Community, creativity, and calm all in one
Summer Camp starts this Monday
Hello and happy Friday!
Just a quick note to remind you about Summer Camp! We start this Monday, July 15th, and I don’t want you to miss out on the sweet community that's coming together, plus the 5-weeks of gentle accountability designed to help you slow down, connect inward, and be more intentional with your energy, attention, and focus so you can head into fall feeling grounded and fortified.
What’s SUMMER CAMP all about?
SUMMER CAMP is a 5-week a five-week hybrid course and community—created with summer schedules in mind—for people who want to reduce overwhelm, fear, and stuckness, and increase presence, joy, and creativity.
I’m calling it SUMMER CAMP because in addition to the weekly lessons and asynchronous accountability, participants will CHOOSE THEIR OWN ADVENTURE - you’ll be invited to commit to a daily practice for 5-weeks. Suggested pathways are a daily mindfulness practice; a daily creative practice; or a social media fast. But you are encouraged to choose whatever you like—I’ve already heard word of people recommitting to sobriety for 5-weeks, or abstaining from sugar.
Camp also includes two 1:1 coaching calls with me to deep dive on what in your life is currently most needing attention. You’ll fill out a (brief!) questionnaire before our conversations so we can dive right in and make our time together as impactful and helpful as possible.
What You’ll Get Out of SUMMER CAMP
By the end of 5-weeks, you’ll feel:
A deeper relationship to your inner self: Connect with your higher self as the driver of your life, with the inner critic where it belongs—in the backseat.
A greater capacity to listen and respond to your life as-is: Grounded, fortified and confidently facing life’s challenges, and less hooked by all the external noise.
Connected to a global creative community: Offer and receive support, inspiration, insights, and illuminations with an intimate and global group of other like-minded rad humans.
Does This Sound Like You?
You long to feel more connected to yourself, other people, and your communities and environments
You often feel overwhelmed, even paralyzed, by the state of reality
You deeply desire to be more creatively expressed but you are stuck and scared to start
You sort of kind of understand what it means to partner with chaos, but you could use some support actually doing so
You know you’re a more effective human when you’re grounded and centered but it’s JUST SO NOISY OUT THERE
You are curious about your curriculum and having conversations with other similarly minded individuals who are also curious
The thought of a flexibly structured “choose your own adventure” summer camp experiment sounds fun and admittedly haven’t had much of that in a while
If this is familiar, the good news is you're not alone. Most of the conversations I’m having with clients and the Self Made community are around these themes. Let’s practice a different way of being in the sweet SUMMER CAMP container, so we can be more effective when it really matters.
Welcome to SUMMER CAMP
Self Made SUMMER CAMP is a playground for developing both personal autonomy, and the capacity to listen for the ways that life is calling you forward. You will be encouraged to take risks, play with your comfort zones, ask for support, and be kind and sweet with yourself and each other.
Over the next 5-weeks, you’ll explore:
SELF-ASSESSMENTS AND MODELS FOR SELF-DEVELOPMENT: Greatly expand your toolkit with practices and exercises you can build on for the rest of your life
CONTEMPLATION: Experiment with various forays into mindfulness and discover what takes shape organically for you (vs. what you think you’re “supposed to” do).
LOOSEN THE GRIP OF IDENTITY: Learn how values shape identity and how to leverage your values as a tool for adaptation, decision making, and problem solving.
REDUCE URGENCY AND EMBRACE CHAOS: Counterintuitive? Maybe. Change your relationship with these forces, change your relationship to your experience of daily life.
How to CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
*If* you have a packed summer, you will be encouraged to commit to ONE experiment for the duration of the five weeks. If you have more space, you might choose two commitments. Don’t make this harder than it has to be. The point of this is not to DO MORE. It is to listen, and respond. What are you yearning for? What calls to you? What gives you that sense of excitement/nervousness in equal measure? Choose that option. And then let yourself be supported by others in the same experiment.
Get started
Ready to take the leap? Click the link below to join us for SUMMER CAMP.
***SUMMER CAMP is funner with friends! You’re humbly encouraged to forward this to your people ❤️🔥
This week is the last to enroll, we start on Monday, 7/15.
Questions? Just reply to this email—I’m here to help!
Who is Dani Cirignano
I am a writer, Certified Integral Coach, and Holistic Recovery Guide located in San Francisco, CA.
I help people learn how to work with—not against—their innate talents and gifts so they can design a bold, on-purpose life that aligns with their values.
I believe that it’s an expanded sense of joy, pleasure and play that is the ultimate aim of personal growth and self development.
I prefer the margins over the middle every damn time.
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