Journey into Wholeness – Journey Into the Future
Lessons for today inspired by ancient Eastern Wisdom
The Eastern ways of looking at the world, action, value, and life comes from a very different context than Western culture. We will explore this different source of wisdom inspired by the stories of the Chinese Five Element acupuncture tradition, and explore new and relevant choices for us today.
In this wisdom journey we will explore our relationship with our future and how we travel into our future. With the inspiration of a four-thousand-year-old wisdom tradition we will journey from connecting to our greatness as a human being all the way to the gateway of hope for 100 years. In this journey we will learn to see every aspect of the world and of ourselves as parts of a unified whole. This tradition lets us perceive through the power of images, not just concepts. It includes the wisdom of the body and of nature. It provides a perspective that integrates health, emotions, meaning, and spirit with our own life journeys.
We will find that we have new choices in our life, for example that we can act from fullness and greatness, or not, in how we face the blows and challenges of life. This journey will be immediate and vivid choices in our lives and actions, not just concepts and theories
You are invited…
To find that we can have new choices in our life, that we can act from fullness and greatness, or not, in how we face the blows and challenges of life. To face the threats of our current world and era and see how we can still journey to fullness, wholeness, and power. We will explore how we can empower our journey into our own growth, power in action, and contribution in the world as part of the natural process of living.
While the content of this course is inspired by Chinese 5 Element acupuncture stories, it is not about learning acupuncture, Chinese culture, or healing. It is about taking narratives from this tradition to explore new perspectives of value or living in today’s world.
In this journey you have 7 steps starting with where and how you stand in life to the gateway of hope for 100 years. The journey includes:
Journey Into the Future Steps:
This initial exploration of seven steps is an introduction to one of many dimensions of our wholeness, our relationship with our future and moving forward. The journey begins inside you. How are you oriented in how you travel in life and into your future?
Session 1: Context, Wholeness, and Connecting to Choice in the Challenges of Life – New Year Context
Source of power and vitality in life
Session 2: Walking Past Possibilities and the Seasons – Designing 2026
Expand to include possibilities while balancing on your journey
Session 3: Surging Forward with a Grant of Purpose and the Elements
Where the strength comes, and the qualities of the elements
Session 4: Complexity and Writing our Story and the Connections of our Energies
Finding your story and seeing the coordination of functions for life
Session 5: Pivot and Springs of Energy – the Journey of Meaning – the Ministers
Meaning as a journey and the power to navigate
Session 6: Inner Nature, the Long Journey, and Shaping Life
The strength for the long journey and the precision of choices
Session 7: Your Beautiful Composition and the Gateway to Hope of a Hundred Years
Write your own story and connect to your vision and hope
Journey Into the Future Specifics:
- For whom: explorers for a more self-aware, healthy, and whole sense of living, developing their abilities to design and live a good life. Notes will be provided for application to life, as well as coaching and leadership.
- 7 weeks –2-hour live sessions on Wednesdays 11 am – 1 pm ET on the schedule below with recordings available on Teachable within 48 hours of the sessions. Each session will include discussion breakouts and Q&A time
- Kind of wisdom and design: perspectives from a 4000-year-old tradition of healing and health that open new self-awareness and life design choices
- Each week is a new perspective and portal to possibilities and choices in your design of your life, living, and stepping into your future
- You will have reflection questions and recommended practices for each week.
- Outcomes: you will learn about awareness for:
- your power of choice
- managing your energy
- being flexible
- connection to possibilities
- designing your story for your future for 100 years
- We recommend joining into discussion groups of pairs or three for weekly discussions on the current practice – participation is optional
- Date and Times: Sessions are 11 am to 1 pm ET on Wednesdays
- Dec 10 – prepping for winter in a new world view
- Jan 7 – journey into the future
- Jan 21
- Jan 28
- Feb 11
- Feb 18
- Feb 25
- Journey leader: Bob Dunham, guest speakers
- Price: $395 discounted from $495 as an introduction discount
- Language: English
Future Wholeness Journeys:
This Journey Into the Future is the first of a series of Journeys Into Wholeness which will explore many dimensions of our wholeness, including our stories, somatics, emotions, choices, and the qualities of our experience. These are drawn from the ancient Chinese five-element tradition that explores our bodies, health, and realities from the perspectives of nature, virtues, energy, spirit, and the dynamics of wholeness.
Future Journeys Into Wholeness will include:
- The Foundations of Possibility
- From Fear to Wisdom
- Navigating to Your Future
- Passions of the Heart
- Discernment
- Satisfaction, Sympathy, and Integrity
- Loss, Grief, Appreciation and Beauty
- Connecting the Dots, Putting It All Together
- Connecting to the Divine
- Connecting Heaven and Earth