The Day of Beginnings (upon which we gaily sail away on the HMS Biggification!

• 5:00–7:15pm Orientation and beginnings.
  Learning how the ship of Biggification works. Getting to know each other, useful rituals and tools. And Pirate Troll Chickening, which may involve magic wands.
• 8:15 Meet outside our Quarters and we will adjourn to dinner
• 8:30 Dinner

The Day of Processing the Process (meta!)

I have said many a time that there is no biggification without destuckification. This is the day we learn all the skills, rituals and my best tricks for:

• recognizing when your stuff is coming up
• having specific things to do when your stuff comes up (things that get you back into clarity, focus, and enthusiastic doing)
• taking care of yourself while you’re working on your stuff

This involves both silly and serious things like games, treasure maps, writing, doodling, investigating and finding things out.

Then for the rest of our week together oh right, the rest of your life, you will have a personalized process for destuckifying your stuff whenever it comes up without being impressed by the fact that it exists.

Really you should just come for this. Because this will save you months (if not years) of pain, worry and agonizing decision-making.

The Day of Deconstruction and Discovering Useful Things

(possibly with your spyglass!)

This is where we figure out what our blocks to biggification look like and how they disguise themselves.

We destuckify them, process them, move them around and deconstruct them.

There will be dixie cups and safe rooms and information-gathering and bubble-blowing. It will be fun.

The day of Endless Horizons

(play, possibility, much destuckifying)

Oh boy! You-ness, Right People, connecting to your people, bringing your thing into the world (without having to define what exactly it is).

By the end of today you will have a much clearer idea of what your thing is and why it’s valuable, but you also won’t care so much about having to “get it right” and you won’t be stressing out over having to explain it coherently.

We’ll also learn about the science of establishing the culture of your kingdom and business so it feels fun and comfortable and safe for you and your people to hang out there.

The day of Rebuilding

(and implementing the Useful Things you discovered)

We’re figuring out the sexy art of hard-to-get marketing: how to create enclaves of welcoming and belonging for the kind of people you like.

We’ll practice sovereignty stuff, learn about our kooky, fabulous kingdoms and get better at everything we’ve been working on.

Also: building small (or large, if you like) committed communities of passionate fans.

(Except they’re not so much fans as the kind of people whom you adore as much as they adore you — the kind of people you want to play with and adventure with).

This will be considerably more fun than it sounds.

The Day of Extreme Resting!

(a most-of-the-day-off retreat from retreating)

Today is the day where we learn how to implement recovery and integration into the life of a biggified person.

Because rest is not only the duty of the queen (or king), it is the first duty.

You may do with this day what you wish:

Nap. Scribble. Run away.

Here is what I’m going to do with mine. And what I highly recommend, if you are looking for a thing to be done:

Grove Park Inn has a spa that can only be described as glorrrrious. It is outrageously great.

Whether you go in for a full-on goo-slathering or just get a quickie manicure, spending the day in the pools (hot, warm and cold), steam, sauna, lolling around by the water is pretty much the best thing ever.

You can let everything you’ve learned here absorb into your bones. And drink fruity drinks. Or have a beer.

This may in fact be your favorite day. But I’ll let you in on a secret: *whispers* It’s not really a day off.

Instilling the lesson deep in your body that all growth is supported by (and happens faster with) intentional loving self-care. That we give through getting better at receiving.

Something we all need to understand in order to biggify in a big and mindful way.

The Day of Preparation:

(bringing it all home)

Assimilation and implementation!

Learning how to bring back everything you have learned, experienced, processed.

Creating treasure maps that are actually plans and systems and full of smart things.

Rituals, tricks, techniques, transitions, spells, all sorts of goodness.

The Day of the Next Round of Beginnings:

(we return to the world feeling strong, powerful, expectant, prepared and playful)

A departure from this magical world of play and hilarity but the you-who-has-been-through-this-experience is now fully equipped to infuse every aspect of your life with the things you have learned here.

So it is not so much a departure as a moving through.

And we will have done a ton of work on how to destuckify transitions and make them work for you, so you will be very good at the moving through by this point.

There will be Awkward Inadequate Mediated goodbyes, some goofy rituals and important, useful things.

9–11:00 am

Please do not miss this.