Welcome!!
Thank you for committing to your growth process and gaining awareness about your innate capacity through the mid-life transition.
This is a brief explainer about the Metamorphosis Membership structure and your role to participate.
The Membership involves intentionally co-creating a compassionate listening and witnessing space through expressing your truth and witnessing people sharing theirs in a practice of reciprocity. It's support, resource and knowledge sharing, and a learning space. It's not therapy or medical advice.
We will start weekly calls on time. If you need to call in late, I ask you to take a minute and gather your attention before you dial into the call. Please don't attend these calls while driving or running errands. If you need to leave early to handle commitments, let me know in a private chat before you depart so I know we haven't lost you in the technology. I support boundaries!
ARRIVAL - Every weekly call begins with 5 minutes of an arrival resourcing practice designed to support exploring intelligence of the body. These are voluntary / optional and you can choose to change, modify or skip whatever does not work for you and try something different.
SOLO SUPPORTS, TOGETHER - The next 15 minutes is designed for you to intentionally honor your system in a way that makes sense to you. This might involve journaling, writing a love letter to the body (or a part of it), engaging in a gratitude practice, brewing some tea, create art, movement, singing, dancing, etc. You won't be required to share what you do; this is an intentional time to honor your brain-body temple to build it in as a ritual in our lives. Tia will play music while we are all doing this independently, cameras off. Over the three months you could consider extending this into other days.
THEME - For 10 minutes the facilitator (Tia) will introduce a theme/topic related to the midlife metamorphosis and we'll go over any related content or resources.
SHARING - For the next 20 minutes we'll take turns sharing and witnessing one another in pairs. The facilitator will provide an optional prompt to follow, or you can choose your own based on the theme or what's alive for you that day. Each person gets the same amount of time to speak into the held space, using time as a guideline. Each person will take turns speaking into the witnessing space you co-create together.
Speakers and listeners are invited to let go of the need to please, perform, teach, be an expert, facilitate, strategize or analyze.
As a listener, you listen as wholeness - witnessing each speaker as complete, having the answers and capacity to navigate their lives
As a speaker you are speaking from wholeness - exploring how you have the intelligence to meet your needs. Speaking is also not required: you can share silence, a dance, request time to simply share a gaze or song. All emotions that arise are welcome and will be witnessed.
REFLECTIONS - We'll come back to the whole group and share any insights from the sharing time. Everyone agrees not to provide feedback/advice/or opinions during this time about someone else's sharing to maintain the compassionate witnessing intention.
CLOSING - In the last 2-3 minutes the facilitator (Tia) will give a prompt for closing using a bodily resource that helps close the space.
The image of butterflies at the top is by drz from unsplash.
Tia H. Ho, PhD
Founder of Finding Mindful Now, LLC
www.findingmindfulnow.com