Love Yourself, Love Your Career

MINDFULNESS & CREATIVE EXERCISES TO NURTURE SELF FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR CAREER

Month-long systematic and joyful training to support career awesomeness

It's hard to make big career moves without bursting with love for yourself and your work

Let's raise your appreciation, nurturing, and expression of love in your work.

How it works:

I'll teach you eight mindfulness and creative techniques over five weeks to help you:

Disentangle from stressful thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that hold you back from showing up as your best self at work (or interviews/sales calls)
Increase your baseline appreciation of yourself and your work
Step into your awesome and appreciate what you are and how you work
Relax the body in the midst of sharing your work
Deepen positive states such as joy and appreciation to better notice and savour pleasant experiences
Apply mindfulness techniques to challenging situations – whether it’s a work presentation or a circling mind
Express yourself freely with less inhibition and self-judgement

No previous meditation training is required.

What LOVE YOURSELF, LOVE YOUR CAREER includes:

You will be introduced to five mindfulness techniques over five weeks.

Every Monday, you get written and audio instructions on the week's technique to try independently.
A live class every Tuesday in March at 11:00 AM and/or 6:30 PM CST where you talk with me about the techniques and your experience, ask questions and get support. We'll do some of the exercises live in the class.

About me, Kerri Twigg

I am a coach, playwright, and best-selling author of The Career Stories Method. I combine Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness system with drama and storytelling exercises to help people to find and step into their true awesome.

After working in the career development field for a decade, combined with 15 years as a drama educator, I saw that it is not a lack of clarity or talent that hold people from flourishing at work-- it's a limited inner story, unexamined habitual reactions, and low mindfulness skills.

Live support calls

There are live calls every Tuesday to discuss your practice. They're at 11:00 am or 6:30 CST on these dates:

February 28
March 7
March 14
March 21
March 28

If you cannot make it to a live call, you can send a short practice report to me to get advice and encouragement.

Past results:

In the past, programs in the True Awesome courses have helped people to:

Establish a mindfulness practice
Create a strategy to integrate mindfulness into their daily life
Notice and untangle unpleasant self-talk that was affecting their work performance
Express themselves better at meetings (their result was so obvious I've gotten dozens of referrals just from people who saw the new way this person was showing up)
Notice thought patterns that used to hold them back and started to untangle them
Love and appreciate themselves when they aren't working

LOVE YOURSELF, LOVE YOUR CAREER

A monthly intensive to nurture love & appreciation for yourself and your career.

All prices are in USD

Welcome to Love Yourself, Love Your Career

You made it! It is good to see you here. I'm excited to lead you through a month of meditation and creative practices to nurture self-love that supports how you show up in your work.

Each Monday, a new meditation and creative exercise is released. I suggest the following practice schedule:

Week 1:

Do See Hear Feel 3-5 times this week
Do one session of the "I know" writing exercise
Do the doorway exercise daily
BONUS: Do the "Meditation to Nurture Self-Artistry" meditation on the weekend

Week 2:

Do Feel Rest 3-5 times this week
Do two sessions of the "I know" writing exercise
Do two-three sessions of the intuitive drawing exercise
BONUS: Do the "Meditation to Nurture Self-Artistry" meditation on the weekend

Week 3:

Do Feel Flow 3-5 times this week
Write an "I know" post.
Take yourself on a date to a place that refuels you. It could be an art gallery, museum, concert, local cafe, or nature. Do it alone.
BONUS: Do the "Meditation to Nurture Self-Artistry" meditation on the weekend

Week 4:

Do Feel Good 3-5 times this week
Write an "I know" post. Maybe share it with your audience
Do the positive presence exercise 3-4 times this week (in public)
Do the Drop It class
BONUS: Do the "Meditation to Nurture Self-Artistry" meditation on the weekend

Week 5:

Do the Automove practice 3-5 times this week
Do the "How to speak to the soul of your business class" and try to communicate with your business/career daily.
Do the "Meditation to Nurture Self-Artistry" meditation on the weekend
Do the "I know" exercise to create ideas

Live calls Tuesdays at 11:00 AM CST

Useful Terminology

Live morning meditations (7 am CST Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday)

Instructions for the "I know" writing exercise

Meditation 1: (Feb 28 - March 5)

This practice introduces you to a mindfulness technique that builds concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity. This one practice is enough to transform your life.

Listen to the instructions, and then try practicing once a day for the next week. You can keep track of any experiences you have.

I'll be leading a 10-minute live version of this at 7:00 am CST every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81574143293

SHF Intro.mp3

SFH Guided.mp3

How to use See Hear Feel at work.

Journal prompts for the end of week one

Week one sharing: Share reports and questions here

Creative Exercise 1: Doorway Technique

Background to the technique

Written Instructions

Video walkthrough of the doorway technique

Meditation & Creative Practice 2: (March 6 - 12)

This practice builds concentration, sensory clarity, and balance and helps you find or create rest in your body. This practice builds off of See, Hear, Feel and encourages relief.

This week we're building off the practices over the last two weeks. We're continuing to do an appreciation technique focusing on the inner and outer feel space, but this week, we focus on noticing and detecting rest.

This further develops concentration skills by narrowing down what we track. It develops sensory clarity by paying attention to the subtle nuances in rest states. And build equanimity by going with the flow of practice -- meaning that just because we are looking for rest does not mean we will find it.

Intro talk feel rest.mp3

Feel Rest.mp3

How to use Feel Rest at work

How to assess if your mindfulness skills are developing

Journal prompts for the end of week two

Meditation & Creative Practice 3: (March 13 - 19)

This practice helps you to identify FLOW in the feeling sense category.

With the other two practices, See Hear Feel and Feel Rest, we are focused on static experiences. We see a picture on the wall. We hear a sound. And we see it as one solid event.

But as your concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity increase, you might start to notice underlying movement, change, or energy. It doesn't feel solid anymore.

That's flow.

In this technique, Feel Flow, we intentionally focus on the change or movement in the feel category. Of course, flow exists with sight and sound too, but the easiest way to experience it for most people is in the feel sense category.

If you don't experience flow, that is okay. You are simply looking to see if it exists in your experience or not. You can focus on feel and or on rest.

Being able to detect flow is useful for many reasons, but in careers, the ability to concentrate and follow flow is helpful in building equanimity. It's a step towards letting go and untangling, there is nothing to do but locate flow.

You don't control it. You don't judge it. And, if you're able to build up this skill, then when things come to in real life, pleasant or unpleasant, you're not as attached to the outcome. Your view of a feeling or situation that you used to think would last forever will shift. This technique is a great way to play with being vulnerable to the ebbs and flows of life without too high of stakes. Enjoy!

Feel flow introduction.mp3

Feel flow guided.mp3

Feel Flow reflections:

Meditation & Creative Practice 1: (March 20 - 26)

Feel Good

Feel good intro.mp3

Guided feel good.mp3

Meditation & Creative Practice 5: (March 27 - 31)

Finding Spontaneity.mp4

Committing to a practice

The hardest part of using mindfulness as your career development tool is committing to a practice. One way to overcome that is to use a tool called ASIA to plan when you'll do your practice.

Also know, that over time, the natural rewards of the practices make it easier to commit to.

Analyze: Consider the day to come, with the various activities you’ll be engaged in.

Strategize: Choose mindfulness strategies that might be appropriate for those activities.

Inspire/Implement: Make the intention to do mindfulness practices in life, and do them to the best of your ability.

Assess: At the end of the day look back at how you did with your practice in life.

I recommend looking at the week to come and planning when to do the formal practice. Choose a time each day for the formal practice and which technique you'll use.

You can also look at when you'll weave shorter micro hits into the day. Then each day review the plan, implement it, and assess it at the end of each day.

I have a simple calendar and in it, I simply write "m" when I meditate on a certain day. It might be something to add to your daily calendar or to-do list.

In the beginning, you might want to journal about what happened in the practice. If you can track and see subtle growth, you're more likely to stick with the practice.

If you miss a practice, assess why that happened and analyze what will work the next day.

Analyze

Strategize

Implement

Assess

ASIAhandout.pdf

Extended Practice: Meditation for Nurturing Self Artistry

This is a 30-minutes guided meditation that helps you to see and understand yourself (and your reactions). When we take the time to study our patterns, we can know and appreciate our patterns instead of judging or denying them.

This is a great practice to start the day off with or make it part of your weekend plans.

Self artistry intro.mp3

Meditation to Nurture Self Artistry.mp3

Sufi Grind Instructions (external link)

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