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THE WISH TREE SUMMER IMMERSION

THE WISH TREE SUMMER IMMERSION

Making friends with Doing

Making friends with Doing

let go of pushing & exhaustion, and start creating change from
greater ALIVENESS, presence & peace

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Beneath the poly-crisis lies a doing-crisis

The ways most of us currently ‘do’ doing are detrimental to our personal, collective & planetary health. No matter how many forest baths, cold water dips, lunchtime yoga sessions or silent retreats we might book in to recover, if we fundamentally don’t change the way we ‘do’ doing, nothing else will.

Because our relationship to doing affects everything else.

From production lines to traffic pace and school exams. What we eat and how we eat.

Our capacity for empathy & compassionate decision making, and our ability to think long-term. 

Our ability to to listen deeply, with presence, as well as those KPIs for quarterly reports.

It affects our creative skills & ability to lead innovation. It impacts our physical, mental & emotional health. The quality of our relationships. Including with those who matter the most to us. It affects our capacity for peace. With ourselves, each other and with Earth.

We can get better at doing

This summer immersion has been created because changing our relationship to doing will fundamentally help humanity change its course into more regenerative ways of living on the planet.

Each of us have the power to heal & shift. With the support of gentle new awareness of our patterns, reflective prompts that takes you deeper, and an understanding of how things can be different, this self-paced immersion guides you to a choice point in your own life, and your contribution as an agent for change.

The time has come for all of us and each of us to choose a life-serving leadership in our lives at home & at work – one where we are in a harmonious relationship with doing.

"Burnt-out people aren’t equipped to serve a burning planet"

Susi Moser

Make friends with doing this summer

Through short, gentle audio-recordings, reflective prompts & a playlist to listen to where-ever and whenever you want,  you have an opportunity to:

  • Become aware of the role that doing plays in your life and how it is impacting your experience of presence, peace and aliveness
  • Begin to notice where you override your body’s needs & no’s
  • Begin to notice how your emotional wounding impacts how you ‘do’ doing
  • Understand more about why we as a society are doing-focused
  • Begin to see links between burned-out people and planet
  • Get curious about harmonious doing & being in your life
  • Choose to live & lead with greater balance and integrity

So that you can:

  • Say yes to a life-serving changemakership & leadership
  • Feel more present, alive & at peace in your life and leadership at home and at work
  • Feel more resilient & resourceful as you move about your days
  • Lead yourself with greater integrity

* REFLECTION * AWARENESS * CHOICE *

* REFLECTION *
* AWARENESS *
* CHOICE *

What's included

7 gentle pause point audio-recordings

Listen in your own time

Self-paced

Find your own rhythm

PLAYLIST TO REFLECT AND MOVE TO

Community Platform

A place for you to share

Optional 1-2-1 Support

Additional investment

Is the Making friends with Doing immersion for me?

Making friends with doing is for you if you experience one or more of the following:

  • A full calendar of work & other activities
  • Override your body’s internal no’s
  • Never or seldom feel fully rested, frequently exhausted
  • Are overly helpful and the go-to person for support
  • Addiction to striving – always looking towards the next thing to achieve, complete or experience
  • Push, rush & find it hard to relax & disconnect from work or other commitments
  • Spend time in Nature, on retreat etc to recover from a relentless pace, then go back ‘out there’ again 
  • Don’t usually reflect on why and how you do doing

Conversely, if you have suffered from burn-out, you may be apprehensive of moving forward & taking action, even on things that you care about. This immersion is for you too.

Summer is an optimum time to make friends with doing

Nature is in the height of its doing season – growing, expanding, birthing young ones, blooming! What can we learn from Nature about healthy ways of doing?

Many of us arrive at our summer holidays weary and ready to just stop, having crossed our own energy limits for what our personal ecosystems have capacity for. Yet summer can bring the expectation to be filled to the brim with experiences, visits, books to read & adventures.

What if we could take some time out this summer to tune into our relationship to doing? The places inside of us we choose to take action from, how it impacts our lives and the lives of those around us, and how we could befriend it so that we can live and lead with greater presence and peace – for the sake of our own lives well lived, and our capacity to affect positive change at this pivotal time on the planet.

"We arrive home in the evenings with little energy left for our families. We spend too little time thinking strategically and long term, too little time taking care of ourselves, and too little time simply enjoying our lives."

Tony Schwartz, The Way We're Working Isn't Working

Our 7 Pause Points

Why we do too much too fast

We begin our immersion with a little bigger picture awareness: why is it that we need to make friends with doing in the first place? We tune into root causes of our doing crisis, and reflect on doing ‘archetypes’ and how they play out in our lives. 

What drives your doing

We get tangible and tune into the places within us we take action from when we do different things in our lives.  What, deep down, drives or motivates our doing? 

Your survival script

We dive deep and reflect on how our emotional survival script drives our unconscious actions and impacts our relationship to doing. We tune into where our script shows up, even where we have the best of intentions.

Guided relaxation: coming home to life

We pause to rest, relax and be nourished through a guided relaxation, designed to support you to feel held on your journey making friends with doing. 

The yin/yang harmony

Humans aside – everything in Nature lives and thrives within a perfect harmony between moon and sun energy, winter and summer. Resting and taking action. We get curious about  our relationship to the opposite of doing – namely being.

Becoming a Loving Disrupter

What does it mean to become a loving disruptor in our lives if we want to make friends with doing? Who is our loving disruptor? How can they help us live and do with greater aliveness, integrity, presence & peace?

The future we choose, choosing your future

We have arrived at our choice point. What now wants to change and how in order for you to be better friends with doing?  Making friends with doing impacts changemaking everywhere – we tune into what will shift in your life & leadership moving forward. 

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"We can ‘do’ doing differently. How we ‘do’ doing, changes everything"

Emily Johnsson

Meet Your Facilitator

Emily Johnsson, FOUNDER OF WISH TREE
HI, I’M EMILY: LIFELONG CHANGEMAKER, INTUITIVE SPACE HOLDER, SYNTHESISING THINKER, LOVING DISRUPTOR, CREATIVE FACILITATOR, DEEP FEELER.

To Wish Tree I bring more than 20 years experience in the fields of learning, unlearning, transformation & growth. My mission is to gather people in emotionally intimate, brave spaces where we together remember how to lead ourselves in alignment with life.

I listen deeply to Nature’s wisdom, seasons & cycles. Yet there was a time when I too was caught in the hamster-wheel of never enough & relentless doing. Even though what I was doing was meaningful & worthy, how I was doing left me depleted & disconnected. 

What I know for sure is that the possibility of a regenerative future depends on every changemaker taking radical responsibility for shifting our relationship to doing, so that we can serve, lead, create & innovate with greater aliveness, integrity, presence & peace. That’s why I’ve created this free Summer Immersion.

Making friends with doing is a pathway to aliveness,
integrity, presence & peace

What our clients say

It’s amazing how deep we managed to go in such a short time

Mohit Mukherjee
Founder, UPEACE Centre for Executive Education

Your dedication and commitment to empowering others to step into their power and authenticity is just wonderful. I never knew I’d be able to achieve and change so much in such a short space of time! You’re an inspiration and a blessing.

Su Orosa
Councillor & Founder, Personal Growth Hub

Thank you for the warm spaces you held for us to connect with ourselves

Meghan
Regenerators Academy

It has been a wondrous and loving learning experience to travel with you

Mette
Regenerators Academy
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All our offerings are guided by the 4 pillars of the Wish Tree self-leadership model:

Core alignment

What's the unique why, who & what of my changemaker contribution? Whats's the song that wants to sing me and through me? How does my purpose translate into action?

Bigger picture awareness

How does my contribution relate to the bigger moment and movement for change on the planet? Who am I in team humanity?

Self-nourishment

Build a healthy, loving, compassionate, intimate relationship with ourselves. Heal what is holding us back from shining bright and sharing our gifts. Feeling whole, inside-out.

Community

Lean into connection and authentic relating. Practise being seen, heard and held in reciprocal and life-giving ways.

“What is self-leadership? Self-leadership is about taking radical responsibility for ourselves. Who we want to be and how we want to be. Life-serving change in our lives and wider world begins with each of us saying yes to leading ourselves with intention”

Emily Johnsson

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Make Friends with Doing

Frequently Asked Questions

If you don’t find the answer you’re looking for. here, please reach out to us at [email protected] and we will gladly help!

There is no specific start and end date. You can join any time and move through the immersion at your own pace.

Making friends with doing is a no-cost Summer Immersion, gifted to the Wish Tree community from our hearts to yours. If you want to support Wish Tree, you can choose to plant a tree, sign up for our newsletter and stay tuned for one of our upcoming immersions and courses.

Absolutely. You have the opportunity to invest in 1-2-1 coaching sessions with Emily alongside, or after you have completed your Summer Immersion. 

Every aspect of this Summer Immersion  is designed to support us with compassionate inquiry into where we have internalised a colonised mind and way of life and service.

  • The Making Friends with Doing Summer Immersion is a remembrance of living and leading in alignment with Nature’s cycles and seasons, of we are all a part.
  • In the Making Friends with Doing Summer Immersion we remember ourselves and each other, our bodies and hearts as part of the great web of life.
  • In this Summer Immersion, we begin to unlearn that we must always be ‘on’ , and the relentless productivity we are subjected to in our everyday lives..
  • In this Summer Immersion we come to see that many of our thoughts, emotions, judgements and impulses were developed as coping mechanisms in paradigm where no-one is free.
  • This Summer Immersion is intentionally self-paced and has no official start or end date. There nothing to prepare or produce. All reflective prompts are invitations. You are at choice at all times.
  • In this Summer Immersion we intentionally look at our relationship to behaviours intrinsic to the colonial paradigm, such as striving, rescuing and over-giving. We connect with our innate Natural abundance and we acknowledge the importance of connecting with what lights us up. 

Yes! There is a dedicated Community Space for the Making Friends Wish Doing Summer Immersion on the Wish Tree learning platform. Use this space as much or as little as you want. It’s a space for sharing, connection and support. If you prefer to engage in the Immersion without sharing anything, that’s perfectly okay too. The important thing is that you practise being at choice around what you want and need! 

About Wish Tree

Wish Tree was founded in 2011 and exists because of our commitment to wholeness. Whole humans, whole communities, whole organisations, whole ecosystems. A whole world.

Wholeness is essential to our ability to thrive as individuals, teams, neighbourhoods, families, businesses, and organisations. It is key to resilience, harmony, creativity, innovation and aliveness: it is intrinsic to how life itself works.

Wish Trees have existed for thousands of years across many cultures and traditions. They are symbols of hope and peace – even life itself – and are places where we come to reflect, re-connect and honour what matters to us.

Wish Trees can feel like sanctuaries as they invite us to step out from the busyness of our everyday lives and into a space where we intentionally tune into to our inner knowing. It is here that we can begin to remember our innate wholeness and be guided on our journey of leading ourselves well.

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About Emily & White Supremacy

Emily is a space holder and self-leadership coach to changemakers. She has over 20 years experience in the field of human development, learning and growth, and leads the coaching and consultancy company Wish Tree since 2011. Her work centres around wholeness – whole humans, whole communities, whole organisations, whole ecosystems. A whole world. Her changemakership is therefore dedicated to clearing distortions and fragmentations that relate to our perceptions of separation.

Emily has been exposed to and ‘sat with’ systemic issues around race, racism, privilege and injustice her whole life. She was born in Camden, London, in the late 1970s to a Swedish immigrant single mum and spent her first formative years in a highly culturally and ethnically diverse setting. As a baby, Emily and her mum lived in a bedsit in a shared house with a Black British family. Her first memory of Father Christmas was of him as a Bangladeshi man. Emily’s mum worked with refugee families and in Children’s Homes in inner city London, and since she had no access to child care opportunities, Emily joined her at work. For a while, Emily had an older Black British foster sister called Debbie. She was very often the only white child in the community of children of which she was a part.

Emily moved to Sweden with her mum as a child and as a teenager became involved with, and led, antiracism youth work in her local town through her school and council-initiated networks in the 1990s.

Her mum, who was active in the peace-and- environmental movement and who had been involved as an ally in the civil rights movement in the US on her travels there, introduced her to Black feminist and activist writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Audre Lord, and actively taught her about white privilege, white supremacy and the truth of colonialism. She was also taught about the importance of learning from Indigenous wisdom keepers in order to heal and evolve as humanity, and to (in those days) stop climate change.

In contrast, on her father’s side, Emily is of British Colonial descent. Emily’s grandmother was born in Zimbabwe to Scottish sheep-farmers. Her grandfather came from a poor English background but won a scholarship to Cambridge University to study law. As many young British men of his time who sought “adventure, a good job and travel”, Emily’s grandfather joined the colonial service in the final days of the British Empire, and served in several African countries as a high-ranking colonial officer. He spoke Zulu and Emily’s father spoke Swazi and Swahili before being sent to Britain as a child to attend boarding school, thousands of miles away from his parents.

Although Emily did not grow up with her father or his family, she eventually came to know them and have a relationship with them, which involved taking responsibility for understanding and healing her own familial and ancestral relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.

In this process, she came to see, feel and understand first hand and close up, the deeper psychological workings of the system of white supremacy, the colonial mind and its intimate links with narcissism, perfectionism, patriarchy and extractive economies and behaviours.

Between 2003-2015, Emily worked as a learning researcher and Access, Diversity and Inclusion enabler in the Arts & Cultural Sector, deeply rooted in the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Human Rights Convention. She worked across the U.K and Scandinavia contributing to a number of large scale change projects, self-evaluation initiatives, conferences and trainings such as “Access for All”, “Inspiring Learning for All”, “Belonging – the Voices of London’s Refugees”, “The West Indian Front Room”, “Kultur och Fritid för Alla”, “Vidgat Deltagande”, “In this curriculum I don’t exist”, “In between two worlds – London teenagers’ ideas about Black History, Belonging and being British” to name a few. She worked with a wide range of marginalised communities as well as with leaders and directors holding white privilege, facilitating necessary and brave conversations challenging the status quo.

Emily has worked across many cultures and languages around the world from Sri Lanka to South Africa, Costa Rica and India to Romania and Denmark, continuously reflecting on and challenging white saviour tendencies. In this process has come to observe how white supremacy and racism works differently in different countries depending on context and history.

In 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Emily became a loud voice in the Wellness industry by calling in leaders bypassing white supremacy through ‘love and light’ rhetoric, exceptionalism, colourblindness and virtue signalling. She closed down several online coaching circles because white participants were unwilling to dive deeper into their own internalised white supremacy, and rendered the spaces not only additionally unsafe, but traumatising for BIPOC clients. Her platform and large facebook community for coaches and wellbeing facilitators centred BIWOC-led anti-racism conversations as a response.

Emily is a skilled and fiercely loving coach and space-holder with many years experience of creating safe spaces for accountability, healing, integration and growth to take place.

She is dedicated to her own ongoing learning, healing and unlearning of covert white supremacy. Examples of this are continuous learning from a wide range of anti-racism educators, authors and activists from around the world.

This bio has not been written with the intention of centring Emily in the context of Me & White Supremacy, but to transparently share about her background, values, skills and experience in order for you to make a conscious decision to choose her as a space-holder, or not.

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