Give Your Gift - Tasshin

Give Your Gift is a six week online program designed to help you find your vow and give your gift.

We see you as a hero—a badass, cool, powerful person who longs to serve the world.

We see your spark—your skills and hopes and dreams—and we want to see that come to life, for your joy and the benefit of the world.

We want to see heroes like yourself flourish, and to build a community of such people working together to joyfully serve the world.

During Give Your Gift, you will plan, create, and offer a service project to the world—a project that is fun for you, will help you to grow, and will be of tremendous benefit. A project that has your name on it, that was designed for you—as if you were born to give this gift.

There is a limit of nine places in the program. Participation is selective and available only by application. Applications close at 11:59 PM ET on June 14th (8:59 PM PT). We anticipate that applications will be competitive, and will be selecting participants who we feel would benefit most from this special opportunity, whose projects will have the biggest positive impact on the world.

We expect that this program will mark a turning point in your life, and that its ripples will be felt in our communities and the world for years to come. We hope you’ll join us!

— Tasshin and Mary

Applications for the Give Your Gift cohort have closed. You can apply to the Empowerment program, though, which is currently offered on a rolling basis!

The Program

July 1st — August 12th, 2023

Saturdays 12:00 PM–1:30 PM
All times US Eastern Time (New York).

Give Your Gift consists of six 90-minute live group sessions, with lectures, discussion, and exercises; two 60-minute joint coaching sessions with Tasshin and Mary; and a service project that you’ll design, create, and complete by the end of the program.

The six weeks will have two chapters:

Find Your Vow	Give Your Gift
Week 1: Launch Week 2: Values Week 3: Vows	Week 4: Productivity Week 5: Strategy Week 6: Landing

To help you Find Your Vow, you’ll have two unique joint coaching calls with Tasshin and Mary. We’ll ask you about your your skills, your gifts, your hopes, your dreams, and your vision. You’ll be surprised and delighted by the insights you’ll learn about yourself and the dots you’ll connect.

To help you Give Your Gift, we will co-create a a service project with you to help you move forward with giving your gifts to the world. Our ideal service project will be something that you’re excited about, which will be fun for you, beneficial for the world, feasible for where you’re currently at, but will also challenge you to grow.

What Does Give Your Gift Include?

6 live sessions with Tasshin and Mary on specific topics designed to help you grow: Values, Vows, Productivity, and Strategy
2 joint coaching sessions with Tasshin and Mary (60 minutes each) designed to understand you, your life story, what you care about in the world, and what you want to create
A fun, unique service project tailored to you, that is aligned with your skills and goals, that you are capable of doing at your current skill level, that will help you to grow, and be of benefit to the world
A cohort of hand picked, highly motivated, kind peers focused on supporting each other and helping the world
Weekly group co-working sessions where you can work with others in the course or ask questions of Tasshin and Mary
One group “office hours” session with Tasshin and Mary to answer questions and help you with your project
Access to the Give Your Gift community Discord server, filled with your fellow course participants and other heroes who support each other in kind and loving ways. Includes your own “feed” channel where you can journal in community about your projects and discoveries
Free lifetime access to the Digital Productivity Coach to help you improve your productivity skills

Participation in this program costs $1,000.

Live Q&A

We hosted a live Q&A to share about the program and answer questions. The call was recorded and shared publicly. You can watch the recording here.

Testimonials

I found an amazing community of people supporting me to not only give my gift but on my path to discover how I want to show up and be of service in the world. I haven’t ever experienced such a great community of people, let alone one that is async and one that supports me in all my myriad ways of being. I accomplished things that I knew I wouldn’t have without GYG. I was also able to let go of ways I thought I wanted to give my gift and come into alignment with a new, more easeful way of giving my gift.

Alexandra Heller

I loved the community, so supportive and encouraging! It’s so much easier to keep going on a project with a group of friends. And the project itself was spot on for what I needed at the time to get going. Soon after GYG ended, I found a dream job in the field of my service project (climate tech). The project I did gave me the necessary clarity and confidence to recognize and claim that opportunity. And the project reminded me how much I love writing and inspired me to make this a regular hobby again.

Ellen König

Something that stuck with me is the focus on one’s service being fun… fun for themselves and fun for others. It doesn’t have to be an either-or situation and, in fact, most of the time it’s the opposite: doing what is fun makes you more of service to others. Having a special feed to write long form text in for myself where curious, supportive people will come peruse it on some regular basis has been really nice. It’s a nice third space between my private journal and my public Twitter. I’m more hopeful than before. Working and chatting with optimistic, compassionate people does wonders for my own feelings about myself.

Benjamin Pence

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn in Give Your Gift? How will I grow?

At the end of Give Your Gift, you’ll have completed a service project and shared it with the world. You’ll see the benefits that this project has on people, and it will lead to new ideas and opportunities for you to serve the world.

The process of planning, executing, and delivering this project will have helped you to understand yourself better, develop new skills, and grow as a person.

You’ll have learned a variety of ideas, skills, and tools for doing work and being of service in the world—and you’ll have a new team of people, friends, and allies to learn, play, and work alongside, a community of heroes dedicated to being of service in the world.

Above all, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your vow, of your longing to serve the world—and be empowered to take practical next steps towards giving that gift.

Who is Give Your Gift designed for?

If you know that more is possible from your life and work, but aren’t sure how to get there—this program is for you.

If you care about your life being of service to others and the world—this program is for you.

If you are dedicated to your life purpose, and want a helping hand manifesting that in the world—this program is for you.

If you are working a day job you’re not satisfied with, and you long for more fun, meaning, fulfillment, growth, and purpose from your work—this program is for you.

If you want a crew of awesome people to work with, be supported by, and collaborate alongside—this program is for you.

When does the program start and finish?

This program will run from July 1st until August 12th, 2022. Meetings of the entire group will take place on Saturdays from 12:00-1:30 PM ET. Your individual coaching calls with Tasshin + Mary will be scheduled at your convenience.

How much time will this take?

This program involves:
– A weekly 90 minute group call
– Two one hour sessions with Tasshin and Mary (scheduled at times that work for you, in the first two weeks of the program)
– Course materials and exercises (approximately one to two hours a week)
– Planning, creating, and sharing a service project (10+ hours of work) within the six weeks

As with all online programs—and with life in general—you will get out what you put in. The more time, energy, curiosity, love, effort, and care you put into this course, the more you’ll get out of it.

What will the sessions be about? Why will you cover those topics?

Live sessions will be a combination of lectures, group discussion, and exercises. The first sixty minutes or so will be lectures and exercises—the last thirty minutes will be group discussion and Q+A.

– Launch: Meet your fellow heroes embarking on service projects together.
– Values: Reflect on your deepest values, and what those values tell you about yourself.
– Vows: Learn about vows, callings, and life purposes, and consider what you know about yours.
– Productivity: Review a handful of tried-and-true tactics for planning and completing projects in the world, and decide what skill to develop next.
– Strategy: Look at a big picture view of collaboration with other individuals and groups, so that you might effectively and joyfully live your vow in connection with others.
– Landing: Share your completed service project with everyone in the cohort, and celebrate!

What if I can’t attend the weekly group meetings?

We strongly encourage that you attending the weekly live group sessions (Saturdays from 12-1:30 PM ET). The first and last sessions (“Launch” and “Landing”) are required. If for some reason you can’t make one of the other sessions, they will be recorded and shared shortly after each session has ended.

What happens in the coaching sessions with Tasshin and Mary?

You’ll have two calls with Tasshin and Mary during this program:
– Call 1: Understanding You: we’ll ask you open-ended questions designed to understand you, what you care about in the world, and what you might want to create. (60m)
– Call 2: Deciding On a Project: we’ll decide on a service project together, as well as a project plan and timeline. (60m)

These calls are a unique offering, designed to help you find your vow and give your gift to the world.

What project will I do?

We want to co-create a service project with you to help you move forward with giving your gifts to the world. This will be a fun, challenging project—something that is aligned with your skills and goals, that you are capable of doing at your current skill level, that will help you to grow, and will be of benefit to the world.

Possible projects include: writing a manifesto, record a video, writing a blog post, starting a podcast, recording a song, creating a piece of art, hosting an event. Your project assignment will be tailored to you, though, so it’s hard to anticipate precisely what it will be in advance!

You can see a thread of past service projects from Give Your Gift participants here.

What if I don’t like my project? Can I do something different?

We will decide on your project together. You have the final say on which project you do, and we’ll prioritize choosing a project that you will find fun and enjoyable.

Will this program be offered again in the future?

We ran this program last year, and hope to run it again once a year!

Is there a money-back guarantee?

We are not offering a money back guarantee for this program. Because members of this group will be specifically selected from a wider pool of applicants for matching to this program, we need your commitment that you will participate fully and completely in the entirety of this course.

We want to encourage group cohesion within this cohort, as the relationships you’ll build with the other participants will be an essential component of this experience of what you’ll take away from it.

What does the application process entail?

The application includes several short- and long-form text questions, as well as making a short video recording of yourself. You can record this on your phone or laptop, and don’t need to edit it—just be yourself, and answer the questions we’ve asked. We just want to get a sense of who you are and why you want to take this program!

Applications close at 11:59 PM Eastern June 14th (8:59 PM PT). After applications close, we will review the applications and select the participants. We will select up to nine participants that we feel would benefit most from participating in this experience. You’ll hear from us by late June (approximately June 21st) if your application was successful. If accepted, you’ll need to pay the program fee before the program begins on July 1st, 2023.

What is a vow?

Everyone has a vow, a calling, a life purpose—it’s what you came here to do. A vow is not a pass-fail test, there’s no check-box to check—it’s not pre-destined or fated, you have agency and say in what your vow is. Your vow emerges in the dance between who you are and the world you find yourself in, your desires and the world’s needs, your dreams and your circumstances.

We’ve found that doing a service project is the best way to practically steer towards living your vow in the long-term, and that’s why we’ve designed Give Your Gift around service projects.

I have another question.

If there’s anything we didn’t cover here, please email Tasshin at [email protected] or DM Tasshin or Mary on Twitter!

Program Leaders

Tasshin Fogleman

I’m an extremely online pilgrim wandering this precious world for the benefit of all beings. 💗

I live a simple life, dedicating my life to being of service, supported by the generosity of others.

I have three main endeavors: spreading love, following my curiosity, and empowering others.

It brings me tremendous joy to see people deeply, to help move them towards giving their deepest gifts to the world, and to watch the benefits compound and ripple out.

Mary Bajorek

I believe in creating a world where all of us are doing work that is an expression of who we are and the impact we want to make. A world where each of us lives meaningfully, courageously and unapologetically in connection with each other and ourselves.

Through my work as a work life coach at Lifeworthloving Coaching, I have guided dozens of people from all over the world in a myriad of professions to gain clarity on what’s important to them, work through external and internal blocks and make choices that lead them to share their gifts in a way that best supports both them and what the world needs.

I love people, facilitating transformative experiences through creative forms and seeing each other as learners.