The Project Change team have now completed three specialist workshops- that are core to our introductory curriculum.
–Social Styles which calls itself the world’s most effective interpersonal skills training program on the market today.
–Finding and Crafting a Story– A master class with well known Story Teller Noa Baum, teaching us how to work on a story so that it sings and how to listen with delight.
–Mindfulness and Personal Journaling with Coach and Director of the John Main Meditation Center. who also introduced us to the Jim Dine Names painting, inviting us to write the names of all the people who are or have been important in our lives.
For our next meeting, we will be putting these new skills together by coming together to
-review our first two months of service ( using our journals )
-select a fresh memory from our early experiences
-work that into a story to share with the team ( using the skills that Noa taught us )
-coming up with a title for our story so we have a sense of the shared story we are creating
As we use our journals for personal and daily reflection, we might find some of the following stems and prompts to get the creative juices going and inspire the pen on the page.
Explore which ones might serve as end of week check-ins.
NOTE- You are not meant to answer them all, just see if any of them jog a response, and help you come up with your own prompts.
All this is to encourage you to get you in the habit….and give you lots to bring to our next set of meetings.
THE POWER OF STEMS
The best thing on offer for me here right now is………………………………
The thing I hate right now or is driving me crazy is…………………………
The surprise in all of this for me right now is……………………………………
The nagging concern I’ve yet to share with anybody is………………And I am not sharing it because………………………………….
If my work was a song right now, it would have to be…………………………….Because
If my work was a movie right now, it would have to be…………………………..Because
………………………..And I would get to play the part of…………………….
The person in my work so far who is teaching me the most is……………..by………..
What I am learning about myself this week is………………………………… Because……………
Questions for Weekly Review
The people who would be most proud of me this week would be ………Because…..
The quote of the week for me has to be “…………………………………….” Because…………
The person of the week for me is………………………………………………Because…………………..
The story of the week for me is (Share it) …………………………………….Because……………………..
The takeaway of the week is…………………………………………………… Because………………………….
****If I applied what I learned this week to how I do things next week, I would do/ not do………………………………………………Because……… (Worth doing each week)
If this week had a title in the chapter of my book subtitled My Time in Project Change AmeriCorps, it might be called………………………………..Because……………
I am most looking forward to……………..
I am dreading………………….
The message I would put in the bottle this week, that may end up one day floating back on to the shores of my life is…………………..Because………………………………..
The person I want to thank this week is…………………………Because……………………………
The person I want to support this week is……………………..Because…………………………..
The person who touched me the most this week was………..Because………………………….
If all of this had to end suddenly this week, what would I realize I have yet to complete or even start?…………………………………………………………………………….
If the universe is trying to send me a message this week, it would be…………………
The message I think I am trying to send the universe this week is…………………
The one Gift that I have and I think I am trying to bring more of into my world of work is ……………Because………………………………………………………….
If I believed in Angels, my angel this week would be…………………………………………………………..Because………………
If I believed in miracles, the miracle for me right now I have seen or really need is………………………..Because………………………………………….
The question I don’t want to ask myself right now but one day will have to face is………………………….Because………….
I am sure your own inspirations will flow into your journal writing. So these are offered to be starters or to give you some ideas. There are some great web sites that can offer other ideas too-
http://www.wikihow.com/Keep-a-Journal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peggy-nolan/why-i-keep-a-journal_b_3594722.html
http://www.writesite.org/html/journal.html