Cultivating a Mentoring Program
and a
Collaborative Co-creative WHQ chi field of teachers and healers
The Mentoring Program within Wisdom Healing Qigong is a living example of the chi field's support through our informed, reflective, conscious and activated response to each other. As Mingtong shares frequently, as our path moves on up the mountain there are many view points with different perspectives that engage us; some elicit joy, some great challenge. As we walk together cultivating our Gong, (our virtue and the free flowing nature of our energy) we benefit from our shared experience. In sharing together, supporting each other and providing each other with energetic patterns for copying, our personal experiences benefit the collective field. Haola!
Our mentoring program is a purposeful effort to bring forth our potential as WHQ teachers and healers. Self Assessment and the capacity to be self reflective and interdependent is a key to our cultivation.
Steps to the Survey:
1) Set aside a generous period of time (1-2 hours suggested), set a powerful chi field, using an audio file of Linling singing the chifield song or the chifield setting from a retreat or practice file if you have one. Visualize yourself held in the heart of our collective community.
2) You are engaged in this level because of your already deep commitment to this practice. Take the opportunity to look deeply in this engagement with these questions. Initiating a time of fruitful personal reflection. Work through the questions, adding your own reflections as they arise from the process.
3) With a chi buddy, set aside some time together, in person, on Skype or the phone and explore your answers. The purpose being that as we listen to each other, we empower other dimensions of opening and understanding that arise from the shared journey. Agree on a listening pattern that feels good for the two of you.
4) With your chi buddies support, articulate some goals, intentions, desires that can guide your participation in our community over the next period of time. Write them down and bear witness to each others intentions. Visualizing that for them. Include what kinds of support from our chi community would help you realize your desires.
5) Send an email summarizing your personal goals, and the kind of support you desire from the community to the Mentoring Group (Amy, Guma). Let us know if you have skills to offer the group at this point in your cultivation. Visualize our collaborative efforts bearing fruit. Please have this process completed by December 1, 2011.
6) Continually participate in the process by empowering our chi field.
Haola. HYLT XXSC…………….. Amy and Guma
Wisdom Healing Qigong Mentoring Survey
How do you see yourself as an active participant in the WHQ chi field?
_____ Exploring deeply
_____ Leading a chi circle
_____ Motivated and engaged in becoming a WHQ teacher
_____ Track 1 teacher, happy here
_____ Desiring to join in Track 2
_____ Track 2 teacher, happy here
_____ Seeking to be Senior Teacher
_____ Seeking certification as a WHQ Healing Professional
_____ WHQ Healing Professional, happy here
_____ Other:
What was your original purpose of participating in WHQ? What is your purpose now? What is the deep desire behind naming your purpose in this way?
Gong Cultivation:
Among all the dimensions of your life currently, how important is Gong cultivation within Wisdom Healing Qigong (WHQ). Gong Cultivation: cumulative benefit of your practice, your flow, your integrity, your essential nature as Source )
1 2 3 4 5
honestly, not very there is nothing more important to me right now
Reflect on your level of engagement and your deep purpose both now and in the future. How the other dimensions of your life flow or challenge this.
In your personal Gong cultivation, what are your strengths? (physical, energetic, emotional, spiritual, practice, dedication, will power, joyfulness, patience, etc)
In your personal Gong cultivation, what are your challenges? ? (physical, energetic, emotional, spiritual, practice, dedication, will power, joyfulness, patience, etc)
WHQ chi field engagement:
From your own perspective, how actively engaged are you in the WHQ chi field?
1 2 3 4 5
dis-engaged over engaged
Reflect on your level of engagement as to how it serves your deep purpose both now and in the future. Balancing all dimensions of your life.
As someone engaged in the cultivation of the WHQ chi field, what are your strengths and interests? What gifts do you bring to the collective accumulative journey we are taking together? Reflect on your unique qualities, skills and intentions that flow into the larger WHQ chi field.
As someone engaged in the cultivation of the WHQ chi field, what are your challenges? What keeps you feeling separate, distant or dis-engaged? What makes it difficult to participate? or unsatisfactory, or unpleasant? Where is the chi flow blocked or sticky?
Notice. Meditation on what you have noticed. Where is it within your body and within your experience? What is internal and what is external? Notice the dynamic and visualize you /our way forward. What lessons from your WHQ and other practices help you name what has changed and what is yet to flow freely?
How are you currently involved in WHQ chi field?
Volunteer at events
Teaching classes for students
Healing, informally
Healing, formal practice
Resource, fundraising, other types of support please note what
Other:
What's most important to you about participation in the WHQ chi field?
Integrating personal purpose and WHQ chi field cultivation:
How is realizing your personal purpose, your own potential, linked to the WHQ chifield?
How might we support our collective journey as we support each other’s personal purpose fulfillment?
Reflect on any barriers that seem to be stopping the free flow of chi between you and the community. What might bring the greatest benefit, and flow to both?
Step back for a moment and see the WHQ chifield in side the pattern of all of the groups and communities of your life, how are they informing each other and serving each other to bring forth your potential and the highest good.
Professional development
Write down your most important personal goals or intentions for activating your capacity as a teacher, healer or community leader.
Note any significant personal limitations that would need your attention to reach your goals
Picture where you’d like to be in 6 months time in relationship to your goal.
Then write down a positive statement about where you will be in 6 months: Visioning, for example: “I will be a teacher who is confident and supportive of those with chronic illness”.
Now, with these goals in mind:
What skills do you need to acquire? First in terms of learning WHQ practices ... Be honest about which practices you need to refine to teach others, and what ways you can be humble when you do not know a practice completely
What skills do you need to acquire in terms of capacity for energy transmission ... Write a statement that describes specifically what you need to develop in this arena i.e. focused visualization, emptying mind of distractions, clear intention etc,
What skills do you need to acquire with relational capacities (listening deeply, honoring uniqueness, clarifying the difference between my needs and student’s needs etc....) Write a statement that describes relational blocks that come up for you, they may be with particular people or situations.
What skills do you need to have an increase sense of joy and aliveness, a greater free flow of energy? Write a statement of your sense of what might activate a greater flow for you.
What skills do you need speaking, teaching, sharing about WHQ theories, methodologies and methods of practice? Please reflect on your capacities, gifts and needs.
What skills do you need in the logistics and business side of realizing your potential? Please reflect on your capacities, gifts and needs. (Insurance, publicity, on-line presence, tax, organizing events, follow up with students)
WHQ professional support community
Currently, with your own personal and professional goals in mind, what kind of support do you desire from the WHQ community?
_____ I’d like a mentor to meet with once a month, in person, Skype or phone for activating my potential, seeking wisdom together, cultivating skills and honoring the intentions I have set for myself and the practices I am exploring to cultivate my capacities. This mentor would be someone who has realized some of what I desire to achieve myself.
_____ I prefer a chi buddy to journey with, someone with similar progress in WHQ cultivation.
_____ I’d like to be a part of a group of other WHQ active participants, seeking like I am to sincerely cultivate Gong, meeting quarterly in some location.
_____ group classes to teach me details of teaching WHQ forms, or other specific goal.
_____ private session to get very specific personal support
_____ none, Im figuring it out on my own
_____ Other:
Visualize the community support and engagement that flows freely and fruitfully for you for the benefit of all. Share your vision:
What are your thoughts on compensation for those facilitating, mentoring and or teaching these programs, realizing one day you may be in this role?
Cultivating a Mentoring Program
and a
Collaborative Co-creative WHQ chi field of teachers and healers
Summary Statement
(please email to JudyGuma Tretheway (judytre@gmail.com) and Amy Cooper (vasalisa@gmail.com) by December 1, 2011. Haola. HYLT XXSC
These are ways I can support myself in realizing my personal, professional and collective desires:
This is the support I need from others (mentoring, coaching, classes, listening sessions):
For these needs I’ll need the chi field power of the larger field in a retreat, event or class:
Please share any insights from this reflective process might benefit the community process:
Which of my gifts, skills could I be sharing with the WHQ community?
How might we activate your fuller participation? What structures do you need in place do you need to feel welcome? What form of communication helps you stay informed?
How might we help each other realize our potential?
Please tell us what was useful about this process and what could be improved for the next Self Assessment Survey.
Your name please *
Email address *
Primary phone for contacting you * Can we text you?\
| | Minimal Requirement Stage 1 & 2 | Leader | Instructor Level1 | Healer* | Instructor Level 2 | Teacher | Senior Teacher |
| Timeline | | 3-6 months | 1-3 years | 1-3 year | 2-4 years | 3-6 years | |
| Training | 200+ | 70 hrs | 200hrs | 250hrs | 350 hrs | 500 hrs | 1100 hrs |
| Minimal Practice | 200+ | 100 hrs | 300hrs | 200hrs | 400hrs | 1000 hrs | 2000hrs |
| Teaching | 100+ | 0 | 50 hrs | | 200hrs | 400hrs | 600hrs |
| Healing Including Lachi | 50+ | 10 hrs | 50 hrs | 100hrs | 100hrs | 200hrs | 400hrs |
| 1. LCUPCD | 200 hrs | | | | | | |
| 2. Standing Meditation | 30 hrs | | | | | | |
| 3. Wallsquatt | 30 hrs | | | | | | |
| 4. BM method | 100 hrs | | | | | | |
| 5. Theory Tao of Qigong | 50 hrs 6 times | | | | | | |
| 6. Test | X | Demonstration | X | | X | X | X |
| 7. Assisting teaching | 2 workshops | | | | | | |
| 8. Continuing training | 10-day retreat | | 5-day retreat every 2 years | | 5-day retreat | 5-day retreat | |
| 9. Consistent practice | 1 hrs/day | ½ hr/day | 1 hr/day | | 1hr/day | 1 ½ hr/day | |
| 10. Guidelines of teaching | | | | | | | |
* program under development
Cultivate your true understanding to receive inner-trust;
Cultivate your virtue to inspire others;
Cultivate your ability to serve others.
| Main Aspects | Major Aspects | Level 1 | Level 2 | Teacher | Senior Teacher | Time-line |
| Practice Cultivating your chi | LCUPCD SM Wallsquatt Lachi | 7+ 5+ | 8+ | 9+ | | |
| BM | 5+ | 7+ | 8+ | 9+ | | |
| Healing | 5+ | 7+ | 8+ | 9+ | | |
| Knowledge of WHQ Informational structure of your energy | Integrative Oneness Theory Methodology of stages Chi Body/chi field Goals Presentation: What is Qigong? History, what is the benefit? Organize chi field and Lachi with group | 5+ | 7+ | 9+ | | |
| Virtue The vessel and quality of your energy field | Intention/purpose Service/group consciousness Self-healing Self-cultivation Emotional Balance/go inwardly Responsibility Compassion/Love Attitude / positive Self-discipline Creative freedom w/ responsibility | 5+ | 6+ | 7+ | 8+ | |
| Skill/ability Power of your energy | Healing Promoting/organizing | 5+ 6+ | 6+ 7+ | 7+ 8+ | 8+ 9+ | |
| Movement/visualization/verbalization Energetic teaching Leading practice Meditation/lecture Transmitting Sustain students’ practice Building community | ||||||
| Working relationship Expression & connection of your energy | Clear intention Initiative and responsible communication Responsibility Collective effort Inter-dependence Assisting/supporting Following guidelines Supporting the Mission | 5+ | 7+ | 8+ | 9+ | |
