Comments on: How to Make Your Own Creative Mini-Retreat: Journaling and Visioning http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning Creative, conscious living. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:53:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Essential Prose | Zoë Westhof | How to Make Your Own Creative Mini-Retreat: Creating Tangible Inspiration http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning/comment-page-1#comment-1488 Essential Prose | Zoë Westhof | How to Make Your Own Creative Mini-Retreat: Creating Tangible Inspiration Fri, 08 May 2009 18:03:12 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=740#comment-1488 [...] 3. How to Make Your Own Creative Mini-Retreat: Journaling and Visioning [...] [...] 3. How to Make Your Own Creative Mini-Retreat: Journaling and Visioning [...]

]]> By: Zoë http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning/comment-page-1#comment-1487 Zoë Fri, 08 May 2009 15:47:29 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=740#comment-1487 @ Richard - I'm with you on the fear factor. For me, it's specifically 1) allowing myself to imagine big, remarkable possibilities without being afraid people will think it's impossible; and 2)overcoming the fear that what we write and think now must be true forever. @ Joni - I would love for you to share this with your writing group! Having done a creative mini-retreat today, I can vouch for the clarity and motivation it inspires (as I mentioned on Twitter!). @ Matt - I absolutely love the idea of Think Trips and Think Days. I think I need to start harvesting a special collection of 'thinking' matter... I'm certain that so much of what I mean to reflect upon gets lost in the ocean of content around me. The "thinking" tag is a really useful idea too! @ Richard – I’m with you on the fear factor. For me, it’s specifically 1) allowing myself to imagine big, remarkable possibilities without being afraid people will think it’s impossible; and 2)overcoming the fear that what we write and think now must be true forever.

@ Joni – I would love for you to share this with your writing group! Having done a creative mini-retreat today, I can vouch for the clarity and motivation it inspires (as I mentioned on Twitter!).

@ Matt – I absolutely love the idea of Think Trips and Think Days. I think I need to start harvesting a special collection of ‘thinking’ matter… I’m certain that so much of what I mean to reflect upon gets lost in the ocean of content around me. The “thinking” tag is a really useful idea too!

]]> By: Matt Blair http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning/comment-page-1#comment-1486 Matt Blair Fri, 08 May 2009 04:51:24 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=740#comment-1486 Excellent list of questions and thought-starters, Zoë! I try to do "Think Trips" (or, if I don't have the time and funds, "Think Days") regularly, and I keep a folder going to collect the raw materials for them. Every time I come across something in daily life that seems like it would be worth taking the time to mull over, whether it is an article or a blog post (like this one!) or a question about the future, I throw it in the folder. On the geeky side: I also use a 'thinking' tag in del.icio.us and in Things.app (my primary to-do list program) so that I can quickly pull a list of the questions and topics I've gathered. By collecting ideas over time, there is always a bunch of great stuff waiting for me the next time I have a chance to spend a day or an afternoon in a mini-retreat. (I used to refer to this as my 'plane pile': ideas that I want to take time to savor and contemplate while off-grid at 36,000 feet over an ocean.) Thanks for the great post. Looking forward to the fourth one. Excellent list of questions and thought-starters, Zoë!

I try to do “Think Trips” (or, if I don’t have the time and funds, “Think Days”) regularly, and I keep a folder going to collect the raw materials for them. Every time I come across something in daily life that seems like it would be worth taking the time to mull over, whether it is an article or a blog post (like this one!) or a question about the future, I throw it in the folder.

On the geeky side: I also use a ‘thinking’ tag in del.icio.us and in Things.app (my primary to-do list program) so that I can quickly pull a list of the questions and topics I’ve gathered.

By collecting ideas over time, there is always a bunch of great stuff waiting for me the next time I have a chance to spend a day or an afternoon in a mini-retreat.

(I used to refer to this as my ‘plane pile’: ideas that I want to take time to savor and contemplate while off-grid at 36,000 feet over an ocean.)

Thanks for the great post. Looking forward to the fourth one.

]]> By: Joni Bonnell http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning/comment-page-1#comment-1485 Joni Bonnell Fri, 08 May 2009 00:40:28 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=740#comment-1485 WONDERFUL! I've been sharing with friends. I especially appreciated your questions. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to use them (and of course give you the credit) for my little writing group that meets next Wednesday. We have all been blocked and I think your questions will give the much needed spark we seem to need. Keep blogging. I am thoroughly enjoying! Joni <abbr><em>Joni Bonnell´s last blog post..<a href="http://freedomlieswithin.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/i-am-human-and-sane-after-all/" rel="nofollow">I am human, (and sane), after all</a></abbr></em> WONDERFUL! I’ve been sharing with friends. I especially appreciated your questions. I hope you don’t mind but I’m going to use them (and of course give you the credit) for my little writing group that meets next Wednesday. We have all been blocked and I think your questions will give the much needed spark we seem to need.

Keep blogging. I am thoroughly enjoying!

Joni

Joni Bonnell´s last blog post..I am human, (and sane), after all

]]> By: Richard Reeve http://www.essentialprose.com/write-create/how-to-make-your-own-creative-mini-retreat-journaling-and-visioning/comment-page-1#comment-1484 Richard Reeve Thu, 07 May 2009 21:05:14 +0000 http://www.essentialprose.com/?p=740#comment-1484 One of the paradoxes in visioning is letting go enough to see what you were not previously aware of...In my experience, fear is the thing that seems to be the number one road block. Really enjoying this series and know that it will be useful for years to come. <abbr><em>Richard Reeve´s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/catskillcottageseed/tjwr/~3/Np5I5jENO6g/" rel="nofollow">Accesibilty isn’t hard once you’re aware</a></abbr></em> One of the paradoxes in visioning is letting go enough to see what you were not previously aware of…In my experience, fear is the thing that seems to be the number one road block.

Really enjoying this series and know that it will be useful for years to come.

Richard Reeve´s last blog post..Accesibilty isn’t hard once you’re aware

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