Art Of Staying Awake – Warrior Monk

Introduction

We’ll have a larger number of our long-time experienced core Warrior Monk staff, all with 12 years or more of staffing and all who work with these tools and practices as a living. This will allow for more individualized and small group work, not only at the retreat but in the pre and post program as well.

I’ve been personally inspired and challenged holding the following inquiry as of late: “Do these choices I make and the path I’m on on consistently enlarge my soul and this life, or conspire to make smaller?” I get from talking to some of you that this is resonates and is a place where we as seekers and allies can meet.

The Retreat
Next date to be determined, please inquire.
Life Cycle
Warrior Monk II: The Art of Staying Awake is a 5 night, 6 day retreat within a 4+ month program.

Advance pre-retreat work begins 6 weeks prior to the retreat, and continues for 2.5 months following.
Cost
Cost is $2,300. Includes meals and lodging, and all pre and post program service and support.

[ as always, we’ll be flexible about making finances work – talk to us if concerned ]
Group Size
Limited to 20 participants, must be enrolled 2 months prior to retreat.

Advance Work

Includes interview, coaching, assessing intentions and goals and enneagram typology work. Individual and group checking in and preparation.

Post-retreat Work

Includes both individual coaching and cohort group work. To include not only and accountability support but additional exercises and themes to integrate and open further.

All of what goes into Warrior Monk II: ASA will be infused with the same heartfulness, safety, fun, connection, and soulful intensity you were a part of in the past.

Key to what has made Warrior Monk truly transformative over the last 20 years is the people who’ve shown up and committed themselves, while fiercely caring for others in the circle. Please consider being that person again – that seeker and ally – in this next level cauldron.

Next Step

Registration

Some of the work: Expanded training and practice of sitting meditation. Body awareness exercises and restorative movement, including simple Qigong movements and breathing Re-clarifying and empowering of Mission - including finding your essential leadership strengths Becoming clear on the 2 or 3 core blocks we have to staying awake, working on those in this program and taking clear awareness and strategy for future living Core to this exploration is becoming aware of and reclaiming the exiled parts of ourselves that keep us in holding patterns Mind-work: Greater training in attention and focus, learning how to better make an ally of our minds. Creating a development plan with goals for your next two years. A plan that has heart and honors you fully. Through clear steps, increasing the “flow" in our lives that create more joy and connection Heart-centered meditation and prayer: we’ll teach and practice loving kindness and compassion meditations Using nature as an ally; providing grounding and heart-opening in our time on retreat, and after

Assessment, Opening, Challenge and Community

As the alchemical process of sacred intention and wisdom-based content for the program comes together, I’ve been working with a model of development I’m calling Assessment, Opening, Challenge and Community. It says something like:

Assessment: In order to know what spiritual, psychological and emotional growth to commit my precious life energy and courage toward, I must first assess where I am; with full honesty and and self-acceptance. ( a good dose of self-compassion helps here too! ) We can’t do that alone, so we’ll help each other in the pre-work. Our base-level good-enough-but-not settling launching-point.

Opening: What’s the work, connection, commitment, trust and safety needed to open ourselves into this next significant part of our journey? What may need to be cleared away to make possible? We’ll help guide each other into the conscious choice to open that will allow the necessary attention, courage and commitment to follow.

Challenge: To lean into the emerging and authentic edges of our more-authentic self takes people, tools and process outside of ourselves; in collaboration with that generative higher self we each hold within. We’ll have conscious challenge in place, for each other — with loving fierceness and compassion.

Community: True support makes each of us as humans flourish in alignment with our holy desired life; and resist the ever-present temptations to go back into our comfort zones and smaller lives. We know from experience the Warrior Monk cauldron holds this for each of us, and the after-program will extend that gift

( If I had to add a 5th element I’d call it Fun. We’re going to have some real fun together and further refine the Art of Staying Awake while not Taking Ourselves too Seriously )

Warrior Monk II is held at the beautiful Chinook Retreat / Whidbey Institute

Dan McKee

Dan McKee leads the Warrior Monk II: The Art of Staying Awake program with our most experienced key staff.