7-week online community for kindred spirits seeking optimism and spiritual answers to the difficult questions Life hands us.
Join me and like-hearted others for 99 minutes of weekly
inspiration, positivity tools, and conversations that matter.
Beginning February 2, 2021
Crisis sets the soul on fire, fueled by sorrow, grief and anguish.
Yet, this same soul burns with an eternal inner flame, just waiting to be aroused by the fans of hope and possibility.
Powered by the virtues and values of human goodness – our inner flames can consume the darkness of despair with the lights of love and promise.
What if we discovered that within these life crises reside the seeds of opportunity for personal growth and spiritual transformation?
Fire in the Soul is a 7-week online community for kindred spirits seeking optimism and psychospiritual meaning in challenging times.
Together we’ll become explorers of the spirit as we search for the meaning, hidden blessings, and silver linings deep within the existential troubles of our day.
Week by week, we’ll cultivate spiritual optimism by using the best of what Positive Psychology has to offer, and by seeing our life crises as opportunities for growing the six core virtues that make life worth living, create authentic happiness and transform us into our best selves.
Transcendence – Wisdom – Humanity – Courage – Justice – Temperance
These 6 core virtues were identified by the two founders of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson, who searched the worlds’ most influential religions, cultures and philosophies to discover the truly essential and universal qualities conductive to human happiness and wellbeing.
The 6 Core Values are divided into 24 distinct character strengths that together light the path for a life well-lived. And the good news is we can grow and develop these virtues and strengths along our life’s journey.
We’ve added a 7th core value – Speaking Truth (to ourselves and to others).
The purpose of Fire in the Soul is to create a gathering place to explore the significant and relatable topics of the day, and to establish a safe space to share positive meaning from our life experience.
Together, we’ll engage in interactive exercises and lively discussion, and we’ll acquire some practical positivity tools, too. And along the way, we’ll develop some essential psychospiritual strengths that will help us see life from a higher/deeper perspective.
Each session will include a short presentation and a guided meditation, followed by one or more self-reflection questions on the week’s topic. Then we’ll engage in some cozy conversation in small groups of 3 or 4 in our Zoom break out rooms. The weekly positivity and embodiment tools will be shared next, and then we’ll have more time for Q & A before we wrap up. That adds up to 99 minutes of weekly inspiration, practical tools, and conversations that really matter.
Join me and a caring community Tuesdays 1 pm ET
beginning February 2, 2021
The topics will be timely… and challenging. But each week we’ll harvest the precious virtue and character strength buried inside. Together, we’ll navigate our troubles and spin them into gold!
What can you expect from attending “Fire in the Soul”?
- You’ll experience a safe place to explore the timely and sometimes troubling topics of the day – a sacred space to be heard and to offer the gift of deep listening to others.
- You’ll be guided by weekly self-reflection questions as part of a framework to illuminate the precious opportunities hidden within prevailing issues and dilemmas.
- You’ll develop an understanding of the 6 key human virtues and how we can cultivate them to evoke authentic happiness.
- You’ll feel enlivened through a weekly meditation and a mind-body exercise to help you embody and activate these virtues and character strengths.
Here are the weekly topics and their corresponding virtues:
- Week 1: “Crisis as Initiation” → The Virtue of Temperance
- Week 2: “The Hero’s Journey” → The Virtue of Justice
- Week 3: “The Fire of Transformation” → The Virtue of Courage
- Week 4: “Why Do Bad Things Happen”? → The Virtue of Love
- Week 5: “Truth Decay” → The Virtue of Speaking Truth
- Week 6: “Transforming Personal Fears” → The Virtue of Wisdom
- Week 7: “The Search for Meaning” → The Virtue of Transcendence
As a longtime scientist, psychologist, and spiritual seeker, who has focused on mind-body-spirit approaches for over 50 years, you just know I’m not going to leave you without a way to embody our lesson every week. As I was planning this program with my dear friend and creative partner, Gilah Rosner, we couldn’t help but notice how these virtues coincided with the chakra system.
Chakras are the subtle energy transducers between the psychospiritual realm and the human body. At each chakra dwells a key endocrine organ, innervated by a neural plexus. Activation at this site sends powerful hormonal, neuropeptide, and emotional messages of healing throughout the bodymind and beyond.
So, we’ll include a short exercise each week to deeply take that virtue to heart (and to the root, sacrum, solar plexus, throat, 3rd eye and crown as well!)
The Embodied Virtues
Working our way from Temperance to Transcendence, through meditation, contemplation, and conversation, little by little we’ll kindle the inner flame that consumes negativity. And we’ll awaken our awareness, build positive emotions, and cultivate the character strengths that create peacefulness, gratitude and resilience.
This is an experience you don’t want to miss! So, join me and other soulful sojourners for a poignant and practical exploration that ignites the FIRE in your soul.
- Tuesdays, February 2 – March 16, 2021
- 1 pm ET / noon CT / 11 am MT / 10 am PT
- 7 weeks, 99+ minute sessions, $333
I can’t wait to take this journey with you.
Love from Santa Fe,
Joan
Registration is closed
Refund Policy
Refunds will not be offered after January 30, 2021.
Instructive portions of sessions will be recorded.
Intimate breakout rooms will not be recorded.
Note: We use PayPal to process your credit card payments (at no extra charge to you). You do not need to have a PayPal account. Payments will be received by PayPal through Four Worlds Wellness, LLC. Your credit card statement will reflect a charge from PAYPAL*BORYSENKO (JoanBorysenkoCourse).