First Works Circle
A 12-Month intention to pause, refresh and calibrate with Yolonda Coles Jones (The Calm & Thrive Coach) to the frequency of conscious choice--moment by moment, season by season, day by day.
Welcome In!
Tips for Success
Step 1 - Get Your Bearings (Guided Imagery Exercise)
Step 2 - Notice Your Margins
Step 3 - Develop the Muscle of Consciously Choosing
Month 1 | Deepening + Implementation Exercises
Check In: Focus on Your Exhalation
Group Session - Noticing Over-Functioning then Consciously Choosing to Connect with Your Power and Freedom
Welcome to Month 2 | Intro to Defining Your Intention + Making Room to Live It Out
Establish Your Mat + Define Your Intention
More On Establishing Your Space - Physically, Time & Schedule-Wise, With Your Words
Make Energetic Space - A Few HowTos
Refresh Your Goals + Define Your Scope of Willingness
Month 2 | Deepening + Implementation - Clear "Yes!" Clear "No." / Scope of Willingness
Group Session - Making Room
Connect with Courage
Your Great Light - Song Mantra
Group Session - Shine Your Light
Curiosity - Core Lesson
Month 4 | Deepening + Implementation
Curiosity - Bonus Exercise
Scope of Willingness Core Lesson
Reframing "Stasis"
Deepening & Implementation | Sensing into Stasis for You
Deepening & Implementation | Scope of Willingness - Go Deeper
Word Power | Intro Lesson
Reframing Affirmations
3 Gates | Kind, Helpful, True
Deepening + Implementation | Voicing Parts in a Field of Love [Audio Version]
Deepening & Implementation | Voicing Parts (with Words) in a Field of Love [PDF Version]
Intro to Magnificent Space in Between
Better Understand “The Space in Between”
Tools While Navigating The Space In Between
CHALLENGE: Expand the Pause, Connect with Your Power and Freedom
Taking Good Care | Intro
On Your Worthiness (of Care)
Sink Further Into Your Sense of Worthiness [a Meditation]
Deepening & Implementation (Audio)- Take Good Care
Customize Your Own Self-Care Plan (PDF)
Inner Posture | Intro
More on Inner Posture
Applying Gentle Awareness to Your Inner Posture
“Zero Pull” Meditation
Deepening & Implementation | Note the Posture that Empowers You
Group Session - Keeping In Contact with the "Continuous You" and Inner Posture
Walking Alongside | Intro
More on Walking Alongside
Words + Phrases to Live Into
Deepening & Implementation | Walking Alongside
Working with Resistance | Intro
More on Working with Resistance
How To | Work with Resistance
Deepening & Implementation | Working with Resistance
Body Awareness - Supportive Visuals
Bearing Witness | Intro
Better Understand | Bearing Witness