On Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Coaching and Healing Over the next few decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is promising to revolutionize the world as we know it. In many sectors of society, it already is! While I don’t consider myself an “early adaptor” I recognize that the world around me and the economic, political, and … [Read more...]
Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom
– an Awareness Training Protocol The moment you realize the cause of your suffering is a moment of liberation. That moment of insight is an opening in awareness of an internal pattern that’s kept you stuck and in pain. Personal liberation then, is a process activated by awareness and pattern recognition, followed by a process of … [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...]
Transforming Problems into Creative Opportunities with Solution-focused Coaching
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
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
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...]
Transforming Archetypal Patterns of Behaviour that Keep you Stuck into Navigational Aids
Archetypes are universal patterns, ideas, and images that live and grow in the collective unconscious that express themselves through symbol or metaphor and can be recognized as inherent potentials. Archetypes are inborn tendencies shaping behaviour. When brought into conscious awareness, archetypes can be transformed from a hidden, repetitive and … [Read more...]
Archetypes and You ~ Discover their Power!
Archetypes are symbols of patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour that reflect your relationship with yourself, others and with the world. Archetypes are neither positive nor negative. They are essentially neutral patterns of the psyche. Archetypes can be universal and cultural and can be experienced as a powerful pattern, deep within you, … [Read more...]
Cultivating Presence
Key to Self-Empowered, Authentic Leadership!
Acceptance versus Resignation
YES and NO are the two most basic human responses to internal or external stimuli. The gap between these two, diametrically-opposed positions from acceptance to rejection, covers a wide range of emotional states from an energetic and enthusiastic YES to a vehement and forceful NO. Our whole being: mind, body, and spirit, is directly affected by … [Read more...]