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?
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
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...]
Therapeutic Touch Works! For Healing and Wellness in Hospital and Long Term Care Settings Field Research Report, Spring 2018
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
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
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
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...]
Meditation Practice Brings us Home to Ourselves
American psychotherapist and educator Lawrence LeShan in his book How to Meditate, The Acclaimed Guide to Self-Discovery recognizes the aim of meditation practices to be “inner growth and development – to help the individual reach their own special, fullest potential in being, relating and creating” and “doing consciously what would otherwise be … [Read more...]
Effective Leadership – Your Competitive Advantage
Coaching helps leaders find their stride and navigate their workplace effectively to survive, thrive and achieve sustainable success both professionally and personally. Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides – what a person is (character) and what a person does … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch – Mindfulness Practice in Action
Therapeutic Touch® is a holistic, evidence-based, integrative therapy that incorporates the intentional and compassionate use of universal energy to promote balance and well-being in all aspects of the individual: body, emotions, mind and spirit. Developed in the early 1970’s through the pioneering work of Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, a professor … [Read more...]