activities
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: ALL
Alone or with Friends/Family
Unlimited Time
Alone
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
0-1 hour
Suggested Ages: All
Alone and All Friends/Family
Unlimited Time
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
Suggested Ages: All
Alone and All Friends/Family
1-2 hours
Suggested Ages: All
Alone
Half to Full Day
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: All
Alone and Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
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Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
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Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
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Adult Friends/Family
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Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
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Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
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Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Choose a few friends that don’t know one another all that well but ones that you feel comfortable with. Invite them to dinner and a movie. Choose a movie like MAGNOLIA, THE SHAPE OF WATER, MOONLIGHT, or ALL THAT JAZZ.
After you view the movie together, have each person write down on a piece of paper, their answers to the following questions:
1. What was the intention of the director, the intended message of the film?
2. What was your favorite scene and why?
3. If you were going to change anything in your life because you saw this movie, what would you change?
Place the answers to each question in a hat or bowl and pull them out one at a time to see if your friends can guess which person wrote each answer to ask them why they thought this. Likely the written answers to the questions will be short; the clarifications of their answers will bring to you the depth and richness of their experiences.
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
0 – 1 hour
Perspectives
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Narratives
Movement/Enactment
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Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2-4 hours
Have paper and matching pens available for all participants.
“Take a look at this photo for 15 seconds,” then, show them the photo above for 15 seconds only.
Then, ask each person to write down the items they noticed in those 15 seconds and create a story about what they saw from these items in no more than 5- 10 sentences. Keep these writings anonymous.
When everyone has completed this, share these stories one at a time. Let participants guess which person wrote each story as they are read and why they think it was that person.
When you have completed these explorations, open the discussion as to why each person saw and remembered different things. For example, if you noticed and remembered a crab in the photo — do you love to eat crab? Or do you love the ocean? Or are you in a crabby mood? Trust that coincidences are rare and that what you see and remember, and the stories you tell, are likely authentic to the person seeing, remembering, and story telling.
Remind everyone that the body processes a very limited amount of information compared to the amount of information that is available. Our consumption of information is very much influenced by what our experiences are. If I buy a Toyota today, I will likely be attuned to all the Toyota’s on the road today. If I buy a Ford, I will be attuned to those instead. Ask yourselves the question, “Why was I attuned to these particular items, and not others, and how has my experiences of life influenced the story I created from seeing these items?” and “What are the things that I no longer want to see in my life, and what do I want to see more of?” Then, listen to our self-hypnosis WHAT I WANT TO SEE AND WANT NOT TO, coming in August 2023
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
Unlimited Time
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
If you want to engage with others in this activity, give them a copy and ask them to do the same.
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
0 – 1 hour
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
Half to Full Day
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Have everyone pack their favorite lunch, a swim suit, hiking shoes, layers of clothes for changing weather or situations, sunscreen, a book you have so much been wanting to read, and another other items — just in case.
As you dive deeper and deeper into what you love, you cannot know what you will encounter.
This is the day of being you. Only more you.
Drive to nature. Take your shoes off where it is safe to do so and feel the surfaces, be those asphalt, grass, river, sand…
What can you safely touch or taste? How is this bark different than another? How is this bend in the water more inviting than the last?
Take photos of you in places you have never been, doing things that you have never done before, and notice — is this easy or difficult?
Do I engage with new from lenses that are creative, hopeful, trusting, enthusiastic, and curious?
Or do I struggle?
Drive upon roads you never have. Take a route home you never have.
If you go with a friend(s) give each person an opportunity to lead and the others to follow. Because each person is engaging in something different — your different might be unlike mine. Engage in following different. Afterwards, share a meal and discuss what you realized about you and maybe even some positive things you realized about everyone with you.
What is my nature? What is yours? What do I want to change about mine? How can I support you to change yours?
Suggested Ages: All
Alone or with Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Listen together to the self-hypnosis by Closets, Cars, and Curiosities called MANIFESTING YOUR VISION.
Suggested Ages: Adult
Alone or with Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: All
Solo and Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
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Gather a few friends very different from you and spend the day visiting shops, galleries, bookstores, and the like. With the intention of utilizing all 5 of your senses, visit these places not to buy things but to discover what tastes, textures, colors, shapes, smells, sounds DELIGHT YOU.
Order several meals to share so everyone has an opportunity to try new things.
Go to the paint aisle at your local hardware store and pick all your favorite colors. Run your hands over the tiles and notice if you would make your choice by color or texture or both.
Buy nothing but experience everything with an eye on what you want more of in your life.
If you notice that you feel judged by your friends, or might be judging their choices, different from yours, call these out, speak your truths, and find a way to laugh about your differences, and love them too. Be curious about your differences. For example, if you have a negative reaction to your friend’s favorite color, be curious as to what she loves about it, and be curious as to why you don’t like it. Your experiences of that color have likely been very different.
Have fun!
And be sure to journal about your experiences of you, and your experiences of your friends too — not from a place of judgement but from a place of deepening understanding and acceptance.
Suggested Ages: All
Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Bring a journal or paper and something to write with. Bring your favorite snack and something to drink too. Maybe a whole picnic. And a timer.
Then, visit that intrigues you, a place that feels like it has an amazing history.
Maybe choose an old burial ground tucked between two buildings in your closest city.
Or a brick building that you pass by often.
Or a seat on the first ski lift.
Or an old oak or upon the sands that have been on this earth over all time.
The choice is yours.
Then, each person will take a comfortable seat to journal their experience of this place as it is now, through their 5 senses.
Set the timer for 5 minutes to describe in your journal everything that you see. Don’t forget to look up. And look down.
Set the timer for 5 minutes to feel a headstone, the bark of the oak, or the tear in the seat of the lift. Push your feet through the sand or grass. Journal about what it is to touch/feel the things in this place.
Set the timer for 5 minutes to escribe what you smell in the air.
Set the timer for 5 minutes to describe the sounds that surround you.
Set the timer to describe anything you can taste, including your drink and snack.
Do not share these things with the others. They are your experiences.
Set the timer for 30 or even 45 minutes.
Have everyone close their eyes and from these experiences, have them float back in time to imagine someone else, sitting or standing just where you are, touching what you have touched. Imagine what that person’s story might have been. Ask yourself why were they here? Why were they touching the oak or the sand? What was their story that they were sitting here too, many years ago?
For example: if you touch the concrete wall of a hotel that was mostly destroyed in a hurricane, imagine what it was for someone to be coming to that hotel, touching that same wall when the hotel was filled with people and dancing. What was the person’s story that they would have been there so many years before? Why were they touching, then, the very same wall that you are touching now? What was the hotel like then? What were they feeling? What dreams did they have? Who did they love?
When you have all finished, at the onset of the timer, share your snacks and your stories.
Your stories were born from noticing similar, and different, things from your 5 senses. And from that, you created stories as interpretations of your individual experiences of the very same place. Notice how each persons created story has reflections of themselves in the story. And be reminded that the stories we create about our friends, our families, other cultures, religions, or similar, are only interpretations of our personal experiences.
Discuss the quote by an unknown author: YOUR PERCEPTION OF ME IS A REFLECTION OF YOU.
Suggested Ages: All
Solo
Unlimited Time
Perspectives
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For this, you will want to have completed our CREATE STORY activity. You will want two journals and something to write with.
While this is a solo activity, consider creating an accountability group with your friends, where each is completing this separately, but you are meeting to discuss your efforts and feel understood and supported.
Your creative juices flowing from the CREATE STORY activity, you will execute this activity in two parts, over time, preferably consecutively:
Journal the story of the person you have been. This can be stream of consciousness writing, a timeline, quotes, cartoons or pictures. This is a journal to be completed over time. There is no hurry but you will likely notice that once you begin, your subconscious will present more for you to journal about through dreams, memories, and ideas. Journal with the intention that you will:
a) Honor these stories because they are authentically yours, snapshots of the experiences of your life.
b) Let go of the parts of your story that no longer suit you; not so that you forget them but so that you stop living them.
c) Have mindfulness and note those parts of your story that you want to hold on to; what do you love about you, miss about you, what do you want to hold on to?
In the other journal, write the story that you want to be yours.
This is where manifestation begins!
Include as many positive affirmations (I AM statements) as you can muster. I AM intelligent. I AM loving. I AM easily lovable. I AM a writer working on a book or I AM considering becoming a writer by writing a book. I AM an artist soon to be discovered. I AM supported by many loving friends. I AM in the process of changing my life.
Journal with the intention that you will manifest this life you want.
Again, this can be stream of consciousness writing, a timeline, quotes,
cartoons or pictures. Your way is the right way because it is an authentic expression of you. This too, is a journal to be completed over time. Again, your subconscious will likely present more for you to journal about through dreams,
memories, and ideas.
From this, if you have not already done so, engage in the activity GET A VISION. These two activities support one another.
And remember that while this activity is a solo one, probably not linear, and probably over a period of time, morphing as you begin manifesting, to have a group of friends or family, doing similarly and supporting one another aids your manifestation!
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Family/Friends
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: All
Solo or With Friends/Family
1 – 2 hours
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Narratives
Movement/Enactment
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Choose one that brings you joy because this ignites your spirit!
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: All
Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
Play and Create
Narratives
Movement/Enactment
Connection
Suggested Ages: Adult
Adult Friends/Family
2 – 4 hours
Perspectives
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Movement/Enactment
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