Intro to Delulu Journaling
A two-hour workshop to develop your dream path — so your brain knows where to lead you
June 7th, June 21nd, June 28th
on Zoom ❦ Sundays at 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET / 20-22 BST“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 (!). It turns out, the brain mostly operates as a pattern-recognition machine and cannot see what it doesn’t already 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.”
When you are imagining the successful life you really want, you’re feeding your brain new information. Then not only is it creating a blueprint for that life, but it starts to see and make connections it hadn’t previously. Serendipitous events seem to occur more frequently — because your brain is finally looking for them.
All you need is some clarity and a helluva lot of delusional thinking, so let’s get to it.
Workshop format
This two-hour workshop will help you develop a journaling practice for really digging into your dreams and desires as a cool and creative human. Here’s how it goes:
Learn more about the neuroscience, psychology, and sociology that back up the power of getting delulu — in other words, gain a foundational understanding of the power of your conscious mind.
Learn the delulu journaling method, an imagination practice and framework for cultivating the vision of your big beautiful life.
Get a quick overview on habit formation so that you can make delulu journaling a real practice; you’ll leave with a plan for journaling for 10 minutes a day for 30 days.
Write into your dreams, moving from an exploration of values into how you see your ideal future self: who you are and how you hold yourself; your work, your wellbeing, money and abundance, and your relationships and community.
As we go, we’ll share our revelations, ask questions, and get ideas from each other.
Let’s get delulu
Pick a date, and grab your seat for the two-hour virtual workshop.
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SUNDAYS June 7th, 21st, and 28th
12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET / 20-22 BST
❦Because journaling is most effective when it’s done by hand, I recommend showing up with a high-quality journal and a pen, the kind of materials that you might imagine your highest self would use.
Exercise your imagination muscle. Create clarity — and a blueprint for your brain to follow — around your holistic vision of success, from your inner self, your work and projects, and your wellbeing to money, relationships, and community. This is the core practice of the mindset workshop, offered at a more accessible time and rate. ❧ Learn more❧
June 7, June 21, June 28 ❦ on Zoom
Sundays at 12-2pm PT / 3-5pm ET / 20-22 BST
Testimonial — and the Santa Fe dream house
Who is this workshop for?
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 really thought about holistic success, as in, What would all the areas of your life look like if they were aligned with your dreams?
You’ve started new habits or projects, made resolutions and plans, but they’re not sticking.
Your inner voice includes a lot of negative self-talk or doom-saying.
Who am I?
I’m Mercedes, a creative coach and a former design 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 creative resilience, interconnectedness, and vulnerability.
My coaching methodology relies on knowledge from across many different worlds — art, science, philosophy, spirituality, literature, psychology, mythology and more — plus my own life experiences with motherhood, relationships, friendships, trauma, grief, stress, separation, joy, truth, and beauty.