[Dialogue] How CHARTING Changed My Life

[David Marshall]

In a recent listserv submission, I opined that the greatest gift of the
Order's and EI's many gifts was RS-1. Another gift not far behind for me is
CHARTING. I don't think I would be where I am today, in good physical and
spiritual health, together with my precious wife Kate of 40+ years, two
wonderful children, a gorgeous new grandson, a robust writing and
publishing career, and a small group of dear friends--without the strong
influence of charting in my life.

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Substack article I published
earlier this week that I invite you to read. If you agree that charting
skills are an important life skill, I encourage you to recommend my
Substack article to others, especially to non Order/EI/ICA alumni. The
article makes a bold claim that readers can indeed *make the most of the
rest of their lives* by embracing charting, specifically with the version I
call LIFE MAPS. It also includes some life-charting freebies.

[image: Mature-Adult_Whole-Life-Map_MY-LIFE-MAP_David&KateMarshall.JPG]

..."Charting started for books, and then spread to other media such as
paintings, plays, and movies. Remember the old saying, “a picture tells a
thousand words”? It’s kind of like that. You can take a whole book or
screenplay and “draw it” with words on one page, with a beginning, middle,
and end. There is even a web page devoted to The Charting Method
<https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/deepening-facilitation-methods/dialogue/fmcharting/>
in the ICA Archives that describes the origin and how-to of charting,
written by some of the elders of the Ecumenical Institute such Joe Mathews,
Joe Pierce, and my father, Gene Marshall.

"I was introduced to book charting as a pre-teen, and then started creating
my own life charts as a teenager. The idea is to name the chapters of your
life just as if they were in a book, and then name the section headings,
and finally the title of your whole life. Titling your life, even as a work
in progress, can be very revealing...."
https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/making-the-most-of-the-rest-of-your?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Thanks for taking a peek,

David Marshall
Class of Order/EI/ICA 1974
Moraga, CA
www.marshallbooks.net
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