Before your first session on 18th January, please do the following exercises to prepare. Answer the questions quickly, without overthinking. They are only a starting point.
1. Make a list of your priorities.
2. What counts as work? What doesn’t?
3. List three ways you unwind.
4. List three ways you rest.
5. List three ways you restore.
6. What does balance mean to you? Answer with a picture.
7. Complete the following sentences:*
The biggest lack in my life is…
The greatest joy in my life is…
My largest time commitment is…
As I play more, I work…
I feel guilty that I am…
I worry that…
If l let myself feel it, I’m angry that…
One reason I get sad sometimes is…
8. List ten things you love and would love to do but are not allowed to do.*
9. Complete the following sentences:
I am a feminist because…
I want to be productive because…
I am enough because…
10. Note anything that has bubbled up for you as you have completed these exercises.
* Exercises 7 and 8 are borrowed from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.