The Happiness Path Group Guide

By Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

This companion guide to The Happiness Path is designed for those of you who want to facilitate a small support group to enhance your own practice of the Happiness Path creating process. It gives you specific guidance on how to establish and effectively run your group, including group behaviors and responses that make processing easier and more beneficial. You'll learn how certain behaviors and responses, like rationalizing and blaming, get in the way of processing, and you'll be given ways to avoid these hindrances to creating so you feel confident in leading another person through the Happiness Path process. And you'll experience success! The group guide also includes creating remedies not found in The Happiness Path, as well as real-life processing examples.
The Happiness Path Group Guide gives you all the tools you'll need to run a Happiness Path support group. It explains how to set up your group, what to say, and how to handle group situations. Leading a Happiness Path group deepens your understanding of how your thoughts and beliefs transform into experiences, and how you can use this knowledge to benefit you and yours.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joanne Rodasta Wilshin
• Release date: Oct 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311179647

Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

Joanne Rodasta Wilshin, MA, is an creativity consultant and educator. Besides The Happiness Path, she is the author of Take a Moment and Create Your Life! (1997) and The Happiness Path Group Guide. In the 1990s, she researched and tested the influence of thought and intention on matter, and the systemic relationship among emotions, the ego, the subconscious mind, and the imagination. She has spent the past two decades teaching and consulting people and groups to access negative thoughts they unwittingly hold and to alter them so as to change what they create. Joanne attended Oslo University, and earned degrees from California State University Long Beach and University of San Francisco. JoanneWilshin.com

Book preview

The Happiness Path Group Guide

by

Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

Copyright 2015 Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

Published by Voyager for Smashwords

Smashwords Edition License Notes: This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

Copyright © 2015 by Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of the author.

Voyager

519 Commercial Ste. 1942

Anacortes, WA 98221

JoanneWilshin.com

Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

Book Layout: P.B.Sargent

Cover: P.B.Sargent

Font: New Times Roman

The Happiness Path Group Guide./ Joanne Rodasta Wilshin. -- 1st ed.

ISBN 978-0692547663

Table of Contents

1. Why Start a Happiness Path Support Group?

2. How This Book Will Help You

3. Logistics

4. The Ingredients of a Well-Run Meeting

5. After the Opening Ritual, the Sharing

6. Let the Processing Begin

7. Remedies for Difficult Visualizations

8. Alternative Methods for Evoking Visualizations

9. Impediments to Creating

Meeting Format

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1

Why Start a Happiness Path Support Group?

If you want to deepen your own practice of The Happiness Path, one of the best ways to do so is to lead a support group of your own. A The Happiness Path support group has a unique way of keeping you on track and focused on what you want to create, rather than what you think should logically happen.

A support group will help you think and dream bigger. It will help you see what’s impeding your life faster and more clearly. And it will give you a circle of friends who will openly and consistently support and encourage creating good and loving experiences in your life and theirs.

I’ve developed The Happiness Path so that it is simple and elegant. The unnecessary elements have all been removed, so all that’s left is that which is truly fundamental to creating desired experiences. Still, with all its simplicity, I know that The Happiness Path is not necessarily easy to practice, at least not in the early stages.

Which is why having a small support group can prove vital to learning, practicing, and embodying the process. You'll become proficient in creating the life experiences you really want to have in your future.

The Happiness Path is just one of those processes best learned and best practiced with the encouragement and help of a support group. In my own life, when I lived in Southern California, I ran a support group that met every Wednesday evening from January 1999 to December 2009. Besides all the support it gave me, I have to say its greatest gift had been providing me with a community of like-minded thinkers who encouraged and advocated positive creating. Whenever one of us forgot her potential, there was always someone else there to remind her.

It is my goal in this book to provide you the tools you need to successfully organize your group, lead your meetings, process your issues, and develop behaviors and thinking patterns that support and sustain great creations. Naturally, I will use examples based on my own support group, since this group has truly been one of my greatest teachers.

Your life is your work of art. If your masterpiece doesn't look the way you want it to, use your mind as brush to change it.

. . Joanne Rodasta Wilshin

Chapter 2

How This Book Will Help You

Congratulations on deciding to become a Happiness Path support group leader! You are joining a group of adventurous, determined, and enlightened people who are committed to creating a better world for themselves and others.

I support you in being the backbone of your group, the one who is committed to learning and sustaining the process and seeing that participants do what they need to create desired