1. Creating a Life that Matters
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Three
Shadows in the Valleys

2. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Overview
Opening Prayer
Session Goal/Scripture/Quote
Display of Our Life Maps
Shadows in the Valleys Activity
Small Group Sharing
Teaching Segment: F E A R
Four Buckets Activity & Large Group Debrief
Homework
Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual

3. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Opening Prayer

4. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Goal
By the end of this session, we will realize that none of the “four basic fears” has the power to prevent us from following our passion.

5. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Scripture
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice; but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NRSV)
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books:
New Revised Standard Version (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

6. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Quote
Come to the edge. We might fall.
Come to the edge. It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.
Christopher Logue
Christopher Logue, Selected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1996) 64.

7. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Display of Our Life Maps!!

8. Shadows in the Valleys Activity
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Shadows in the Valleys Activity
SMALL GROUP SHARING
Share which peak or valley from your Life Map is most responsible for your passion as you understand it today.
Discuss what the following means to you:
“If you listen to your body when it whispers,
you will never have to listen to it scream.”
Jane Herman, “Powerful Ideas In Tiny Packages,” WITI Personal Growth, 18 Feb. 2008
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9. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Shadows in the Valleys
Teaching and Class Activity

10. FEAR F alse E vidence A ppearing R eal
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
FEAR F alse E vidence A ppearing R eal

11. And sometimes FEAR means …
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
And sometimes FEAR means …
F orget
E verything
A nd
R un!

12. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Fears
Fears about our physical safety (survival)
Fears about not having enough (scarcity)
Fears about not being enough (unworthiness)
Fears about success (power)
Other fears (miscellaneous)

13. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Homework Assignment
Read Habakkuk and Big Mamma’s Quilt
Begin The Tapestry Exercise on page 44

14. Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Guided Meditation and Cleansing Ritual
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