​ARRIVALS  LOUNGE

Sit down.
Put the phone down.
Put the book down.
Put the pen down.
Breathe out.
Relax.
Smile.
You have arrived.

​IMMERSION
 
I close my eyes and
I can see everything.
The past, the present and
the future is all around me.
 
But it’s not activities, places
or people I see.
It cannot be described
for it has no form.
 
It is way beyond me
and yet in me,
as I am in it.
With everything.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  How  and where  does the word  immersion relate to you? 
2.  What  is 'way beyond you, and yet in you'? 
3.   In Astronomy, 'immersion' is defined as 'the disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another'.   How might this relate to us? 

PRODUCTION COMPANY 

 From the words that you write
these are lines to be spoken.
There are songs to be sung
and thoughts to be owned.
 
There are moments to be savoured
and truths to be uncovered.
There are ways to be taken
and a life to be discovered.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What words are you writing?
2. Begin to keep a journal, capture your thoughts every day and create you own  production company.

​SIGN  LANGUAGE
 
The rabbit.
The dog and
the seagull.
 
I can still make those
hand shadows
against the wall,
when I get close to the light.
 
I can still remember
their voices and
the dramatic storylines.
They are forever with me.
 
The rabbit.
The dog and
the seagull.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What shadows can you create with your hands? 
2. What's your story?

​HAPPINESS
 
It takes great courage
to live your life
as you really are.
 
For so much of what
we do and say is filtered,
by what we believe others
will think of us.
 
Our ego, vanity and
society all demand,
that we present ourselves
in a way that will please others.
 
But others, are also thinking
and acting in the same way.
They too, are trying
to present themselves so that
we will approve of them.
 
If only one of us could have
the courage to change,
and live our life as we really are.
Then perhaps, we would
give permission to others
to be themselves.
 
We can relieve ourselves
of the burden of expectation,
and the stress of living
to a false standard.
We can be courageous
and be truly happy.

 
DOUGHNUT
 
Personal development consists
of three key elements.
They come together
like a doughnut!
 
The physical doughnut
is our physical selves.
Everything around the doughnut
is the world around us.
 
And the hole in the doughnut?
Well, here there is nothing.
It is empty.
It is the absence of self.
 
This absence of our self is the core
of our personal development,
for it takes us in, through and beyond,
what we are in this world.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  Draw  a doughnut and label the three components of personal development.
2. Write down your action plan for each component. How will you develop this aspect of  yourself? 

LIGHT   SWITCH
 
If you switch off
when you hear
the word 'God',
then just change it
to love.
 
If you switch off
when you hear
the word 'love',
them just change it
to your name.
 
For you are part
of all love.
We are part of God.
And that cannot
be changed, ever.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  Write a sentence (or two) that includes the words 'God', 'love' and your name. ​

FLIGHT   ATTENDANT
 
You can throw that old
unused loaf of bread
in the bin,
to rot,

or take the slices
and  scatter them 
on the grass
for the birds.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  How are you connecting to and looking after the natural world we live in? 

CRITICAL THINKING
 
Once we have the courage
to give up what we are desperately
trying to hold onto....
​
we find where we should be,
what we should be doing and
what we are really looking for.

​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.  What are you desperately trying to hold onto?

​COMBINE HARVESTER
 
Our personal harvesting
is an ongoing, everlasting,
outpouring of our experience,
knowledge, expertise and love.
 
Our collective harvesting,
is a daily torrent
of all that we need for ourselves
and the world, now and forever.