As we're approaching our last session, I figured it would be a good thing to post a note to the blog (sorry for not writing more - it's certainly not because I haven't been thinking about these experiences). Notably for me, I've been running over the last meeting with project wise in my mind, and how much I loved meeting in that circle. I've already taken so much away from that circle. It's one thing to recognize that as a society and as individuals we spend too much time focusing on the negative, but it takes an entirely different level of awareness to say, i'm going to take 30 seconds or five minutes to recognize the truly 'new and good' things about today/this week/my life/society. It takes so little time to do, and I knew that, but I still wouldn't consciously focus on the positive.
Since that circle, whenever something begins to bother me, I'll give myself a little time to process and to feel what's bugging me, but after a little while, I tell myself to stop, think about something new and good. There's always a point when fretting and worrying will not lead to anything productive or emotionally satisfying, and that session helped me to remind me that there are ways to pull yourself out of negative emotions.
I also liked the thought about making friends consciously. I admire the friends who go out of their way to stay in touch, even when no one knows when I'll see them again, but that admiration didn't translate into action on my part. Yet, it's important to my own well-being to know that I'm keeping track of the people who are meaningful to me. Like it or not, I'm not in kindergarten anymore and making friends will sometimes involve more conscious effort. It's worth it though.
Alexandra
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Metro Volunteers TeamWorks
TeamWorks is a volunteer program that fuses education, team building, reflection, and service into a unique opportunity to better understand and remedy the underlying issues affecting our community. Individual volunteers will come together as a team and volunteer at a series of projects focusing on a specific area of need. TeamWorks projects focus on issue areas such as the environment, children, homelessness, women's issues, health issues and more!
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Lexi (& session 3 ladies),
I couldn't agree more with what you wrote about the personal take-aways from volunteering with project WISE. The sharing circle was inspiring for me too. I was also amazed to see that the women had such a courageous willingness to share their personal situations with the circle. I agree too, that the "new and good" concept does put one's attitude in the right place.
I'm happy to have had the opportunity to support the project WISE organization and all of the other projects we were involved with throughout session 3.
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