YOU WANT TO GET ON WITH THE LIFE THAT YOU KNOW YOU DESERVE.
Journey of Self
You feel stuck in the job that you want to leave...
in the relationship where you should be happier...
in old patterns that no longer work for you...
You want to stop waiting.
The Journey of Self Workshop can help you get your life on track.
About the Workshop
The Journey of Self workshop is a full day (8 hour) workshop, from 8 am - 5 pm. It is a small group format for 6-8 participants. The workshop will be hosted at Fire Rock Ocean Sky Healing Arts in Seal Rock, OR.
Workshop Description
The Journey of Self Workshop is a guided exploration and transformation experience for participants who are feeling uncertain, disoriented, or no longer fully at home in their identities, roles, or beliefs and who are ready to remember themselves, clarify who they truly are, and embody this understanding of themselves so that they can live a more authentic life in alignment with who they know themselves to be. Through guided meditation, reflection, shared experience, and ceremony, participants are invited to embrace the parts of themselves that feel most deeply true and to begin to live their lives from this truth, bringing relationships, work, and health into alignment with their essential self. Your essential self is the deeper you beneath the roles, expectations, and stories of your life - the part of you that knows what feels true, meaningful, and authentically your own.
Your Instructor
Lori Vallelunga, Ph.D.
Lori Vallelunga is the founder and steward of Fire Rock Ocean Sky Healing Arts. A licensed psychologist for more than 30 years, Lori brings deep wisdom as an ancient soul and deep experience as a psychologist to this guided transformational journey. Lori's soul mission is to create the conditions for others to connect with the deepest part of themselves and to help bring forth a world living in sacred coherence.
How does this workshop change my life?
The workshop is a guided process that helps you to remember and align with your essential self. By embodying your essential self, you begin to make aligned choices that change your life. Changes could include:
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Creating the life that you love, engaging in the work that satisfies you, and being in relationships that are fulfilling and supportive;
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Finding the home that is truly you, that uplifts you and brings you joy;
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Attending to your health and diet in a way that feels authentic and loving;
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Finding outlets for your creative expression in naturally aligned and authentic ways that bring you deep joy;
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Knowing what to attract to your life, what to hang onto and what to let go of, creating space for people and experiences that are aligned with you on a deep level.
What actually happens?
This is a full day, immersive workshop experience. You can expect to participate in guided meditation, ceremony, self reflection, group sharing, and paired reflection exercises.
What will we explore together?
This workshop explores in four main areas: Ceremony of Release (honoring what has completed), Ceremony of Remembrance (gently rediscovering the remembered self), Ceremony of Clarification (allowing remembered truths to become coherent), and Ceremony of Embrace (welcoming the remembered self and living from authenticity).
Who is this experience for?
This workshop is for anyone who wants to live a life that reflects who they authentically are and who is ready for transformation. This workshop helps them to embody their most essential, authentic self and make life choices about relationships, health, work and hobbies based on deeply knowing who they are and what they want.
What might I experience or discover?
You will have the opportunity to experience being deeply seen, witnessed and heard, gaining a profound remembrance of self, who you are at your most essential essence. With this growing knowledge of self, you will discover how to address your life questions about relationships, work, home, health and hobbies in a manner that reflects your true self and what you truly want in your life.
How is the workshop organized?
This workshop is organized around two major aspects, often seen as a "death and rebirth" cycle through which you discover and release that which no longer fits you or serves your highest good while remembering more of your self and choosing to embrace those aspects of life that fit your best outcome and the most authentic expression of your true self.
What makes this workshop different?
The Journey of Self Workshop is different than many journeys of self-discovery. It does not assume that everyone is approaching the journey from the same starting point nor does it assume a common destination. We recognize that everyone's journey is unique and, as such, we create the conditions for discovery through guided support that does not teach a method or dogma or theory, but allows space for authentic self-discovery while being guided, witnessed and supported in an open and compassionate environment. We recognize that there is no "right way", "one way", or "correct path" and create the receptive space to hold the possibility of many paths and ways of knowing. Because we each have our unique ways of knowing, the workshop includes many different approaches to gaining deeper understanding, creating opportunity for a variety of ways of knowing to unfold.
How will I be spending my time?
ceremony of release
Purpose: Honor what has been completed before turning toward what remains.
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During this day, you will be sharing and witnessing what has been left behind while acknowledging that these identities, beliefs, or patterns served an important purpose. This practice allows you to clearly articulate how you are changing, to embrace these changes, and to make the conscious choice to allow a new version of yourself to emerge.
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You will engage in a ceremonial act of gratitude and release, celebrating the aspect of yourself that you are leaving behind, allowing you to experience greater appreciation of who you have been and how this shaped your life.
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You will engage in guided meditation to assist you in not only releasing these aspects cognitively, but also emotionally and at a physical level, allowing for a full release and creating space for the new you that is emerging.
ceremony of remembrance
Purpose: Gently rediscover the remembered self.
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During this ceremony, you will follow workbook prompts to assist you in self-reflection with the goal of helping you rediscover those core aspects of you that you have left behind or forgotten. These exercises help you to understand who you are at the deepest level and to begin to reintegrate your full self.
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You will engage in an exercise with a partner to help deepen you recollection of your core aspects and how these aspects are evident to others even when you are not fully aware of them.
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Through sharing discoveries with the group and joyfully recognizing those latent and dormant aspects of your core self, you move closer to living from the truth of who you are, leading to greater fulfillment.
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You will engaged in guided Ceremony of Remembrance to help you with fully integrating these remembrances.
ceremony of clarification
Purpose: Allow remembered truths to become coherent.
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During this ceremony, you will engage in guided meditation, nature walk, and quiet reflection around core questions that will allow you to further clarify what you have discovered and how these core aspects of you play out in your life.
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To deepen your understanding and embodiment, you will work in pairs to sift and clarify aspects that remain unclear.
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You will create a clear articulation of the core aspects of who you are and share this articulation with the group. Stating this out loud and publicly further helps you to embrace and embody the core you.
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To celebrate your discovery and acceptance of who you are, you will engage in a ceremony of clarification with personal meaning making that further assists you in loving and embracing you essential self.
ceremony of embrace
Purpose: Welcoming and embodying the remembered self.
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During this part of the day, you will engage in further discussion and witnessing of who you now see yourself to be, allowing you to begin to inhabit this new version of yourself.
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You will engage in an exercise that asks you to reflect on what it feels like to be you and how what you have discovered impacts your current life and future life choices.
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You will engage in a joyful exercise of self expression with a partner, exploring the many facets and expressions of who you now know yourself to be.
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You will engage in a brief reflection exercise in which you identify the aspects of your life that you now wish to change.
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The day will conclude with a clear statement of self-recognition and self-embrace coupled with a guided Ceremony of Embrace that prepares you to take what you have learned and apply it to your life going forward.
Collectively, these experiences take you through a journey of death and rebirth.
You are guided through a process of releasing that which is not longer working for you, remembering and rediscovering the core you that still exists, clearly articulating and accepting this essential self, and learning how to live from the perspective of your essential self, identifying elements of your life that you want to change to bring your life in alignment with who you know yourself to be.