Exercise: Your Map of Creation
Take your brainstorming list or mindmap and the checklists for each phase out, and copy the items from your first list into the Creative Action Steps area of the checklist of the Phase it belongs in.
Example 1: If your project is a public reading of your poetry, a smaller step of organizing a small reading with a couple friends would go under Phase 6: Express.
Example 2: If you’re building a new website for your business, writing the first draft of your website copy would go under Phase 3: Get to Work.
Example 3: Going to a museum for inspiration might be one of your pilgrimages (Sanctuary? Visit a Master?) and it could also fall under Phase 4: Reinvent or even Phase 5: Receive Support. Organize your action steps into the flow that feels most supportive.
Let your intuition lead you - there is no way you can do this wrong! This is a great activity to do with your accountability partner or girlfriends if you’re doing this course as part of a group. You can also bring questions about creating your map to the Facebook group.
When you’re done, you will end up with a specific, actionable plan for your project organized using the principles of feminine energy cycles. The course reading, audio, movement, and exercises are also all there to support and enhance each phase of your project.
Though we’ve built our map based on a specific order, no matter what order you complete your steps, the philosophy and intention with which you’ve gone through this process will harness your feminine creative energy, working with your natural cycles rather than against them. Every step of the process, you’ll know this is part of the design.