A Transformational Blue Print
Creative Presence Project:
Purpose: To create a clear project plan for your Creative Presence Project.
Preparation: The following steps will support you to create your project blueprint.
1. Identify your gifts, who you’re here to serve and the contribution you alone can make.
2. Identify the level you’re called to create at and the growth that is most important.
3. Reconnect with what led you here.
Step 1: Envisioning Your Creative Presence Project
1: Aligning with Your Needs
I will support you to get aligned and tune into what’s needed to get to the next level of your life in your area of focus.
Power Statement: My deepest yearnings signal my greatest potentials waiting to emerge. All of life is organising to support me around the release and actualisation of these desires.
What do I yearn for in making a difference for myself, others, and the world?
If you keep your attention on the “Horizon Line” 6, 12 or 24 months, what do you most need to manifest or create to get to the next level of your potential? Complete the following sentences:
My deepest need in discovering and bringing forth my gifts is…
My deepest need in my contribution to others is…
My deepest need in the offerings or projects I create is.…
My deepest need in the area of visibility, confidence, presence is…
My deepest need in my finances is to…
My deepest need in Leadership is…
The key to this practice is to get crystal clear about your needs to get to the next level on the “horizon line”.
Finish the following sentence(s):
In the area of [input] , I most need to create [input] to get to the next level.
Key Takeaway: The universe is organised around supporting the potential of every living thing to come into its fullness. By focusing on my next steps to actualise my potentials 6, 12, or 24 months into the future, I open myself to be supported by a power in the universe greater than my own.
2: Clarify Your Vision
You’re going to dive into even greater clarity about your needs, as well as transform yearnings and potentials you’ve been feeling into a grounded vision for what you’re creating. By doing so, you’ll begin to harness all the internal and external resources you need to catalyse your desire’s emergence. The clearer you are, the more power you will have access to in that process.
Statement: by getting crystal clear about what it is I most want, I begin creating the conditions for it to come into being in my life.
As you identify what you want to manifest, bring it into your senses, feel it, name it, see it, give it a “due date” to show up in your life. Make your vision as specific and tangible as possible. Listen to yourself after connecting with your senses in this reflection exercise.
Ask yourself the following question: What specifically do I need to create/manifest to get to the next level of my potential in this area of my life?
I need to create…
What would it feel like to have created this in my life?
What would it look like to have created this in my life?
What would it sound like to have created this in my life?
What would become possible by having created this in my life?
When do I need to create this by?
Examples of the shift from need to grounded vision:
Need: My deepest soul-actualisation need in my purpose is to discover what my life’s work is and how to begin doing that.
Grounded Vision: I need to discover what business and pathway that I can start next year that will be the foundation for my contributing the mission work I’m here to accomplish.
Need: My deepest soul-actualisation need in my finances is to be able to become self-supporting in my business.
Grounded Vision: I need to create an annual income of 50k by December so that I can work with people full time and become world-class at what I have to offer.
My need is…
My grounded vision is…
3: Stepping Into the Future
Step into the future of having created the fulfilment of your vision and discover key skills and capacities you cultivated that made all the difference to your success. You can then focus on cultivating these capacities to ensure the success of your project. Looking back on where you are now from the future, what are the key ways that you have grown that have enabled you to succeed with your vision?
What skills were most critical to your success with this project?
Step 2: Brainstorm Project Ideas
After you have created the vision, the next step is to brainstorm project ideas that will create a path of practice for you to grow yourself. Start by anchoring into Power Centre and then brainstorm 5 - 10 project ideas that you could take on and complete over the next 6 months that could support you to fulfil your vision. REMEMBER, this is a BRAINSTORM—Go into the field of infinite possibility. Don’t evaluate the ideas you generate, simply brainstorm and allow yourself to think outside the box. Get creative!
Below are some possible project ideas:
A community project committed to raising awareness and money for a cause, a project within your company, launch your business, run a workshop / circles in your local community. create a local or online community committed to a cause you’re passionate about, organise a conference, summit or workshop on a topic, organise an art show for local artists (including yourself), start a group that meets to explore a topic regularly.
Write a list of ideas for your project.
Of the ideas above, which do you feel most drawn to?
Evaluate Your Ideas Above - Which of the ideas you’ve listed above have the most energy and aliveness. Once you have decided on a direction for your project, you’ll move on to the next stage and craft a well-formed project outcome.
Step 3 - Create a Clear Project Outcome
First, before you create the outcome for your project, it’s important to understand the project parameters, so that your project vision and outcome is in alignment with these parameters. The following parameters have been created to make your project vision easier to manifest!
1: Even though you may work with others on aspects of the project, you need to be 100% responsible for bringing it to completion.
2: Concrete and Tangible - It must be something you create in the external world. Inner growth is an incredibly fulfilling intention—however, what makes something a project vs. an intention is that it’s concrete and tangible with a start and an end date like launching a business, leading a workshop, hosting an event, creating a group to raise money for a cause.
3: Create a measure of success for the project with a deadline to complete the project by. This will support you to clearly see what you’re working to create and can know when you have achieved your outcome. It needs to be something with a concrete and tangible result. If you’re creating a larger project over a longer timeframe, this project could be a smaller piece of the larger project.
4: Challenge and Stretch - The project needs to challenge and stretch you to develop.
5: Succinct and Specific - Write the outcome in as few words as possible, one to two sentences. So you can easily communicate what you’re working toward.
Examples of Project Outcomes:
Raise £10,000 for disadvantaged children, 100 people attend a summit on Somatics & Music, Musical sold out five nights in a row, launch party for three local artists at art gallery, E-book.
What is your clear, measurable project outcome?
Do you feel excited and aligned?
Your project should take you outside of your comfort zone—this is where the magic happens. It should feel like a stretch, but also exciting. If you imagine standing in the future of the success of your project, what opens up for you as a possibility for your life that’s even more important than the project itself? Does this take you closer to manifesting the greater vision for your life? Does it feel aligned? Do you feel congruent? If not, go back and tweak your project vision or outcome until it does.
Step 4 - Create the Project Steps
Your Creative Presence Project needs to have tangible steps so you can achieve the outcome set above
Example Project: Facilitate an empowering women workshop for 10 young women in your company.
Possible Steps: 1. Ask leaders in the organisation to be advocates and mentors 2. Create the curriculum for the workshop 3. Invite and interview women for the workshop 4. Organise a venue and materials for the workshop 5. Meet with the other mentors and organise how the workshop will be run and who will be responsible for what roles.
Make a list of the steps you see yourself going through to create your project. Please be as specific as possible about the stages. Create natural groupings. For example, if it is an event, consider using categories such as promotions, sponsorships, event planning, running the event, and doing a post-event debrief, and listing steps under each category.
Step 5 - Identify Resources for Support
List the internal resources and skills you’ll need to draw on to create a successful project.
Examples include: More assertiveness to set up a successful collaboration, greater comfort with the unknown, communication skills, emotional resilience, physical stamina
2. List the external resources you’ll need to access to create a successful project.
Examples include: £1,000 for sponsorship of event, group of like-minded individuals committed to raising for this topic, take a class on creating a community garden, receive the support of a professional network.
Step 6 - Next Steps and Accountability
Finally, it is time to take action and start creating your project. Identify from your steps and resources in Step 5 what inspired actions you can take first. Focus on 2 or 3 actions you can take in the next week. Avoid listing all the actions you need to take and then overwhelming yourself you start. Identify what is most important and what you feel inspired to implement, then take action.
Actions for the next week…
Ask me to keep you accountable, so you gain momentum and progress towards realising your project outcome.