Community – Week 1 – Pt. 3

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How do you envision our future?

Dear Creatrix,

How are you today?

So far, we’ve thought about a cause that’s close to our hearts, and we’ve looked at the different kinds of communities we were and maybe are involved in, in our lives – and problems that have occurred when working with other people.

Yesterday I started listening to a wonderful book, by Mike Dooley called The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You, and it’s a very sweet book.

And in this book, Mike said something very precisely, that I’ve never before seen pointed out so clearly.

That is, that the things in our lives that we don’t like are there for us to change them – not to accept them, deal with them or complain about them – and they are most definitely not here to punish us, but to grow beyond them.

(I listened to the audiobook, so if you’d like to know his exact words you might have to get the book yourself – it’s excellent, so it might be fun anyway).

Of course, this caught my attention because I also wrote about this yesterday, in an article about the colour yellow in our lives.

And of course, all of this is relevant for today’s lesson – because it’s easy to think there are so many problems in this world – what am I supposed to do about it – I can’t do anything but make the best of it – and that’s true to some extent – but also not entirely.

Because we’re not just here to get by. We’re not just here to arrange ourselves with what is already here – we are life and a part of the great symphony of life that’s playing right now, in this moment, and we get to contribute to it.

We contribute something, no matter what we do, but when we do it consciously, and start creating the changes we want to see in the world – we can also enjoy the benefits we get from what we have created and begin living in a more just and colourful and peaceful world.

This is also in direct alignment with the spiritual laws, that we’ve looked at in the GROWTH chapter.

When we begin to see everything in our lives as it is – for example, seeing a painful situation as necessary so that we know from now on, that this is something we don’t like – then we can take everything as an opportunity to think about what we would like instead – so we can create that.

In the last lesson, we started to think about the conflicts and problems we’ve seen in community, and today we will begin to think about what we want to create instead.

And for that, I’d like to bring in the Source Archetype cards.

In every moment, with every word we think or say, we get to decide whether we contribute to the wellbeing of all or not.

The Source Archetypes help us to understand this (and so do the dead people and many other wise voices) – they can help us to see the bigger picture beyond our current situation.

When we look at the war in Israel/Palestina for example, of course we can see the suffering, starvation, pain, and so m…

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Community – Week 1 – Pt. 1

Welcome to a New Chapter in the CREATRIX School

Starting today, and for the next four weeks, we will think about how we can be at our best with others and how we can use our unique abilities, gifts and talents to contribute to the greater good of all.

As the first week of each chapter in the CREATRIX School is all about assessing where we are, so we can let go of what doesn’t serve us any more, and invite more of what we do want, we start this chapter by looking at our hopes for the future of our world as well as the experiences we’ve made in community so far.

Community – Week 1 – Pt. 2

What do we mean when we say communities, and why do we need them?

There are different ways for communities to be organized. Sometimes, all people are equal and come together to organize things as equals.

Sometimes, there’s an initiator, or someone who finances the project and other people who organize and implement it.

Sometimes, there are some people who are paid and other people who volunteer.

What are the different kinds of projects or communities you have been involved in, or would like to get involved in, in your life?

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 1

How to learn to love triggers

In this lesson, we look at why it is so important to unite for a cause and not against someone or something – if we want to create lasting change – no matter how much we might disagree with them or something.

And we look at how love really is always the answer, even, or especially, when someone or something upsets us.

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 2

How can we create a real alternative to what we currently have?

In this lesson, we talk about how judgement can be a very useful tool on our journey to becoming our most authentic and best selves and create the communities we wish for, as long as we don’t use it to condemn other people or to establish superiority.

We also think about how every trigger is really here for us to grow, and not something to be afraid of or to avoid and how punishment, just like suppression, doesn’t lead to anything beautiful – and what we can do instead.

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 3

On Freedom, Responsibility and our Nature

In this lesson, we look at how freedom and responsibility are linked and what that has to do with consciousness.

And how with a raised consciousness also comes more freedom and thus, by raising our consciousness and finding more inner peace, we also obliterate the need for violence.

And we look at another essential thing, that will help us be more aware in our community interactions – our role as humans in nature, in this world.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 1

What’s your unique superpower?

We start this lesson with a short review of what we’ve learned in the last few lessons to resolve the most common problems found in communities today.

And then we begin to look at our unique superpowers, so we can become more confident in the way we contribute to any community, group or project we choose to support.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 2

What’s your favourite archetype?

In this lesson, we dive deeper into the roles we can inhabit in a group or community setting.

Are you better fit for a creative role or a leading role, or both, or something else?

Knowing what we are good at, and also thinking about what we would like to learn and grow into, can help us immensely to find our place in any community setting and to be able to contribute in the best possible way.

This is also a great resource if you’d ever like to start your own project or company and can help you make sure all vital roles will be covered so that the project can run in the best possible way.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 3

What’s your (stress) archetype?

Of course, things don’t always go the way we want them too.

Sometimes we get stressed, overwhelmed, take on too much or don’t dare to step into our power.

But we can always change and learn and grow.

Looking at the Occasional Archetypes, like the thief, victim, fool, hero_ine, adventurer and so on can help us to recognize these archetypes in ourselves and others and help us to come back into balance, whenever we slip into them.

Community – Week 4 – Pt. 1

Let your heart be your guide

We end this chapter by thinking about forming temporary alliances, to help us come together for causes that affect us all – and how we can do that while also disagreeing on other things.