After meeting each other and talking about what supports our well-being, we listed the things that we thought a well-being group might be or do:
- Supporting each other to find our place in the family of things (people/nature/town)
- Providing support to each other in person
- Supporting the locality through a journey
- Feeling, coming back to the body
- The journey starts inside us – supporting this
- Change is hard; finding ways to support people to help them take the 1st step, help people to know that change is possible, how to support continuing change, willingness, courage, preparedness
- Energy holding
- Helping facilitate other groups
- Helping us keep our motivation and moving forward – sharing our separate stories to walk together
- What does it mean for me to live a good sustainable life?
- Reconnecting with people, place and nature
- Space to explore + where feel safe to share how we really feel (not always positive, also our fears) – be honest/real, so can face cynicism
- Psychology of transition
- Being able to talk at a deeper level
- Opening and including psyche in transition
- Avoiding manic response of just doing things all the time – need to see how it affects us at all levels of being - look at underlying things, create a space to do this
- Finding ways to access our full human potential
- Seed swap – exchanging seeds of wisdom/knowledge
- Practices not dependent on electricity
- Making sense
We talked about what we would like to offer to the well-being group. Offers included: "focusing" work, Work that Reconnects workshops, talks, feedback and concept testing on a radio show, sauna, hot-tubs and sweat lodge, meditation, singing, a zen-style tea ceremony, a walk into the west, environmental constellations, embodiment sessions, inspiration, writing, reiki, organisation, advertising, discoveries through research, a documentary, creativity, enthusiasm, honesty, practical support, Hungarian folk music, cooking, tea-making, organising events and inviting speakers, and being with despair, dreams and chaos - amongst many others. Thank you everyone!
What people wanted to receive from the well-being group was also very inspiring. People said things like:
- Being part of the group and getting support for setting up a local transition group in another country
- Awakened companionship
- Regular times to get together and share issues and feelings around transition, 1 to 1 and in the group
- The support of being with others
- Motivation and support to offer Work that Reconnects workshops in Cambridge
- Sharing the journey with others at a deep and honest level
- Support, space to “be”, space to explore inner aspects of self and pursue personal change and growth, stimulating and inspiring events
- Support/reassurance, honesty, perspectives, ideas, feeling
So we have a fairly clear idea of what we'd like to create as a Well-Being Group!
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