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...]
Empowered Choice through Embodied Awareness
June 29, 2020 by
“Earthly things must be known to be loved;Divine things must be loved to be known.” Blaise Pascal Mindfulness practice is the key to mental stability, emotional balance and a calm, centered, empowered presence. Learning to quiet the mind and noticing what you are noticing begins with choice and is mastered through practice. Thoughts, at the … [Read more...]
Repatterning your way to Personal Freedom
June 9, 2020 by
– 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...]
Awareness is the Greatest Agent of Choice
May 21, 2020 by
There are 5 Facets of Mindfulness Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Observing, noticing, attending to feelings, thoughts, sensations, perceptions Acting with awareness Describing/labeling experience with words Non judging of experience "It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The … [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...]
Meditation Practice Brings us Home to Ourselves
May 16, 2018 by
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
May 3, 2018 by
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...]
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...]
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...]
