The Gift of Connection that happens when Fundraising

Nicole Zuber joined us facilitating 2 fundraising calls for WOW. She is based in Minnesota and is freezing cold in the depths of the snowy northern winter. Nicole challenged us to think deeply about our intentions for what we want to fundraise for and why it matters to each of us. She brought many stories and ideas to support those interested in creating more funds- it was so much fun! We laughed and found the creativity infectious as we shared ideas. 

One of the light bulb moments for me was realising how I love getting alongside others in fundraising, but how much harder it is to raise money for myself. And when I do, I really like to give something in return. After the call I was thinking more about this and realised that I enjoy being alongside someone else’s fundraising endeavours because I support them in their heart’s longing. In the process I am often filled with gratitude for the trust and courage they show to be vulnerable with something so precious. So as a supporter of other’s dreams, I receive gratitude and share their enthusiasm and hear how it goes. 
There are many gifts in fundraising - for yourself and as a supporter and funder. I invite us all to go for supporting each other’s dreams however we can:)


Clare

Fundraising to support my journey to WOW

Are you a “Yes” and/or registered for WOW-NZ 7-14 October 2018 and held back by doubts about how to generate funds?

More To Life Associate Trainer Nicole Zuber and Trainer Candidate Cindi Cameron are available to talk about creative, out-of-the-box ways to raise funds. These women have lots of fundraising knowledge and are fun, engaging, and inspiring. Join the call and you’ll get to collaborate with others to reach your goal: WOW!

Join us: Thursday, 25th January 2018, 6.00-7.00pm, NZ time
Zoom link: https://moretolife.zoom.us/j/447608709

Donna Southwick

WOW Team

Dear Warriors,

We are 10 months out from holding WOW 2018, 7-14 October, at Living Springs, Allandale, South Island, NZ, and the energy is building… Yes!  The past year for me has been like a speed train… so now… a time for reflection and a look at what my vision and focus for 2018.

In my reflection on my purposes for being involved in the WOW creation and team, I have been re-reading the Kairos Mission Statement from a document dated 2012. I am breathing deeply into the words as I write.

Kairos Mission

To stand boldly for awakening people everywhere to the interconnectedness of all things, so they can release their full potential for living, evoke the same in others, and play an active part in the evolution of the world.

It is followed with The Five Values… Self-Mastery * Partnership * Clarity * Impeccability * Acknowledgement and Celebration

These sum up for me everything I have been wanting to create and generate in my life for a considerable amount of time. Being involved, making a commitment, and taking a stand has me saying YES, signing up to notice my lifeshocks, doing my personal work, and showing up to see what a new day brings. My son is doing WOW next year and I want to pass on a legacy of all the above.

What about you? What’s your vision, knowing this powerful advanced training is coming up? What will you choose? What legacy do you have a vision for?

While you’re pondering those questions, check out the end of this letter for Yemma Barsanti’s notes about her experience on the WOW-NZ 2012 team.

Where We Are Now…

We already have 56 participants registered (6 from overseas), with a lot more interest being expressed. Our original vision was for 60 participants and 22-25 team. With 10 months to go, we see much more being possible.  Specifically, we want to enroll more overseas participants… and more men ... so a new vision is emerging for 80+ participants and 25 team arriving from all over the globe. We already have 22 Team Applications and a considerable interest from Warriors internationally to join us on this journey. Three powerful Senior Trainers lead the course: Ann McMaster (US), Gerry Moline (UK), and Clare Vivian-Neal (NZ). They’ll be supported by Associate Trainer Ulrich Bergler (NZ) and Trainer Candidate Robyn Madden (NZ).

Serving on WOW team is a privilege and an exciting opportunity to practice our work.  To serve the new Warriors on their journey we aim to bring together the best possible international team mix. We are working through a structured process with everyone who applies. First is to get all applications in by 15^th January 2018 (click here). Next, the Creation Team will select the team members and inform all applicants by 20^th February 2018. Notified applicants will then have the opportunity to confirm their commitment. Going forward, we will spend 8 months together – WOW e-groups, team meetings focussing on specifics – preparing to bring WOW to New Zealand again.

From Yemma Barsanti

I loved my experience on team in Living Springs in 2012. For me it made a whole lot of sense of my experience as a WOW participant in Atlanta in 2007. I could see the bigger picture of the lifeshocks that had come my way at that time. I had a clearer appreciation of myself inside the processes, and it filled me with understanding and forgiveness for myself and others. I was able to rest old beliefs about myself. It confirmed many things that I had been pondering since my own WOW.

I loved seeing the workings that uphold the course, the whys and hows of the lifegames and other experiences. It was while on WOW team I learnt to recognise the beauty in the smallest of moments. Like sitting outside a door for some hours and finding value for myself. It was a new realisation.

My role was Team Support and how lucky was I to be in service with that role to a mighty team volunteering a week of their lives to, in turn, be of service to the participants! Being on team for WOW is similar to being on team for a Weekend but with more of everything....more time for connection with the team, participants, and trainers, more time for processing, meditation, support, more time to exercise, more time to eat together. A rich experience. Do consider it.

If you are considering joining us on this journey, please get your team application in by 15^th January.

Please feel free to contact me if you want any more information and/or have questions or concerns.

Regards and Love Donna

My best ever investment!

Way of a Warrior was the best investment I have ever made in myself. Worth every penny and so much more. I went in without truly knowing what I was looking for, and I left with a clarity about myself that I might never otherwise have understood. 

Just like the More to Life Weekend, they gave us an absolutely over-the-top course purpose, and they nailed it. The processes, the experiences, the bonds, there is so much on offer. 

I can’t wait to see what is coming around the next YES!

Michalee, Montana, USA

43 registered at the close of NZ/AUS Early Bird 31st October 2017

I am sitting here reflecting on this extraordinary result created by a handful of extraordinary individuals who are in turn supported behind the scenes by a vast network of people – husbands, wives, partners, friends, and communities – around the world.  

Our amazing creation team consists of

~ Clare Vivian-Neal, Senior Trainer and enroller extraordinaire, committed to contact, connection, communicating, and leading, going beyond every time

~ Ulrich Bergler, Associate Trainer with skills on all fronts, handling finances, participant registration and team applications, IT pathways, Facebook group, and WOW blog site, plus much more

~ Robyn Madden, Trainer Candidate, supporting and underpinning graciously both front and behind, powerful in being present

~ Tullia Wilson, giving big doses of youthful enthusiasm and creativity, bold, audacious, authentic truth seeker and teller

~ Jenny Meadows, wonderfully wise woman, many years front and behind the scenes, handling logistics, managing information, wealth of experience in supporting and upholding advanced trainings

~ Moana Bianchin, Mentor, Coach, Author, discerning wise woman, and

~ Myself, loving being a part of this dynamic group

And… to the 43 Individuals who have put their stake in the ground early. Courageous, clear vision, strong intentions, powerful purpose.  This journey has well and truly begun.

We have 17 more places … Who will you call?... Who will come?... Who hasn’t yet taken the Weekend, but you see them at WOW2018 in New Zealand?

Back from WOW 2017

Before attending Way Of a Warrior this year I had an idea that it would “sort my life out”.  

Well, it didn’t happen like that - thankfully!  I discovered a connection to myself that I have never experienced before.  I learned not to bypass myself in the journey of my life and connected deeply with my body and my feelings and realised all I want is within me.  I am changed, irreversibly.  WOW gave me the tools, confidence and self-love to do this for myself always and this was alongside an incredible group of people I am proud to call my warrior family for life!  

I can’t recommend this experience enough.  No matter where you are in your life journey WOW will make you a true warrior of your chosen path!!”

Kate Palmer

An Invitation

Recent events occurring throughout the world are touching our lives in ways we may or may not have previously experienced or foreseen. Lifeshocks about our global climate, polarizing language and views in our political landscape, daily stories of refugees at a previously unknown scale, new diseases arriving on our shores, complex surgeries now considered routine, people who astound us – both young and young at heart, stories of domestic violence. Lifeshocks on a global scale, outside our control, that are reaching into the core of who we are and how we choose to be.

Way of a Warrior (WOW) strengthens our ability to engage with the events of our life and create our life anew because of them, not in spite of them. To take a powerful stand FOR what matters to us and to find the Gift of Life that is being given in each moment.

WOW offers time, space, and support to experience the depth of your nobility and passion; to honour others for the unique beings they are, and to affirm your courage to open to the possibilities for the future. You may have questions like: What changes do I want to make in myself and in my day-to-day life? What struggles do I want to let go of? What visions do I want to see come to fruition? What matters of the heart do I want to open to and embrace with all of my capacity to love?

We will stand with you for movements in the morning as we awaken to each new day and the possibilities it holds. We will walk/run with you as you stretch to find what 100% alive feels like in your body. We will work together with you in morning, afternoon, and evening sessions filled with deep, powerful, and real exploration into ourselves and the Life we are being given. We will hold you in unconditional love as we cry together, laugh together, dance together, and have the full experience of our individual and collective humanity. Seven days and nights, taking the work of the More To Life Weekend to a whole different level, in a beautiful setting, with trainers and team from around the world. It is an opportunity to come together with people from many countries and cultures, being in community in remarkably different ways, consciously, seeing things we may have never noticed before. 

For the second time WOW is being offered in New Zealand, at Living Springs Centre near Christchurch, surrounded by stunning native forest, looking out over the bays of Lyttelton Harbour.

Whether you regularly practice the work of the More To Life Programme, or not, or have just completed the More To Life Weekend, there is a place for you here. Wherever you are in the journey of your life, you are warmly invited to be a part of WOW NZ 2018.

Until our paths cross, please know that we hold you in deep respect and honour you for the journey you are on. We stand with you in appreciation of the human being you are and hope that we see you eye to eye and heart to heart next year.