I see it time and again…how what a client believes shapes their perception and limits their experience. What does it take to have an “open” mind? Why does it matter? The assumption is that if your mind’s made up, you’ve come to a judgment and require no more information. Your mind is therefore closed and you direct your available energy to … [Read more...]
In Giving We Receive–Therapeutic Touch®, Mindfulness Practice in Action
August 30, 2018 by
In my early days of learning Therapeutic Touch, I discovered its brilliance and was in awe at the wisdom of its founders, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD and her mentor, Dora Kunz. It was at a Practice Group meeting in the middle of offering a healing session that I realized quite suddenly that in this simple act of helping another, I felt better – I … [Read more...]
How to Activate Your Blueprint for Optimum Health and Wellness
August 23, 2018 by
Your blueprint for optimal health and wellness is within you as the oak tree is to the acorn. Imagine it as always being there – at the centre of your being. To activate self-healing, call upon this blueprint for optimal health. Think of it as shifting a handheld kaleidoscope to the select view – the view you want to call into focus….your … [Read more...]
Is your Caregiving Genuine or Strained?
July 24, 2018 by
Selfless services span a continuum of care. One extreme might see selfless caregiving as genuine, effortless and authentic, a charitable act of unconditional love and compassion-in-action embodied and expressed in spiritual saints epitomized by larger than life figures like Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Jesus. At the other end of this spectrum are … [Read more...]
Developing Good Leadership Skills – 11 Principles of Leadership Best-Practice
July 17, 2018 by
Develop effective leadership skills, inspire employee engagement and learn to make choices that help you create and enjoy the life you are here to live while having the impact you want to have in your world. Good leadership skills are developed through training, coaching and practice. We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle 11 Principles … [Read more...]
“Everything Jiggles” and That’s a Good Thing!
July 10, 2018 by
Helping clients transcend and transform themselves and their situation for the better is at the heart of my coaching and healing work. Knowing that there is nothing fixed…that “everything jiggles” as the famous physicist, Richard Feynman, so wonderfully quipped, gives me hope as well as a chuckle that lightens my mood even in what may at first … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch Works! For Healing and Wellness in Hospital and Long Term Care Settings Field Research Report, Spring 2018
July 5, 2018 by
The Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s annual CARE150 Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week May 7 – 13, 2018, provided an opportunity to conduct a modest research project on respondents’ experience of their Therapeutic Touch® sessions. Therapeutic Touch (TT), an evidence-based, complementary, biofield therapy affects body, mind, emotions and … [Read more...]
Project Management, a Continuous Improvement Practice
June 22, 2018 by
Project management is a discipline with an extensive body of knowledge that has evolved through project management practices over time. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge first published in 1996 by the Project Management Institute (PMI) incorporated in 1969. Projects range in complexity from sending a man to the moon to organizing … [Read more...]
Focusing – Felt Sensing for Insight and Awareness
June 6, 2018 by
Focusing is a psychotherapeutic process developed by psychologist Dr. Eugene Gendlin in the 1960s who wondered why some of his clients got better and others did not. True healing, he discovered, occurred when the person listened inward to difficult feelings in a special way. It’s a special step by step process, that Gendlen mapped and called … [Read more...]
Leadership Transitions Coaching
May 23, 2018 by
Transitioning to new leadership positions is often accompanied by the excitement of new challenges coupled with the fear of failure. Studies show that, in Canada, transitioning leaders' efforts to effect positive change, are most commonly frustrated by: Navigating corporate politics Their inability to get work done through … [Read more...]
