In line with my application for specialization, I have included the following sections:

• 2.2.1 "The Field in context of Permaculture"  describes how this OP relates to Holmgren's petal of Health & Spiritual Well Being.
• 2.2.1 "Design methodology" demonstrates how I use the design system of Permaculture to create this project on Health & Healing.
• 2.2.2 "Relocalization" focuses upon that aspect of my thesis that relocalization is crucial to the permaculture movement as a whole.
• 2.1.3 "Permaculture Principles" shows how I utilized Permaculture Principles throughout this project.

I am very happy with the skillflexes that I have developed.  I certainly feel that I stuck to some of the broad strokes that I have in my life regarding attitude or approach to living and projects, including Compassion, Acceptance and Joy.  OP2 basically went off as planned which in addition to fulfilling many of the stated goals within the Output Packet section also facilitated my reading of books that I had hoped to read and writing articles and creating videos that I had hoped to accomplish this year. 

I worked with Jim Gallas and Minh for the Reiki training.  I was able to offer my perspective and insights and have these valued.  I feel this offered me the opportunity to be a supportive follower.  I tried to gain wisdom from Jim and Minh around leading a Reiki training.  
Charlie Cascio and I worked as partners in the Land of Milk & Honey workshop.  We communicate well and play off each other easefully after working together for multiple decades.  Charlie is a mentor to me and in addition, we function as good partners.   Both Bea and Donna were helpers during this workshop and I assumed most of the responsibility regarding delegating tasks to them.  Both remarked that I did a good job leading the workshop and communicating with them.
Many different teachers/collaborators emerged during the 7 day herbal workshop that I attended toward my Herbalism Certification.  Miles is a great chi gong teacher with a light and airy ease that I would like to emulate as a teacher.  Nikki Paschar became a collaborator and we would have buddy calls talking about new product-making ideas.
On the technical side of the OP, my dad has been supporting the growth of the website.  He has recently finished teaching me to code in html.  This was good learning and some of the ways my dad expects communication to be done feels more efficient/business like than some of my friends who don't work within corporate America.  I enjoy that I am seeing patterns for making communication more effective. 

I renegotiated the due date back and back as life circumstances arose.  This felt very much in line with the philosophy of the OP of being happy and healthy while contributing toward goals and purpose.  The result is two-fold in that I had more time to make the OP better and I had a very happy approach to doing the work.   I do recognize that setting artificial deadlines assists me.  I am grateful to set them to inspire action and then change them to mitigate stress.   So, I am aware of a concept that promotes productivity in my life: "Intentionally Deadlining Aware of Intended Renegotiation."  (Incidentally, I use a similar trick of telling people I do something that I want to invite into my life as a practice.  I have found no more effective technique for myself in inspiring personal action than telling someone I already did it because in my brain I can rationalize that I didn’t lie if it shortly becomes true.)    Two great self deception techniques that I am grateful I can use to inspire growth.

As a zone 0 project, I think everybody's process will necessarily be distinct.  I do highly encourage researching perspectives on best practices and pattern to bring health & happiness into your life from ancient philosophical systems to modern day TED talks.  Certainly, one may fall upon different primary patterns and strategies than how I have articulated them; however, there is a general trend amongst the research to find between 4 and a dozen significant factors that are related to optimizing personal health.  Then, as we see clearly within nutrition or exercise, there are vastly different philosophies toward maximizing personal health.  I do contend that offering people your perspective on the major patterns to become aware of with a few Best Practices in each pattern/theme is a useful technique. 

The few times I acted with others, I feel I made clear communication a priority and with each of my collaborators, time and energy was well respected and well spent.  
For most of this OP, I was managing myself.  I am enthusiastic and grateful to my own process of managing my time.  I renegotiated due dates multiple times in order to create what I believe to be very valuable content AND I did it in a good way.  I predominantly was enthusiastic about "getting" to do this.  I am grateful that I created space for myself to express ideas and beliefs that have been stewing for decades.  I am hopeful regarding creating space for myself to create a book on causality and a parody of Troilus and Cressida.  

What went well?

 I loved so much of this project.  I loved finding patterns in themes that have interested me for years: stress, happiness, exercise, nutrition, the pause, awareness.  This project has increased my own personal practices including exercise routine, time in nature and time playing.  I have felt very validated in both bringing together years of wisdom both in the form of this OP and in personal practices in my life.

What was Challenging?

Health is vast and all encompassing.  There are so many considerations.  It was hard to cap this OP in terms of what is connected to what.   "Everything is connected."  It seemed that whenever I achieved a framework, a new challenge/opportunity would arise.  This continually reminded me of the Buddhist teaching of the master who changed the rules at the monastery as soon as the disciples “systemitized them”.  I do believe that awareness and attitude are perhaps trump on this field as even good exercise and nutrition don’t stop broken bones or quinoa in the teeth. 

What would  I do differently next time?

I am quite happy with my execution of this OP.  In my next lifetime (or as I move into the future), I intend to take better notes when I am living each experience of my life so that I have more substantial documentation to pull from regarding experiences of 1 - 20 years ago.  This often occurs to me as to "write down what seems obvious now."  As invariably, I seem to forget so much of what seemed so obvious even just a year ago. 

What are my next achievable steps?

I hope to get all of this information up on my website and I am very excited that I have a framework to add new KEY insights in my life.  In addition, there are some articles that emerged while working on this OP that I hope to work on over the next couple of months/years. 

NEW ARTICLES

1. Home water filter