Do you reach the end of the year and wonder...what the hell just happened?
Would you like that not to happen in 2024?
Then Join the Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary,
a workshop to help you:
Make the most of the present moment.
Appreciate the ordinary.
Discover the extraordinary in the everyday.
Cultivate a life of meaning and purpose.
Make time matter.
Sign-up NowDoes any of this sound familiar?
- You greet the new year with an abundance of enthusiasm and a pocketful of plans and intentions, and then the "everydayness" sets in and...
- You lose track of those intentions.
- You struggle to pay attention to your attention.
- Almost as soon as the new year starts, you feel like the it is slipping away and along with it your hopes, aspirations, and new habits?
- You are tired of reaching the end of the year and wondering, once again where, once again, time went?
- You feel like you don't have enough time to appreciate the ordinary things in life, much less the extraordinary?
Imagine if you could...
- Start the new year abundant enthusiasm and maintain that enthusiasm throughout the year.
- Pay attention to your attention and align it with your time and intention.
- Remain connected to your hopes, aspirations, and new habits.
- Be present for your own life and the lives of others.
- Feel like you have enough time to connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in-between.
- Reach the end of the year and reflect back on a year well-spent.
- Discover a new sense of possibility and purpose.
Would you like to reclaim your attention and reconnect with a sense of awe?
We can be so enmeshed in the every dayness of our lives, that we lose track of those ordinary things that bring us joy and meaning.
We are so distracted, that when the extraordinary appears, we might totally miss it.
When this happens, we miss out on the simple, ordinary awe of being alive. Awe is an essential ingredient to our happiness and well-being.
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary was created to help you reconnect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in-between, day after day, week after week, year after year.
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The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary was created to help you reconnect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in-between, day after day, week after week, year after year.
This live, virtual, interactive, powerful, playful, and profound workshop is intended to help you make the most of this year. It will help you focus your attention, live with intention, and make the most of the present moment.
A "real" time event for connecting with others and creating time that matters.
- It is a virtual workshop.
- It is a live, synchronous, interactive event. It is not recorded.
- These interactive activities will include guided visualizations, writing prompts, and small group and large group discussions.
🪄 Attention + Intention + Imagination = Possibility 🪄
We draw on applied improvisation, storytelling, mindfulness practices, and other creative interventions to create an immersive and transformational experience.
In this interactive and experiential workshop (aka the YOREX) you will discover what happens when you attend to your attention, align it with intention, and then imagine a future based on that union.
When you "attend" to your attention, it helps you connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in-between. We will do this by:
✨ Defining your "ordinary" and "extraordinary" and why it matters
✨ Crafting your Daily Declaration (aka a manifesto)
✨ Discovering your own Daily Day Mix. The secret sauce that helps turn your plans from a goop-glob of wanting into something that actually is.
✨ Creating Implementation Intentions to help you align your attention and intention
✨ Establishing an End-of-Day Ritual
✨ Cultivating a meaningful self-care practice.
What's Included in
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary?
Pre/Post course Reflection
Access to the live session
The Course Workbook
Office Hours
INTRODUCTORY MODULE
Pre-course reflection and checklist.
Before you step into The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary, take a moment for a Pre-course reflection and checklist. This brief exercise, available in audio, video, or text, is here to get you ready for the journey. It's all about setting the stage, so you're fully equipped to make the most of your YOREX workshop.
THE WORKSHOP
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary
During live, interactive and experiential workshop we will dive into our cache (aka our treasure trove of tools) . You'll learn how to attend to your attention, align it with intention, and unleash your imagination to create a future full of possibilities. We'll also cover: ✨ Defining your "ordinary" and "extraordinary" and why it matters. ✨ Crafting your Daily Day Mix and Declaration (manifesto). ✨ Creating Implementation Intentions for laser-focused action. ✨ Establishing an End-of-Day Ritual for balance. ✨ Cultivating a meaningful self-care practice.
THE WORKBOOK
The YOREX Imagine Book
Workbooks are great, but we think Imagine Book is a better way to describe everything that is in the course workbook. It includes worksheets for all the activities, helpful resources, and more. Downloadable so you can repeat the practices whenever you need some more ordinary or extraordinary.
REFLECTION & IMPLEMENTATION MODULE
Post-Mission Checklist & Reflection
In this last and final module, participants will reflect on their experience, take the final assessment, and complete their mini-time capsule/write a letter to their future self about what they want to keep and remember from the course.
OFFICE HOURS
Implementation Sessions
We know that change is hard, habits need nurturing, and so do we. We also know the power of community to make change and transformation possible. Following the workshop there will be two office hours sessions. These are live sessions where you an ask questions, share challenges, and get support. You can either attend live or submit your questions in advance.
Join the Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary and get the following bonus:
BONUS:
The Decider: Your Tangible Tool for Making Tough Decisions
And by tangible, we mean something that you can hold in your hands. We love a good, crafty project so get ready to print and fold! Our digital download is designed to delight, help you decide, and satisfy that desire to "make something".
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary is for You if...
- Your attention feels fragmented
- You want to feel more present and connected
- You want to not take your life for granted
- You want to make time matter
GET STARTED TODAY!
The Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary
Starting in January 2023
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The workshop is three hours.
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MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If you attend the full workshop, do the activities, and aren’t completely satisfied with the Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary, we offer a full refund.
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR!
Hi, I'm Jeanne
COACH. FACILITATOR. FORMER ARCHAEOLOGIST. TIME RE-IMAGINER ON A MISSION TO HELP PEOPLE RECLAIM THEIR ATTENTION FROM THE TRASH-HEAP OF DISTRACTION.
Confession time: I have struggled with hurry sickness for most of my life. And because of that, I am obsessed with time and its many manifestations. Throughout my life, this obsession has taken many forms---from working as an archaeologist, to helping people connect to and preserve places and spaces from the past, to owning a frankly embarrassing amount of calendars, timers, and planners.
As I sought to gain a better understanding of time, it became clear that I wasn't alone: we all want more time from our time. We all want our time to matter.
I am an orchestrator of attention and a cultivator of imagination. I use applied improvisation, storytelling, and other creative interventions to help people make time matter so that they can live with presence, possibility, and purpose.
People have described my courses as "amazing", "powerful", and "great fun".
Questions? We have answers! Check out our FAQ!
Are my results guaranteed?
Do you offer scholarships?
Do you have any incentives if I refer a friend?
What other courses do you offer?
How can I be reimbursed by my organization?
Do you offer the Year of the Ordinary Extraordinary to Organizations?
Do I have to participate?
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We might not have have all the time in the world but we do have a number of options!
We don't want anyone to wake up to early or stay up too late to join the workshop.
There are three options to choose from
All times are based on Chicago Time CST (UTC -6)
If you are in Asia, Australia, or New Zealand, the date might be one day later.
If fyoChicago Time CST (UTC -6)
🕚 Monday, January 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM
🕕 Tuesday, January 16, 2024 6:00 PM
🕗 Wednesday, January 17, 2024 8:00 AM
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What's the Story with the Squirrels and Rabbits?
The illustrations for this website were created in collaboration with Mid-Journey an AI image generator. The significance of the rabbit hearkens back to The White Rabbit in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. When the book was first published in 1865, industrialization was pushing more and more places to establish a standardized time and more and more people had their own time keeping devices. The White Rabbit wears a waistcoat, and carries a pocket watch and exclaims, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!". It could be argued that the famed rabbit, like so many of us, was also suffering from hurry sickness.
These naturally curious creatures have become a symbol of our distraction. This was perhaps best personified by Dog, the talking dog in the film up who would interrupt his own train of thought to exclaim, "Squirrel!" Yet, there is some
"People experience awe...in finding the extraordinary in the ordinary: a friends generosity...the scent of a flower; looking at a leafy tree's play of light and shadow on a sidewalk, hearing a song that transported them back to first love...every day awe."
---Dacher Keltner, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life
