How to Activate Your Blueprint for Optimum Health and Wellness

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 – 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...]

6 Self Care Best Practices to Boost your Health and Self Esteem

Self-health, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring your self. Your energy and general condition will let you know you’re attentive when you need to reclaim, restore and reset. As you learn to befriend yourself, your understanding of how you can support, care for and advocate for yourself will … [Read more...]

Empowering Healers as Leaders and Leaders as Healers

Project lead for the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s inaugural CARE 150, Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week, May 1 – 7, 2017,  Kaizen Leadership Institute’s founder, Julia von Flotow, is walking her talk when it comes to healers being leaders. Julia believes in “leading the change you want to see in the world”…. change that can make a … [Read more...]

Just For Today, Put Yourself First

How often have you said to yourself and others, “after I do this, or once I’ve done that, then I’ll ….go for a walk, read a book, book a massage, take a trip, go out for a night on the town, take that course I’ve wanted to take, take some time off work etc…the list goes on. Ask yourself, “What am I letting get in the way?” If you’re like most … [Read more...]

The Healing Space and How to Create It

To create a healing space is to create the conditions for the possibility of healing to occur. In other words, healing is a state of being, of consciousness, that enables the client to access and engage their own “inner healer” and move towards wholeness, a dynamic state of balance, equanimity and poise. To create this kind of healing space is … [Read more...]

Self Care – Enlightened Self-Interest

Self care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring the Self. Cats have a lot to teach us in this domain! Our attitude and outlook towards life, the quality of our energy, vitality and general condition will let us know, if we’re attentive, what we need to move towards balance in every moment.  The … [Read more...]

Vitality is Life: Some Conditions Apply!

 There’s no season that teaches us more about vitality than Spring when nature’s primal life-giving force is irrepressible and the growing conditions are just right to activate earth’s inherent fecundity in an explosion of colour, scent and growth everywhere around us. Nature’s abundant generosity stirs us awake at our very core, and inspired by … [Read more...]