A Year of Living Dangerously -

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David, the main character in The Caravan of Remembering reflects,

“I saw Caravan moving through this universe outside of time, holding us, calling us to honor our agreement with the One that sent us. I felt the unending patience and grace of the work in Caravan.”

What David is experiencing in Caravan is something that is available to all of us to touch in to. The conversation of life mission is placed in a context of a groups of pilgrims sitting around campfires in the absolute desert having conversations about life mission. There is a sense of spacious presence to this work, one that we can access when we reflect on the questions being offered us by the Caravan guides in the book with presence.

A Year of Living Dangerously offers an entry point to The Caravan of Remembering. The course is a two-fold experience – a weekly email and an accompanying podcast. The weekly email includes an excerpt from the book and a few steps to encourage reflection. In their podcast, James Tousignant and Carissa Kazyss their personal responses to the quote of the week for about 10 minutes. We do this so you can feel in the company of others, perhaps sitting around the campfire with us.

See below for a few of the course emails.

You might be wondering why this is called ‘A Year of Living Dangerously.’ We felt inspired by the title because it prompts us to stretch outside of our comfort zones, as life mission often asks us to do. The perceived ‘danger’ is only to the part of us that might not want to change. And, our excerpts are actually very gentle, like dropping a pebble in a pond.

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52 emails sent weekly on Sundays
52 accompanying podcasts with James and Carissa
full course archives available for 1 year

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A Year of Living Dangerously Course Samples

Week 15: For the Love of the Game

Welcome to week fifteen. This week, David reflects on the saying "for the love of the game" in relation to his life's mission.

Excerpt:

“For the Love of the Game.” I used to hear that phrase in reference to Michael Jordan. I thought he represented something that was important for me to understand. Can we really do our life mission without on some level being in touch with this “love of the game”?

When I think about why I’m here and how I would bring this love of the game to my work in the world, the love of the game begins to breathe in me. I’ve felt that missing for longer than I can remember. Maybe it’s always been missing. I long for the passion and joy that the “love of the game” symbolizes to me. I want it to radiate and inform my way in both worlds. The being of my life mission deserves this. We all deserve to have this love of the game in our life.

It was time for me to remember what to do with my life.

The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 4, Committing to the Process of Life Mission, p.73

Reflection on the Quote:

1. Read the excerpt, if possible, three times.

2. Dwell upon the phrase or sentence that touches you.

3. Ask yourself what relevance or application this has to yourself.

4. Reflect on the question, What would you do “for the love of the game”?

5. Contemplate these things in the coming week.

Listen to this week's reflections on I Heart Radio.

Week 18: Believing Anything is Possible

Welcome to week eighteen. This week, Kairos invites David to reflect on what he wants now, what he wanted when he was younger, and his beliefs about whether anything is possible.

Excerpt:

I sit at the edge tonight as we are about to begin, thinking about the many things I have wanted over the course of my life, a question Kairos left us with. I could say they changed since I was young, and yet that isn’t entirely true. Most of what I want now, I’ve wanted all my life.

Kairos asked me what I believed.

He said to me, “If you believe you want something else now, the next question is why. Why do you want something you didn’t want when you were a teenager? Is this because you have grown up, or is it because you stopped believing in your dreams? Did you believe anything was possible, and, if so, what happened to that belief? Whether your dreams have changed or not, it is important to take the moment given in Caravan to contact what you really want now. If you find that you do not remember what you wanted when you were young, call to your seven-year-old self. Call to your teenager within. See if you can get in touch with the part of you that had a dream for your life when you were young.”

He asked me if I remembered a time when I considered anything possible.

The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 7, Considering Your Life Mission, p.136-137

Reflection on the Quote:

1. Read the excerpt, if possible, three times.

2. Dwell upon the phrase or sentence that touches you.

3. Ask yourself what relevance or application this has to yourself.

4. Consider what you really want now, what you wanted as a 7 years old and as a teenager, and what has changed.

5. Have you believed that anything is possible? What has happened with that belief?

6. Contemplate these things in the coming week.

Listen to this week's podcast on I Heart Radio.

Week 47: Your Company of Players

Welcome to week forty-seven. This week, David reflects on the coming together of a new company of players for his life in the horizontal world.

Excerpt:

I reflected again on Viola’s wish in Shakespeare in Love to spend her whole life dreaming if she could do it in the company of players. She meant fellow actors. When I set out to do design and illustration, these incredible beings were my company of players, and I had come to love them. Now, I was being called to a new company of players. I thought each domain or life mission field must have its own stage, its own theater. Just as I had become aware of my company of players in Caravan, and Anna was to be first in my new horizontal world company, each of us in the horizontal world needed to find our place and our company of players.

How do we move our part of the play, our work, out into the world? Every one of us has that question. My question now was how to move my life mission into the horizontal world. With help from my teachers in Caravan, I began to have an inkling of how it could come into form. There was also the question of how to translate the work itself to this world of more than six billion stages.

As I watched the design team showing up over the morning and the assignments being delegated, I thought about the creativity needed to bring something into manifestation and completion. Bringing the work of Caravan to the horizontal world called for these same skills I had honed as fine artist, musician, graphic artist/designer, and even scientist. I had a sense of all the pieces of my life fitting together to support the embodiment of my life mission. Watching the meetings and early sketches beginning to surface, I began to see the horizontal world work of Caravan emerging.

These people had been my family for one life mission, and now I would find the new family for the rest of my life mission. Creativity and surrender would lead me to these people and opportunities, along with synchronicity, serendipity, intention, and will. All of these had been foundation for the process before, and now I would use these same pieces to embody Caravan’s work. Colleagues and associates would come of the orbit of our common love and intention, I thought. I hoped. It was time to find my company of players, who played for the love of the game, and would choose a lifetime of dreaming the dream of their hearts.

The Caravan of Remembering, Chapter 11, Moving into the world, p.217-218.

Reflection on the Quote:

1. Read the excerpt.

2. Dwell upon the phrase or sentence that touches you.

3. Ask yourself what relevance or application this has to yourself.

4. Sense into the possibility of new company of players coming into your life. What will lead you to these people? You could also sense into your current company of players and what brought them to you.

5. Contemplate this in the coming week.

Listen in as James and Carissa reflect on this week's Caravan assignment.