1. Creating a Life that Matters
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Five
The Perfect Swing

2. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Overview
Opening Prayer
Session Goal/Scripture/Quote
The Tapestry Exercise Debrief
Wisdomkeepers Review and Activity
African Tribe Song Story
The Legend of Bagger Vance Clips and Large Group Discussion
Homework
Fabric Weaving 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 be able to locate the intersection between our own deepest passion and the world’s deepest need.

5. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Scripture
But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act - they will be blessed in their doing.
James 1:22-25 (NRSV)
The New Oxford Annotated Bible Third Edition: New Revised Standard Version. Ed. Michael D. Coogan, New York, Oxford University Press, 2001

6. Session Quote from Wayne Dyer
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Session Quote from Wayne Dyer
[Your calling is] not necessarily about performing a specific task or being in a certain occupation or living in a specific location. It’s about sharing yourself in a creative, loving way using the skills and interests that are inherently part of you.
(The Power of Intention)
Wayne Dyer, The Power of Intention, Hay House, USA, 2004, p. 152

7. The Unfolding Tapestry of Your Life
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
James Fowler, ‘The Unfolding Tapestry of Your Life’, Faith Development and Pastoral Care, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1987, p. 121 (This refers to the chart used in class)
The Unfolding Tapestry of Your Life

8. Reflecting on the Tapestry of Our Lives
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Reflecting on the Tapestry of Our Lives
Review your chapter titles. Do any of them name or describe your passion?
Look at the columns of your Tapestry Exercise chart. Is there one category of information in which you see more of a thread of your passion (energy, joy, power) than the others? If so, name it.
Is there a chapter in which you felt more alive or less alive than in the others?
Can you find a single thread of passion flowing throughout your life?

9. Reflecting on the Tapestry of Our Lives continued
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Reflecting on the Tapestry of Our Lives continued
Individually review your Tapestry Exercise chart and the questions you’ve just answered in class, and try to finish the sentence:
The thread of my passion is: _________________.
In a few minutes, join with two others to coach and affirm each other in the creation of your sentences.
We’ll be using these sentences later in the class, and in next week’s ritual, so it’s important that you write a sentence that you’re really comfortable with, one that is truly descriptive of your passion.

10. Wisdomkeepers Reflections
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Wisdomkeepers Reflections
Who knows your song? Who really, really, knows your song?
Journal about a time when someone inferred that your song, or at least a verse or two, wasn’t welcome in that place, be it your home, with a group of friends, in a club, or at school.

11. Wisdomkeepers Large Group Discussion
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Wisdomkeepers Large Group Discussion
Do you ever remember becoming confused about the lyrics you were singing?
Do you remember picking up a new song to sing because it was easier?

12. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Wisdomkeepers Silence Activity

13. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
African Tribe Song Story

14. Individual Work – African Tribe Song
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Individual Work – African Tribe Song
Our songs are too beautiful not to be sung! Loud and off key or in harmony from the rooftops of our lives!!
Is there anyone, anything, any organization, holding you back from singing your song?
Is there anything in your life keeping you from singing this song today?
If there is, and with most of us there is, write it down in your Participant Guide on page 59, and then write down how you can begin to free yourself!
Is there anything else stopping you from singing?
Repeat process above!

15. Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Bagger Vance and R.Junuh represent Bhagavan and Arjuna, from the Hindu text
The Bhagavad Gita.
The lessons learned by Junuh are loosely based on those
Krishna teaches to Arjuna
while masquerading
as his chariot driver.
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Bagger says to Hardy:
“Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing. Somethin’ we was born with, somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone.
Somethin’ can’t be taught to you or learned. Somethin’ that got to be remembered.
Over time the world can rob us of that swing It get buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas. Some folk even forget what they swing was like.”
The Legend of Bagger Vance, dir. Robert Redford, Dreamworks, 2000.
Scene 8, 50:00-52:00

17. Bagger and Junuh in the Woods
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Bagger and Junuh in the Woods
The message for this class, which perfectly illustrates again the African Tribe Song and Charlie Knight stories, is in Bagger’s words:
“Now play the game. Your game The one that only you was meant to play.
The one that was given to you when you come into this world Now’s the time. Let yourself remember.
Remember your swing.”
The Legend of Baggar Vance, DVD, DreamWorks, CA, 2001, (Scene 17, 1:37:45-1:43:04)

18. Homework/Ritual Questions
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Homework/Ritual Questions
Session One: Did You Call Me?
The way my call is in harmony with my interests, talents and/or abilities is: _____.
Session Two: Peaks and Valleys
A peak or valley in my life that shaped who I am today was _________________.
Session Three: Shadows in the Valleys
A fear that can no longer keep me from fully and powerfully following my passion is
________________________________________________________________.
Session Four: Tapestry
The way my life and gifts fit into the “big picture” is ________________________.
Session Five: The Perfect Swing
The intersection between my passion and the world’s need is _______________.

19. Homework/Ritual Questions
Rediscovering Relationship with My Passion
Homework/Ritual Questions
Finish your passion statement: “The thread of my passion is _____________, and so I am called to_________________.
This might mean join a team, move from one church team to another you’re more passionate about, or even start a new team or project that will change the world!
Bring an object which most profoundly represents your passion and be prepared to speak about it.Or, bring a piece of writing (poetry or prose) which expresses how you’re experiencing a call to live in your passion.
Offer one word which best describes your experience of CLM 3: Rediscovering Relationship With My Passion
Bring a dish to share, maybe something you’re passionate about!

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Weaving the Tapestry of Our Passions