Soul Map | Memo

• Instructions to Make Your Own
• My latest Soul Map on Canva (I make a new one every moon cycle, per Jewish calendar)
• Adar II
• Adar I
• Shevat

What’s this all about?

• Tuning Fork - a ritual tool to help you identify what is out of balance and bring it back into balance for the next cycle
• Soul Media - media from and for your Soul. Soul ID - doing the work of dusting off and sharing our Soul Essence / higher selves.
• We know, but it’s harder than ever to remember! A creative, practical, spiritual tool to support coaching/therapy clients in remembering what’s most important, serving as a motivational map to find center/north/Truth to navigate weirdness of Anthropocene (Meta-Map for meta-crisis, or Personal Metaverse). Practice of synthesizing most important knowings, learnings, intentions at different time scales. "The unexamined life is not worth living"
• Devotional Art. Creating an artifact that is relevant, beautiful, useful, shareable (for accountability). Portable altar to support regular devotional connection.
• Integration Tool. Clever method of reflecting back the sacred throughout physical and digital experience. Especially for integrating transformational experiences.
• Community/Organizational Tool. Process of building trust, intimacy, and accountability. “We're all just walking each other home”
• A new project Andrew is naturally coming into relationship with, integrating previous passion projects and insights from brief experiences with coaching. A context for collaboration, practicing what I preach re: ethical entrepreneurship, and channeling ideas around lifestyle transition / wayfinding.

Chronology

• January
• Supported coaching client A in making a forward-looking Circular Calendar
• Supported coaching client B in creating a physical distillation of mission, habits, reminders
• Created and shared personal v1 Life Map on social media
• February
• Facilitated two small workshops with Hestia Winter Incubator participants
• Coached 1.5 clients through making their own version
• Continued working with and ideating on Soul Map
• Choose to deepen relationship with this project
• March
• Facilitating workshop for Vision Groundwork Rootcamp, as well as participating in the program with Life Map as my focus
• Facilitated multi-week retreat for coaching client
• Facilitated workshop for co-living community in San Juan
• April
• Slowing down, letting dust settle, integrating notes/thinking
• Continuing to work with my own Soul Map
• Conducting user research on those working on their Maps
• May - July
• Pilgrimage map guided my travels
• August
• Created map for Burning Man
• October
• Co-created map for Sukkot
• November
• Facilitated simplified version for high school students

Early Insights

• This is a flexible exercise/tool that can be adapted to the unique needs of participant(s). There appear to be three types of Maps for different contexts Types of Artifacts

S (Reason)	M (Season)	L (Lifetime)
Business Card	One Pager	Multi-Pager
Party Festival Retreat Ceremony	Team Mission Program intentions Seasonal/annual intentions	Soul Map

Common Thread

• Type
• Process (slowing down, self-directed or facilitated, getting artistic)
• Artifact (physical tool that can be engaged with, ritually)
• Systems (refining, expanding to other surfaces)
• A workshop only allows time to start work on one section, or a mini version, or introduce topic. It’s a long journey to make something “complete” or even usable. Large scope creates intimidation to get started.
• It takes time (multiple cycles) and effort (hours of commitment each cycle) to meaningfully integrate the tool into one’s flow of life
• There value in just thinking about / beginning the process; joy in sharing with others
• There are existing tech tools that can extend the efficacy of DM (Momentum, Android homescreen, iOS homescreen)

Rough Plan for Upcoming Moon Cycles

• Continue developing Personal Soul Map
• Continue integrating notes/thinking
• Continue updating Self-service Instructions
• Conduct trial with Rootcamp
• Write a Substack announcement
• Test a clear coaching offering
• Connect with Advisors
• Facilitate workshop at community space in San Juan
• Launch weekly/monthly Circles (community of practice)
• Create personal Learning Journey

Potential Applications

• Book / interactive workbook
• Festival/Retreat workshops (especially transformational experiences)
• Online Course
• Personal / Team Retreats
• Community / Corporate Workshops
• Soul-cial Media Platform (share DM’s within communities)
• License methodology to coaches
• Smartphone operating system
• Agency (to create custom browser extensions)

Questions

• Analogs for this type of thing? What could I benefit from researching/studying? What is it to create a spiritual/religious tool? Pitfalls to watch out for? Is this actually about devotion?
• Minimum Viable Product?
• So many potential directions - how to prioritize? What role(s) do I want to play?
• Document and share my process outwards?
• How to create conditions for right engagement in this new relationship?
• How to make Soul Map fit more smoothly into participant’s life? Actually useable and helpful.
• Who to collaborate with, on what?