Intentional Year 2023

Let your Intentions Guide your Action. 

The Intentional Year 2023 guidebook, and new course, is here

Here we are, approaching the end of another calendar year, with all its learnings, delights, challenges and change. What a year! I for one am looking forward to a bit of a pause and wind-down, resting in gratitude for all that was, even the hard parts. So, as the temperature has dropped and West Cork glitters, as we scurry for layers and warmth, it feels like a perfect pause point for reflection and renewal too. 

For the last 10 years or so I’ve been creating space at the end of the year for a particular kind of annual reflection, and a particular kind of visioning. It is a process which has evolved into my now annual, 'Intentional Year Guidebook’- a downloadable journal with reflection prompts, audio meditations, creative practices, ritual and action mapping- all designed as a guide to help us review the year that was and refine and articular clear intentions for the year ahead. 

Over the years I have been refining the process too and working to improve the guidebook. So, I’m delighted to announce the 2023 guidebook is now available, with additional recordings, new artwork, expanded monthly review sheets and a dedicated webpage to access all the materials in one place. 

New Companion Course

Plus, many of you have been telling me that you’d also love a way to keep on track with your intentions throughout the year, and would value a tool for accountability and consistency. So, with that in mind, this year I’ve also created a companion course to the guidebook, to accompany you for the full 12 months of the year. It includes: 

• Guidebook and audio material plus

• 5 lives calls (January, March, June, September and December)

• a weekly intention setting sheet - printable. 

• monthly check-in videos and resources

• dedicated online learning platform.

It’s going to be fun, engaging and I hope very meaningful for you, as you refine and work with your own intentions-in weekly, monthly and seasonal rhythms- all of which I will support you through. 
 

Two Access options

So, this year, you can choose to download the guidebook alone, which I continue to offer with the ‘honesty box’ payment option, as a way to make it as accessible to everyone while also honouring my time and creative effort, or you may choose to sign up for course for the full 12 months of resources and support. 

From a previous participant...

As a previous guidebook user has said so graciously and generously: 

Clare's Intentional Year Guidebook is the kind of planner I have always longed for, but never found - until now. Like a wise friend or coach, this beautiful guide offers reflective prompts and practical tools to help us navigate, and integrate, the chaos and beauty of our inner and outer worlds. At a time where life feels as if it is shifting beneath our feet, is the perfect gift and companion for anyone seeking to feel more grounded, clear and connected as we move through the uncertainties of a new year and new beginning- Caitriona R, 2022.

Thank you! And an important access note

It is a pleasure to bring the Guidebook and new course to you, and I hope you find it useful, rewarding and nourishing as you travel through 2023. Thank you for your continued support, an sending best wishes, 

Onwards, 

Clare x 
 

An important note about access: 

(Please note: If you choose to use the honestly box system, you will be emailed a link to a private webpage, with a password, which you can access to download the guidebook and audio materials. If you choose to sign up to the course, the guidebook is waiting for you in the dedicated learning platform). 

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Hello. I'm Clare

I'm a writer, educator and facilitator, living in beautiful West Cork, Ireland. I love to share resources and learning to help harness the regenerative power of words, place and story. I hope my work offers nourishment for mind and soul. Thank you for being here. Clare x

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An Intentional Year

Focus on what matters most, and create an intentional 2023. Guidebook and an Intentional Year course now available

Intentional Year 2020 Guidebook

  As we stand on the threshold of one calendar year to the next, the threshold is both an invitation and a doorway. It offers us space to reflect, recalibrate and concentrate our attention and intention on the life we constantly choose to step into. This guidebook is designed to support you to listen inwards, tune in with your highest potential and articulate clear intentions and refined actions for the coming year. 

39 pages of journal prompts, audio meditations, visualisations, creative practices, reflections and planning tools. 

 You can listen to the introduction letter from the guidebook here to get a sense of the contents...  [audio mp3="http://www.claremulvany.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Intentional-Year-Welcome-Note.mp3"][/audio] How this guidebook came about:I enjoy the quiet, transitional time between Christmas and New Year. After the whirl of the seasonal rush and before entering January, I love to take some time and space to reflect on the year that was, and tune into my intuition and longings. It is a chance to dream, learn, grow, create, and visualise the future I am seeking to live into. In many ways it has become a ritual of mine. Sometimes I do the dreaming process alone, but mostly I invite a small circle of friends and we gather for a day to work through the materials together. We light candles, journal, go on walks, meditate and support each other to believe in the highest possibilities for one another. It is a glorious, enriching time. Throughout the year we then check-in with each other, usually around the rhythms of the Celtic seasons- the equinoxes and solstices-  to see how the year is unfolding and remind each other of the intentions we are holding. This method has been transformational for me. I have felt the effects hugely in my own life, from giving myself permission to trust my heart’s desires and intuition, to helping me zoom out and have a longer, deeper perspective on what is meaningful in my life. It has supported me to cultivate and appreciate more of what brings me alive, including developing the relationships and support structures to help me to stay on track and gently nudge me back when I feel I have wandered. This guidebook is a version of this visualisation and planning process. The techniques and tools take an approach based on intention setting rather than resolutions, and have been gathered over the years through a range of practices and disciplines from yoga and meditation, to design thinking, creative leadership, and cognitive science.A two years ago I shared the first version of this guide, and have been iterating it each year, refining it based on my own learning, and feedback from people who have been using the guide too. It has been a beautiful, organic process, and I am grateful to continue to develop and expand it each year. What's Included:  You will be guided through three movements, or sections, to aid your reflections:

Grounding, Sensing, Becoming.

Each movement contains a combination of writing, meditation and creative practices, and includes a bonus practice. Part One- Grounding: In which you will be invited to clear some space, externally and internally, find some stability within, and capture your learnings and insights from the past year. 

• Welcome audio letter
• Finding Stillness Audio Meditation
• 2019 Review- journal prompts
• The Enough Inventory and the Joy Inventory
• Bonus Practice: A Note of Thanks (a gratitude writing practice)

Part Two- Sensing: This is all about tuning in with your highest future self, through creative visualisation and ‘future writing’. 

• An Introduction to Future Writing
• Accessing your Future Self- An Audio visualisation
• Letter from the Near Future
• Refining Core Intentions
• Bonus Practice: Create your Imram (A Nature Quest)

Part Three- Becoming: This is where you will clarify your core intentions, articulate your priorities and think through the scaffold or support structure to help keep you close to your highest self for the year ahead. 

• Priority Projects
• Mapping the Year Ahead
• Support Team & Accountability Partner
• Blessing from your Future Self
• Bonus Practice: Making your Intentions Visible.

How much time do you need? I have designed this guidebook so it can be completed in about four hours, or over the course of a couple of evenings. However, you may want to create your own home retreat, clearing a full day to dive deeply into the process. I suggest a sample day retreat schedule, including bonus creative practices. You may choose to do this alone, or invite a circle of friends to join you for the day (which can be such a treat!)If you are short on time, at a minimum I recommend completing the ‘Sensing’ practices in part two, particularly the ‘future writing’ exercises. How I'm offering the guidebook: One of the things I love about living in West Cork is the abundance of honesty boxes. People grow their own vegetables, then leave them in little shelters by the roadside, with a box beside them,  trusting that a payment will be made in exchange for the home-grown produce. There is no guarantee that this will always be honoured, but it is an invitation to trust.I have decided to offer the guidebook this year on the same principle.So this my invitation to you to make a contribution to honour the time, skill and experience I have put into creating this- my version of home-grown produce, while also honouring the time and energy you give to it. It is experiment in trust, reciprocity, generosity and relationship.When you invest, you will also be investing your energy, and your investment helps me to continue to develop my work, making it available and accessible to others.The materials I share have been refined and tested, and come from my own personal practice.If you are unsure about what to offer, think of what you would pay for the equivalent of a yoga workshop, or a self-led home day retreat (which essentially this is)If you are low on money at the moment, then offer a lower amount. If money is not such a challenge for you right now, then perhaps offer a little more.If you'd like to share the guidebook with others, please direct them to this honesty box (PayPal Me link), asking them to make their own contribution and download directly. 

Honesty Box Payment Process: 

Step One: Make a payment contribution via PayPal Me- the link below takes you there. Payment in multiple currencies accepted). When you have made the payment, return to this page for step two below.

https://paypal.me/ClareMulvany

 Step Two: Once you have made a payment...

click on this link to download the guidebook

(5 files in total- a pdf of the guidebook, and 4 audio recordings, stored in dropbox)Should you encounter any technical difficulties with the payment or download, please email: clare@claremulvany.ie  

Thank you, and enjoy,

Onwards, with love,

Clare. xx