AUTHENTIC-SELF
YOU GAVE YOUR TIME, MONEY and ENERGY FOR THE LIFE THAT YOU LIVE TODAY. WAS IT WORTH IT?
 
Each one of us is born with a unique map to guide us through life. Separation from our inner compass brings great pain to our lives. We feel confused and lost, wondering if there is more to life than just working, paying the bills, sleeping and eating.
 
We adopt other people’s ideals to make up for our emptiness. We dedicate our lives to worthy causes such as saving the planet, raising kids or being of service. However, we still wake up with a sense of meaninglessness and deep sadness. Other people’s dreams for us, though noble and important, can never replace our individual path with its own set of gifts and challenges.
 
It is our life task to find our destiny. Charting a life that reflects our most sacred longings and dreams is a vital ingredient in keeping our life and our health running smoothly. It fuels us with a sense of happiness, aliveness and a bigger sense of purpose.
 
Join like-minded souls for an evening of dynamic exploration of what it means to live your life purpose:
 
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO with YOUR LIFE RETREAT
Answering life’s sacred quest

"Each man has only one genuine vocation---to find the way to himself. His task is to discover his own destiny---not an arbitrary one---and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else is only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses and conformity." Hermann Hesse
 

"I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they’re afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life’s higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world." Joseph Jaworski
 

" The most common despair is not choosing, or willing, to be oneself. But the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself. This is how we always hurt the one we love. The one we shouldn’t hurt at all. Our Self." Soren Kierkegaard
 

" Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver
 
During the 4 day residential workshop, we find the courage to craft a life that is deeply satisfying and meaningful to us. We are not here to impress others but to inspire ourselves with our own passionate vision. We learn empowering tools to:
 
Recognize the clues to our personal destiny.
Utilize our longing, fantasy, jealousy and envy as bridges to our true voices.
Transform the dream stealers of procrastination, perfectionism, fears and conformity.
Distinguish between authentic dreams and distorted fantasies.
Let go of non-essential elements in our lives.
Honor the creation of a purposeful life with a single step.
Celebrate failures and setbacks as course correctors.
 
Facilitator: Hwee-Meng Tan