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Be careful what you ask for, because this is powerful stuff!

Find your vision.

VISION WORKSHOP:
Get a clear picture of your desired future!

Walk away with a big picture of what you truly want in your life–in any or all areas that you choose–health, wealth, spirituality, relationships, career, creativity, etc.!!!

Leave with insight, understanding, a poster sized picture, and words from your inner guidance recorded on paper!

Fee is $150 plus Dutch treat lunch at the restaurant. Snacks and drinks provided.

Saturday, September 26 10am-4pm at El Mercado Restaurant, 1302 South First St. in Austin, TX

We did a quick survey of 10 graduates of our three 2009 Vision Board and Vision on Hot Wheels sessions and these are the outcomes reported:

I. Career/business

-Created lucrative job position (where none existed) in same company but in dream location
-Found job that provides a good livelihood in field of technical expertise while allowing plenty of time for art
-Started new business
-Changed career direction that is more exciting
-Set up new mutually-beneficial business partnerships
-Is being groomed for promotion

II. Relationships
-Found ideal love relationship (5 different examples of love finding!)
-Improving relationship with life partner
-Improved relationship/acceptance/closeness with teenager
-Feels more confident in self and asks for what he wants for more often

III. Creativity/Renewal
-Color and design inspiration for interior of new home
-Created low cost 4-week vacation in tropical resort providing renewal and physical health benefits

IV. Health
-Started physical fitness program (3)
-Lost weight (2)

We’d love to see you at this event because it really works!

Registration for September 26, 2009 via EventBrite:
http://vb3.EventBrite.com

You may also register by simply calling Anna 512-431-6619

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Career is top goal.

At our Bridging Futures open house, we asked 50 people to rank what areas were most important to them when they envisioned their most desired future.

Tops, not surprisingly, was career. In this time of economic recession and market turmoils, there is a lot of anxiety around career, with some wishing to shift from areas of less personal interest to one of greater satisfaction and others simply desiring a job that will provide a living. Relationships, always popular was #2 with most of those referring to a desire to find a romantic partner. Health and fitness wasn’t as high in this group as Adventure, and dead last was wealth–an interesting split-off from the notion of career.

Our conclusion is that we want to offer Visioning services that focus on Career, Business, and Workplace issues.

Summary of the tallied questionnaire:

1. Career 2.4
2. Relationships 3.0
3. Adventure 3.2
4. Spirituality 3.5
5. Health& Fitness 4.0
6.  Family 4.3
7. Wealth 4.7

– Anna Carroll

Learn more details and register for the September 26, 2009 all day Visioning Workshop at http://www.vb3.eventbrite.com

Anna Carroll at Bridging Futures Learning Social 2009

It was fascinating to visit with so many smart and innovative friends and collaborators in diverse areas that include software for neighborhood community building, artists, lawyers, organizational consulting, new entrepreneurs in many fields, an arts organization for disabled people, web developers, technical trainers, writers, social media experts, and much, much more….

It felt like two parties on Thursday night and then Saturday morning. My bedroom got turned into the “MasterMind” breakout room, with pictures projected on wall and chairs all around the table (bed). We discussed the Knowledge to Gold concept of moving your expertise into a marketable online product or service. Some already have products developed and just need a “Master Mine” support group to keep them moving
toward their goal. Others are thinking about what they’d like to develop, whether or not they have a full-time job–and are still at the Visioning stage. And still others already services to offer through their website
and are wanting to turn up the volume to the world!

The whole MasterMind concept of declaring what you want to accomplish and exchanging support with others who want to do the same was appealing to just about all.

– Anna Carroll
Photo by Rino Pizzi

Honoria Starbuck holding up a Vision sign.

Photo by Rino Pizzi

Bridging Futures had a party. The social gathering featured learning stations, research data gathering, and funky prizes from Toy Joy. My job was to introduce the Bridging Futures set of visioning offerings.

We have 3 Visioning products. First, a Vision Board Workshop is a wide open exploration of visual symbols for personal goals. The workshop begins with guided meditation to welcome participants into a safe yet exciting mode to explore their unique visions. Participants collage vision boards from magazine pages, pictures from their collections, words, and drawings. The vision boards can be very poetic or visually lovely.  The finished vision boards serve as a reminder when one’s busy life clouds your goals and visions.

The next offering in the vision line is the Your Vision on Hot Wheels workshop in which participants get to project manage one of the visions laid out on the vision board. This follow-up workshop is a practical set of practices designed to build a map of steps to actually realize visions.

Finally, we offer a specifically business focused vision session called Sculpting your Business Vision. This workshop includes visual images and practical techniques applied to actualizing a business vision. Our organizational development team developed this Business Visioning offering that can be customized for a start-up all the way to a corporate executive or team.

The visioning offerings are fun, yet deeply moving, and have strong application to daily life and success. Learn more at bridgingfutures.com

– Honoria Starbuck

The Bridging Futures’ August 2009 Learning Social was a fun opening to new directions in visioning, mastermind collaborations and product creation.

The break out sessions in Mastermind Series options, Visioning sessions, products and services all lead to conversations and discoveries about interconnecting skills and knowledge.

Data collection is leading to new initiatives in the Bridging Futures community.
Please contribute to our research by answering any or all of the following questions.

1. E-commerce research
What product(s) or service(s) would you like to sell online?

2. Mastermind research
What goal(s) could a mastermind group help you with?

3. Visioning research
Please rank your choices of what you your want to envision for your future:
____ Health and fitness
____ Career
____ Wealth
____ Family
____ Relationships
____ Spirituality
____ Adventure

4. What’s Next research
What would you like to know more about Bridging Futures?

Send your answers to Sherry@sherrylowry.com or place your answers in comments.

Here’s Sherry at Product Camp interviewed by Will Rodenbusch about the history behind the foundation of Bridging Futures.  To find out more visit BridgingFutures.com

The Bridging Futures team is gearing up for a very fun learning social party. Did I say fun? We’ll have learning stations, drawings for prizes, and introduce our amazing collaborators and friends. We planned the layout of the learning/playing stations on this sketch.

Learning stations for the social

We’ll introduce guests to the elements of a successful mastermind group and find out what goals a mastermind group could help you with. We’ll have sample products with the authors. We’ll have a visioning station that introduces our 2-part visioning and vision-mapping techniques.

There will tasty treats and guess who is in charge of the music?

Thursday, August 27, 7 – 9 pm OR
Saturday, August 29, 10 – noon

Welcome to this free social event. A reservation is needed because our lovely, indoor space looking over downtown Austin/the river is limited.
Cole Apartments 300 S.Lamar right next to Zilker Park

A reservation to hold your spot IS necessary.
Email to reserve sherry@sherrylowry.com
512 -527 -0097