Council Prompts

Keeping the edges hot means reflecting on our lives and zeroing in on what is stirring inside of us - asking ourselves the important questions about what we’re feeling, how this has been affecting our lives and then listening for guidance from the Spirit within.

These prompts are questions that get us thinking about what’s in our minds/on our hearts and allows for the whole spectrum of human response.

PROMPTS:

  • Who taught you how to forgive? Remember them and thank them.

  • What grief do you carry with you? Does it affect your relationships? Do you see it as a teacher?

  • Take time to look at your body and its scars. What are they teaching you today?

  • If you had someone tell the story of your life, who would it be? Can they tell the whole story? What do you still need to share?

  • How do I talk to myself? (e.g., tone, expectations)

  • What is one important thing my father taught me?

  • Where is my home?

  • All people experience initiation in their lives through marriage, new jobs... What was your earliest memory of an initiation and how did this experience change you?

  • Where do you think the Holy Spirit is calling you to go, but you are resisting? What is one action you could do to move forward in this area?

  • In what activities do you find yourself giving and receiving God’s love?   

  • Why do you think God created you to live in this time and place and to be involved with this community of men?

  • How can you use your strengths in greatest service to yourself, your family, your community and the world?

  • How do you know when you are stressed? What do you do to de-stress?

  • What 5 things are you most proud of? What 5 things will you be most proud of?

  • If you had all the time and all the money in the world, what would you do?

  • What’s your ideal day look like? When do you get up? What do you do? With whom? For whom? Imagine it in vivid detail!

  • Who are your heroes? Why? How are you like them?

  • What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

  • If you were guaranteed to succeed, what’s the #1 thing you would do? What else?

  • What is it that you and only you can do for the world?

  • How can you live in more integrity with your ideals? What’s the #1 thing you could start doing that would have the most positive impact in your life? What’s the #1 thing you could *stop* doing that would have the most positive impact in your life?! Sweet. Now rock it.