Workshop: Grow Your Flourishing (Bay Area)

Join us for a flourishing afternoon in Marin County's oceanic countryside.

LIVE WORKSHOP IN MARIN COUNTY with Rosie von Lila from NYC.

The Grow Your Flourishing Workshop is in-person and runs 12:00 - 2:30 pm PT in Bolinas. Read on for details about additional flourishing happenings after the workshop.

You want more out of life—but you’re not exactly sure where to start this time. Join Rosie von Lila, co-author of The Practical Flourishing Assessment (TPFA), for a beautiful afternoon discovering something new about your flourishing, using the research-backed tool proven to grow flourishing. Check out the TPFA evaluation paper by NYU STERN Initiative on Purpose and Flourishing.

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! THIS WORKSHOP INCLUDES:

1. A discussion on what constitutes flourishing and how it is measured across disciplines

2. The Aspirations Workshop

3. The research-backed Practical Flourishing Assessment, with your own take-home workshop print-out to guide your coming month.

WHAT YOU'LL GET FROM THIS WORKSHOP:

• Clarity on where to focus in your life now for health, love, family, work, and prosperity

• A path to identify your Aspirations and give you a sense of aligned direction in your life

• A self-determined, clear direction and simple, realistic actions to make in the coming weeks, giving you the experience of positive forward action and accomplishment.

• No vague intentions! 100% practical, so that when your month is over, you can say: I didn’t just think about making changes. I actually did something about it.

ADDITIONS:

• For those who would like to use TPFA again, the TPFA Discovery Booklet (with 12 months' of TPFA) is available for a discounted pre-purchase price of $28 (you can add this at check-out, and pick it up at the workshop). Booklets purchased on-site at the workshop will be $39.

• If you would like personalized strategic guidance through a "Solutions Discovery Session for Your Flourishing," Rosie has 2 remaining sessions available on Aug. 15th. 60 minutes for $250 or 30 mins for $125 (you can add this at check-out).

BONUS HAPPENINGS:

2:30 PM: Stay after the workshop for BYOP (Bring Your Own Picnic) and "City Stroll & Mingle: Bolinas Edition." Enjoy a picnic together at Euphorbia Gardens, and then we'll leisurely walk down to Bolinas Beach (aka Brighton Beach) around 3 pm'ish — roll your pant legs up and let the Pacific Ocean caress you. Depart when it works for you.

DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP SEGMENTS:

ACT ONE: The beloved Aspirations Workshop comes to the Bay Area for the first time: How can you rate a life area "a 10" if you haven't imagined what "Fully Satisfied" in that area looks like for you at this stage of your life? Perhaps you previously spent time envisioning "a 10," (aka a satisfying goal or dream), but maybe your preferences have since changed. Maybe your job is changing. Maybe your health is changing. Maybe your kids are older. Maybe you have a young family. Maybe you're ready to earn more income or start something new.

Life perpetually changes, and so do you. Discover newly what your "10's" look like in areas such as health, love, family, work, and prosperity.

ACT TWO: What is flourishing and how is it measured? Rosie von Lila has presented TPFA and her artworks on flourishing to companies, foundations, the military and veterans, first responders, medical doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Her unique position as an "academia-adjacent" creative storyteller, and her personal journey of being in integrity with her own flourishing and living a life of service, provide the ingredients for an entertaining exploration of the field of flourishing. No experience necessary — only a willing attitude to explore and discover something new!

ACT THREE: The Main Dish! TPFA has positively impacted the lives of people all over the world. From the NYU evaluation paper:

TPFA produces measurable shifts in how participants understand and engage with their own lives. The most significant changes occur in internal locus of control, resilience after failure, and confidence in achieving goals. ...Importantly, these changes align closely with the development of learned optimism. Participants become more likely to interpret outcomes as influenced by their own actions, persist through setbacks, and expect effort to produce results. This represents not just a shift in belief, but a shift in behavior. Participants move from knowing what flourishing entails to actively practicing it.

As one participant summarizes, “This has been an enlightening experience that reminded me that I am capable and ultimately I am the driving force for my success.” This transition from passive belief to active authorship captures the central outcome of the TPFA and highlights its potential as a tool for sustained flourishing.

EPILOGUE (ICYMI):

Stay for the social happenings for our broader community, happening after the workshop.

• 2:30 PM: Stay after the workshop for BYOP (Bring Your Own Picnic) and "City Stroll & Mingle: Bolinas Edition." Enjoy a picnic together at Euphorbia Gardens, and then we'll leisurely walk down to Bolinas Beach (aka Brighton Beach) around 3 pm'ish — roll your pant legs up and let the Pacific Ocean caress you. Depart when it works for you.