I love to engage with others in their menopause journey because despite the many challenges, it is also a time of wisdom, growth, and strength. This is about honouring all of the women before me and all of the women after me.

Creativity is defined as “the ability to make new things or think of new ideas.“ I love the simplicity of this definition. This session is all about you. It is about stretching and growing yourself to dig deep, to look at a situation from a different perspective and to try something you might not have ever tried before.

Finding balance in Creativity

Reflection Exercise:
How can you incorporate more creativity into your everyday?
Find a childhood picture of yourself, one that reminds you of your creative self?
What do you need going forward to sustain and enhance your creativity?
Complete your creativity autobiography timeline What is one takeaway creative activity you might try? How can you draw on your courage and leadership to support you creatively?

Accompanying workbook available on my website:
https://www.haileypinksen.com/product-page/my-six-degrees-of-meditation-workshop-reflection

This one is an important degree to our overall well being. Resilience is “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. It is a journey of learning, awareness and growth. It is about ensuring you have what you need when you need it. Finding balance in all things. The verb of balance is defined as keeping or putting (something) in a steady position so that it does not fall.

Finding Balance in Resilience

Reflection Exercise:
What is included in your resilience self-care kit?
Complete the resilience exercise
Resilience Check-In: How are you?
How can you enhance your overall resilience?
Perform at least one simple action from your self-care list

What I have found so fascinating about my meditation journey is all of the whispers of insight that keep showing up every day. These whispers of insight are what I’m calling My Six Degrees of Meditation. Leadership, Resilience, Creativity, Present Moment Awareness, Courage, and Gratitude. There is a vulnerability that comes with looking inward and exploring yourself at a deeper level. meditation isn’t just about the good stuff. It is about finding a balance and accepting all of who we are.

The course will include reflection exercises and journaling. So join me as we explore my six degrees of meditation further by digging deeper into this journey of reflection and insight.


Accompanying workbook available on my website:
https://www.haileypinksen.com/product-page/my-six-degrees-of-meditation-workshop-reflection

These lessons are intended to be an opportunity to pause and reflect. To incorporate the learning and insight of meditation. You might be wondering why leadership as it relates to meditation. The institute of mindful leadership defines a mindful leader as “someone who embodies leadership presence by cultivating focus, clarity, creativity and compassion in the service of others.” That is who I strive to be. It is a journey of learning, awareness and growth. Leadership is really about presence, connection and empathy.

Reflection Exercise

How does leadership and meditation relate for you?
How can you be more presence in your life?
How can you make more meaningful connections in your life?
How can you incorporate more empathy into your life?
How can you live your “I am” statements?

Accompanying workbook available on my website:
https://www.haileypinksen.com/product-page/my-six-degrees-of-meditation-workshop-reflection

The theme of this meditation is honoring your experience in this moment. As you become mindful of your body, mindful of your environment and as you maintain a gentle present moment focus. The intention of this meditation is to provide support to yourself if or when you are triggered by a situation.

Our breath has the power to: help us calm, help us to reset, help us to bring awareness,
help us to reflect, help us to pause

There is no greater example of embracing life with curiosity than a puppy who is learning a new home and a new family. As humans we can easily be annoyed with disruption, uncomfortable with the change trying to resolve it, analyze it, and change it back.

So imagine the possibility of embracing life with curiosity.

There is a vulnerability that comes with looking inward and exploring yourself at a deeper level. It takes courage because meditation isn’t just about the good stuff, it is about finding a balance and accepting all of who we are.

I came across this notion of happiness triggers recently. I love this concept. I usually think of triggers from a negative perspective of having an emotional reaction to some type of disturbing content. In this instance, it is still an emotional reaction but it is a positive one.