the sun, it is essential to our well being that we recognize the importance of its presence or absence in our lives. While our innate aspiration for happiness influences all the multi-layered facets of life, its cultivation requires appropriate awareness and attitudes. Our conscious intentional attention to grief, grace, and gratitude are well-researched predictors for the growth of essential happiness.
Lilli with Katheryn
Grace: Love letter to living and mortality, and Radical well-being
Life isn’t safe. We have a practical need to feel safe, unconsciously. And life does not align itself around our preferences or our survival strategies. In this session Katheryn will invite you to explore living more fully alive through remembering natural cycles and being inspired to make more clear, important and essential choices about what we do and how we live our lives through our appreciation that we are, indeed, mortal.. We will also explore a delicious ‘Radical Well-being menu’ to invite fresh new ways to live more fully awake. Come be curious and open to inspiration, creativity and fresh perspectives.
Katheryn with Lilli
So here we are, mortal and alive. What is on your Radical Well-being Menu right now in your life? Put another way, “What did you LOVE to spend your time immersed in when you were 5?"
For me, part of LIVING AWAKE is creating art that touched the heart, disrupts fixed ideas, and invited suriosity. This is part of my Radical Well-Being Recipes. What are yours? What are you waiting for?
WHEN I AM AMONG TREES by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,”
they say, “and you, too, have come
into the world to do this, to go easy,
to be filled with light, and to shine.”