Christina Merkley, The SHIFT-IT Coach: Recent Episodes
Christina Merkley
Process Professional, Graphic Facilitator, Coach and International Educator. Clarity for changing times. Let’s make it visual!
We all have spidey senses ... but some of us are more aware of them than others. How does your Right Brain (your subconscious that is tapped into the all that is) communicate to your slower and more literal Left Brain? Is it through sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, feel or knowing? I find that Process Professionals, even if they aren't consciously aware of what they are doing, are pretty darn tapped into these signs, signals and synchronicities How about you?!
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My Kundalini Process Is Creating Strong Balance Within Me - Which Is Impacting My SHIFT-IT School Offerings. We Now Have 2 eCommunities To Support Grads of My Left-Brain and Right-Brain Programs. The Working Visually eCommunity Supports Visual Practitioners With Skill and Business Development. The SHIFT-IT eCommunity Covers Equally Important Inner Work of Personal Visioning and Energy Alignment. See 2017 and 2018 Monthly Dates.
What used to be science fiction is fast approaching. As a Process Professional, are you prepared for the vast changes that technology will soon bring?! Learn how Holographic and Virtual Reality technology is going to impact us all, even Visual Practitioners ... the good, bad and potentially scary. And how you can start changing your practice now so what you do isn't taken over by a robot, seriously!
A short definition of “Visual Coaching” or “Graphic Coaching” is … the spontaneous use of writing and drawing as a mirroring effect during process work with individuals.
A Client (an individual, couple, partner, family or group) is guided by a Process Professional (HR, coach, therapist, counselor, mediator, financial advisor, etc.) through specific processes that simulate specific kinds of thinking and/or feeling (life mapping, visioning, planning, resistance work, etc.).
The Client’s perspective, reactions and answers are literally drawn out right in front of them … in-person via paper or whiteboards or digitally via web conferencing with digital tablets.
The Processing Of Our Deep Emotions Not Through Projection, Denial or Avoidance. See Three Inspiring Examples of Deep Inner Work. From a Woman Who's Scared of Trump. Between a Wrongly Convicted Man And the Crooked Cop Who Was Responsible. And, Between a Rapist and The Woman Who's Trust He Violated. If They Can Do It So Can We. Time to Do Our Inner Work!
SHIFT-IT Coach eZine- Vol 13, Issue 1
This issue of the SHIFT-IT eZine I’m sharing some thoughts and resources on a REALLY BIG SHIFT — the shift of our civilization from Type 0 status to Type 1 status. A massive shift which isn’t easy or pretty but is essential if we are to survive as a species and keep our planet functioning.
Whether you are an old hand at Visual Coaching or are completely new to it, we can all benefit from reflecting on our lives every once in a while: to identify what mid-course corrections we might want to make. Sooooo, in the spirit of this holiday season ... I'm gifting you my Mini SHIFT-IT Retreat, complete with 4 Visual Maps and Instruction eBook.
Got You Tweaked, Triggered and Reactive?! Check Out 3 Soothing Resources I Find Helpful to Ease Post-Election Angst. Hopefully They Will Bring You Some Relief and Comfort Too. Hang In There ... We Are In the SHIFT!!!
Adventures in Messiness. Recommended Books. Deep Democracy Method. And, My Attendance at Secret Space Program Conference.
NEW ARTICLE: International Forum of Visual Practitioners: My 3 Top Tips for Attending the Annual Conference. Should You Go? What To Focus On? What to Look Out For?
Spirconomics. How to Snatch Back the Future. How a Hidden Demographic Will Reshape the Emerging World. See If Your Mission Falls Into Marcia Schafer's 7 Pillars and How to Connect and Link Forces with Others To Do SHIFT Our Planet!
Been Asked A Lot Lately About How I Did It: Creating an "IT" That's Interesting, Fun and Sustainable. Here are My Answers Including A Tip About Burning Boats ... Something You Might Need to Consider?
Use Sound, Harmonic and Frequency Modalities to SHIFT Your Mood and Maintain Emotional Balance. Info on Electromagnetic Aids to Combat Frequency Stress and Other Interference
Graphic Recorders: You Are The Creator Of Your Own Reality ... YOU! Practice. Get Into As Many Rooms As Possible. Build Relationships. Be Consistent Over Time. Perseverance Pays Off!
Do You Spend a Lot of Time in Front of Computers? If So Read Today's eZine Article About Blue Light And How To Protect Your Eyes and Circadian Rhythms. Includes Resource List.
Visual Coach Certification - New Enhancements. Now Includes 30 Visual Maps! Plus Juicy Combo Package Now Includes Biz Essentials Kit.
Learn Why Using Visuals with Coaching and Personal Growth Is So Powerful. Plus New Recent Breakthroughs That Rapidly Expand This Helpful Method.
Thought Leaders and Modalities That Help People Heal From Stress and Trauma. Leading Edge Resources That Work.
Create Your Own Personal Vision and Plan for 2016. Powerful New Years Gift. Free eBook with 4 Visual Maps. SHIFT-IT!
Canada Allowing Both Private & Gov't Sponsorship of Syrian Refugees. Help This Approved Family of 4 Make Their SHIFT to British Columbia!
Three Types of Clients in My Coaching Practice Who Are Navigating Innovation, Identity and Visibility Issues. And My Suggestions for How to Overcome ...
Article and Visual Map from Christina Merkley. A Graphic Tool for Planetary Visioning. Put Your Powerful Focus on What You DO Want for Our Planet!
Learn what kundalini is and the path this liquid light takes through the energy channels of the body.
This article is for a niche of people within a niche of people. It is for people who not only know what Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation is but for those who want to experience FLOW with it.
Tips for how to get 'in the flow' with Visual Process Work: Graphic Recording, Graphic Facilitation. Tap into Right Brain Wisdom!
Visual Coaching journey. See stages of acquiring powerful & fun visual skills for process work with individuals, partners and couples. Photos and pics!
A Chief's Journey Through Turbulent Waters of Native History. Edmund Metatawabin's Courageous Personal Story of Trauma and Resilience. An Important Read.
Overview on Effective Method to Solve Problems: Primordial Energy Activation & Transcendence (PEAT). Uses Eye Tapping, Internal Imagery, etc to SHIFT you!
My Right Brain Journey: LightBody, Sweat Lodges, Kundalini Rising, Law of Attraction, Art, Contact and Consciousness Studies: Quite the adventure!
Raising your vibration via Practical Energy Work ...matters and counts in SHIFTing Our World!
Innovative process skills are wonderful to have but what are yours in service of?! Calling all Process Professionals to step up! All hands on deck ...
Working visually with groups and individuals is a distinct skill. Practice, practice, practice is required to develop unconscious competency. Here's how ...
No, you DO NOT need to be an artist to do effective visual process work. Here are 5 ways that non-artists can work visually too.
Satisfaction Interrupted? This feeling can be rich motivator to SHIFT things for the better ... through visioning, inner work & aligned action. SHIFT-IT!
In order to share my right-brain story (some juicy stuff is going on!) I must first share my left-brain tale.
I'm a big fan of journalist Annie Jacobsen. Her latest book about advanced tech is opening eyes - have you read?!
As per usual, we have a great cohort in SHIFT-IT Online (online coaching group using my Visual Maps to aid professional and personal shifts). I run this program twice a year and it’s also a pre-requisite for Visual Coach Certification (for coaches, therapists and other helping professionals to work visually with their own clients and use my tools).
At the time of writing (February 2015) I feel it’s fair to say that our world is in a swirl of chaos. Environmental degradation is closing in on us. Our financial system is in unethical disarray (greatly in need of a reboot). Surveillance of our every digital move is supposedly commonplace (thanks Snowden for heads up)...
How do we balance the need to look at what is going on in the world (and in our own lives) with the need to remain optimistic and empowered? Well, according to chaos theory ...
My work covers quite a swatch of territory ... from basic and intermediate instruction in "working visually" to leading edge personal growth and resistance-busting methods. All the stuff I am into could be defined as 'innovative'. I'm decades into it, so it all seems "normal" to me....
Whether you are an old hand at Visual Coaching or are completely new to it, we can all benefit from reflecting on our lives every once in a while: to identify what mid-course corrections we might want to make. Sooooo, in the spirit of this holiday season … I’m gifting you my Mini SHIFT-IT Retreat, complete with 4 Visual Maps and Instruction eBook.
Hear Who Made It First To The Finish Line in the 2015 Visual Coaches Cohort. And How You Can Add the Power of Visuals to Your Practice Too!
One of the fundamentals that Graphic Recorders, Graphic Facilitators, Graphic Coaches/Counselors and other Process Professionals who use visuals have to learn about is COMMON FORMATS.
These formats can be used when working from a blank sheet of paper (or digital surface) or in pre-constructed templates and forms that facilitators, coaches and therapists use to guide thinking and feeling.
About a year ago I dove into learning BodyTalk, a consciousness based method with wide-ranging scope. I'm LOVING it. BodyTalk is difficult to describe, as it's a 'you had to be there' kind of thing that is very experiential at various physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. And it's different for every person every session.
In a nutshell its 'structured intuition' ... I intuitively navigate The BodyTalk Framework to uncover what the priority for my client is at the time of their session.
Male Case Study: I've been given permission to share a case study from a male client, let's call him Fred...
Some simple color tips it behooves you to keep in mind to make your visual work as effective as possible, including lettering, icons and highlighting tips…
DECIDE UPON INFRASTRUCTURE:
I suggest before you launch a new site (or refresh an existing one) you first begin with the end in mind by considering a few important questions....
I attract a lot of other Process Professionals in my work. Some want to add visual skills to their toolkits or enhance the ones they already have. Others seek help in building their practices. Others want to shift their personal or spiritual lives. In this interesting mix I also encounter professionals who do process work with groups, who want to shift into working with individuals visualcoaching1… i.e. make the move from change management, organization development and facilitation into coaching or other more personal expressions of process work.
An Orphan is an aspect of our self who shows itself when we get emotionally charged or triggered by something in our present day life ...
The trick to Orphan Rescue is to tease out our different states of consciousness … so we can become aware of who is running the show, and ultimately get the most mature and grounded aspect of our consciousness into the drivers seat.
Contact in the Desert is a conference dedicated to the wide-ranging fields connected to what is popularly known as UFOs. It was held (for the 2nd time) in Joshua Tree, California, U.S.A on August 8-11, 2014. And I attended, along with 2000 others from around the world. Why? Well, for a lot of reasons … not the least being the “UAP” I experienced a few years ago (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) … which I’ll share about later in this article.
This issue of The SHIFT-IT eZine is on a new modality I’ve been exploring and learning this year … called BodyTalk. A few months ago I blogged about my initial explorations via an in-person special I offered folks here in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ... I’ve progressed now beyond doing BodyTalk just in person … having attended courses on how to do Distance Sessions. Something I have been intrigued by since I first heard you could do this methodology by distance
Abraham-Hicks, one of my favorites for Law of Attraction info, is currently touring their way through the Pacific Northwest … in the general vicinity of where I live.
Every year they make a stop in Portland and Seattle and an unofficial one in Victoria, British Columbia (my town), as we’re the last port of call on their Alaskan cruise. A vibrational stalker, I usually stroll the breakwater that evening to tap into their vibe in the air, hehe. Hoping I’ll get an Esther Hicks sighting (Esther, come take a stroll with me and JJ (Jerry Jr!) we’ll meet you on the dock!).
One way around the chicken and egg (which comes first!) catch 22 of wanting to work but not having enough experience or confidence to charge fully, is to offer your services for pro bono or reduced rate or to just plain volunteer....
2014 was launched with a very special experience, the passing of my lovely Aunt Rose Mary, after a long illness … just 5 days into the year. As such, I’ve been in a thoughtful state this past month, as my family and I come to terms with her passing, each in our own way. Part of my way is to write, share and pass along lessons learned.
Whether you’ve been doing personal visioning and planning work for a while, or are new to it, we can all benefit from doing a Mini SHIFT-IT Retreat every once in a while: checking in on how our life is going and what mid-course corrections we might want to make.
Part 3 - How Coaches, Therapists and Other Helping Professionals Use Interactive-Visuals
Interactive-Visuals can effectively be applied wherever there is some sort of process going on with a client (be they groups or individuals) - given it's the kind of process that lends itself to being visible (i.e. drawn out and seen --- either by the client themselves or possibly others if they care for their info to be shared).
Part 2 How Organizational Leaders, Consultants and Facilitators Can Use Interactive-Visuals
Part 1 Speakers, Authors and Trainers:
While these folks may do some sort of process as part of their work with their clients they are mostly 'content experts' ... so are usually delivering their content via various means to different types of audiences.
While nothing replaces the power of working in-person with large sheets of paper (or on whiteboards, foam core and such) ... there are many other mediums that have their useful place in the 'working visually toolkit'.
In my line of work, supporting folks to be more fully who they authentically are, I find myself in our group and private sessions emphasizing two powerful P words over and over again: process and position.
I want to share briefly with you what I’ve coined my “Outer Work Model” … the seven stages for building an operation in the 50-300K range.
I thought I would share a few of my thoughts about giving, the Law of Reciprocity ... plus also the importance of owning and standing in the power of your value and worth.