Around the New Year everyone from Oprah to Forbes talks about letting go of goals and setting intentions, but no one explains WHY this is helpful or the SCIENCE behind it, not to mention the challenges it brings up. This workshop is for those who've been frustrated in the past with setting goals and not meeting them or wondering why an intention doesn't manifest in the world. This workshop presents key research and experiential findings from the emerging practice of energy coaching. It also covers differences between energy-based practices like intention setting (and "word for the year" strategies) and cognitive practices like goal setting. It provides a framework for participants to work with when they set their own intentions.

1. The Art & Science of
Intention Setting
A Wisdom Worksop
Emily Felt, Jan. 29, 2020
Be.Serve.Thrive.

2. Welcome - What we’ll cover
1. Introductions - wisdom workshop overview
2. Definitions - Goals - Resolutions - Intentions (what’s the
difference?)
3. Scientific study of intention
4. Personal experiences of intention
5. How do we use intention in our lives?

3. First - About Me
Born: Albuquerque, NM
Education:
BA - MA - Public Policy / Public Health
CAPP & Coaching Training
Influences:
The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
Letting Go - David R. Hawkins
Katharina Seidler - Resource Yourself
Goal of the wisdom workshops: to create and spread wisdom through sharing
experience.

4. Goals vs. Intentions - What’s the Difference?
● Goal: “The object of ambition or effort.” “The destination of a journey.”
● Resolution: “A firm decision to do or not do something.”
● Intention:
○ Purposeful process of bringing something about, or
○ Unconscious motivation, or
○ Both
“Intention is not something
you do, but rather a force
that exists in the universe
as an invisible field of
energy, a power that can
carry us…” - Wayne Dyer

5. Goals vs. Intentions - Scientific Study
● Goal:
○ Goal achievement positively related to success / satisfaction (Ref.)
○ Implementation intentions increase the chance of success (Ref.)
○ SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)
● Intention:
○ Intentionally treated water shows more aesthetic crystal formations (Radin, 2006)
○ Intentional treatment of water promoted seed germination (Shiah et.al, 2017)
○ The combination of intention and belief had an impact on mood (Shiah, 2013)

6. Benefits of Setting Intentions
Intention brings up alignment - misalignment - wisdom
● You either win or you learn
● Can’t measure it
● Don’t need to “act” or “plan”
● The universe brings fruition / fulfillment
● Results in greater clarity / self-awareness
“Intention is one with cause and
effect. Intention determines
outcome. And if you’re stuck and
not moving forward, you have to
check the thought and the action
that created that circumstance” -
Oprah Winfrey

7. Goals vs. Intentions - mental vs. heart energy
“The Speed of the Mind and the Heart”
- A Life of Being, Having and Doing Enough, Wayne Muller.

8. Intention stories - self care - abundance - presence

9. What I learned about how intentions work
● No recipe, formula or “how to”, only practice.
● To set an intention is already a clue we want a new level of
experience.
● When we set an intention, it automatically starts to pull
what it needs to fulfill itself - it also pulls up what’s
blocking it.

10. We’re all on a journey, and the view is
different from every place on the path.

11. Troubleshooting Intentions
In aiming for Everest we do not get there
overnight, or even in one year...

12. We’re all on a journey, and the view is
different from every place on the path.
Working with Intentions requires a lifestyle shift
(a different orientation compared to working with
goals)

13. My “go-to’s” to get the most out of intentions
Set intentions from the heart
Slow down
Notice, acknowledge, contemplate, integrate
Self-compassion - everything that comes up serves us - EVERYTHING!

14. Wisdom Questions:
What is the intention you want to set?
What wisdom do you have to share?