I’ve been on the road for a week or so traveling to the Association for Experiential Education conference in Denver as well as The Leader Within Leadership Retreat at Bishop’s University. The week has been filled with reflection and spending time with dear friends, mentors, and students. I think I have been craving some reflection/setting direction time and I have appreciated all the long chats, walks, workshops, and specifically, a collage making time.

The picture above is the visioning collage I created as part of the Leader Within retreat. Rather than having a set idea/image I was aiming for, I instead, looked through magazines for anything that caught my attention. I then assembled them into the collage above. I had done one 1.5 years ago at the same retreat and it’s insightful to see what has changed and what has stayed the same in my vision/view.

In my presentations, I talk about the need to alternate between our view and our footsteps (our mission and our action). The nature of life is change and thus our vision/view/goals change as well and I’m appreciative of the time and space to do some checking in with myself about my view and where I want to be heading. I did the collage last night and this morning, spent some time writing in reaction to the collage. I wrote the following poem using the words I’d chosen for the collage and I’ll be musing about what path(s) this new view will lead me towards. What’s in your view these days?

The View

Coast to coast ready for adventure

Far, boldly go.

Awe, art, connect wanted.

Coast to coast itinerary

Everything, nothing, both.

The spirit road trip marathon.

Coast to coast mining hope

Rooted in the past

Muse.

Discover hidden adventures

Stories beyond the compass

Renaissance.

Rediscovering experiences

Plan your life on a mission

Map your road trip.

The best of what we’re made of

The trip of a lifetime

Searching good-bye.

Remixed wander

See call of the wild

Nature.

Special delivery

In your words

Beyond home tweet home.

Digital nomad

Exceptional takeoff

Power journey.

Move learn listen

How to age well

Take command.

Find treasure

A slice of heaven

Peak experiences.

Weighing you down?

Where will you go?

Transitions

Relief

Go!