The Haven Courtyard
Free Workshops, Live Events, and Pop-Up Happenings
Welcome to The Haven. You are invited to slow down and take a moment away from the self-destructive, hyper-active demands of a world that often forgets to take a breath.
There are a variety of resources to go with each of the nine core themes.
We all follow internal scripts about embracing, instigating, and absorbing change.
The purpose of the quiz is to help you identify which aspect of change might currently be having the biggest impact on your life. I hope it will help raise awareness and provide breathing room around anything that is causing you uncertainty and overwhelm right now.
I would encourage you to reflect on the questions as you go. Let them speak to you and allow yourself to notice what you notice along the way.
Once you complete the questions you will receive three scores. One for each area: embracing, instigating, and absorbing change.
I will then share some potential practical steps you could take next.
We develop scripts and strategies from an early age to help meet our innate need for safety and belonging. We respond to the emotional energy in the environment around us, learning quickly what we need to do (and what we shouldn't do or feel) in order to maintain a perception of balance and safety.
Some people might develop over-empathy as a survival strategy. If a person has been exposed to an environment of fluctuating emotional energy, they might have taken on the responsibility of soothing, harmonising, and regulating other peoples' feelings. Relegating and suppressing their own deep needs and emotions.
Meeting our human need for safety and belonging starts within. We can't get there by taking unwarranted responsibility for the emotional energy around us.
You can watch Marika's workshop by signing up below.
We are living through a strange and difficult period of history right now. The news is full of stories that reflect and sow yet more division, hatred, and fear. Everywhere you look there is tumult and uncertainty. And the future feels uncertain at times. Both as a society, and for us as individuals as we try to navigate this ever changing reality.
We feel lost and confused. What is our purpose? Where should we focus? How can we find meaning in our lives?
There is an appetite among the introverted and highly sensitive creative people I work with, to see the world with new eyes. And to bring this vision into practice through eyes of love, connection, and gentleness. In other words, true strength, courage, and power. This is the path to self-acceptance, true belonging, and living a life of meaning and passion.
I asked some friends of mine the following questions:
- What positively drives you in your day to day life?
- How do you know when it's time to recharge your batteries?
- What is your go-to source of self-care and rest?
- If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change about the world right now?
- If you could share just one message, what would you want people to know, believe, or feel about themselves?
- Knowing what you know now, what would you say to a younger version of yourself by way of encouragement, reassurance, or inspiration?
Serenity In The Trenches is a collection of their responses, and an invitation to think about your own answers too.
If you are feeling a bit hopeless and helpless right now I'd love to invite you to check this free series out.
Are you currently living in the shadow of one of life's looming walls?
This workshop will help you identify new and old sources of inner-strength to help you break down those obstacles that keep the light out.
Maybe there's a specific obstacle, struggle, or future event that is blocking out the light right now. Perhaps you're aware that something feels wrong but you don't know what it is or how to deal with it.
We can't compare walls with other people. What we see as a wall might seem like nothing to someone else, and the thing that they are scared to confront might be a picnic in the park for us.
In this Courtyard workshop we explore three keys to tackling our wall:
- The Courage to Acknowledge It
- The Bravery to Act on It
- The Strength From Past Stories
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True confidence grows when we can build life on foundations of authentic safety and trust.
Do you wish you had the confidence to take meaningful risks in your life?
This workshop is a chance to think about an area of life you want to feel confident in and look at it through six lenses. It will give you simple and practical ways to build confidence in your situation or project.
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The Inspiratory System is made from different sources of inspiration: People, Media, Education, Connectedness, Place, Play, Movement, Art, Rest
We breathe in the spirit of the world around us. And we breathe out whatever that does after we’ve processed it. And so the life that we express is a mirrored reflection of the stuff we expose ourselves to and experience. Whether we are thinking about it or not.
But we CAN be intentional about it. And we CAN raise our awareness, notice what we are breathing in and see the affect it is having on our lives.
I would love to invite you to consider these areas so that you can identify potential inspiration blockers lurking in and around your life right now. This will help you pay attention to what you want to make space for more of and the impact of the current state of things on your bigger picture and aspirations.
