Change is the one thing we can always count on, everything changes with time.  We happen to be living in a time of massive transition - at the personal, familial, cultural, regional, and even global levels.  Can you feel it?

On a personal level, we were built for times like this.  We have the inner strength and courage to handle anything that gets thrown our way, whether we realize it or not.  Even in the most extreme cases, as long as we have breath and hope, we can rise from the ashes of the worst situations to become better and stronger than before.  Intentional Legacies was also built for times like this, to be a "port in the storm" so to speak to give you a safe and dependable place to turn during times of transition and uncertainty.  We're going through changes as well and I'm writing today about a few of those changes.

First, I'm very excited about Conscious Rites - our new joint collaboration with New Myth Works to bring rites of passage services to our community.  These services are really important in times of life transition and I personally think it's about time we bring them back on a cultural level.  Check out what we're doing at www.consciousrites.org, and if you'd like to work with us on something in your life please let us know how we can help.

Second, our Rising Phoenix Awards team has grown considerably moving into 2015 and we're actively working on the program for release in the next couple months.  The 2014 awards were awesome - congratulations to everyone that was nominated and especially the award winners.  Please stay tuned at http://risingphoenixawards.org for information on the 2015 awards program and start thinking about who in your life has been positively inspirational through difficult life transitions that you'd like to nominate this year.

Finally, it's with mixed feelings that we're going to shift our focus away from proactively offering life transition workshops on a regular basis.  The workshops are really good and I'm proud of how we've affected those that shared the time and energy with us, but we're going to only offer them "on request" moving forward to allow us to focus on growth in other areas.  For a list of available workshops check out http://peacefulcrossings.com/upcoming-life-transition-zone-events.html, and if you on a personal or organizational level would like to schedule a workshop please drop us a note at [email protected] and we'll set something up together.

Are you feeling the shift?  Are you working through multiple transitions, all at the same time, like a lot of us?  If you'd like to share a brief transitional story please feel free to reply to this blog.

We were built for times like these, and we're all in this together!

Namaste,

Cal    

So how crazy busy is YOUR life right now??

As for me I'm running two businesses, keeping up with the kids, in a relationship, traveling a lot for work, maintaining the house, paying the bills, playing a little volleyball, working out, fly fishing when I can, running a major new awards contest, hanging with friends once in a while, learning to Tweet, finding a little time to meditate and read, playing with the dogs, etc, etc.  You get the picture, right?  Don't get me wrong - I'm not complaining here - I know I'm truly blessed in many ways and I'm feeling healthy and balanced.  It just seems we're all juggling a lot these days, wearing a lot of hats (so to speak), and I hear all the time that people are feeling overwhelmed and out of balance.  Can you relate?

I'm really excited about leading a new Intentional YOU workshop on Sunday March 15th that goes right at this issue - it's called "Finding Life Balance Through The Tree of Me".  This one has a lot to offer to pretty much everyone that's really busy - check it out at http://peacefulcrossings.com/upcoming-life-transition-zone-events.html.   I'm co-presenting it with Leah Myers from Self Works (http://www.selfworks.org) and this is the first of a series of three collaborative workshops we're presenting together.  If you aren't familiar with Leah or Self Works you might want to take a few minutes and  see what they're about!

I fully get the irony of trying to fit a four-hour workshop into your crazy busy schedule, but keeping it all in balance is possible if you're living from your core and making intentional decisions about how and where you spend your time and energy.  This is an important topic and a worthwhile investment!   If this sound like something you could benefit from please go pre-register online soon, and if you know anyone else that needs it then please share this or pass it along.   

Namaste!