Guided imagery and visualization engage the imagination for positive effect enhancing body mind communication and enabling the individual to gain access to hidden aspects of their mind, developing a deeper and more satisfying relationship with the self. Guided imagery engages all the senses creating an inner felt experience that provides the … [Read more...]
Inner Wisdom and How to Access It
April 12, 2018 by
Underneath the busyness of our everyday lives and the incessant mental chatter, we are all infinitely wise and inherently intelligent. The greatest difficulty to accessing our inner wisdom is in stilling the mind and getting out of our own way, as learned from personal experience and then witnessed in my clients over the last ten years of coaching … [Read more...]
Transforming Problems into Creative Opportunities with Solution-focused Coaching
April 5, 2018 by
Solution-focused coaching is an approach to change management built upon the principles and practices of solution-focused therapy. The approach focuses on desired outcomes and related competencies. The solution-focused approach helps people become aware of their strengths and available resources and in so doing inspires empowered … [Read more...]
How Difficult Conversations Can Be Opportunities for Personal Growth
March 29, 2018 by
While some topics of conversation may be extremely challenging for one person, they may not pose any challenge at all for someone else. Perhaps it’s not the topic of conversation that a person finds challenging, but the relation the person has with another person or people involved, their needs and wants in relation to situational barriers or power … [Read more...]
Person-Centered Therapy at the Heart of Coaching
March 22, 2018 by
Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers in the mid 1950s, assumes that human beings have an innate drive to grow towards their potential when they are in a nurturing and accepting environment. Premise In Rogers’ person-centered therapy the client is recognized as the expert; the therapist creates the environment that will facilitate … [Read more...]
Allowing vs Controlling – Attitude in Health and Healing
March 14, 2018 by
A human being is a multi-dimensional, complex system of systems consisting of over 70 trillion individual cells. This rather simple representation of a complex system may help illumine and enable informed decision making for improved quality of life. Recognizing that, in solution, a cell can make only one of three simple choices: move … [Read more...]
Letter from a client to her coach
March 9, 2018 by
Dear Julia I didn't know much about coaching when I first came to you a few years ago It was a literal case of Beginner's Mind. Our first 12 session journey turned out to be magical. It gave me such hope in being able to escape a problem I had had since I was a child and I felt excitement for whatever coaching was yet to come. With each … [Read more...]
The FLOW Experience
March 8, 2018 by
Hungarian positive psychologist, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, right, is recognized for his study of happiness and creativity. He developed and mapped the concept of flow and defined it as a feeling of “being in the zone” - a state of complete absorption, mental concentration and immersion with the activity and situation at hand. Read More … [Read more...]
Stress Kills, if You Let It… Learn to Relax!
March 1, 2018 by
Every living system is equipped with two modes of being – growth or defence. Peace and harmony are requisite conditions for growth. When these conditions are right, the living system’s growth experience has characteristic qualities of flow, rhythm, strength and symmetry. Growth, however can be frustrated, hindered or arrested by stress, triggered … [Read more...]
Mindfulness, a Path of Awareness
February 8, 2018 by
Mindfulness is an ancient discipline of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment. Mindfulness practice develops awareness and alleviates suffering. Jon Kabat Zinn who popularized Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in North America, defines mindfulness as “a state of moment to moment to moment, non-judgmental … [Read more...]
