Week 19--in which we deep soul write--with friends!

Beautiful Ones,

On April 23, 1997, my life changed. Totally. Completely. Irretrievably. I think we all have these fulcrum markers in life: before and after. Before the diagnosis, after the diagnosis. Before the breakup, after the breakup. Before sobriety, after sobriety.

For me it’s before deep soul writing and after deep soul writing.

Before deep soul writing, I had a few careers that might surprise you.

Teaching deaf children

After getting a master’s degree, I taught deaf children for ten years. I created the first mainstreamed deaf/hearing kindergarten class in California, got promoted to principal, earned a masters in administration, and got promoted to program specialist.

I thought (silly me) I’d found my life’s work.

People kept telling me I was on my way to becoming the superintendent of special ed. But in 1980, my boyfriend became the first director of field operations at CNN and we moved to Atlanta. I visited a school for the deaf there and walked away knowing I had come to the end of my special ed career.

Recruiting

What happened next surprised me.

A VP at CNN asked me to manage the 2nd shift of CNN Headline News. I told him I knew nothing about television; I’d never even touched a TV camera. And besides, we’re friends. If you had a hot meal, I reminded him, it was probably at our house. But he kept pushing, so I said I’d come for an interview, thinking he couldn’t miss how unqualified I was. After ten painful minutes, I said, “Let me just go watch.”

I stood behind the director, technical director, and others whose titles I didn’t know. I watched how the whole team constructed the show in the moment, choosing from the bank of screens with anchors, freshly edited tapes, graphics, fonts, maps…. I watched people running (literally) to get live news on air. I watched perfect timing, mistakes, and recoveries.

I watched and I watched and I watched.

Finally, I walked into the VP’s office and said, “I’ll take the job.” He looked startled. I said, “Listen, you don’t need someone who knows about TV equipment, you need a principal who hires good people, encourages them when they’re on track, redirects them when they’re not.

And I am a very good principal.”

It turned out it was the hiring part of my operations supervisor job that was the secret to my next career.

I hired a bunch of video journalists for Headline News. Unbeknownst to me, the president of CNN was watching and increasingly annoyed that the VJs at CNN Headline News were superior to the VJs at the mother ship.

So one day, I was unceremoniously traded to CNN, stashed in a tiny office across from the executive bathroom, and told to fix the VJ hiring problem. That’s when I learned that CNN had 100% turnover in this essential entry level job. And it was up to me to fix it. Pronto. So I did. I stumbled upon how to find the right people for this odd, middle-of-the-night, underpaid job. I hired 159 new VJs and CNN went from 100% turnover to less than 2%.

And thus, was born my human resource life. An ability that carried me out of CNN, into a Fortune 500 search firm, and finally into independent consulting.

I was sure I’d found my life’s work. Or maybe not.

As you know if you’ve read Writing Down Your Soul, my marriage imploded in 1997 in a dramatic and violent way. And with it went my clients, income, savings, home, any sense of security, and almost all my friends.

I was left with no resources. Except my journal.

On April 23, 1997, I picked up a pen, opened a blank journal, and stumbled upon a way to activate an extraordinary internal voice. A voice of wisdom. Of guidance. Of comfort. A voice that taught me how to ask questions, hard questions, questions I had been unwilling to ask. And a voice that taught me how to listen, really listen, to the responses.

I learned to trust that voice. Follow that voice.

• Three years of asking and listening led to financial security.
• Nine years led to getting a contract to write Writing Down Your Soul.
• Ten years led to uncovering science that explains how deep soul writing works. Psychology. Psycho-neuro-immunology.
• And the biggee: brainwaves.
• Specifically, the elusive mystical theta brainwave state.

After ten years, I was ready to teach others how to activate the extraordinary voice within by dropping into mystical theta. I’ve been teaching deep soul writing ever since. And weaving soul writing into everything I offer.

Deep soul writing is THE foundation of not just everything I offer, but the foundation of all mystical and creative practices.

Turns out, theta is the only brainwave in which you have access to breakthrough thinking, creativity in all forms and expressions, and mystical experiences of all kinds.

Scientists, inventors, artists, mystics, musicians, writers, poets, actors...me and you.

Everyone has access to the mystical theta brainwave state. You just need to train yourself to get there.

A few questions that might be surfacing right now:

• How do I drop into theta?
• Are there multiple ways?
• How do I recognize theta?
• Do I have to be writing to access theta?
• Who is the voice? Are there multiple voices? Do they change over time?
• How can I tell the difference between my imagination and the voice?
• How can deep soul writing help me navigate my life?
• Can soul writing reduce my stress?

Those are just a few of the questions people ask about deep soul writing. All of these and more will be addressed in Deep Soul Writing with Friends—my first soul writing intensive in four years.

But here’s an important thing about this intensive. Although my creative partner, Cathy Stevens Pratt, and I are offering it. We try to avoid the word teach.

I am not your teacher.

• Sure, after 28 years of deep soul writing.
• After 28 years of exploring its endless faces and facets.
• After 28 years of training myself to drop into theta around the clock. Turns out we are wired to have access to theta falling asleep, in the night, and waking up.
• After 28 years of discovering how soul writing expands into soul talking, soul listening, soul dreaming, soul sketching, soul reading and more,
• I am not going to teach you anything!

Instead, Cathy and I have designed an intensive that is totally experiential.

We’re creating 3 radically different soul writing experiences in each gathering, so YOU can discover for yourself what soul writing is and how it can come alive in every aspect of your life.

Because it’s my first soul writing intensive in four years, and because I have three massive projects to complete, I will not offer soul writing again for at least another five years, so I decided to do something you might consider crazy.

• I am charging what I charged when I first started teaching soul writing!
• Any sensible marketing expert would advise against that!
• And—this is even wilder—you can bring friends for just $54 each.

Why is the “and friends” piece so important?

Read the landing page for the answer to that question.

And be sure to watch the very fun video Cathy and I created for you.

Take a moment to fully appreciate the mystical insights that Cathy wove into this painting. It captures the joy of soul writing and how it is amplified with a friend.

And peruse the content. Even if you've been in multiple soul writing events with me, this is completely different.

Deep Soul Writing with Friends!

We gather for four Tuesdays in June from 6 to 8pm eastern. June 3, 10, 17, 24

• That’s 5p central, 4 mountain, 3 pacific, 12 Hawaii, 7p Atlantic and Wednesday morning  throughout the Pacific Rim.
• For those in other time zones, I’ll create a watch party on Thursdays at 1p eastern which is 6p UK, 7p EU, 8p Eastern Europe.
• Everything will be recorded and posted in our password protected Resource Page within 24 hours.

Although I’m grateful for my teaching and recruiting careers, I do believe that thanks to deep soul writing and the mystical theta brainwave state, I have found my true calling, don’t you think!

I'm wondering what deep soul writing will do for you and your friends, 

Janet

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