Last year I took part in a daily blogging exercise during December called Reverb 10. The intention of it was to reflect on the year that had passed and manifest our intentions for the future. The organizers sent out an email yesterday letting participants know that they would not be hosting it again this year and providing instructions to roll our own. At first I was a little sad, but then I realized that this was simply an opportunity for me to do my own prompts for reflection instead of using someone else’s (I didn’t blog daily last year in part because I didn’t like all the prompts). If you do a search on twitter for Reverb 11 you can see that a lot of people are following suit and there are several places you can sign up to still get prompts delivered to you. (Please note that the only reason I’m not linking is because most of these posts are written on my iPod touch while I feed my 3-month old son).

After several hours of brainstorming, here’s what I’ve come up with for my own personal Reverb 11 project. I wanted to keep it ultra simple, so each prompt is just a single word to jump off of (with one notable exception). Only four posts will follow a schedule and they will form bookends for the month. I’m probably going to recycle the prompts each year because they are so simple & open. I’d love to mix it up in future years by doing the entire project as a photography challenge or art journalling challenge or whatever else I can think of.

If you want to play along, here are the prompts. Blog about them in whatever way they move you. Then if you want to share, come back and link to your post in the comments.

1. One word
2. Begin
* 12 things
* Body
* Community
* Confess
* Create
* Discomfort
* Effort
* Media
* Nourish
* Numbers
* Play
* Private
* Project
* Question
* Release
* Rest
* Ritual
* Sacred
* Space
* Story
* Style
* Wealth
* What
* When
* Where
* Who
* Work
30. End
31. Celebrate

Related posts:

  1. #Reverb11 – Project