{"id":258,"date":"2019-01-01T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/?p=258"},"modified":"2019-01-01T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:04:59","slug":"recruiting-people-who-want-to-engage-the-process-of-renewed-self-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Recruiting people who want to engage the process of renewed self discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q1: What does NEW FUTURES actually offer me? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: An opportunity to engage the process that can improve your experience of the days and weeks of the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Our practice offers a NEW FUTURE to people who know, at some level, that it\u2019s time for something more, different, and better for the rest of their life than what they have experienced to date. Something <em>new<\/em>! It is based on a client-centered program we call Conscious Aging as a Spiritual Practice (CASP).<\/p>\n<p>Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn\u2019t. Ask yourself: \u201c<strong>Do I <em>really<\/em> want 2019 to be a repeat of 2018 <\/strong>\u2026 or any other year?\u201d Alternatively, \u201cwhat stops me in 2019 from doing something I\u2019ve always wanted to do, but couldn\u2019t because\u2026? (Fill in your own long-squelched desire, and inability to pursue it.) Relatedly, ask yourself, \u201cwhat part, or parts, of my already-lived life would I like to let go of now?\u201d \u2026so I can begin in 2019 to do something (name it) that I really want\u2014or believe I might like?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q2: What is <\/em>Conscious Aging as a Spiritual Practice?<br \/>\n<\/strong>A: <strong>The key words are <em>conscious<\/em> and <em>practice<\/em><\/strong>. In younger adulthood most of us unconsciously move through our workaday life taking care of everyday responsibilities that never seem to end. Raising our kids and\/or doing our job without thinking too much about how these normal activities nurture our spirit and soul. Or not! At midlife, and in retirement, this pre-programed busyness gives way to open time; into which a variety of new questions and confusions begin to take root.<\/p>\n<p>CASP entails becoming increasingly conscious of, and paying close attention to those questions, and what they signify. Typically, they relate to hopes, dreams, aspirations, and needs that nurture us and give us life as we age. Or other notions that drain it from us. In response, CASP entails increasingly conscious motivation and commitment to do more of what nurtures and less of what drains. The more we do this as a regular practice, the better life gets for us, by our own measures of \u201cbetter.\u201d As clients increasingly experience the benefits of doing what nurtures their soul, and less of what doesn\u2019t, the easier and more natural it gets to do more. That is, the more it becomes a spiritual practice; one that nurtures their deepest selves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q1: What does NEW FUTURES actually offer me? A: An opportunity to engage the process that can improve your experience of the days and weeks of the rest of your life. Our practice offers a NEW FUTURE to people who know, at some level, that it\u2019s time for something more, different, and better for the<a href=\"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/?p=258\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newfutures.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}