Time

5 minutes

Instructions

1. Find a comfortable location to stand in place.
2. Choose one or more of the following suggestions to re-orient your position:

• Reflect on each of the four cardinal directions.
• Acknowledge the first peoples, plants, animals, and other beings who were stewards in this space.
• Ask for understanding for any destruction, ill-will, and harm that occurred in this sacred place.
• Ask for permission to honor, preserve, celebrate, and create in this space.

Instructions

1. Pick a small space - your wallet, desk, or any physical space you use regularly.
2. Set a timer for 20 minutes.
3. Get in your groove and celebrate your purge while asking yourself the following questions: Keep? Fix? Donate? Trash?

Consider

Rocking out to music as you purge.

Instructions

Create a natural ecosystem inside and reimagine it outside. Try the following:

• flowers in your office
• dirt in your hands
• rocks as paperweights
• tree as your chair
• pine cones by computer screen
• grass between your toes
• use an hour glass with sand instead of a clock
• walk in the woods
• clouds as screensaver
• meeting by a body of water

Instructions

1. Find a special object(s) that empowers you or others to fully engage with a given task.
2. Place this object in a place where you work or carry it with you.

Consider

How this object can serve, charge up, or instill confidence in a particular situation.

Instructions

Disrupt environments that need change in the following ways:

• enter a room and shout or yell
• walk into an environment and clap
• stand silently in a bustling place
• walk into an environment and disrupt space with your body by stomping, jumping, wiggling, etc.

Example

Disrupt a meeting by starting with the phrase, "We will begin this meeting with a group stretch."

Instructions

Consider a challenge in your life. Using a tree metaphor, draw and explore the ecosystem of this issue.

1. Draw a tree with roots and branches.
2. Label the issue on the trunk.
3. Label the roots from which this issue stems.
4. In what context are these roots grounded? Write this content in the soil.
5. What environmental factors will help nourish the transformation of this issue? Label them in the air around the tree.
6. What fruitful solutions might blossom? Label them in the branches of your tree.

Instructions

1. Focus on where you are using one or more sense: Taste, Touch, Hear, Smell, or Sight.
2. Explore a sensation you notice and imagine its journey.
   • Where did the sensation come from?
   • How did the sensation come to your awareness?
   • Who or what may have cultivated it?
   • What does it nurture in yourself and others?