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Week 5
This week centers on shared humanity — recognizing that, just like you, others long to be happy and free from suffering. Practice the “Just like me” reflection, explore interconnection in daily life, and deepen your compassion through meditation, presence, and meaningful connection.
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How about Reflecting on Your Life as Plan A and Resolving to Own it?
At the end of the year, we tend to reflect on what worked for us, and what didn’t, and then we turn that reflection into resolutions for the New Year. Yet, we all know that most resolutions don’t stick, and I think I know why. The conversation of resolutions is...
The Importance of Celebrating our Failures in 2017
Like Britta and Lee have mentioned in the previous weeks, it’s important to take time to reflect on the past year so you can powerfully complete the year and bring more intention into 2018. So once you’ve reviewed your year and acknowledged your accomplishments (like...
The Remarkable Value of Acknowledging our Successes
Last week Lee wrote about the importance and power of reflection as the year draws to an end. He mentioned how an essential part of creating a new beginning, of looking ahead and planning, is pausing to reflect on where we are and how we got here. So our theme for the...
The Importance and Power of Reflection
This past weekend we completed our final workshop of the year, the last module of the 2017 Leadership Development Training (LDT). Each year the LDT class focuses on the theme of New Beginnings. It was amazing! As their final project together, our trainees presented...
What I found in being grateful for this year’s hardships
As we complete November and this month of gratitude, we at COR wanted to shine a light on one more aspect of gratitude—gratitude for our struggles, heartbreaks, and times when we feel closed. This might be the hardest facet of gratitude for many of us...
How to drop gratitude from the head into the heart and body
Like we've mentioned in previous weeks, the holiday season is typically seen as a time to count our blessings and practice gratitude. And Thanksgiving is especially linked with gratitude—the holiday is literally named "thanks-giving." Most of us know the importance of...
Grief and Gratitude
While the holidays are often the time of practicing gratitude for your blessings, they can also be a time of grief—grief around loved ones no longer with us, grief around change in circumstances, and grief around losses in our lives. In this week's newsletter,...
Feel like there isn’t enough time? Try gratitude!
Last week, Britta introduced our monthly theme: gratitude. As Britta noted, our culture, in spite of its many gifts, doesn’t often foster gratitude, yet gratitude is so important for health and happiness. I was reminded of this a few days ago when I was on an early...
Gratitude as the most powerful antidote to the Inner Critic
It’s November again, the month of gratitude. I personally had quite a journey with gratitude. It was not my natural inclination. I had always tended to see what’s missing, how something could be more perfect and what needed healing. Even though that kind of seeking...
How letting go can lead to a new way of relating
As I have been feeling into this month’s theme of death and letting go, I recognize that I myself am in a deep process of letting go. I am letting go of a particular identity that I have carried for many years now, as well as letting go in a very specific way of the...
The liberation of letting go of old stories
Our theme this month at COR is letting go and the death of our ego self. One of our Leadership Development Training graduates, Leah, shares her experience of how letting go of old stories of herself allowed her to step into a bigger version of who she is. It used to...
The Beauty on the Other Side of Letting Go
This week’s newsletter is written by Rajyo Allen (formerly Markman). Rajyo, together with Britta, was the co-founder of Celebration of Being, out of which COR developed. This body of work was birthed out of this one courageous woman’s let go over 25 years ago, and we...
The Little and Big Ego Deaths of Letting Go
The journey of letting go and dying to our ego self is our October theme. It seems fitting as the leaves are starting to fall off the trees and the days are getting shorter. Lee and I just came home from the beginning of a year-long teacher’s training near Stanford...
Seeing the spiritual journey as a gift
Like Britta mentioned in the first newsletter this month, the spiritual journey is a subject that we hold dear at COR. It’s embedded in so much of our workshops since we aim not to necessarily “fix” people—we already view them as good...
Two principles of the spiritual journey
We are told by our participants that the work we do at COR provides the most powerful personal growth experience many of them have ever had. Why is our work so powerful? Why do growth and transformation become an ongoing component of our participant’s lives,...
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