The Seven Stones Program
Overview
The Seven Stones program is a 7 week coaching program completing with your 7 day live-in retreat. Weeks 1 to 6 consist of a weekly coaching phone call with your Seven Stones Vitality Coach and a small group of other participants. Each week you will receive a simple assignment based on one of the Seven Stones “vitality tools” you will then get to apply this “tool” in your life, to start the process of transforming your vitality and wellbeing.
The Seven Stones “vitality tools” are like core principles, distinctions or practices which have been developed to support you to create what is possible for your own vitality and wellbeing, just like a carpenter uses tools such as a saw, a hammer and chisel to transform a bit of wood into a crafted piece of furniture.
You will arrive on Saturday by 12 noon on week 7 for your 7 day live-in retreat.
Designing your experience
Nobody has the same retreat experience as you! Everybody’s program is unique.
You get to tailor make the retreat that is right for you.
One of the aspects that makes the Seven Stones Retreat program so special is that you will find you will want to return in the future, not because you need to, but because you will have experienced what a difference applying yourself throughout the program made on your life.
As your life changes, so will the challenges you face. The Seven Stones program impacts what it is you are committed to NOW!
Your Seven Stones Vitality Coach
A key part to the Seven Stones program is your Vitality Coach. The Coach is there to support you to design and fulfil upon what you want to get out of the program. Your coach’s role is not that of a therapist, councilor or advisor. Your Coach is an expert of the Seven Stones “tools” and is there to give you these “tools” to apply to your life, to challenge you, encourage you and hold you to account to take the actions you commit to.
Core Activities
Certain activities everybody does together, these include meals and core sessions such as
- Welcome Session
- Game-ON
- Seven Stones Circuit Sessions 1 and 2
- Seven Vitality Stones Sessions
- Morning Exercise sessions
- Adventure Day
- Tree planting and eco-regeneration session
- Disco Inferno and Celebration night
- Game Completion Session
- “Reward” and "Awards" session
Optional Activities
Some of your time will be spent doing activities of your choice, examples include:
Exercise
- Yoga
- Chi gong and Tai Chi
- Bush walking or trail running sessions
- Strength Training
- Dance
- Pilates
- Orienteering
- Adventure Course
- Rock climbing and Abseiling
- Adventure Racing
- Swimming
- Surfing
- Kayaking
- Mountain Bike riding
- Archery
- Fun physical games and puzzles
Therapies
- Seven Stones Spa Experience
- Deep muscle therapy massage
- Thai Massage
- Relaxation and Aromatherapy massage
- Reflexology
- Kinesiology
Workshop Sessions
- Meditation
- Pottery
- Painting/Drawing
- Woodwork
- Creative writing
- Gardening/Permiculture
- Bonsai
- Herb Gardening
- Nutrition and Cooking
- Chemical free living
- Visualization
- My Amazing Life workshop
- Sustainable living
- Communication Sessions 1 and 2
- My-Movie
Or FREE times to relax, read a book, or sit by a running stream and listen to the birds and breathe the wonderful healthy air
The Seven Stones Vitality Game
The real power of your retreat is not in the fun and healthy activities you will be doing, but in how you play the Seven Stones Vitality Game, whilst you are doing these activities.
The Seven Stones Vitality Game is a week long game that you will be playing both individually and as a team with the other retreat participants. The point of the game is to rigorously practice the “vitality tools”.
The aim of the game is to “win”
The real “win” is breakthrough results in your vitality & wellbeing!
However, we have created a couple of exciting “rewards” that you will choose and receive both as an “individual” and as a “team”.
Be aware that each “reward” has a corresponding “consequence” or “boobie prize” awarded if you fail to “win”
The Game is a powerful metaphor for life, where you either have the “results” (or “reward”) you say you want, or you have the “reasons or excuses” why not! (or “boobie prize”).
The Seven Stones Vitality
Leadership:
Access to Freedom
The willingness to be responsible for and apply your unlimited capacity to cause own life and the world you live in
Honour:
Access to Love, Trust & Respect
Expanding your ability to:
- Honour your words;
- Be honest with yourself and others;
- Have your life honour your commitments
Generosity:
The Access to Miracles
The Readiness to give and receive for no reason.
Action:
The Access to Accomplishment
Being in action aligned with your commitments
Harmony:
The Access to Peace
Letting go of your judgments, opinions, reasons and complaints
Don’t take yourself too seriously:
The Access to Humility
Learning to laugh at your own ridiculousness.
Practice:
The Access to Mastery
Seeking, discovering, exploring and applying new possibilities.
