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

by | Dec 4, 2017 | Being Human, Events

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!).
  • A 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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Where is Aliveness?

by | Oct 17, 2017 | Being Human, Coaching, Inspiration

It’s fall!  It was very exciting to step outside this morning and feel a hint of fall.  With the change of weather it occurred to me how that seems to stimulate an awakeness to life.  All of a sudden any feeling of stuckness goes to the back and aliveness comes to the fore front.  Aliveness is a topic that fascinates me and seems to show up in the majority of my coaching client’s desires for seeking support.

My curiosity about about aliveness brings me many insights.  Why?  Because I’m looking in the direction to see more.  When we give our mind an assignment it seems to put in the coordinates, like GPS, and begins to serve up fresh information.

What has appeared true for me recently is that aliveness exists in engaging in life at the speed of life.  Not living in my thinking about living, but about showing up in life and engaging with what’s next for me to do.  It fascinates me on how our thinking can stall us from living.  This may be common in most human beings but it’s not helpful.

My invitation to you is to engage, regardless of what seems to be stopping you.  ENGAGE!  Let it be simple. Let it be easy.  The engaging will bring a new perspective, not what’s accomplished and acceptable to the mind. I promise.  It’s in the engaging that aliveness and fresh perspective appears.

Squirrels-Living Discouragement Proof

by | Jul 18, 2017 | Inspiration, Thought

On Saturday, I was sitting at my computer and something caught my eye.  As I looked up, I saw my bird feeder swinging largely from left to right.Squirrels-Living Discouragement Proof

At first I thought someone had walked by and pushed it because it was swaying so big.  As I looked closer, I saw a squirrel working its way up the trunk, getting in position to take another giant leap at the feeder.  With the focus and precision of Evel Knievel, the squirrel poised itself and took the leap of faith, again.  Still no success.  But this isn’t the end of the story.  With no hesitation the squirrel goes into action again.

As she maneuvered her path back up the tree, it occurred to me that there is one universally specific detail that separates squirrels from humans when living life.  This is the notion of discouragement.  They don’t have it, humans do.

Maybe you don’t have those moments of wondering, how life got to look this way, and how people aren’t supposed to be that way, and that was not supposed to go that way, yada yada ya.

It occurred to me that if I didn’t entertain what passed through my mind, in those moments of disbelief, much less ruminate on them, discouragement wouldn’t exist and neither would my suffering about how things appear!

In an instant, two things became clear.  If I was less influenced by what charged through my mind in times of insecurity, I would have more fun, live with more inspiration, and try everything, without hesitation.

A Journey Into The Unknown

by | Apr 18, 2016 | Inspiration, Uncertainty & the Unknown

Recently, I had the opportunity to ask this question to a group of intuitive painters who were discussing their upcoming travel plans.  One person was talking about visiting Egypt, another about her plans to see Japan, and another about her spring break in Portland.  As the conversation unfolded, it occurred to me to ask, what excites you about travel?  They looked at me with heads tilted and eyes squinted as if I were clueless.  It was as if I had asked a question with the most obvious of answers.  Here’s what they said:  to see something they’ve never seen before, to have new experiences, to explore, to have more adventures, and to be surprised. From where I sat, all of these answers pointed to the same thing, a journey into the unknown.

As I listened to their answers it occurred to me how funny it is that our minds can hold the same idea in two distinctly different ways. When anticipating the unknown through travel, the departure date can’t get here soon enough.  When anticipating the unknown through creating, we recoil as if there’s a reason to run.  As B.B. King once sang, the thrill is gone!   In both situations we’re still stepping into the unknown.  Maybe what’s really on offer here, is to not take our state of mind as a barometer of what’s real.  It’s a fickle-pickle that is inconsistent, fleeting, and illusory.  It may carry the tone of an expert but that’s not a reason to take it seriously.  Like the weather in Texas, it will soon change.

If you want to explore a different side to the unknown there’s no need to travel 6,000 miles.  Those same goodies are waiting for you on the blank page.  Creativity invites you into the adventure of seeing something new, exploring, having adventures, and being surprised.  One of the best perks offered through creating is the opportunity to get very comfortable with stepping into the unknown.  The unknown is never as scary as it once appeared.  You transform your experience of the unknown into one of curiosity and wonder.  Much like travel, the more you show up, the more is revealed and experienced.

Overwhelm & A Sponge

by | Feb 11, 2016 | Being Human, Coaching

Lately, in my coaching practice, I’ve heard many clients talk about feeling overwhelmed.  They believe it’s from their current life circumstances, or from the amount of ideas that are coming into them.  Oftentimes, when you open yourself to the truth that all things are possible, yes even for you, the flood gates seem to open.  When this happens, it all appears chaotic or too much to deal with.

So, what can you do about it?  First, recognize that overwhelm is a concept.  Granted, a concept that people have bought into for a long time but one that often trips them up.  For some people this concept doesn’t even exist in their lives.  Secondly, that ‘too much’ feeling is not coming from the circumstances or ideas.  It’s coming from the volume of mental chatter you have around what you’re seeing or the ideas you’re receiving.  For instance, a new inspiration comes in, and it’s often followed, by the mind, offering a big laundry list of reality questions such as how, why, when, etc.  Your head space starts filling up?  This marathon of examination fills your head with a sense of it’s all too much.  Hopefully, at this point, you’re seeing it’s not what’s happening in your life that’s too much.  It’s what you’re making up about what’s happening in your life that’s creating this saturated feeling.

I feel very confident that the intelligence that brought you these situations or new ideas will bring you the how, why, when, and what to do about it. Overwhelm & A Sponge There’s no need to fill your head with logistical data that hasn’t arrived yet.  What to do instead?  In order for the saturated sponge to do what it does best, you have to lessen the amount of liquid in it.  This allows space for the sponge to operate more effectively.

This is exactly what I invite you to do.  I invite you to empty your mind of all that busyness.  When more space is available inside you, you will operate more effectively.  You will have space available to receive, hear, or notice the next piece this same intelligence is sending your way.   Take a walk, tear paper, collage, watch a movie, listen to music, paint, or soak in the tub. You pick what does it for you.  Then relax.  You’re never given a situation without the information to execute your ideas.  It’s that simple.  It’s that easy.