Okay folks, I need your brains on this one please! 🧠✨ I’m currently redesigning the PAWS classroom and rebuilding the materials from scratch, and I’d love your input on something. The original PAWS method was: P — Present Moment A — Appreciation W — Wonder S — Share Originally, Appreciation was intended to be more than simply noticing something we appreciate and expand with it. It was also about staying with it for a moment and really taking it in. Then @Melanie Sweeney beautifully brought up the idea of savouring, and now I’m wondering where it most naturally belongs in the PAWS process. So, which feels more intuitive and potent to you? Option 1: A — Appreciate in a savouring way You notice what you appreciate and consciously linger with it, letting the moment really land. Option 2: S — Savour (before it was Share) You move through Present Moment → Appreciation → Wonder, and then finish by savouring and/or sharing the experience. I quite like the idea of savouring coming at the end, almost like tying a bow around the little gift you’ve just given yourself. 🎁 But I’m curious about what feels most natural to YOU when you actually imagine using PAWS in everyday life. Where would you put Savour? Is it more important than Sharing? Because I could also just make the S- Savour instead of Share? I also was really taken in what @Jane Purdon shared with us in a thread. I don't want that people feel pressure to share constantly on social media. It was encouraged during the 28 day challenge to build a habit (which Jane clearly beautifully did and inspired many of us) and now its finding a way to live and integrate it. The sharing aspect is more to put high vibes into the world, and as a community we use the science of capatalisation (we enhance it and witness it) and then these experiences become contagious and it spreads. So I do like that aspect. But I don't want that people feel obligated to do it.

I recently went to a local gallery where a dog trainer friend was exhibiting his sculptures, which he makes from reclaimed materials, mostly steel. One of his creations especially caught my eye because it immediately reminded me of Squeak, with the curled over tail, full of sass and spunk. Serendipitously, I had been gifted some birthday money that allowed me to put a red dot on the artwork, and on the weekend, when the exhibition finished, it came home with me. It makes me think of my Tiny Dancer every time I see it, and reminds me of how much I admire who she was.

Play with this girl is evolving so fast! Trust, fun, fulfilment... she's such a roughnut under it all, and i love seeing it come out. I of course took a bunch of pics, but this is my favourite.

Pax: “Mum, you are STILL on the couch?!? To be honest…this is very boring for me. Very inconveniencing.“ *Sighs deeply while making direct eye contact* 🙄😂 Pax is such a lovely boy, but you mess with his outside runs, he will let you know 😂

Hi lovely people, I caught a bug and need to cancel the community call tomorrow, Wednesday 12.8. Thank you for understanding. Much love, Birdy 💛