Conclusion
The purpose of this page is to reflect upon the outcomes of making this output packet and to share the benefits I have recieved from completing my first program cycle with Gaia University.
My first cycle with Gaia U took more than two years to complete. I will have been on program extension since Februrary 2013 until this OP is submitted for pro review this August 2014. Though I intended to be further along my pathway towards completing my degree by this point, I could never have predicted the immensity of life experience that has unfolded over the past two years. Designing, documenting, and reflecting upon these projects and life experiences has allowed me to share my creative process and essential un/learnings in a way that is coherent (and increasingly) well organized. Though I have felt challenged with how to most effectively and efficiently design OPs, when I remember to ask for help, organize my thoughts/resources, focus, and simplify, I developed definitive goals and am able to proceed with greater confidence and clarity. Over this time, my skill-sets have increased, I have new tools to better organize my projects and goals, my community and world-view continues to expand and embrace the great multiplicity of life, and I have learned how to be a more practically effective and overall useful human being.
Learning Review Outcomes
Designing this OP has reflected a framework of transformation, representing a progression from chaos to order. It is a microcosm of all I have experienced during my first cycle encounter with Gaia U. By utilizing the specific tools to construct this project, I now feel I have a clearer roadmap for designing my future OPs. Creating my learning review has allowed me to feel a greater sense of completion with all that has transpired since February 2012, both in my work with Gaia U, and in the overall unfolding of my life's journey. I feel a sense of renewed clarity and confidence from completing this project and an intention to carry the energy forth into my final capstone year with Gaia University.
Resource Review
My resources for this report were primarily based on first hand experience though I will list the links posted throughout the report below.
- A youth empowerment movement for social change.
- A multidisciplinary school and retreat center on the Big Sur Coast of California.
- A buddhist inspired liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado.
- A workshop symposium designed to help people reconnect with the inherent wisdom of the earth and their own heart's intelligence.
- A youth symposium designed by generation waking up.
- My first record
- Friend and producer of the SunDog Record as well as mastermind of the band Sleeper.
pranic breathwork/juice & dry-fast
- Transformational process designed by Akahi and Camila.
- A primitive skills, music and art gathering in southern California.
- Facebook page for the retreat center we almost purchased in Mendocino.
- A transformation musc and arts festival in northern California.
- Intentional community where I participated in my first Gaia U gathering.
Cosmic Convergence new years festival
- A musc and arts festival in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Indie gogo fundraising campaign (Ecstatic Union)
-An indie gogo campaign for my band ecstatic union.
- My previous Band.
- An intentional community on the island of omatepe, Nicaragua.
- An intentional community in Nosara, Costa Rica
- A form of transformational breathwork developed by Ashana Solaris and Dana Delong, inspired by the work of rebirthing breath-work
- Transformational healing arts, permaculture, and shamanic medicine institute in the Peruvian Amazon, soon to be relocated and built into an eco-village in the Manu Region of Peru.
Future Vision
The summer ahead is planned between finalizing review processes for past OPs, traveling through the US visiting sacred sites, connecting with friends and family, and performing at a summer music & arts festival in Northern Michigan. We will travel to Kauai to attend a wedding and celebrate the manna of mother earth and further integrate the process of living in community. In September we return to California and prepare for the next season's projects and adventures.
Though I intend to focus my upcoming projects upon musical creation, personal development, education, health, and community, I remain open to all of the opportunities and learning experiences which may sprout from my upcoming journeys.
(Kalalau Valley, Kauai)
Digiphon
The only digital systems I used for this OP were the Mahara portfolio platform and my sony nex digital camera.