What's Stopping You?
Group Study Week 2 – Your Vision (Days 1-7)
Objective: To articulate your vision and identify the things stopping you from achieving it.
In this week we will specifically consider your vision. Remember that vision is more than just a set of sterile objectives. Your vision is something that is dynamic. It is a seeing into the future, an ‘ecstatic beholding.’ I believe everyone has a vision of how things could be better. Let’s use the group study this week to explore different aspects of your vision.
2 Exercises:
2.1 Group leader gives opening thoughts.
2.2 Spend a few minutes on your own to answer the following questions:
· Go back through your notebook and review the answers you have written for Days 1 to 7. What question was the most difficult to answer and why?
· Do you feel the vision you have identified is the most important one for you, or is there something that is more important? Remember that it’s okay to change your mind.
· What are the enemies that will stop you from achieving your vision and how will you deal with them?
· Does your vision provide a service in some way, and are there some redemptive or transformative qualities in it? If yes, how so?
· How does your vision fit into your spirituality?
2.3 Break up into groups of two and share your answers. The other person will act as a consultant and confidant and will ask you questions about your answers to the above questions. Then reverse roles, spending between ten to fifteen minutes for each person.
2.4 Meet back in the larger group and share any insights you’ve gained.
· What did you learn through this exercise?
· Did everyone identify a vision? What issues did you encounter/experience?
· Did everyone identify common ‘enemies,’ those things that will stop you on your vision quest? How are they the same or different from person to person?
· Did everyone somehow identify a service within your vision?
· Did everyone find something redemptive and/or transformative in your vision?
· Can you share how your vision somehow connects with your spirituality? We will come back to this in a couple of weeks, but it’s good to start thinking about it now.
2.5 During the following week work through Days 8 to 14 in this book.
Objective: To articulate your vision and identify the things stopping you from achieving it.
In this week we will specifically consider your vision. Remember that vision is more than just a set of sterile objectives. Your vision is something that is dynamic. It is a seeing into the future, an ‘ecstatic beholding.’ I believe everyone has a vision of how things could be better. Let’s use the group study this week to explore different aspects of your vision.
2 Exercises:
2.1 Group leader gives opening thoughts.
2.2 Spend a few minutes on your own to answer the following questions:
· Go back through your notebook and review the answers you have written for Days 1 to 7. What question was the most difficult to answer and why?
· Do you feel the vision you have identified is the most important one for you, or is there something that is more important? Remember that it’s okay to change your mind.
· What are the enemies that will stop you from achieving your vision and how will you deal with them?
· Does your vision provide a service in some way, and are there some redemptive or transformative qualities in it? If yes, how so?
· How does your vision fit into your spirituality?
2.3 Break up into groups of two and share your answers. The other person will act as a consultant and confidant and will ask you questions about your answers to the above questions. Then reverse roles, spending between ten to fifteen minutes for each person.
2.4 Meet back in the larger group and share any insights you’ve gained.
· What did you learn through this exercise?
· Did everyone identify a vision? What issues did you encounter/experience?
· Did everyone identify common ‘enemies,’ those things that will stop you on your vision quest? How are they the same or different from person to person?
· Did everyone somehow identify a service within your vision?
· Did everyone find something redemptive and/or transformative in your vision?
· Can you share how your vision somehow connects with your spirituality? We will come back to this in a couple of weeks, but it’s good to start thinking about it now.
2.5 During the following week work through Days 8 to 14 in this book.