Athena Challenge - Intensive for Women

February 5th - March 18th

This is an invitation to join a 6 week intimate circle of activating accountability and support.
Come together in regular practice and consciously call upon the balance of Alpha directive action and Omega flow and multiply it exponentially through the reflective mastermind and commitment of a group of up to 10 powerful women.
Past circles have been fertile grounds of focus with multiple launched projects and businesses, much personal growth, and lasting friendships. This is an opportunity for a turbo-charged detox and reset for your life, beginning the first Monday in February and closing just before the Equinox, releasing us into a powerful Spring.

THE CONTEXT: A 6 week long intensive exercise of clearing space and seeing what can be fostered in a focused container of radical self-care, discipline, and sisterhood support.

THE PURPOSE: To create and take on a rigorous, intense challenge that serves as a catalyst for positive change in all the realms of life most important to us. By closing off the usual escape routes we have an opportunity to experience and move through the underlying emotional and mental habits we’ve been avoiding addressing. In bringing extraordinary intentionality to our day-to-day living, through wholeheartedness, joyful engagement, generosity, and loving-kindness while addressing and clearing out all breaches in integrity, we consciously step into a powerful vision for ourselves.

FORMAT:
~ 7 weekly in-person, mastermind-style meetings creating a clear 6 week container
~ An accountability partner for daily support
~ A Slack workspace to keep in touch with the group throughout the week
~ Integrity agreements witnessed and held by the group
~ Weekly visioning assignments to focus and inspire all major areas of your well being
~ A worksheet to support the awareness and deep clearing of everything from relationship challenges to getting an oil change.
~ A group volunteer shift (approximately 4 hours) with an organization agreed on by the group

INTEGRITY AGREEMENTS:
You agree to make the following overarching commitments during the Athena Challenge Intensive:
You agree to treat your physical body with the utmost kindness through a challenging, healthy regimen of nutrition and exercise, as well as sound health care.
You agree to remove all "space-out" activities from your lifestyle. No casual TV watching, casual Facebooking, casual online video watching (i.e. YouTube), or video game playing.
You agree to absolutely no use of alcohol or drugs. This is non-negotiable and includes marijuana and any other substances intended to alter experience, even in a ceremonial setting. (Managed medications prescribed to you by a licensed physician should, of course, continue to be taken.)
You agree to communicate daily with your accountability partner. This can be via phone, text, MarcoPolo, or email, according to what you agree to together.
You agree to get adequate rest and sleep, taking exquisite care of yourself physically and emotionally. This includes a goal of one hour of exercise five days a week.
You agree to be coachable, to expand and grow, and to be in regular communication with the group about your wins and struggles alike.
While we do the Intensive as a group and we draw strength and inspiration from one another, you agree to be fully responsible for your own experience and well-being. What you get out of the Intensive will be directly proportional to how much energy and awareness you put into it.
You agree to attend all meetings and participate with generosity. (Other than for the opening and closing circles, one pre-planned absence is allowed.)

A number of commitments are suggested in addition to these underlying agreements, intended to help clear out stagnant energies and make room for more vitality. These are outlined in a document you will receive one week before the start of the circle.

ATTENDANCE:
Meetings will take place at my home, 3500 Calandria Ave in Oakland, strictly from 6:30-9:30pm (we may agree to shorter meetings with a smaller group, but definitely no longer). Attendance at all meetings is mandatory. One pre-planned or emergency absence is allowed, other than the opening or closing meeting. Absences beyond this will be considered leaving the program. Attendance for a group volunteer project is also mandatory, the form and date of which will be determined as a group.
The in-person meetings are an integral part of this container. Zooming in is not an option.

DATES:
February 5th – Introductions and orientation
February 12th – Focus on career and financial visioning
February 19th – Focus on relationship visioning
February 26th – Focus on sexuality and health visioning
March 4th – Focus on home and community visioning
March 11th – Focus on spirituality and world impact visioning
March 18th – Closure

EXCHANGE: The financial agreement for the program is $500 with $200 of that being returned to you at the completion. The $200 from anyone not completing the program, for whatever reason, will be donated to a charity of the group’s choosing.
PayPal $50 to [email protected] to secure your spot (friends and family option, please). The balance is due at the first meeting.
 
Send me an email at [email protected] to set up a call to feel out together if this is a good fit.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
In 2010 I participated in an AC guided by AnnaLiisa Wijnen Moter that rocked my world. That group ended up extending the experience in different formats for over a year, all the while refining what best served the group. Much of the format and material we’ll be using was developed by Scott Swanson for a San Francisco men’s group and was picked up, added to, and adapted for women by AnnaLiisa. It’s with much gratitude and honor to them, and to all those who’ve come before, that their work is being carried forward now.
This will be my 7th year of refining and guiding this practice.

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