28 Days of Connection Offering

Michi & Jon share inspiration creating the 28 Days of Connection based on the 512 Map & the Natural Mind Journey.

The story for today is all about the current challenges of our times with social distancing and shelter at home.

Here we share about supporting connection in a group.

Awakening the senses as a foundation for all the days ahead using a practice called a sense meditation.

Well-being & connection are interrelated "meeting" in our nervous system. Routine practice of sit spot supports.

The element of the day is gratitude, an incredibly helpful way of supporting connection.

Using our body to relive stories is a powerful way to engage with connection. Today we will look at imitation.

What are the fun things around you where you live that are exciting to visit, collect or watch?

Sharing the story of the day in a full way is super fun and completely helpful to connection!

Practices & Games to build awareness through the visual senses.

Sharing Awareness. Discovering a mystery that sparks curiosity brings energy back to others.

Sharing Motivation. Exploring a new place, finding mysteries, expanding connection. Share the story with others.

Listening with the Eyes. Practice studying with our eyes while engaging our full range of listening.

Track & Sign. What being(s) leave the most common sign or tracks in your area? Find & identify a clear set of tracks.

Art of Questioning. The who, what, when, where, why and how of any tracks or anything you look at in nature.

Awakening the Tactile Sense. Using your sense of touch to find and recognize things and to feel the quality of things

Meeting Plants. Get to know an unknown, low-growing plant through the sense of touch. Name it according to your sense.

Tending Your Sit Spot. At your sit spot, get to know it with only a sense of touch. Ask what to do to help the place.

Olfactory Awakening.

Indicators.

Weaving Connection. Finding our inner voice and gift, sharing with others--weaves larger story

Inner Tracking. A sense within each of us that is attuned to subtle communications from the world around and within us.

Heritage Species. Tuning into and connecting with certain species and land features brings us in touch with heritage.

Beyond Road Dust. How are the challenges of our times blocking access to our own creativity and resilience?

Taste & Body Wisdom. Our sense of taste has an ancient purpose tied to our bodies in amazing ways.

Woody Plants. Trees, bushes and woody vines, all provide a fiber called lignin that weaves together amazingly in wood.

Connection to Place. Weaving all senses and relations together through stories & memories deepens connection to place.

The Storyteller's Mind. A powerful practice for sensory integration and connection based on full sensory memory.

Bird Language. Birds can help us with Connection First by giving us constant feedback in our own yards.

Intuitive Connection. Through integrated senses and relational bonding we develop an intuitive sense with those close.

Wrapping the Bundle. Looking back over our journey, and looking inside of ourselves we weave a collective story.