Vision Board

Hello Ladies.... This meet up is a little deviation from the standard "meet, mingle, sip cocktails...."I suppose it's geared a bit more toward the"inward focused" of you out there right now. I think that we, as women, go through cycles throughout our life of wanting to be more extroverted: spread our wings, socially network, and be seen/heard. Then there are other cycles where we're more prone to introversion: reflect on our lives, get back in touch with ourselves, and nurture our future goals. For all of you in the latter phase, this is a good time to plant the seeds of the things we'd like to create in our life. This is meet up to create a vision board....in the company of some fantastic women! What is a Vision Board? A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that youÂÂ've torn out from various magazines. ItÂÂ's simple. The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires. Supplies youÂÂ'll need for creating a Vision Board: Please bring these with you. - Poster board. (Target sells a really nice matte finish board. I highly recommend it.) - A big stack of different magazines. (You can get them at libraries, hair salons, dentist offices, the YMCA.) Make sure you find lots of different types. If you limit your options, youÂÂ'll lose interest after a while. When I facilitate my womenÂÂ's retreats, I always make sure we have plenty of Oprah, Real Simple, Natural Home, Yoga Journal, Dwell, Ode, Parenting, Money, Utne, and an assortment of nature magazines. - Glue. Not Elmers. (It makes the pages ripple.) I like using Yes! Glue or Rubber cement. Glue sticks are my second choice because they donÂÂ't last. The Five Steps of Creating a Vision Board: We'll do this TOGETHER at the meet up: Step 1: Go through your magazines and tear the images from them. No gluing yet! Just let yourself have lots of fun looking through magazines and pulling out pictures or words or headlines that strike your fancy. Have fun with it. Make a big pile of images and phrases and words. Step 2: Go through the images and begin to lay your favorites on the board. Eliminate any images that no longer feel right. This step is where your intuition comes in. As you lay the pictures on the board, youÂÂ'll get a sense how the board should be laid out. For instance, you might assign a theme to each corner of the board. Health, Job, Spirituality, Relationships, for instance. Or it may just be that the images want to go all over the place. Or you might want to fold the board into a book that tells a story. Step 3: Glue everything onto the board. Add writing if you want. You can paint on it, or write words with markers. Step 4: (optional, but powerful) Leave space in the very center of the vision board for a fantastic photo of yourself where you look radiant and happy. Paste yourself in the center of your board. Step 5: Hang your vision board in a place where you will see it often. The benefits of doing this together are as follows: 1. we will support each other in physically locating images we are looking for in our magazines 2. we will support each other in things that we are actively manifesting in our lives. 3. it's a great way to really get to know one another 4. it's just much more fun to do this as a group then show and tell our masterpieces!