Nearsighted, Farsighted, Hindsighted: Giving Thanks

It’s almost Thanksgiving! Can you believe it? It’s the season to put on your gratitude glasses and see all that’s in front of you to be appreciated.
Whether you’re nearsighted, farsighted, or hind-sighted, it’s an opportunity to get in the moment and give thanks.
I would like to thank you for allowing me the opportunity to show up in your inbox, for coming to the studio for workshops, and for trusting me in supporting your understanding on how rich life can be. I appreciate it more than these words can express.
May all your meals be tasty, your travels be easy, and your connections be rich.
Happy Thanksgiving!
With a full heart,
Cherie

Natural Inspiration

My soul-sister-artist-friend, Elayne Goodman sent me this creation! I was surprised at the post office with a large package and this treasure was inside. Elayne lives in Columbus, MS and we share the same philosophy on the power of creativity and creative expression. We have both experienced a rich connection to something larger than life by exploring our creative callings.
Elayne has been a driven artist since she was a child. Upon asking her mom for art supplies, her mom told her there was no money for that so Elayne turned to found objects on the land of her rural Mississippi home. She has continued to create and express herself throughout her life. She has a rich connection to her natural inspiration and she lives with great permission to express what wants to be expressed. Needless to say, she continues to inspire me with her passion!

Connection: We All Want It

Listening for Understanding

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A desire for connection seems to be something we all share. People want to feel more connection in their lives, loves, families, and friends. Another form of connection, often discussed in coaching conversations, is a desire to feel more connection to potential and possibility.

This is a natural feeling of hopefulness, in the core of our being, that anything is available to us in life: new LOVE, new health, new inspirations both personally and professionally, new opportunities, and new invitations to explore life.

Connection and what separates us from feeling connected is in my wheelhouse. This is where I like to play. The kryptonite to connection is the same for everyone! I find that truth amazing. That’s why I’m so excited about this Saturday’s workshop being offered at The Jung Center of Houston, “Listening for Understanding.”

This workshop offers a fresh way of connecting while teaching you how to have more productive conversations. Stop having the same base conversation again and again, never making progress or gaining resolution. By learning to listen in a new way, with a desire to understand, connection is possible in the most challenging situations, in both your personal and professional lives. What if how you listen is more essential than how you speak?

When we gain understanding, our natural ability to connect organically happens. From this point potential and possibility are present and obvious to us where it was once invisible.

>> Please join us if this interests you!

Wishing you much rich connection in your life,
Cherie

Reboot Your Life, a “Do It at Home” Creative Immersion Retreat

Wouldn’t it be grand… to greet the New Year with confidence, courage, and an abiding sense of ease?

But holy cow, is that really a thing?

Actually, it is!

Even if you’ve been grappling for years with the persistent sense that you just don’t know how to get life right, you can discover in yourself a wise, creative, and compassionate guide.

You can wake up to your own creative process, a process that is both mysterious and utterly reliable. When understood, trusting the process is not even an issue.

Yup, it’s possible, even when you think you’re your biggest barrier to self-expression. Even when you have a history of getting in the way of what you want to create where you want to move in the world.

Welcome to Reboot Your Life, a “Do It at Home”
Creative Immersion Retreat with Cherie Ray and Molly Gordon

Reboot Your Life is a deep dive into the creative spirit that you know lives inside of you but that sometimes seems ridiculously elusive.  It’s designed to show you how you are designed to reboot effortlessly.

Join us, and greet the New Year with fresh inspirations and ideas custom tailored to who you a really are, what you really care about, and how life Welcome to Reboot Your Lifereally works.

  • Learn about innate creative process–a creative process that is built into your human operating system.
  • Get a handle on the ways human beings get in their own way (we all do it) and discover the super simple key to getting out of the way. (When you see this, trusting theprocess–your process–isn’t even an issue.)
  • And do it all from the comfort of your own home, studio, or office–while enjoying the support and inspiration of a like-minded community.

Won’t you join us to make space for the full-bodied experience of a rich and fertile 2018?

How it works

Reboot Your Life is a virtual retreat. That means you can participate from your own home, office, or studio. The retreat runs from Thursday through Saturday, December 28, 29, and 30, 2017. Before we begin, you get an individual coaching session with Cherie or Molly to clarify your intentions.

During the retreat, we will begin each day with a virtual retreat community gathering at 8:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (10am Central Standard Time) using Zoom. Zoom is a free videoconferencing platform you can use on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. You can even join by phone, if you prefer.

By the way, this is strictly a come as you are happening. We plan to show up in pajamas, paint-stained coveralls, or whatever is easy, and we hope you will too.

We’ll meet for an hour to an hour and a half–long enough to connect, share insights into the innate creative process, and address whatever might seem to be in your way.

Then you play. Experiment. Create. Dream. Nap.

Reboot.

We come together again in the afternoon at 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (4pm Central Standard Time) for another community retreat gathering. You’ll have time to share your insights and breakthroughs and ask for what you need moving forward.

After the retreat is over you get two coaching sessions, one each with Cherie and Molly, to integrate your creative insights and vision into your life and work.

And throughout the retreat you can pop into the Reboot Your Life Facebook group to share insights, breakthroughs, and connect with the community.

Here’s a summary

  • 30-minute individual intake session with Cherie or Molly.
  • Do-it-at-home retreat December 28-30, 2017.
  • Daily Zoom sessions at 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. 
  • Come as you are! We will.
  • Each Zoom session will be 60-90 minutes. We will give everyone ample time to check in and explore new possibilities, and we won’t keep you in a Zoom session when you’d rather be creating or relaxing (or both!).
  • Reboot Your Life Facebook group where you can connect throughout the retreat.
  • Two follow-up coaching sessions.

Reboot Your Life is for folks who:

  • Are eager to step into the new year with a fresh vision of possibility, and may doubt their ability to realize that vison.
  • Would love to trust the process, but wonder how that actually works. Is it realistic?
  • Are tired of feeling they are lacking something and ready to discover that they have what it takes to be successful and joyful in life.
  • Sense that much more is possible but for their limiting beliefs.

Gain fresh insight into the human operating system

Believe it or not, you and every human being on the planet were designed to thrive. To create. To receive and follow custom-tailored guidance.

We’re betting that sometimes it looks that way to you, too. Even if it has been years since you last really trusted your creative self, something in you knows it’s there.

Knows that it is infinitely resourceful.

And longs to experience and express it more fully.

That’s what Reboot Your Life is all about.

What you can expect from Reboot Your Life

  • A fuller, deeper, more grounded understanding of how your creative process actually works.
  • What it really means and why it just makes sense to “make space” for what naturally wants to occur.
  • A new relationship with negativity and doubt or other persistent barriers to creating what you want.
  • Setting aside time to give yourself the time and space to get oriented to possibilities that lurk just out of your everyday awareness.
  • Wrapping up the year and launching the new year with a good feeling.
  • And doing it in a supportive creative community.

Meet Cherie and Molly

Creativity Retreat Leader Cherie Ray

Cherie Ray, MLA, Consultant & Coach
Cherie’s work supports individuals, teams, couples, families and business leaders in understanding how living creatively free impacts intimacy, collaboration, productivity, and profitability.  She has shared her rich understanding of the creative process with others for 15 years. During this time she also completed the Pransky & Associates Mentorship program. Read more about her work at www.cherieray.com and www.trueyoucreativity.com

Molly Gordon, Master Certified Coach
A coach since 1996, Molly is known for her creativity, humor, and commitment to helping clients get off the merry-go-round of serial self-improvement and into the slipstream of infinite possibility. Her work is firmly grounded in the realization that every human being is inherently whole, creative, and resourceful, and she is thrilled to partner with her clients to create lives and work they love as the experience sand express their unique creative genius. Learn more about Molly’s work at www.shaboominc.com.

 

Here’s what we want for you

creativity coaching supports new insight

  • Comfort with and confidence in the not obvious naturalness of creativity.
  • A sense of “go for it” possibility with ease and spaciousness; we want you to really see that there is nothing to lose.
  • A sense of going from your concept of creative freedom to a felt sense of freedom.
  • A fresh perspective on the many depths and layers of the idea that that there’s a right way to do something.
  • Release from the myth that the “right way” will bring the desired outcome.
  • Permission: Most of us live with a restricted sense of permission. Let’s open that up!
  • An appreciation for how much BS we tend to make up between inspiration and engagement. This has massive implications for creative productivity and follow through.
  • The ability to explore in a supportive community where you can voice inspiration and bring it to light when it is still young and tender.

Sign up now and save $100

Your investment for Reboot Your Life is $700. There’s a $100 discount if you register before midnight Pacific time on Wednesday, December 13.

Questions?

Contact us today and we’ll get back to you ASAP!

FAQ

Will there be additional costs?

There is no cost to join a Zoom meeting from a computer, smartphone, or tablet. If you participate by phone, it is possible that you will incur long distance charges.

What technology will I need?

The Zoom videoconferencing platform works a lot like Skype, but seems to be more stable. The free Zoom software runs on Macs and PCs and on smartphones and tablets using Android or iOS (Apple) operating systems. You will receive instructions on setting up the software after you sign up.

Do I need a webcam?

That’s up to you. We find it enhances connection when we can see each other, but if you’d rather participate without video, that’s fine. Even if you participate from a computer or device with a camera, you can always turn the video off.

Will the sessions be recorded?

Yes, every meeting will be recorded, and you will be able to listen to or download the audio of the meeting by the following day. Recordings are strictly for the personal use of the participants.

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