Creative Rhythms, Traveling Alone, and Going Towards the Love with Sebene Selassie
Mar 10, 2024
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Explore creative rhythms, self-reliance through solo travel, and the power of going towards love with Sebene Selassie. Reflect on acknowledging accomplishments, documenting life events, reconnecting with roots, and embracing growth amid societal turmoil. Dive into the importance of aligning efforts with resonant energy and focusing on positivity and love.
Cultivating self-reliance through solo travel promotes personal growth and independence.
Acknowledging accomplishments, finding authentic voice, and embracing positivity are essential for creative fulfillment.
Deep dives
Exploring the Launch of Killm: A Creative Incubator
The upcoming launch of Killm, a creative community and incubator, is centered around supporting individuals with creative projects and business ideas. The community aims to provide clarity, motivation, and momentum for those transitioning careers or exploring new creative paths. Offering alchemy coaching sessions, retreat days, and co-creation sessions, Killm is designed to keep participants' creativity fired up and on track.
In Conversation with Sebene Solassi: Embracing Self-Reliance and Sovereignty Through Travel
The podcast episode features a conversation with Sebene Solassi, highlighting her recent solo trip to New Zealand to explore self-reliance and sovereignty through travel. Discussed are the benefits of breaking free from routine, acknowledging personal accomplishments, and evolving amidst societal pressures. The episode delves into the power of solo travel, acknowledging personal growth, and the importance of time for ideas to gestate.
Reflecting on End-of-Year Acknowledgments and Planning: A Closing Ritual
A ritual to acknowledge 2023 accomplishments is discussed, inspired by a Living Systems course that emphasized closing rituals for weeks, months, seasons, and years. Engaging in a month-by-month reflection and celebration of challenges and achievements was a powerful practice, providing a beautiful way to end the year and prepare for the new one. The importance of journaling and documenting life events is highlighted as a means of reflection and understanding personal growth.
Embracing Creative Rhythms and Self-Reflection: Aligning with Nature's Seasons
The podcast explores the significance of aligning creative rhythms with natural seasons, emphasizing the importance of taking breaks and allowing ideas time to gestate. By following the energies of the Northern Hemisphere and aligning with moon cycles and planetary transits, the speaker shares a deliberate approach to creative work that respects nature's rhythms. Reflecting on the impact of urgency in mainstream culture, the importance of finding one's authentic voice, and tuning into one's creative purpose are key themes discussed.
What does it mean to create spaciousness? Through our creative rhythms, through our travels, through the expression of our voices?
I talk with writer and teacher Sebene Selassie, the author of You Belong and the excellent Substack newsletter Ancestors to Elements, about cultivating self-reliance through solo travel, the power of acknowledging what you’ve accomplished, finding your authentic voice, and why we so often gravitate towards the negative rather than “going towards the love.”
New offerings from Jocelyn
Need fire for your creative ideas? KILN is a creative incubator & a community where half-baked ideas become real. Launching in April of 2024. Registration opens in mid-March. Learn more about KILN here.
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