They’re letting me run the show again at this month’s free women’s circle at Nalu Healing Arts in San Diego on Morena Blvd. This circle is just over one year old thanks to the efforts and devotions of Azimah Uresk and has had around a dozen women attending on average.
It’s free to join, and I’d love to have you there.
These circles are formed around topics near to the hearts of the women hosting and lately I’ve been thinking about how hard it can be to see things from someone else’s perspective when I’m really caught up in the way that I see things.
It’s difficult enough on social media where everyone’s opinions are on blast but in person, where it really counts, I have seen myself shut down and -
Fail to express what really matters to me in a way that the other person can hear me
Get stuck on what’s important to ME so that I’m unable to hear the other person
Get so convinced about what the other person is thinking that it stops me from expressing my side at all
Add stress to the situation and it can feel nearly impossible.
Change is difficult especially when it is scary, but there is a path onward.
We’re going to practice expressing ourselves and seeing things from other perspectives in a playful, accessible way at this Sunday’s women’s circle.
It can be the lowest of motivations to dig into our own dark stories and places we may feel shame or embarrassment around. Yet the skills are still worthy of practice, and need to be in order to get comfortable with them. I’m really starting to replace wanting to reach some destination with wanting to just get a little better at things.
Using the power of story on Sunday, we’ll “try on” what it’s like to be -
Goldilocks
A bear
A third party observing and seeing
We’ll laugh and get silly and I’m looking forward to experiencing this acting exercise with a group of cool women getting together to try and learn something new about each other this weekend.
See you there.