Setting your Intention

A process to clarify one’s aim for a day, project, workshop, or lifetime

When people set intentions at the beginning of a session, day, workshop, or project, powerful potential is unleashed. Participants simply identify what their aim is and the facilitator reminds them periodically to return to their intention.

What is
Setting your Intention
about ?

What is

Setting your Intention

about ?

What is this Method about ?

The purpose of Setting Your Intention is to clarify, both within oneself and within the group, what each person's aim is.

When and why is this Method used ?

Setting Your Intention can be very powerful at the beginning of a project, collaboration, workshop, course, retreat, or program. It is useful at the beginning of any experience, whether that experience is an hour or a year long.

Ken Wilber

MuseKiss

Audience

Is participant experience relevant for Setting your Intention ?

It's okay if participants haven't seen the inside of a classroom in years

Audience description for Setting your Intention

Setting Your Intention is beneficial for everyone, everywhere.

Requirements

Experience level of the facilitator

Self explanatory, no experience needed

Number of Facilitators :

How Stationary

Stationary and moving are both ok, it does not matter

Location requirements

Ideally, the ability to sit or stand in a circle

Run Through

Prep Work (excluding materials)

Whether you think of this in a woo-woo way or a scientifically-based way, intention setting is powerful. You can think of it as calling your highest ideals into being by speaking them to the universe, or you can think of it as bringing your highest ideals to your conscious mind, planting seeds in your own psyche.
It is useful to set intentions even just for a short period -- like a meeting. Intentions can really be anything that you want to align yourself with or aim yourself toward.
Some examples:
- My intention is to be present, bringing my full mind and heart to the important work we are doing.
- My intention for this workshop is to keep my heart open when I get triggered and to be brave about being vulnerable.
- My intention is to do what it takes to break my last personal record of _____

Pre Exercise

Harvest

Throughout whatever period of time you are together for, periodically bring the intentions to mind. Ask each other how it is going with your intention or if anyone wants to further clarify or amend their intention.

Online

Potential for Solely Online & Blended Learning

Absolutely! This same method can be used online. Intention setting could happen with video (ideal) and can also work just via chat.

Impact

Hidden Curriculum The effect of a well-led intention setting experience can communicate the value of inner clarity, self-knowledge, self-awareness, and mindfulness.This can be very empowering and even transformative. It also can increase group cohesion and a sense of belonging.

Individual EmpowermmentAffirming every intention after it has been shared.

Group EmpowermentThere is certainly the potential for Setting Your Intention to be empowering for a group. The method can be led oriented toward the whole group setting a collective intention rather than each individual setting their own intentions.

ERASMUS +

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. Find more information about the program and its goals here: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/.

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