summer school worksheet week 4
Summer
School
2017
Week Four Worksheets
Big Picture Planning
Welcome to the fourth and final week of Summer School! This week we’re going to be making our Big Picture Plan. I see a Big Picture Plan as a snapshot of how we’d like out life to be. It can be as detailed or as simple as you would like it to be, but I’m hoping that it will have its roots in the elements we composted down from our dreaming exercises in week two of the course. Our Big Picture Plan will be something for us to focus on, hold on to and refer to over the next twelve months as we continue to shepherd our lives in the direction we want them to go. In moments of doubt or distraction we can look at our Big Picture Plan and be reminded what is most important to us and what we are committed to.
What have you learnt is most important to you?
We’re going to start by looking back to last week’s composting exercise. What emerged as the most important aspects of the dreams you explored in week two? These things are necessarily complete projects or ideas (in fact they probably aren’t), instead they are aspects or elements of those ideas or projects. The core of what attracted you to the dream. Pick the up to three of these core elements and write them on the page opposite. These are what are going to form the roots of your Big Picture Plan. For me, what has emerged is that I want to: 1. Sit more. 2. Build something. 3. Record my life in my creative work.
Starting your Big Picture Plan
I have two ways of tackling making a Big Picture Plan (if you have a different idea of your own, then by all means go with that). The first idea is write a snapshot of how you’d like your life to look in a years time. This is the reverse of the exercise we did in week one of the course, when we looked back twelve months and wrote about how our lives look then. Imagine a day a year from now and write about what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, how the last year has gone and what you like about the shape of your life. Imagine that the core elements you wrote on the previous page figure large in your life. How do they fit in? How do they shape your life. You might like to write this as a reflective journal entry, or as a letter to a friend telling them about your life.
A BIG Big Picture!
I’d like to encourage you to round off Summer School by making a real big picture of you Big Picture Plan! Finding a way to make a physical representation of you Big Picture Plan and then keeping it somewhere prominent in your world will help you stay on track with what’s most important to you for the next twelve months. The act of making the big picture will also add an extra level of engagement with your plan. Getting down and dirty with paper, pens, glue and sticky tape is a wonderful way to explore your ideas, plans and dreams at a deeper level. Also, it’s fun! Collect together pictures from magazine, print images you find online, draw your ideas. Work with whatever works for you. Make a collage on a large sheet of paper, the back of a door or even on a wall. Keep the finished image (or a photo of it) somewhere you’ll see it often for the next twelve months.
School
2017
Week Four Worksheets
Big Picture Planning
Welcome to the fourth and final week of Summer School! This week we’re going to be making our Big Picture Plan. I see a Big Picture Plan as a snapshot of how we’d like out life to be. It can be as detailed or as simple as you would like it to be, but I’m hoping that it will have its roots in the elements we composted down from our dreaming exercises in week two of the course. Our Big Picture Plan will be something for us to focus on, hold on to and refer to over the next twelve months as we continue to shepherd our lives in the direction we want them to go. In moments of doubt or distraction we can look at our Big Picture Plan and be reminded what is most important to us and what we are committed to.
What have you learnt is most important to you?
We’re going to start by looking back to last week’s composting exercise. What emerged as the most important aspects of the dreams you explored in week two? These things are necessarily complete projects or ideas (in fact they probably aren’t), instead they are aspects or elements of those ideas or projects. The core of what attracted you to the dream. Pick the up to three of these core elements and write them on the page opposite. These are what are going to form the roots of your Big Picture Plan. For me, what has emerged is that I want to: 1. Sit more. 2. Build something. 3. Record my life in my creative work.
Starting your Big Picture Plan
I have two ways of tackling making a Big Picture Plan (if you have a different idea of your own, then by all means go with that). The first idea is write a snapshot of how you’d like your life to look in a years time. This is the reverse of the exercise we did in week one of the course, when we looked back twelve months and wrote about how our lives look then. Imagine a day a year from now and write about what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, how the last year has gone and what you like about the shape of your life. Imagine that the core elements you wrote on the previous page figure large in your life. How do they fit in? How do they shape your life. You might like to write this as a reflective journal entry, or as a letter to a friend telling them about your life.
A BIG Big Picture!
I’d like to encourage you to round off Summer School by making a real big picture of you Big Picture Plan! Finding a way to make a physical representation of you Big Picture Plan and then keeping it somewhere prominent in your world will help you stay on track with what’s most important to you for the next twelve months. The act of making the big picture will also add an extra level of engagement with your plan. Getting down and dirty with paper, pens, glue and sticky tape is a wonderful way to explore your ideas, plans and dreams at a deeper level. Also, it’s fun! Collect together pictures from magazine, print images you find online, draw your ideas. Work with whatever works for you. Make a collage on a large sheet of paper, the back of a door or even on a wall. Keep the finished image (or a photo of it) somewhere you’ll see it often for the next twelve months.
