Celebrating Enoughness
CELEBRATING ENOUGHNESS
Foresthaven Maclean
Sunday June 1st, 2025
Outsmart your nervous system:
Celebrate Enoughness!!
It's so easy to overlook the small, good moments that make life worth living.
Day after day, hour after hour.
Not our fault: the dice are loaded. We're hardwired to scan for danger, to compare and criticize our self. To play crisis on a loop.
Our evolutionary biology shouts 'survive' and cares little for 'thrive'.
It overlooks the good stuff.
But we can change that!
I invite you to join Celebrating Enoughness, an upcoming day-long workshop in Maclean. We’ll explore how to break free from ingrained patterns using:
🔆 Movement
🔆 Contemplation & introspection
🔆 Discussion & journaling
🔆 Fun games
🔆 Research-backed techniques
We’ll dive into:
🔹What keeps our nervous system stuck
🔹 Why it’s so hard to override our hardwiring
🔹 How to work with "feeling tone" to shift our experience
🔹 When to apply the antidote
Most importantly, we'll learn and practice a structured technique that
harnesses everyday, overlooked moments to cultivate an ongoing sense of ease, satisfaction, and enoughness.
It consists of four core steps, along with my special two game-changing extras.
Generally known as Taking in the Good, this method is similar to gratitude but you'll notice it is also quite distinct. And very, very fresh.
Come along and break the cycle.
Let's celebrate enoughness!
Let's celebrate enoughness!
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Sunday 1st June 2025
9am to 3.30pm Please arrive 8.45 to get settled and have a chance to chat before the cone of silence descends 9am until after morning tea. Please bring lunch to share! Price: TBA |
In any case ...
Wellbeing gets shattered by the pressures of everyday.
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The tedious bits, the annoying bits. Too much noise. Too little sleep. Deadlines. Traffic. Social media. Two sad drops left in the milk carton when you finally get to the fridge.
Too little just-me time (aka, rebuild time). Too little just-BE time (ahhhh ..). |
Kinda in a trance. Not actually there. Here.
Where, then? Not-here, lost! Let's flick the switch and look out for the small, good moments life delivers on a regular basis. Micro moments packed with goodness. Usually overlooked. Coz we're running on autopilot. Or have rushed on to the Next Thing. |
While all along, happiness is just a flash away.
Hidden in plain sight.
Hidden in plain sight.
Previous courses
Online July 2024
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The negativity bias is ever hot on your heels.
That voice that shouts No You Can’t and Work Harder or It’s Dangerous. An evolutionary adaption gone awol. That’s why we miss the small delightful moments again and again. Lost on autopilot. On racing to keep up. Ruled by our own To Do list. Slavery! Let’s scrap that! Flip the script by doing the thing the negativity bias cancels: looking out for the small, good bits, drinking them in, feeling them land. Transformational. Dump the negativity bias before it dumps you!! |
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Course participants say:
Hang on a minute ...
Is it okay to prioritise my own personal happiness?
You might be thinking, isn't it selfish to be thinking about my own happiness with
abominable things like Gaza happening?
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I hear you. We’re watching a horrific impact on an entire
society and feel the pain of being unable to help. With recurring media images and worsening news daily, there’s no respite from the intensity. Our response risks turning into ‘empathic distress’, where our own distress becomes an additional load, on top of the terrible external situation. |
It affects our physical and mental health and our relationships.
Let’s not allow the aggressors to have that win too! The standard mindfulness solutions suggest breathing and meditation … hmm, maybe. But how do we switch off from the conflict? And do we want to? |
Savouring has a distinct role ...
Internal storiesIt brings us into the present,
which can't co-exist with the stories in our head. |
An AntidotePrioritising small, uplifting, immediate experiences is
THE IDEAL ANTIDOTE to being swamped by bad feelings. |
Sane, effectiveBad feeling don't help.
They hinder; they prevent our clear, sane effective response. |
Why join a course?
If you leave it up to you, it probably won't happen.
Habit is strong-strong-strong, hard to break.
Habit is strong-strong-strong, hard to break.
FirstlyThe inbuilt autopilot function of the human brain works against you.
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SecondlyCommitting to a course of action gets the ball rolling.
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ThirdlyWorking in a group means we hold each other accountable, share triumphs and setbacks.
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Extras this round:
~ Savouring and sharing. How to share the spoils. The benefits of not squandering the good vibes solely for yourself. ~ It’s important to know how to savour without clinging and grasping to the good things. ~ And in these challenging times it’s important understand empathic distress and how savour-and-share can help. |
There'll be a meditation session with each weekly meeting.
That being said, SAVOURING IS A GREAT WAY TO
GIVE MIND & EMOTIONS A LIFT, EVEN WITHOUT MEDITATING.
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TRAINING INCLUDES >> An introduction to savouring practice, starting with the basics and building into the bigger picture. >> Emails nuggets packed with goodness, after each session. >> The benefit of group brainstorming. >> Be inspired by my learning and experience as a qualified instructor with nearly forty years in mindfulness and meditation. >> The science behind the brain and nervous system, a different angle each week building into a rounded understanding of how our hardwiring contributes to distress. And how you can undo it. >> State-of-the-art situating savouring within the contemporary mindfulness modality. >> Savouring meditation practice. >> The many approaches to savouring. >> Why savouring is difficult and how you can make it happen more easily. >> What to expect via the benefits of savouring to transform dullness, anxiety and low life satisfaction. Boost the joy you already have! |
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😳☹️😬😵🙈
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HERE’S THE THING As humans, we're stuck with a negativity bias, and can’t help but:
We feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than the uplift of praise. Respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones. It's not your fault! |
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“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the hard things in life. It's about nourishing well-being, contentment, and peace inside that are refuges you can always come from and return to.” ― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom |
