As I was packing up my mother’s nursing home room after her death, I found a little heart-shaped stone that said ‘serenity’ on it. I took it back to California with me and I hold it frequently. It’s heavy, it has form, it feels soothing, and it reminds me of her. I love the weight…
In my coaching work, a client’s deep metaphoric patterns will come through as a primary shape. Most commonly, these are line, circle, square, triangle, and spiral. (They can also show up as “no shape”–like vastness or flow, or an entirely unique shape.) Squares (clarity and good boundaries) and circles (wholeness, individuation) show up frequently, but…
All of us hold a vast reservoir of non-verbal, non-rational, non-cognitive wisdom. When we loosen our fixation on what we think, this other reservoir of wisdom has a chance to present itself. Truly innovative solutions require that we explore beyond what we logically know. Because breakthroughs arrive in non-rational ways. If you want to understand…
Many of my clients who’ve been called to do deeply creative work, get tripped up and frustrated because they feel that they need to be clear about what they’re doing. But the Deep Creative doesn’t work that way. Creativity isn’t a tool that we employ in the service of a vision. IT’S A SPACE THAT…
When there are no words, something else appears. When I work with clients, I don’t engage with their thinking because what they think is likely keeping them stuck. Instead, I shift my clients to a place of higher wisdom where there are no words. In that place of higher wisdom, they have access to deep…
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