What is the Desire Map?

A guide to creating goals with soul.

Your bucket list. Quarterly objectives. Strategic plans. Big dreams. Goals. Lots of goals and plans to achieve those goals–no matter what. Except…

You’re not chasing the goal itself, you’re actually chasing the feeling that achieving that goal will give you.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life.

What will you do to feel the way you want to feel?

Creating Goals with Soul

The Desire Map is a tool for more holistic, heart-centered living. It has sold over 150,000 copies and has been translated into seven languages, and it has helped people all over the world identify their Core Desired Feelings™ and use that clarity to design the lives they want to live. Jobs, quit. Passions, chosen. Relationships, transformed. Clarity, achieved. Desires, claimed.

Now Desire Map workshops and events are being held all over the globe, and The Desire Map is working its way into yoga studios, one-on-one coaching sessions, and classrooms of all kinds and age groups.

As a licensed Desire Map facilitator, I bring The Desire Map to others and transform lives. It’s time to change your life for the better.

The Desire Map

The Desire Map is a feeling based approach to life. For instance, if I were to ask you what you desire most in life, you may say, “more money.” But that isn’t what you really and truly desire. What you truly wish for is to feel free and affluent. See the difference? It’s those internal feelings that are driving you to pursue the external outcomes.

The first step is figuring out how you wish to feel, the next step is setting goals with soul. That’s where I come in. I’ll guide you through the entire process until you reach your true desire destination.

Desire brings light to darkness

Have you ever attended a workshop that left you feeling completely fatigued? All of those plans, strategies, and ideas that you now have to implement in order to feel truly enlightened? Relax. Because, that is not how it is with The Desire Map.

The Desire Map workshops are not like any workshops you’ve attended before. When you walk in, you’ll feel at home. And when you leave, you’ll feel lighter than you did when you arrived. In between, I’ll take you through a range of techniques and exercises that will help you achieve clarity on one simple question: How do you most want to feel?

We’re chasing feelings, not goals. It’s simple. And incredibly, beautifully, powerful.

Mandy Foster speaking at workshop
Desire Map books and glasses on tray

How can the Desire Map help you?

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Are you a goal getter?

Goal Getters are clear on what they want. They looooove planning — they are daily planner lovers, list-makers, focused. And, chances are, they never feel like they’ve arrived. They want holistic, life-affirming systems so they can do more of what they love and less of the planning.

Feeling good along the way to your goals doesn’t mean you don’t work your ass off to get what you want. It means you joyously work your ass off.

Desire feeling good more than you want to check accomplishments off your list!

woman with map on hilltop

Are you a seeker?

Seekers come to the workshop to get clear on what they truly desire. They know they have something to give the world; they’re just not quite sure what that thing is.

The Desire Map workshop begins with getting clear on what you already have in your life, what you are grateful for, and where you are dissatisfied.

You’ll get clear on the root of your desire and create a map of how you desire to feel in five areas of your life. From that place of clarity, you’ll be guided to discover and declare your core desired feelings.

The Desire Map is for you if:

you are ready for a new approach to goal setting
you have set goals in the past, maybe even achieved them – but still feel like something is missing
you’re tired of striving, you are ready to feel good
you want to have an incredible year this year
you love feeling good
you always put yourself at the end of your “to do” list, and you are ready to put yourself first
you are feeling dissatisfaction at work, and are considering a career change
your kids are grown, now what?
you’ve just graduated, now what?
you know there has GOT to be more to life
you LOVE self improvement journeys
you set the same goals every year (lose weight, eat healthy, go to the gym…) and you are ready for something different
you are finally ready to call in the life you desire (and deserve)
you are slightly, even just a little bit, curious or excited about what you’ve read so far

That sounds like me!

Do all of these things seem to be describing you? Let’s talk next steps.

Core Desired Feelings

How do you want to feel in the deepest part of your being? What feelings make you come alive? What feelings make you feel more aligned with your true self? I’d like to share my four CDFs with you in the hope that you’ll join me to search for yours!

CONNECTED

united or joined so that a real link is established
AUTHENTIC

genuine and real, worthy of trust
EMPOWERED

to feel power or authority; to be enabled
CREATIVE

originality of thought and expression

How do you want to feel?

What if we got clear on how we actually wanted to feel in our life, and then we laid out our intentions? What if your most desired feelings consciously informed how you plan your day, your year, your career – your life?

Praise for The Desire Map

“Our workshop was filled with unexpected and unexplainable connections. We were sisters by the end, as we learned from each other’s experiences and drew on each other’s energy. It was a weekend love, healing and moxie.”

Brandi Buckman Desire Map Workshop Participant

 

“I was surprised to find that the tribe of women I met at The Desire Map Workshop helped me to open up and go deep — really deep, really fast. There was no judgement, no suggestion of how to feel. Sharing in that sacred space was powerful.”

Twyla Dill Desire Map Workshop Participant

“I do a lot and am successful at what I do. But the workshop helped me recognize that I’ve been stuck in survival mode – the joy in what I was doing wasn’t there. Getting in touch with the feelings that drive what I do takes me beyond survival and into thriving, which makes life so much sweeter.”

Tracy Greene Desire Map Workshop Participant

“The clarity I have now (after the workshop) is amazing. I know how to do things differently from now on, to get to what I want to feel everyday.”

Palomi Sheth Desire Map Workshop Participant

 

“I desire mapped on my own before, but the group experience was radically different. It became a space for us to share, cry, laugh, and most importantly, to expand. And because I was so in it, I’m now bursting with ideas about how my own workshops will look, feel, smell, taste and sound. I’m honored to have been part of such a life-altering experience.”

Marcy Cruice Desire Map Workshop Participant

 

“Attending the Desire Map Workshop changed everything. I was so filled up when I left… So much gratitude. I can’t say enough about the experience. It was heaven.”

Shawn Marie Turi Desire Map Workshop Participant

 

“I’ve been through (and led) many leadership and growth workshops and I can honestly say The Desire Map workshop has been one of the most powerful I’ve experienced. The exercises, the journal time, the clear and encouraging facilitation and the support of the other participants all contributed to a stellar event.”

Pamela Sampel Desire Map Workshop Participant

 

“As a life coach (16+ years) and yoga instructor (7+ years), I enjoy witnessing the light go on in other people’s lives. The Desire Map is a tool that anyone can use to steer their lives according to the constellation of their core desired feelings. This work has profoundly impacted me and I’m ecstatic about sharing it with others.”

Corey Stiles Desire Map Workshop Participant

Desire to feel better? Ya, you do.

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