Session Ideas

LifeCamp is a collaborative endeavor and depends on your active participation. All participants are encouraged to propose and lead sessions.

LifeCamp is essentially a BarCamp for life hacking. We'll tackle questions around:

• What can you do with your life?
• What do you want to do with your life?
• What are you going to do with your life?
• And, how are you going to do it?

Here are some ideas for sessions -- please add any topics that you would find interesting.

As a convention, we've decided to not include the name(s) of the person(s) proposing/advocating any specific session.

common sessions

In practice the following sessions have been very useful and conducted at most LifeCamps

• MonthByMonthReview
• Lessons Learned
• Worst / Best of past year / quarter
• themeword for the coming year (could do quarter also)

from specific LifeCamps

• LifeCamp2008Q1PortZeroSessionIdeas
• LifeCamp2008Q2PortZeroSessionIdeas
• LifeCamp2008Q3PortZeroSessionIdeas
• LifeCamp2008PortZero session ideas
  • empirical themeword - what was your actual themeword for the past year
  • one key goal in one minute

from LifeCamp2007PortZero

• What are good questions to ask? The basics, the fundamentals, and more.
• What did you accomplish in the past year?
• What do you want to accomplish in the next year (2, 5, 10)?
• What tools/equations can we develop to set and achieve goals and strategies in life?
• GTD Primer
• Beyond GTD: Devising and using smarter planning tools
• DailyMeta: Possibilities for visual, streamlined, data-oriented journaling
• Humanism and ethical non-theism: Making big decisions without supernaturalism or mythological assumptions
• Big Projects: How to embark on a substantial endeavor (like writing a book)
• Resistance to change (psychic immune system)
• LifeCamp co-coaching - teaming up with another participant for support and encouragement through the next year. Discussion on setting up regular check-in times to review/reshape goals and evaluate progress.
• To spot your life's guiding star
• Lessons from Voltaire: il faut cultiver notre jardin, Candide 
• LifeCamp 2008 - lessons learned, what to do differently next year or in future LifeCamps.
• Collaboration with 4D - session on Dec. 30 to collaborate online with the 4D group meeting in France. This session will offer more of a global/holistic context to decision-making as a complement to the personal/singular approach of the other LifeCamp sessions. See RelatedIdeas for examples of 4D discussion topics.
• Measurements for success... how can you tell that you're making good progress?
• Always challenge yourself... strategies to expand your horizons, learn more about the world around you and about yourself.
• Looking at and exploring the basic structure behind a mastermind group

~Keeping these notes on this page; but some duplicate info...

Retrospective:

• Articulate your own personal year in review
  • Personal best and worst?
• What did you accomplish in the last year
• Figure out what to keep and what to throw away in all aspects of your life; mental, emotional, physical - and do it; - lead into future-spective figure out how to let go
• What didn't you accomplish that you wanted to accomplish this year and why?

Projection:

• After an assessment of what you want to keep/let go - figure out the steps that you need to
• Goals for the next year (2, 5, 10)
• Tools for goal setting and maintaining
  • GDT?
    • If GTD is not your thing, what is usable from the GDT that can help you accomplish / maintain your goals
  • Software tools
    • Mac OX OMNI Group tools
  • Community
  • Overcoming resistance to change
• Measuring "success"
• Big Projects

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