Kota | Well Worn
It’s time to play with another prompt. Just two words for us this time…”well worn”. What does that phrase bring for you? Perhaps it conjures…
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What Happens When The Flow Stops? (Journal Prompt)
Currents are flowing through, around, and between us. Right now. They sustain and animate the world in ways we don’t always notice. Water, electricity, oxygen,…
Postcards From Serenity Island | Coming To Our Senses
Do you enjoy journeys to imagined lands? We’re travelling to one of my favourite places in this issue of Coming To Our Senses. I’d love…
Tiny Steps Towards: What Do You Want To Feel More? (Journal Prompt)
Tiny Steps Towards is for anyone who ever struggles to answer the question, “What do YOU want?” At times, we become so engrossed in our…
The Week In Review (Journal Prompt)
We finished the week with this short exercise in the Journal Circle. The Week in Review helps playfully reflect on and process different elements of…
Blind-Contour Self-Portrait (Journal Prompt)
Blind contour drawing is an exercise in which you draw the lines of a subject without looking at the paper. You keep your attention on…
What’s Going Well Right Now? (Journal Prompt)
A powerful part of journaling comes through noticing what happens when we engage with particular ideas, questions, and prompts. It’s not unusual to feel resistance…
Let’s Leave It There | Kota
We leave things in many places for a variety of reasons. The questions we explored in our Kota this week were: what is being left,…
A Blimp from the Blue: Using The Kishōtenketsu Story Structure as an Antidote to the Hero’s Journey (with Kendra Patterson)
The hero's journey underpins a lot of storytelling. But is it all we have? No. Kishōtenketsu is the antidote to its toxicity.
I Didn’t Catch It | The Kota
Are there things highly sensitive people, gentle rebels, and deep thinkers/feelers are more/less likely to catch?