Being present and showing up to reveal your Inner Treasure.
Imagine that you are in a glass bottle.
There is a label outside the bottle that lists all your ingredients, nutritional value and tells the world who you are. It is very hard to read your bottle from the inside. There are critical times, when to know yourself will make the difference. You can stay the same or you can awaken the capacity for greater truth and beauty for yourself and others.
I am here to help you read your label - to know yourself and awaken your capacity.
Integral Coaching is an experience that unfolds upon on a professional relationship that is grounded in mutual trust and respect. We are in this experience together, there is no spectator. With our being present and showing up, we augment the space, energy and skill collectively as two, in full service of your learning.
Space, Energy, Skill
Through the skill of conversation, or a synergy of conversation and hands-on bodywork, there is augmented space for your inner quiet to hear what truly wants to be expressed.
This up-wells greater energy that moves your body, speech and mind at the exact pace that you are ready for, and of the exact quality that you need.
Change takes biological time and practice. Your growing insights, given the time and your intentional practice during the coaching process, can become like clearer stronger waters flowing to the sea. They contribute to the freer and vaster wholeness from which you understand, relate and act.
“It is a moment when you feel deeply connected to yourself and others, with a deep acceptance of everything, and you take practical steps to move forward in life.”
from Integrating Rigor, Compassion and Creative Design” by Flaherty and Handelsmann
Signs of Growth as you Know Yourself and Awaken Capacity.
Greater Competence.
You discover and train in a bouquet of skills that support you towards your longer-term purpose.
Insights alone do not bring forth outcomes. It is practice that brings forth such enduring competence, that can be seen and felt, with actionable possibilities for your personal and professional success.
2. Greater Fulfilment.
Even if you came to address a specific topic, greater fulfilment arises as you experience being more intimate with yourself. Activating deeper layers of your qualities naturally enlivens a stronger felt sense of presence and joy.
3. Your Inner Coach.
You are transparent to yourself of discrepancies between what you intend and the actual outcomes.
Wisdom and kindness emerge, as you acknowledge gaps between your values and your actual actions, and act to bridge that. Your inner coach awakens more and more.
4. Your Creative Aliveness.
You activate self-care and renewal for yourself, recognising more of your inner and outer resources. Your sense of resilience, expansion and inclusiveness grow to hold vaster complexities : those unlike yourself, paradoxes, the unknown, the fears and losses. You develop a bigger world view, that inspires you with a longer time horizon.
What happens?
Beginning with what you bring in, I listen to where you are in your professional and personal life, in fulfilling your longings and meeting your challenges. I take in how you are and how your world is shaped in many aspects—cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, and spiritual.
Developmental programme. I design yours with utmost care and inspiration. Like composing music together, we finetune and grow on this along the way. This provides a structure for the course of our work together, that includes: your purpose and intended outcomes: and practices to activate your insights and embodied change.
We practise being present together to what emerges - in conversation, embodied exercises and hands-on bioenergetic work, as appropriate to your need.
Our work together runs for 6 to 9 months.
During this time, we meet for 14 sessions.
The opening step:
Discovery Session
Feeling motivated, curious, a sense of trepidation, and even some fear are great places to start.
Sensing it’s time for change is a precious and impermanent opportunity – we’ve all experienced our mastery at staying in safety and backing from perceived danger – and delaying our greater growth.
In this 45 minute Discovery session we explore together what you wish to attend to, outcomes you are seeking from this work, address your questions, and mutually assess how we match.
This can open to our path going forward. This is an intake conversation that offers more clarity on your topic.