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For leaders, facilitators, coaches, solopreneurs, practitioners, change-makers, therapists,
healers, stewards, conveners, and helpers who have to stay steady in unsteady times
Receptivity for Resilience is a 2.5-hour experiential, transformational, deep-diving workshop for cultivating a more alive, resourced, and responsive way of being so you can meet the unpredictability of life from a place of greater clarity, inner alignment, and embodied choice.
You are someone others rely on. But who, or what, do you rely on when the world feels destabilizing?
Receptivity is an overlooked, yet essential, leadership, and life, capacity that strengthens discernment, creativity, and wise action. It's the foundation of resilient leading, living, and creating.
In this workshop, you will learn about and cultivate the core Dimensions of Receptivity so that clarity, responsiveness, and inner alignment become more reliable. It also feels nourishing and nurturing. Many thoughtful, creative, successful leaders and entrepreneurs are exhausted and feel their well is dry. They've spent years developing their capacity to perform, produce, solve, manage, and push through while giving less attention to their capacity to pause and receive.
And yet receptivity is what allows us to access intuition, creativity, discernment, wisdom, and new possibilities. It's what helps us meet uncertainty with greater flexibility and aliveness as we move out of old patterns and see options we couldn't see before, and feel more satiated form within.
The conditions we create for receptivity are different than the conditions we create for pushing forth. Receptivity practices help create a balance between filling the well and taking action so that the actions are feel more aligned and inspired.
In this workshop, you will learn about and cultivate the core Dimensions of Receptivity so that clarity, responsiveness, and inner alignment become more reliable. It also feels nourishing and nurturing. Many thoughtful, creative, successful leaders and entrepreneurs are exhausted and feel their well is dry. They've spent years developing their capacity to perform, produce, solve, manage, and push through while giving less attention to their capacity to pause and receive.
And yet receptivity is what allows us to access intuition, creativity, discernment, wisdom, and new possibilities. It's what helps us meet uncertainty with greater flexibility and aliveness as we move out of old patterns and see options we couldn't see before, and feel more satiated form within.
The conditions we create for receptivity are different than the conditions we create for pushing forth. Receptivity practices help create a balance between filling the well and taking action so that the actions are feel more aligned and inspired.
experiential. Embodied. transformative.
"I signed up because I needed a jump-start for my business. What I got was EMPOWERMENT. The exercises broadened my perspective and my agency. I started seeing my work differently - and taking action again, when before I felt stuck. Doing this with a small group of committed folks also wanting to move forward allowed me to feel safe as I stepped outside my comfort zone...Michelle is outstanding at assisting others to reach beyond self-imposed boundaries to create things they never thought possible." ~ Bev Hitchens, Receptivity for Resilience program participant
- Are you someone others rely on, and you want to ensure your inner well stays replenished?
- Do you value your intuition, but wish you engaged it more consistently and reliably?
- Are you feeling like external chaos has unsettled your focus ?
- Are you committed to meeting uncertainty in ways that actually support you and those you serve?
- Do you want your choices and creations to come from alignment rather than pressure?
If so, this workshop is designed for you.
WHAT: Receptivity for Resilience is a 2.5-hour experiential workshop for cultivating a more alive, resourced, and responsive way of being to meet the unpredictability of life from a place of greater clarity, alignment, and embodied choice. This highly experiential workshop is designed to strengthen your embodied capacity to receive: information, guidance, insight, nourishment, and support - both from within yourself and from life around you.
WHO: This workshop is for leaders, coaches, facilitators, practitioners, healers, and anyone else who supports, or influences others, and has to show up full-on for them. It's easy to let our well run dry, but we still have to show up fully resourced for those we serve.
WHO: This workshop is for leaders, coaches, facilitators, practitioners, healers, and anyone else who supports, or influences others, and has to show up full-on for them. It's easy to let our well run dry, but we still have to show up fully resourced for those we serve.
CREATIVE APPROACH: At its core, receptivity is the practice of opening ourself to what's already present, and what's emerging, rather than striving, controlling, or avoiding. You'll experience whole-brain ways to access receptivity. More participant feedback from this first program:"I feel am receiving more inner guidance and connection.""I feel more safe in my life, and I am offering more safety.""This was much more revealing than I had expected.""I am more present and more aware of where I want to be.""This enhanced my capacity to feel more joy.""This changed how I see things, and I feel more empowered.""I feel better, and softer...and my cat likes me better."
BEING BEFORE DOING: In the workshop, it's less about doing, and more about being. The "doing" is more of a spacious receiving: yielding instead of forging ahead, listening instead of asserting, feeling into instead of figuring out, savoring instead of rushing, and making space for knowings to emerge. It's about starting to cultivate your inner field, so your actions are aligned to who you really are.
"PARTNERING" WITH YOUR INNER WISDOM: The Dimensions and practices are designed to help you access and partner with your inner knowings/wisdom and creative, animating life force energy to feel more supported and guided - with more discernment - in a noisy world where it's easy to lose our center. This connection becomes an anchor to something safe and alive inside of you.
Enhancing receptivity supports:
- Deeper, more present listening
- Increased trust in yourself and your inner guidance
- Feeling more spaciousness within you
- Enhanced empathy and understanding
- Greater clarity, agency, and discernment
- Bouncing back more quickly after setbacks
- More options, and more confident choice-making
- Release of outdated patterns and emergence of new ones
- You will explore and experience:
- • Core Dimensions of Receptivity:
- what they are, why they matter, and how to engage them
- • Deepening your relationship with your wise and creative self
- • Whole-brain approaches to receptivity
- • Connecting with your creative and somatic intelligence
- • Conditions for receptivity
You'll leave with a strengthened connection to your creative and somatic intelligence, and practices for feeling more resourced and resilient you can use beyond the workshop setting.
Comes with a Receptivity for Resilience PDF with concepts and practices to keep the learning going.
Comes with a Receptivity for Resilience PDF with concepts and practices to keep the learning going.
About Michelle James
Founder of The Center for Creative Emergence, Michelle James has been designing and facilitating whole-brain/whole-body/whole-being creative and process, and engaging emergence, for over 25 years with thousands of people though coaching, facilitating, designing, convening, and creating. All of her work and programs are original creations.
She's been working with different dimensions of receptivity in her emergence coaching practice for over 2 decades, and recently put her discoveries into a signature "dimensional approach." Her book, Pattern Breaks: A Facilitator's Guide to Cultivating Creativity, has a huge trove of creative practices from various domains you can do yourself, with work teams, or communities of practice.
Learn more about Michelle here.
