Join Me in making peace with 2021
the advent truce
I don’t know about you, but i’m rounding the corner into these final weeks of 2021 with a bit of shock (we’re HERE?). a bit of awe (i’m ALIVE?), and no small sense of weariness + questionable reserves (where’s that FINISH-LINE?!)
What feels new about this year — alongside the inevitable holiday merry-go-round (picking up speed!) — is a deeper, more pronounced sense of dis-ease. One working title for this season: The Edge of Trauma.
2021 has been, for me, a fight. (Cue the triage scenes + the smokey browns & greys + the dissonant soundtrack playing underneath.) This year has been, in a word, hard.
Perhaps you can relate? Combative forces, choices, voices on every side. Resistance at every turn.
I’ve decided to call a Christmas Truce — early. A chance to move…
FROM striving TOWARD surrender — embracing human constraints & wisdom
FROM having the answers TOWARD welcoming questions — flourishing inside of uncertainty (even disagreement)
FROM being right TOWARD being kind — centering love in practical ways
In short: less a force to be reckoned with — more a gentle, refreshing breeze. The goal? Embodied love. Your company alongside me — your contributions in this space — would be such a gift…
The Invitation: what you can expect from The Advent Truce:
A Guided Session to plan your Advent Truce — virtual + interactive — on November 28: 7-8:30pm CST. During our time together, I will guide you (and 11 others) through a process to:
Choose Your People & Your Priorities — make hard + real choices up-front, ensuring less drama AND more energy for what’s truly important.
Change Your Posture — determine who you want to be + how you will show up alongside your people & your priorities.
Chart Your Purpose — examine the resources & rhythms at your disposal — inside of your current life context — in order to think strategically about your relationships + goals + calendar + tasks. Map a plan to be deeply rooted in truth + practically poised for peace.
Access to a Private FB Group with a Weekly Coaching Video & Interactive Resources.
Access to a one-on-one Leadership Coaching Session (90 Minutes) — available for use anytime between now & February 15, 2022. (You may choose from a highly structured Vision Session to helpfully draft plans for 2022 OR a more organic Discovery Session, digging into your toughest challenges for fresh & helpful insights — whichever will most powerfully serve you.)
Your Participation — what i expect from you
Punctuality — to honor one another & the important work at-hand, zoom room doors will close promptly at 7:01pm CST on November 28, 2021. (The virtual workshop space will be accessible 15 min early —beginning at 6:45pm until 7:01pm.)
Participation in your own real work. While this event will include training & helpful resources, it’s primarily a workshop — a coach-facilitated discovery space designed for insights and action that only you can bring. Come…
Video on + fully focused
Ready to engage in active decision making + intentional planning
Courage. This event is NOT for you if…
You insist on blaming everything & everyone else — if your problems hinge on your external circumstances
You’re not open to new ways of looking at a situation that you’re currently sure you’re right about
You’re unwilling to experiment with new thoughts, frameworks, & behaviors
Collaboration + Vulnerability. You can count on a guided process that will cultivate healthy group dynamics + psychological safety. AND you should expect to take a risk! (Truce work is brave work — and ALL THE MORE when we are making peace with ourselves & our circumstances.)
This sounds interesting, but i’m not sure it’s for me…
Here are the 12 people I’m looking for…
2021 has been an all-out brawl (private or public). You’re limping into the home-stretch.
You’ve caught yourself fighting this year. With your people. With your circumstances. With yourself.
(You’re a fighter, so you know: this one’s been ugly. OR you’re a runner … yet, here you are fighting.)You’ve begun to get honest with yourself: you can’t sustain THIS. (Also: it seems superman isn’t coming.)
You need a soft place to land — even if you HATE that psychobabble stuff.
While you would welcome basic civility + kind words, the reality is — you need more. So. Much. More.
(Call it a breakthrough, call it real, tangible help, call it water in-the-desert, call it healing. Your hand is raised.)You are willing to DECIDE to surrender — into your own soft humanity, into a higher, wiser LOVE.
You will vow to “put the fight aside” from November 28-December 25, 2021 (aka Advent).