Manifesto PowerWood Real Life Events

Introduction

We welcome you and we are glad that you are considering to become part of the PowerWood Family.
We are organising PowerWood Real Life Events since 2011. To ensure the physical and emotional safety of all participants of events we have written the PowerWood Manifesto based on all the feedback and the experience of the participants and our experiences as being part of the PowerWood family.
Before Booking any Real Life Event we will ask you to confirm you have read Our Manifesto, Our Guidelines and Our Code of Conduct which together will generally inform you about what to expect and what our shared or strived for perspective is.

Striving is what it is all about

We are all just trying, so please don’t think anyone expects anything else from anyone, we don’t have to be afraid for not being able to follow the guidelines at all times, as we really believe it is a journey, but we do ask you to let us know when you struggle during the event (going through the advised channels) and allow us to support you according to our methods.

Our Manifesto

We are all, Adults, Teens and Children, the Best Person we can be

Whenever we or our child are not feeling, thinking or act in an unhelpful way, it’s just a flag up that something has changed or happened internally or externally that has challenged the Baseline and we and/or our child is experiencing the Cycle of Emotional and Sensory Overload. Our task is to play detective and unpick what is going on and besides emotional strengthening ourselves and our child find practical solutions to help ourselves and/or child to step out and prevent stepping in the Cycle.
Within PowerWood we strive to not get emotionally triggered by the unwished behaviour of ourselves, others and/or our child and offer support by staying Emotional Independent.

We’re all trying to be True to Ourselves as far as we are Aware

Our aim is to be true to ourselves, as far as we are aware, in this moment of time.
Enabling ourselves to grow towards our authentic self by respecting our own and others pace, by giving and receiving the space to be where we are in this moment of time, so that we are able to explore and connect with what is important to us now and in the future from our current perspective.
Within PowerWood we strive to model being true to ourselves to the people we love.

We are aiming for being in Charge of our own Life’s Direction

We accept what we cannot change, hope to make the distinction between what we can change and not and find the courage to change what we can change.
Only 10% of our minds is conscious, 90% is is in our subconscious and change is only possible when we are aware and accept where we are. We want to be able to use our energy and our abilities to achieve our personal goals and continue to be a compassionate contributor to our self chosen communities.
Within PowerWood we focus on raising awareness as a tool for change and self-direction.

We accept there is only a Personal Truth

Being on our journey to become more authentic and in charge of our own self-direction, we are aware that everyone is on their own right path, going their own right pace, trying to be as true to themselves as they are aware. We accept and acknowledge that everybody is living in their own reality and that it might significantly differ from our own.
Within PowerWood this means we are not generalising our own experiences into opinions and we respect, embrace and applaud in each other our different path and paces, belief systems and lifestyle choices.

We are the Experts and look within Ourselves for the Answers

We are the experts on ourselves, our family, our children, what is and what isn’t possible within our situation. We are the only person who has all the information and the overview of all clear and subconscious factors that play a role in our situation. We are unconsciously competent and are improving our confidence in listening to ourselves.
Within PowerWood all developed tools and strategies can be adapted to our insights, our personal belief system and/ or lifetime style choices.

Our Gift to ourselves and our loved ones is to model Change

We are trying to model to ourselves and our loved ones our ability to change, freeing ourselves from the subconscious dynamics of our upbringing or socially inheritance. We can always change what we want to be different in our lives. We have the power to define ourselves, our relationships and/or the situation and have a contingency plan if we don’t manage.
Within PowerWood through raising awareness despite uncomfortable feelings, modelling perseverance, determination and purpose we move forward to be in charge of our own life.

We see Glitching as a flag up

The way of living or the parenting of our parents is deeply ingrained in us due to the evolutionary survival value (Hey hoh we are still alive!).
Many of us make the conscious decision to not repeat certain practices of our parents.
To change we need to access of energy and emotional resilience and whenever we are tired, we are worried, feel challenged, we will ‘glitch’ back to the behaviour of our parents.
Within PowerWood we use Glitching as a flag up that we need to work on our Baseline.

We aim for Emotional Independence

We can be intense, super-sensitive, hyper-reactive human beings and can have above average emotional reactions that are not helpful in achieving our goals.
We acknowledge that when we feel strong emotions as a reaction to something that happened or was said, internally or externally, those emotions were already present in us otherwise they could not be triggered.
We are also aware that we might have the tendency to feel emotional involved in how our loved ones are feeling or that we feel that the behaviour of a loved reflects on us looking at our own situation through the eyes of others, making ourselves dependant on how others feel or behave. We have to let go of our short-term goals like: making our partner or children (or whoever) happy or trying to get them to behave in a certain way. We cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.
Within PowerWood we are trying to improve our ability to be in charge of our own emotional reactions by raising awareness about and unpicking the underlying Involuntary Mechanisms striving for Emotional Independence.

Striving is what it is all about

When Booking

Before Booking please make sure you have read The PowerWood Manifesto, the Guidelines and the Code of Conduct will together generally inform you about what to expect and what our shared or strived for perspective is.

Join Our Journey

You managed to come to the end of this document and we really want you to know that it is all about the journey. If you can recognise yourself in what we have described as something that you strive for, you (and your family) are very welcome. It will be our pleasure to welcome you in our PowerWood Family.