Intro to Delulu Journaling
A two-hour workshop to develop your dream path — so your brain knows where to go
February 8th, March 1st, and March 22nd
on Zoom ❦ Sundays at 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET / 20-22 BST
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“Be completely delusional about your success
for 10 minutes a day, for 30 days, and watch your life change.”
This was the challenge I heard from neuroscientist Nicole Vignola, who explained that the brain has trouble differentiating between vivid imagination and reality (!). I even took a webinar with her and learned that actually, the brain thrives in pattern-recognition and cannot see what it doesn’t know. That means that our old wiring predicts what the brain “sees” and the connections it makes. Opportunity: We can rewire, make a new roadmap, a new blueprint, with some practice. As Lao Tzu put it plainly, “If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.”
The science comes from a study at UCL and supports years of “power of positive thinking” theory and testimony. Vignola aligns the two: When you are imagining the successful life you really want, your brain creates a blueprint for that life. And your brain, that old pattern-recognition organ, starts to see and make connections it hadn’t previously. Serendipitous events seem to occur more frequently — because our brains are finally looking for them.
Delulu journaling
Nicole’s challenge needed a framework, though — how was I supposed to “be delusional” for 10 minutes a day? I came up with a practice called “delulu journaling” that got me really into it, especially since I know how effective handwriting is for learning and retention.
I rolled it out in a six-week mindset course last fall (I’m currently booking for its second iteration) but wanted to teach the method in a more accessible time frame and price point.
Ready to make the blueprint?
I’m hosting a two-hour workshop on Zoom on three separate Sundays, February 8th, March 1st, and March 22nd, at 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET / 20-22 BST. Sign up for your preferred date below.
We’ll learn a little more about the science and do lots of imagination practice. We’ll develop our vision around our inner selves, our work, our wellbeing, money and abundance, and our relationships and community. We’ll share, ask questions, and get ideas from each other.
Note: I recommend using a high-quality journal and a pen, the kind of materials that you might imagine your highest self would use.
Who is this for?
You’ve made resolutions, even started new habits or projects, but they’re not sticking.
You don’t know what you want for the future; right now you can only see a year or two ahead.
You know you want to be different, but how? Who do you want to be?
You haven’t thought about holistic success, as in, what all areas of your life would look like if they were aligned with your dreams.
Your inner voice includes a lot of negative self-talk or doom-saying.
Who am I?
I’m Mercedes, a creative coach and design writer, and a former editor, strategist, and manager. As a coach, I regularly lead people through vision exercises, mindfulness practices, and habit formation — all the ingredients we need to get this delulu practice in motion.
I’m energized by helping people change their minds about themselves and actualize the person inside — that one you’ve always known is there — through creativity, interconnectedness, vulnerability, and resilience.
Actualizing happens through clearly knowing who that is and through taking small, daily actions to draw that person out. I’m on this project, too, and my coaching methodology relies on my experience as a journalist: I’ve gathered knowledge from many different worlds — art, science, philosophy, spirituality, literature, mythology and more — and used my own experience to find the through-lines between it all, and to figure out what actually works to create a fulfilling human life.
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