Commitment to a thing that matters to you requires that you first recognize it as a priority. Right here, right now, THIS is what matters to you and so you give it your full attention. It engages and commands your attention and compels you to focus. What’s in the way? It is this compelling presence that receives your full attention – your energy … [Read more...]
Cultivating a Coaching Presence
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Cultivating a coaching presence is a practice of awareness in action - of being your authentic best self, moment to moment within the context of a coaching session, aware and free of the pressures of conflicting, limiting or contradictory beliefs and … [Read more...]
The Guts – Inner Athenor, a Transformational Powerhouse
“Feed the fire in your belly and your dreams will become clear to you.” Julia von Flotow It’s in your belly that dreams are born…the desire for something awakens hope and with hope comes possibilities activating the imagination, the creative indwelling Spirit and the heart’s best friend. Creating the inner safe space for dreaming stokes the fires … [Read more...]
The Authentic Self ~ Key to Unlocking Human Potential
Your human potential is far greater than you might expect; far more expansive than the little bit that you have manifested in your physical body and conscious experience of life. Many dimensions of human consciousness are invisible and hidden. We are mostly unaware of the different states of consciousness we experience and subtle energy flows that … [Read more...]
Mind Games – Inventing problems so we can fix them and control our world
Who doesn't get caught up in mind games? It's a common past time in our culture that looks something like this: Invent or focus on a problem Define it, identify the symptoms and contributing factors Design or create a solution for it. Test it and write a book about it Create a product and monetize your knowledge Get rich This … [Read more...]
Transforming Procrastination and Self-Sabotage into Empowered Action
Transform procrastination and self sabotage into self celebration and accomplishment. Self-sabotage is when you say you want something and then go about making sure it doesn’t happen to keep you stuck and going nowhere. Feelings of stuck-ness, disappointment and frustration are common symptoms of an over-active inner critic. In this workshop you … [Read more...]
The Change Process – Know Where You Are
Change is the only constant. Change is inevitable, ever present and experienced with ever-increasing complexity and intensity. Whether we are more aware of change within us or change as external to us is a matter of focus – what we are paying attention to. When we accept change as a given, we are enabled to look for and find opportunities to … [Read more...]
Why Mindfulness?
Our minds are endlessly creative, restless, impetuous and incessantly jumping from one idea to another; clutching and grasping, inventing one scenario after another – in short – our minds are undisciplined. The practice of mindfulness meditation creates awareness and cultivates inner calm, peace and a quiet resilience. Mindfulness meditation is … [Read more...]