Moved to Create: We Are Always Creating Now We Can Create Consciously

By Julie Delene

Creation begins with stillness on the brink of movement. MOVED TO CREATE guides you through a simple and powerful system to consciously move energy and create the change you want. It engages all the elements of your body, mind and spirit, to move you into your best life, work and relationships. The beauty of this system is you can use it over and over to meet the challenges of constant life changes.
Julie Delene with her presentation of Moved to Create simultaneously teaches, inspires, and builds real-world problem solving skills. This insightful book offers far more than a metaphor that emerged from her years as a dance instructor and leadership development specialist. Julies MOVES process is a rich model for human development. I highly endorse approaching adult development in a way that addresses the whole personmind, body, emotions, spiritand Julie brings it all together in a step-by-step system that is immediately practical. It will help you create the life you truly desire to live, with design principles that keep you in harmony with yourself, the earth, and the universe.
Paul R. Scheele, Ph.D., CEO, Scheele Learning Systems, co-founder of Learning Strategies Corporation.
Julie Delene is a sparkling spirit, and her love of truth and movement comes through in her book. She motivates us to remember how much we can learn from the wisdom of the body. She reminds us to move, and to create.
Mary Hayes Grieco, Author of The New Kitchen Mystic and
Unconditional Forgiveness.
Julie Delene has written this marvelous book on how to envision, create and sustain your authentic life. Her book gives many simple and yet powerful exercises you can use to take control of your life, your joy, your health and your relationships.
I highly recommend reading and following her advice.
Kathryn Harwig, intuitive master and author of 8 books,
including her latest Become a Psychic Wanderer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452579467

Julie Delene

Julie Delene is the creator of the MOVES™ process and founder of Move as One, LLC. She offers consulting, training and coaching services, devoted to revealing the passion and vitality in organizations and individuals. She also offers professional ballroom dance instruction as another way to experience the art of connection. Julie Delene created the MOVES™ process as a way to lead change and developed the Move As One™ system to expand leadership potential and engage co-creative teams. For more about Julie, please check www.movedtocreate.com.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/11/2013

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One   The Map Phase

Chapter Two   Open Phase

Chapter Three   Vision Phase

Chapter Four   Engage Phase

Chapter Five   Sustain Phase

Chapter Six   Quick Moves

Dedicated to the awakening of our human potential.

May we all feel empowered, compassionate,

and wise in the movement of life.

With extra love extended to my daughter, Stephanie,

and three grandchildren,

Aidan, Max and Addison, as they move forward in the next evolution of expression. They continue to inspire me.

Also, I extend heartfelt appreciation to many of my teachers, healers, and friends who encouraged, inspired and helped me create this book. Through the years, many have touched this book and I am grateful.

I especially want to thank my editor, Theresa Washburn, for her talent and generous spirit in finishing this book. And Carole Hyder and Albert Linderman for their direction in shaping this book. And Rodney Pritchard for his beautiful book cover design.

Introduction

While working on contract for a Fortune 500 company in early 1990, as I was walking to a meeting I came around a corner to witness an employee shut the door to his cubicle and take a nap. Now, naps are great, but I sensed that this was not so much a reflection of exhaustion, as it was a gauge of the overall lack of passion within the organization. I had felt the heaviness and deadness of it weigh on me when I was there. People just did what they had to do, employees were being rewarded to stay loyal, to remain long-term employees at the expense of innovation and engagement. I was saddened and wondered if a solution existed.

A few years later, I was working with a door manufacturer helping management facilitate significant changes, which at that time was termed re-engineering. Our team used sophisticated and involved processes that looked rather complicated. While working on the project, I had a significant realization, one that impacted my work from that point on. Re-engineering primarily initiates a change to business processes, but this alone will not produce the desired results. We must also work to shift the perceptions of the people within the organization and their problem solving approaches in an effort to create lasting and successful change.

I asked myself, how do we shift such perceptions and approaches? And even how do we shift people’s consciousness?

Soon after, I awoke in the early morning with a clear mind and a vision of the word, MOVES™. I understand it as an acronym that outlines five main phases of change, and each letter stood for a different phase. It was my sense that morning that this process will simplify the actions of change.

I was inspired!

As the days passed, new experiences and encounters confirmed the validity of my recent understanding. I found myself noticing that problem solving with my client became very fluid. New ideas came to us, very different ideas that would significantly and positively impact, the manufacturer. With this new change in thinking, even a quote from Einstein got my attention, nothing happens unless something moves.

One night, I began reviewing my personal stuckness. I had to be honest, while my life may have looked fine to others, I was deeply frustrated; my work was quite taxing and consuming, my daughter was a teenager and we were almost always at odds, and my romantic relationship was falling apart. I knew this was not the way I wanted to live. My life did not give me energy. I had no time to do what I loved, nor remembered what that was. I felt heavy and depressed.

Here I was, a strategic business consultant, advising organizations how to create effective change and I was mired in my own muck. If I followed my own advice, I ought to be able to do the same in my life. That evening, I committed to applying the process of MOVES™ to my personal life.

Considering each letter a phase, I began with the M, mapping where I was, and next, the O phase, opening and exploring my options. I used flipchart paper and I brainstormed ideas on yellow sticky notes and grouped them into sections. My basement walls began to fill with ideas and pictures. I felt full of emotion. It was as though a volcano of passion erupted within me to the point of almost being painful. I wanted to live, and live vibrantly. Ideas began to emerge every day, slowly, even my little Honda filled with yellow sticky notes because I didn’t want to lose the creative ideas, which came suddenly and unexpectedly.

Shortly after this surge of ideas, I began to notice new connections and opportunities showing up. They felt like miracles! Big shifts began to occur that changed my life forever. I could feel something powerful occurring and the journey to fully understand the co-creative process became my mission.

After applying my unique process to my personal life, I became motivated to share it with others and have been doing this ever since. At various times, when I’d focus on other projects, the MOVES™ process would show up from another angle, validating its effectiveness. Periods of my life felt as though I engaged each phase more deeply and experientially. I was truly learning to embody this process, one phase at a time.

I’m happy to finally share the process with others. It has been over ten years since I first began organizing this book. Many times I thought I could complete it, but then I realized there was something more I needed to learn, and I did—now I understand that I am a living embodiment of MOVES™. I hope it offers much guidance and inspiration.

Much of what I have learned from other people and various trainings I’ve experienced on my journey have contributed to this book. I have put special emphasis on Miracle of the Breath™, A Course in Miracles, Wind and Water Feng Shui, and ballroom dance. Additional trainings have contributed as well, including Best Year Yet™, Spring Forest QiGong, Intuitive Mastery classes, and Highlands Program (an executive visioning program), as well as my business strategic planning experiences. As you read further, you will see the strong influence these teachings have had on this process.

What You Can Expect From This Book

Many of us do not realize how powerful we are, that we are in fact, always creating. Often we forget and get mired down by old systems, routines, structures, thoughts, emotions and paradigms that do not empower. This book will help you re-inspire and re-discover your creative self as it guides you through the natural cycles of creating. If you have lost your enthusiasm, or feel stuck, or desire to grow in your awareness, then this process is for you.

Additionally, this book outlines a complete system that includes all the cycles of the entire co-creative process. You have, in most cases, already experienced components and tools of each cycle. The critical difference with this process lies in understanding and embracing the full co-creative system for complete manifestation.

By moving through these co-creative cycles you will:

• Understand and clear out that which is blocking your creativity

• Connect you with your inner visions, your life passions

• Establish clarity and commitment about what you want to create

• Develop a plan to move forward

• Learn to use and experience mind/body integration tools as a way to find answers within

• Learn the co-creative process for continual re-creation

• Activate your higher wisdom

How To Use This Book

Do you know the energy you were born to move?