1 THE ALCHEMICAL COACH HANDBOOK By Soleira Green CONTENTS : Page # FOREWORD BY SOLEIRA 3 PART 1 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL COACH…THE ALCHEMY OF PASSION, POTENTIAL AND POWER The past, present and future of coaching 4 What is an alchemical coach? 4 What is the alchemical dance? 6 Getting ready to dance 8 Expanding to all that you are 8 Finding your own passion and vision for coaching 9 Selecting who and how you want to coach 11 Connecting with your client 13 Connecting with the you that knows 14 Aligning your intentions 15 Sourcing the space in which you work 15 Getting your client ready for the dance 18 Completing the past 18 Moving to wholeness 21 Using passion to fuel the movement 22 Hearing the rhythms of the dance 23 Accessing potential 23 Connecting with vision 25 Seeing the bigger picture 27 Going for the bigger breakthroughs 28 Dancing the dance 29 Beyond language to the energetic dance 29 Seeing who another really is 30 Celebrating emotion 34 Bursting the bubble of thoughts and beliefs 36 Accessing a new vitality and vibrancy 38 Lighting the flame of life 40
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THE ALCHEMICAL
COACH HANDBOOK By Soleira Green
CONTENTS: Page #
FOREWORD BY SOLEIRA 3 PART 1 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL COACH…THE ALCHEMY OF PASSION, POTENTIAL AND POWER The past, present and future of coaching 4
What is an alchemical coach? 4 What is the alchemical dance? 6
Getting ready to dance 8
Expanding to all that you are 8 Finding your own passion and vision for coaching 9 Selecting who and how you want to coach 11 Connecting with your client 13 Connecting with the you that knows 14 Aligning your intentions 15 Sourcing the space in which you work 15
Getting your client ready for the dance 18
Completing the past 18 Moving to wholeness 21 Using passion to fuel the movement 22
Hearing the rhythms of the dance 23
Accessing potential 23 Connecting with vision 25 Seeing the bigger picture 27 Going for the bigger breakthroughs 28
Dancing the dance 29 Beyond language to the energetic dance 29 Seeing who another really is 30 Celebrating emotion 34 Bursting the bubble of thoughts and beliefs 36 Accessing a new vitality and vibrancy 38 Lighting the flame of life 40
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Beyond the dance 43 Beyond wholeness to ALL’ness 43 Partnering with LIFE 45 Working for Evolution 46 Seeding the garden of consciousness 47 Reality creation 48 Beyond transformation to creation and evolution 49
PART 2 ~ THE NEW BUSINESS ALCHEMISTS Page #…EVOKING THE CORPORATE SOUL 57 The New Business Alchemists 57 The Alchemical Approach to Evoking the Corporate Soul 58
FOREWORD BY SOLEIRA Welcome to the world of alchemical coaching!
Alchemical coaching is a brand new, r-Evolutionary way of coaching. It’s something I’ve developed over the past twenty years of my life as I studied transformation, strategic planning, spirituality and the wonderful fields of energetics and consciousness. I’ve coached thousands of people with incredible results. I work in breakthrough and from that space, I find that incredible, unprecedented results can be achieved in literally one session or two. This work is Life-changing. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced before! And yet at the same time, for many of those I’ve trained, they find it’s the most natural thing they have ever done. Alchemical coaching isn’t about remembering tips and techniques and following frameworks and guidelines. It’s about being in the moment and dancing with the wondrous person that you’re coaching. Alchemical coaching is based on the premise that everything is energy…and if everything is energy, then we can move into a dance with it and bring it graciously, delightfully and powerfully into play. It’s also based on the alchemy of consciousness and creation, which brings a whole new level to the coaching dance! The best way to approach this is to set aside all that you have currently learned about coaching and move into the dance. Be in moment. Allow yourself to look at things in new ways…and discover the delightful freedom that alchemical coaching can bring to you, others and our world! Have fun reading through and playing with The Alchemical Coach Handbook! With love, Soleira [email protected]
PART 1 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL COACH …THE ALCHEMY OF PASSION, POTENTIAL AND POWER
THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF COACHINGCoaching today is r-Evolutionising itself. For years coaching has been about balance, life style, goals and success. It’s been about measured steps towards making life better for us as individuals. But today, we’re taking leaps and bounds into limitless possibilities for what coaching can mean for each and every one of us as well as for the evolution of ourselves as a race and for the creation of a whole new world. The alchemical r-evolution includes:
• instantaneous transformation, • human evolution, • world-changing potential and • the alchemical dance of majestical wonder.
Alchemical coaches don’t come to their clients thinking ‘How can I support them in what they’re up to?’ They come to their clients wondering what magnificent brilliance is waiting to be uncovered in this dance. They call forth such stunning, passion-filled, world-changing achievements from their clients that both coach and client are breath-taken. As alchemical coaches we recognise the greatest, deepest, profoundest potential in every person, moment and situation. We work not just for our clients, but for the whole of Life. Everything we do, we do for the evolution of human consciousness and the fulfilment of LIFE. This is one of the most delight-filled expressions of Life. Burden falls away and the alchemical dance begins.
WHAT IS AN ALCHEMICAL COACH? An alchemical coach is a potentialist…always in a dance with potential. This isn’t just a profession...it’s a way of life. It’s not just a job…it’s the fulfilment of everything we’re about and for, going way beyond coaching, and even beyond transformation, to delightfully express and evolve life everywhere. The following are some of the key working principles of alchemical coaching that we will be working on throughout this handbook:
1) When you truly see and recognise who a person really is, they are instantly and forever transformed.
2) Breakthrough sources from the in-the-moment dance and movement is what
you’re aiming to create.
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3) The alchemical dance occurs in the spaces between us.
4) To dance the alchemical dance, connect profoundly with yourself and with the person you’re dancing with.
5) To connect profoundly, be willing to be whole, to amaze yourself every
moment and to be amazed by others all the time.
6) Be willing to co-create ‘what wants to happen’ in every moment.
7) Be willing to hold for a greater outcome than others can even perceive as possible. Allow for miracles, synergy and synchronicity.
8) Keep standing for the breakthrough without judgement of how it’s going.
Find the powerful balance between intention and judgement. The power is in the strength of the intention AND being ok with how it’s going.
9) Set your intention clearly and strongly, but also be willing to allow your
intention to dance in the moment as a collaborative, creational unfolding.
10) Create and hold a BIG space for breakthrough to occur and be willing to keep on expanding it bigger and bigger as you dance. See BIG, think BIG, expand BIG, expect BIG.
11) Be willing to ‘fall in love with’ who your client is and with what they’re up to in
the world.
12) Be a partner to potential and a powerful steward for evolution.
13) Live, work and play in vibrant reality…alive with passion, possibilities, potential and the power to do anything and everything that we ever could dream.
14) Don’t just dream the impossible dreams. Live them.
I know that’s a lot to take in in one go, but we’ll be exploring each and every one of these key principles throughout this book. If you’ve been in the coaching field for any length of time, you’ll know that these principles differ radically from the traditional coaching approach of the past. Let’s look at the movement from ‘coaching as it’s been’ (the past) to ‘coaching as the alchemical dance’ (the powerfully present ‘new future’ of coaching):
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OLD COACH’ISMS ALCHEMICAL COACH’ISMS____________________
Only by asking questions, do you get the answers. You need to know where to go and how to proceed. Make sure to follow tried and tested techniques.
When you become needless, you become whole.
Personal development requires a strengthening of the personality / persona.
Connect with your clients from their dreams and potential. See them as they’ve never been seen before and gift them a knowing of themselves that will profoundly alter life forever. Structure boxes, limits and precludes passion and potential. If you have to force yourself to do something, it’s likely that you’ll lose all the inspiration and vision for the project and the vision. Find ways to have your client’s passion flourish and allow that to guide the project in every moment. You understand that there is no right or wrong, just great questions and an openness to explore and journey into potential. You and the client are in a dance to seek new questions and new answers and to go beyond questions. and answers to know the very essence of who this person is and why s/he is here. The alchemical coach is leading people to where they’ve never been before, so it may be that the client doesn’t always have the answer within. Alchemical coaches know multiple places to look to seek a variety of perspectives, possibilities and potentials, selecting the one that most empowers the client, the vision and the moment. Be willing to speak true. Say what you feel there is to say and be willing to speak that which will break everything through.
The alchemical dance of possibility allows for unprecedented movement. Allow your knowing to be rich, full, spontaneous and in-the-moment. Be willing to not know where to go next. In the ‘not knowing’ you’ll discover approaches no one has ever considered before. Throw away the rules books and be in the alchemical dance. When you move to wholeness, you move beyond need (not the other way around). Working on needlessness doesn’t guarantee wholeness. Alchemical coaches understand the journey to wholeness and how to get themselves and others there through expansion and perspective shifts, taking them way beyond need into pure creation.
Alchemical coaches move people beyond personality / persona to a level of beingness that has very little attachment to or attention on persona at all. Be willing to be a steward for evolution and you quickly learn to live beyond yourself, discovering a you you’ll love to know.
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We are becoming amazing new beings…rich with knowing, wisdom and abilities far beyond our previous comprehension. Today we walk through life able to profoundly partner with people and with Life itself to bring things beyond our wildest imaginings into being. We dance in the vibrant space of living possibilities. We are the evolutionary alchemists of a new era, a new humanity and a world of brilliance and wonder. As alchemical coaches, we dance the alchemical dance, bringing Life to Life everywhere we go. Think this is too good to be true? It’s not. Read on because in these pages lie the answers to LIFE and our own responsible and powerful creation of how we wish life to be.
WHAT IS THE ALCHEMICAL DANCE? The alchemical dance is a wondrous thing to be a part of. It’s very likely a new experience, although once you’ve experienced it, you may say that it’s a very natural thing for you. Many people express this once they’re in the experience of it. As you enter the dance, surrender your thinking mind and all of the techniques and tips you’ve ever learned in order to dance IN THE MOMENT, amazing yourself with every breath. In a traditional coaching situation there’s you and there’s the client. There you sit, thinking and wondering what to do next. The client pondering and reflecting, being asked all the questions and not really fully understanding where it is they can truly go. If you’re in your mind (thinking about what to do), you’re most likely not connected with your client and you’re definitely not in the alchemical dance. The alchemical dance is literally exactly that…a dance. You reach out energetically to partner with your client in movement that draws potential closer to you both and to the world. You hear the rhythms of potential and you enter the in-the-moment, co-creational dance to produce sparkling, breathtaking results. In order to dance you must surrender yourself completely to the moment, the movement and the music of the dance. You must be more committed to your client’s potential than to anything else in that moment. You must be willing to become the steward for the whole of human evolution right then and there. Sound ominous…a bit of a burdensome responsibility? Well it’s not! It’s such a blast that you will want to do it over and over again with every client you’ve got. You and your clients will feel so fulfilled that it’s likely you won’t ever want to coach in any other way again. Throughout this handbook you’re going to learn to dance this dance…and like learning any new thing, at first we’re going to take it one step at a time, gaining proficiency with each and every aspect of the dance. And then, at the right moment in time, you’ll walk onto that dance floor with your client and you’ll perform in a way that will stun and amaze you both.
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GETTING READY TO DANCEEXPANDING TO ALL THAT YOU ARE First things first…it’s time to take a deep breath and relax. Take a few deep breaths if you’ve really had one of those days. Expansion Exercise #1 ~ Allow yourself to expand. Visualise it like you’re the centre point for all of you and you’re expanding the edges of your awareness further and further out. Another way to picture it is like you’re a huge helium balloon filling up with air, but your feet stay on the ground and the ball of energy that you are keeps getting bigger and bigger. You’re anchored by your presence, right here, right now in this moment. You can do this with your eyes open or closed…whatever you’re most comfortable with. How big are you? As big as the room? As big as your city? As big as the Earth? Or maybe even as big as the cosmoses? Allow yourself to expand to the biggest and vastest YOU that you can experience, all the while being centred right here and now. This exercise is actually the foundation for everything alchemical. If you coach, work and live from the small, constricted you, you actually won’t be able to find the wherewithal to dance the alchemical dance. But from the expanded you, everything you need to be and do is right there with you. You become ALL of yourself and more! So try it again now. See if you can get it to feel more natural to you and then use this in every day life. Expand every time you don’t know what to do. Expand when you’re not sure what to say to your client. Continue practising expansion until it becomes second nature for you to be living as ALL that you are and can be. We’re not just tiny specks of matter on a little planet third from the sun. We’re actually vast energies of consciousness and creation swirling through myriads of wondrous delight. For any of you who have a concern about feeling ungrounded while doing this or of not staying present in the expanded state, you’ll be glad to know that today, in our open and whole human energy system, we can now expand as far into consciousness as we’d like to and still walk around with our eyes open contributing to Life in the here and now. I call this living consciousness…the more you expand, the more present you become. Try it and see if this is true for you. From the expanded you, comes the ability to live super-connected with the living intelligence that both surrounds us and is within us, gifting us the abilities of knowing, sensing, seeing and feeling beyond our current intellect or abilities. From the expanded you, comes the dance of passion, potential and power. Expansion creates the space in which the alchemical dance occurs. A constricted, small you just won’t cut it! In order to dance the alchemical dance, you have to be willing to get BIG. BIGGER AND BIGGEST! After all, what great dancer have you ever known who shrunk before going on the dance floor? Take a deep breath and dive into the excellence of the dance, trusting in our innate abilities to guide you perfectly into what’s right to do!
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FINDING YOUR OWN PASSION AND VISION FOR COACHING From this expanded state, let’s see if coaching and alchemical coaching are what you really want to do. In order to take a look at that, you‘ll want to access the energy of your passion and vision and see where it leads you. First, PASSION! Passion Exercise #1 ~ Take a deep breath and dive into your heart. Be willing to go deep inside, like Alice in Wonderland through the white rabbit hole, down, down, down you go until you pop out the other end into what I call ‘the ocean of soul’ that’s all around you. Don’t worry about getting this exactly right. Imagining it is just as effective as actually doing it. So if all else fails…pretend! There you are in that gorgeous sea green water, with the sun sparkling brilliantly upon the dancing waves. Now just drop down a little ways and discover a small fissure in the ocean floor where there are bubbles rising up. Stand right over those bubbles and let them flow through you, rising up through your heart and bursting out through your hands, heart and all of you. Don’t try to think about it, just let the energy of these bubbles flow. When the energy’s really there with you (your hands may be tingling and / or your body heating up a bit), then allow the fullest energy of your passion to come right on though you to sit in front of you. Here sits the energy of your passion in full flow. Now, imagine having a conversation with this energy. Get a sense of what it is and how it feels. This is your chance to get to know your passion really well. Talk to it. Feel it. Sense it. Allow your knowing to come to you about it. What is your passion? Write it down once you’ve got a really good sense of it. Passion is the fuel for the fire of all endeavour. Passion brings things alive and creates movement. Trying to launch a vision or project without passion is like trying to send a rocket to the moon without any fuel. You can’t take on major projects without the energy to make it happen! How did you do on your passion exercise? Here are few more suggestions for accessing your passion (or that of your client once you get to that stage with them) to take it another stage further: Passion Exercise #2 ~ Think of anything at all that you know you’re passionate about. Chocolate, deep-sea diving, skiing, great movies…anything. Allow the feeling of that to fill your body. How does it feel? Where does the energy move from and to? You’ll likely discover that when passion moves, it generally comes from deep within, flowing up and through the high heart (breastplate) area and out into life around you. Once your high heart is open, you’re connected to what I call the vibrant reality. Feel around you from this passionate space. How does it feel using your high heart to experience Life? Vibrant? Passionate? Dynamic? Rich with possibilities? Passion Exercise #3 ~ From this vibrant space, consider that the air around you is full of white holes of possibilities. I’d like you to connect with some of those possibilities by imagining that you’re sticking the finger of one hand into one that’s perfect for you, and then a finger from another hand, then a toe and finally your nose. Get connected
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with the vibrancy of possibility. How does that feel? Are you zinging with energy yet? Is your passion right there with you and are you getting more and more immersed in the energy of it and coming more clear with your understanding of what it is and what it’s for in the world. Passion Exercise #4 ~ Expand to ALL that you can be. Ask, ‘What is your most passionate passion?’ and see what you get. People’s passions are generally not mysteries to them. In fact, most people have probably known it in one form or another all their lives. Their passion may at times be less available than others, perhaps because they’ve been constricting their energy fields or maybe they’re going through a shift of passion and vision, moving to something completely brand new. Passion can evolve over time. It usually holds to a general theme throughout your life, but be willing to allow your passion to dance, evolve and grow all the time. So how about it? Is your passion related to being a coach? Does coaching light you up and make Life sing for you? If it doesn’t, why not? Sometimes when people find they’ve lost their passion for coaching (which we all do from time to time), it may be not so much with coaching itself, but with the level of coaching or with the type of client. So if you’re not passionate about coaching, or at least about offering people the opportunities to be all they can be, then make sure to look at why that is and what it is you’re really passionate about so that you can apply this body of work directly to that. You can work through this material and get plenty of benefit from it without ever applying it directly to coaching. The alchemical dance affects Life in oh so many ways! Ok, now that you’ve got that passion flowing, it’s on to VISION. Vision is different from passion. Whereas passion is the fuel, vision is the map for the journey. It’s where you want to get to, what you’re setting out to achieve. It’s potential realised and possibility brought alive. Visions should stir your soul when you speak them. They should call to you completely and utterly. Way too often we take on visions that have no meaning or energy for us, no calling to make them real. So even if you already know what your vision is and you’re super passionate about it, play with the exercises that follow because you never know what might pop up from it to gift you a new level of it all. Vision Exercise #1 ~ First, take another dive into that ocean of soul. Remember that crack in the ocean floor with the bubbles. Well this time you’re going to discover that the crack has become an open fissure that you can dive on through. It’s safe…on the other side is the place of pure Creation. So go right on through and see what you find. As you stand there in this marvellous place, call to you the vision that best matches your own passion and abilities. Call to you the energy of something that wants to happen now through you. Feel the energy move to you and again allow it to flow on through you, moving in front of you so that you can commune with it. Allow the energy of the vision to show itself to you. Don’t try to think vision. You want to feel it and experience it. Maybe you’ll see a picture or get a sense of something
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that you can source to happen. Don’t let your mind get in the way. Just surrender and play with Creation to see what wants to be now. How did you do? If you’re not 100% certain, then try this. Vision Exercise #2 ~ Expand and open yourself to higher purpose. Again, allow the energy of what wants to happen now through you to come to you. Let your knowing fill in the picture of it all. Breathe it through you and partner with it. Ask who you really are and why you’re here. Let the information come through to you from the expanded space. There are times in life when we have no vision and if this is true for you right now, be sure not to panic or judge yourself about it. It’s perfectly ok. These are the times when we’ve completed one aspect of our work or vision, and we’re moving on to the next. The period in between might look like a void, but actually it’s a clear space into which will drop, at the exact right time, the perfect vision for what you’re all about and for. How are you doing so far? Does your vision have anything to do with coaching and/or does coaching support your vision? Hopefully, your answer will be yes to these questions. But even if it isn’t, you’re reading this (hopefully with interest and excitement) for a reason, so just read on and see where you get to by the end of it. It does help to place your vision and your coaching within your own visionary intention. It broadens the playing field, so to speak, giving it more oomph, more purpose, more vigour and vitality. If you’ve got your vision clear and bright, then place it on the alchemical dance floor in front of you and off we go to look at who and how you want to coach.
SELECTING WHO AND HOW YOU WANT TO COACH There are various levels of coaching. You may be coaching because you want:
(1) To help people overcome their problems, (2) To assist people in awakening, opening up and discovering that
there’s more to life than they know and/or (3) To throw open the doors to passionate and visionary living, taking
people to levels of themselves that they didn’t even know were possible.
Alchemical coaching is focused around the third option. It’s about shifting the focus from small human beings with problems to solve to vast beings with incredible contribution to make. Alchemical coaching can be used to achieve the first two options as well. It’s very effective applied in every case. But mostly you’ll discover that alchemical coaching is for clients who want to discover ALL that they are, contribute to people, communities and the world around them and / or evolve Life.
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Alchemical coaching applies brilliantly to coaching others to achieve passionate and visionary living because it’s based on the wholest, vastest YOU connecting with the wholest, vastest OTHER. It’s about how we relate to one another as huge human beings. If someone is stuck or has problems and you’re relating to them like you’re going to help them fix it or if you’re going to transmute it for them, then who are you relating to? Very likely a small human being. Alchemical coaches relate to people as vast possibility, no matter how they’re presenting themselves in the moment. If you hold someone in the reality that awakening and opening up takes some time, then who are you relating to? Not a vast, enormous being who actually does know it all right here and now. Alchemical coaches know that awakening is a simple breath and with it comes all that you want to know, do or be. There are times when opening and awakening exercises and movement can be perfectly appropriate for someone and alchemical coaching can be used for these. The difference is that even though you might work on those levels, you really do know that this person is already everything else that they can be at the same time as awakening and opening. Is everyone going to move to the vast, mega levels of themselves? Maybe. Maybe not. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if, as a race, we are able to do that? This is the gem that Life offers us…the opportunity to evolve ourselves beyond the dreams of a single lifetime. I recommend that when you’re coaching, you go for it with every opportunity that comes to you. But also be in the moment with your work. If it’s right to work with a client at a level of assisting, healing, opening, awakening, etc, then do that because you’ll know that that’s the right thing to do. Always stay in the moment and do what’s right to empower the moment, the client and you. Client Exercise #1 ~ Set your intention for who and how you want to coach. There isn’t any right or wrong answer here…just your own particular passion and way. Once you’ve put it into your own words, then close your eyes and allow that intention to flow out into consciousness. Visualise it moving around the world, connecting with wonderful people who resonate with you and your particular energy and approach. In an exercise like this, you don’t draw people to you. That wouldn’t be quite right in an energetic sense. Instead, put out the energy of who you are, of your passion and vision, and let it flow around the world connecting with those who want that now. Let them know your name and ask that they find you through wonderful ways…through a friend, a search of the internet, a brochure … there are many wondrous ways to have clients find you. CONNECTING WITH YOUR CLIENT This is probably THE single most important piece in this whole handbook. If you don’t connect properly with your client, the dance can never begin. While you’re reading this section, you can visualise connecting with one of your clients to see how it feels. Be sure to try it out for real with people, not just your clients, but with everyone you meet, and see what a difference it makes to all your interactions in life.
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Client Exercise #2 ~ Choose the client or friend you’d like to visualise this exercise with. For your first time, make it someone who’s open and that you generally find easy to work with. You can take on the more challenging ones as you strengthen your ‘connection’ muscle. Breathe, relax, expand. Move to the wholeness and ALL’ness of you. Now take a look at your client (visualise him/her as if s/he is there with you. Really connect with them. If you’re not sure how to do that, simply intend it and see what happens. How are you energetically making that connection? Does your energy move to meet theirs? Do you meet in the middle? Explore the energetics of how you connect with another. All of you to All of them: When I super-connect with a client, I never move my energy intrusively into their energy fields or body (for example, a direct link heart to heart). Instead I expand to ALL of me and then reach out to know and connect with ALL of them. It’s like a whole, giant ball of energy meeting another whole, giant ball of energy. It’s as if there aren’t really any barriers between us and yet we’re independently vast and huge. It’s like an energetic handshake from all of me to all of them. Standing back to see who they really are: For me, connecting isn’t like an embrace. I don’t put my energy fields around a person because that would be like putting them into a confining box. Instead my energetic response is more like moving back and away in order to see the vastness of them. To get a bigger picture, to see who they really are, stand back and look from a bigger perspective. The essence of the connection for alchemical coaching is of magnificence to magnificence. No matter what’s going on with them in life, refuse to believe that they are small people. Choose to relate to people as big and capable. So often I see people coaching others and every word out of the coach’s mouth causes the client’s energy field to shrink a little (or a lot). Example:
• You’ve got some things going on and your coach asks “What are you afraid of?”, how do you feel? Do you get bigger or smaller in your energy?
• What if instead your coach said to you “The energy in your body is offering you
the next breakthrough for yourself. Can you get in touch with what’s underneath that and see what the breakthrough might be?”, how do you feel now? Your energy may either sustain at its current level (with a good sigh of relief I’m sure) or expand phenomenally as you realise that this person really knows who you are and knows that you can move through anything with grace and ease.
As I connect with my clients, it’s literally like something lines up inside of me with all that they are, all that they can be and all that wants to happen now for the bigger picture. I’ve connected myself with the greater consciousness, the living intelligence that surrounds us. My knowing is intact, my sensing is on high alert and my super-connectivity to everything is running full on.
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CONNECTING WITH THE YOU THAT KNOWS Connecting with the you that knows is about connecting into ALL’ness, connecting beyond yourself into the great mainframe in the sky, so to speak. I often refer to this connection to consciousness as a simple computer analogy. Your body is the computer, your mind the programming. As you expand and connect into consciousness you’ve just connected your computer into that great internet in the sky and the vast wealth of information that’s available there. As you get used to living like this, you make the shift from a ‘standard telephone line’ connection to a ‘broadband line’ connection to and from you to ALL. Knowing Exercise #1 ~ Breathe, relax, expand. Suspend your thinking completely for the moment. For me, that’s like shifting my energy from my head and my thoughts to the air around me and my sensing. I make my connections into the space around me. But not from my solar plexus (which will give you empathy and the sensing of emotional energy) or from my heart (which will give you compassion and the sensing of middle range energies). Instead I connect through my high heart to the vibrant reality, the one where true potential lives and breathes. Another way to say this is like this:
Knowing Exercise #2 ~ Expand again and connect through your high heart to your fullest knowing and innate sensing. It’s as if you’re connected to all the spaces around you, with every single space being an interface for a wealth of data input. There’s a sense of coming on ‘high alert’ and being ‘on line’ in a way that you weren’t before. This on-line’ness has something to do with your intention, so picture yourself in front of your client about to go to work, expand, connect to the client and to ALL and then set your intention for a breakthrough. This intention will then connect you to the true potential of the moment that’s waiting to be. Keep playing with it until you can get this sense of super-connectivity flowing for yourself at a moment’s notice. Practice it with a friend if need be, until you can feel it flow. And definitely practice it with all of your clients. You don’t have to tell them what you’re doing. Just try it and see what happens from there. You just might be amazed and the complete difference when you operate from this place of connectedness.
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Knowing Exercise #3 ~ In order to ‘know’ something, you usually have to ask a question. After all, if you go to search the internet, you have to identify what you’re looking for in order to narrow down the search. Super-connect to ALL and then ask a question you’ve been wanting to know an answer to. Allow the knowing to just come to you. But realise as well that there may be more than one answer to any question. In fact my own recent experience has shown that for any question, there are a multitude of answers and perspectives. It’s up to you to choose the one or ones that most empower the client, the moment, the situation and you.
Knowing is a dance. The more you can surrender your thinking mind to the process, the more that knowing comes to you. For me, this has meant learning to think and process things not inside my head, but from the greater mind or intelligence that surrounds use and is within us.
ALIGNING YOUR INTENTIONS As you begin to work, it’s crucial that you align with the biggest breakthrough that the client’s consciousness will allow. Notice I didn’t say ‘that the client will allow.’ I almost never set my intention to achieve only what the client wants. I do intend to achieve that…but often I’m working way beyond where they think they can go. I intend to offer them the very greatest knowing of themselves and their work that they can handle. If they’re at all willing to go there, I offer them the level of themselves that will transform, recreate and evolve our world. I align my intentions with a bigger (possibly even the biggest) breakthrough…whatever level it may take. I may have no idea what that is as I begin, but I am definitely alert for it all throughout the session with the client. It’s almost as if I’m in partnership with evolution itself, with what wants to be, with the very nature of creation, to bring through the most impactful breakthrough for all of LIFE now. Setting your intentions to this level completely shifts the dynamics within which you and the client work. You might ask the question “Is it necessary that the client align with this bigger breakthrough as well?” My answer to that would be no, it’s not necessary. Sometimes trying to get them to do that at the beginning of a session can be off putting for them, even before you begin. I’d simply align your own intentions with the bigger breakthroughs and go from there into the dance. After all, as coach, you lead the dance and can spin them into majestic movement that they might have never believed they could do.
SOURCING THE SPACE IN WHICH YOU WORK This section isn’t just about the room or building in which you work (although we will talk about that a bit as well). It’s about the literal space of transformation, creation and evolution that you create for you and your client to work within.
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Space Exercise #1 ~ Once you’ve aligned your intentions to the bigger breakthrough, then place that intention on the alchemical dance floor (the energetic space around you). Breathe and expand that space to be huge, vast, enormous. This client that’s about to dance with you just might have the ability within them to surprise and surpass themselves and to take us as human beings where we never dreamed we could go. You might be thinking this is a little over the top. But it’s not actually. If you don’t create the space for something fantastic to happen, how will it ever come to pass? When I’m getting ready to work (whether that’s coaching, training or anything else) I always tune in to the energy of the biggest potential that’s waiting to come through and I place the energy of that potential in the space in which I work. That way when people walk in the door or pick up the phone for a session, we’re already in the energy of the bigger breakthrough, the greater possibilities, making the whole thing more vibrant, dynamic, exciting and fun! There could be cases though where this might not be the right thing to do, so always make sure to tune in in the moment to see what’s the best thing to do. How do you ‘tune in to potential’ and ‘to the moment’? Space Exercise #2 ~ Picture the room in which you generally do your coaching or training and choose a client or a training session that’s coming up soon. That moment, that person, that situation holds a particular breakthrough that’s possible if all things go well. So stand there, as if you’re in that moment and that place. Breathe deeply, expand, super-connect and ask to FEEL the potential of that moment. As you feel the energy begin to move, reach out to partner it to call it more fully present with you. Call it onto the dance floor for the alchemical dance. In doing this, you have just completely changed the energy of the space in which you’re about to work. How did that feel? Where did the energy move from and to? I find that higher / greater purpose tends to move down from above or around you and inwards to be received, while potential tends to move from deep within and outwards into Life. Let’s try it again for you personally to see how the energy of potential moves: Space Exercise #3 ~ Dive back into that white hole in your heart, down through the ocean of soul and straight through that passion fissure at the bottom of the ocean. Find yourself deep beneath the ocean of soul, standing in the glittering palace of Creation. Potential glistens and waits there for someone to come and treasure hunt for it. Breathe deep from this place and call to you the energy of the potential that’s waiting for you right now in this moment. It might not have anything to do with your client or your next training session. Let’s have this one be just for you! Call this potential to you…magnetise yourself and draw it to you. Then breathe that brilliant and wonderful energy straight up from the ocean of soul (generally around the solar plexus / rib cage area), straight through the high heart and out into the world. Once you’ve done that, spend a few minutes getting in touch with the potential. What does it signify? What does it mean? You might get your answers through sensing, seeing, knowing, hearing. It doesn’t matter how it comes. Just keep asking the questions you want to know about it and let it unfold. Remember, stay out of your mind. The answers simply aren’t there. Play with the energy until you get an ah-ha!…where something clicks and that smile of recognition comes on your face. Now
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place that moment of recognition on the alchemical dance floor, into the space in which you work. Taaadaaaa…energetic space change! There are many other ways to alter the spaces in which you work, many of which are more physical in nature. Things like:
• Open windows to let fresh air flow through. Pull the curtains back to let the sunlight in. If it’s a darker day, turn on the lights to bring brightness into the room.
• Spray some nice smelling mists into the air. Make sure they’re not full of chemicals, so use natural products where you can.
• Put light, bright colours into the room. If it’s your room, paint it a colour you love and resonate with and add pictures that give depth and richness to the experience of being in the room. If it’s in an office building, bring coloured flip chart pens or bright brochures or wear something colourful yourself. People in black, grey and navy suits generally create exactly what you’d expect…heavy, weighty energy spaces.
• Call the energy of Life itself straight into the room, allowing it to sparkle up every corner.
• Smile and laugh. Don’t take things too seriously. After all, Life is fun and so is alchemical coaching!
This completes the section called ‘Getting ready to dance.’ You’re now all set and ready to begin the next section ‘Getting your client ready for the dance.’
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GETTING YOUR CLIENT READY FOR THE DANCECOMPLETING THE PAST Our cultural beliefs (for sure the western world’s) would have us perceive that:
(1) We are small beings unable to comprehend what’s happening to us, and why. (2) We carry major issues for years, even lifetimes, without understanding them or
being able to complete them, even with trained psychological assistance. Are these beliefs true? They’re not. My belief is that:
(1) We are beings of incredible wisdom and understanding, and are able, in the moment, to see the bigger picture and potential related to Life’s dance.
(2) Through this greater understanding, we are able to complete, in minutes or
hours, issues of major importance for this lifetime and more! How can this be done? By seeing the bigger picture, the possibilities, the potential, the varying perspectives that will give insight and understanding to the whole situation. From here, we can move from being small beings at the whim of stuff happening to us to being creators in charge of the movement of potential and of our living reality. ‘Is there anything that needs to be completed before moving forward?’ This is the first question I ask myself when beginning any coaching session. It’s not that we want to get caught up in the past…we don’t. It’s about freeing the person from any upsets or misunderstandings, which could prohibit them in moving forward with their passions, visions and contributions to the world. After all, passion and vision flow best from openness and wholeness, so it’s important that the person be in a good space in order to move profoundly to the next steps for themselves and the world. I am able to complete the past with people in anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour or two, depending on the degree of complexity of the problem. In order to accomplish this yourself with clients, first you want to get a sense of what needs to be completed. If it’s a review of the recent past, simply ask them to list the recent accomplishments over this period of time. You’re looking to see accomplishment where they might not, so be sure to use your own knowledge of their situation to point out things that they might have missed. Most people tend to overlook accomplishments, sliding them to one side and missing the powerful shifts that they’ve actually created in such a short period of time. If it’s an issue that needs to be resolved, breathe, relax, expand and ask that you both look to see a BIGGER perspective about that situation. Often it’s not till years later that we can see what a situation is really for. With expansion, we can see what that’s all about and for now. This creates a shift from ‘life happens to you’ to ‘you’re creating life.’
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Here are some examples of resolving and completing issues:
• If they were fired or made redundant, what opportunities does it open up for them? Were they happy there? What’s the next step in their own career evolution?
• If it’s disillusionment with someone or an organisation, allow them to see the
bigger picture of why this happened and what it offers them now? In these cases, I suggest that you look beyond the personal picture. Often when things like this happen with me or others I work with, it’s a much bigger view of things that are happening in the world.
• If someone feels lost and energyless, is it just them? Is there a big shift going
on for others as well that’s leading to our evolution? Are they going through a death / rebirth? These kinds of shifts often leave people feeling very low in energy, but they do lead to a much more vital person in the long run. Knowing it’s a death / rebirth scenario often makes people feel calmer about the whole thing and let’s them go through it with more grace.
• If it’s an upset about someone dying, tune in to the energy of the person who’s
gone over and let them know that there is no separation. Show them how they’ve contributed to that person and that person to them. Ask them to celebrate that person’s life. Ask them to see if and how that person might be working with them still and if yes, for what purpose. Often when people go over to the other side now, they flip right back to assist love ones in the here and now.
Without getting too tangled in the past, make sure that the person breathes a sigh of relief and is ready to move on to invent the future with you. Sometimes I let the completion of the past occur gracefully throughout the session, as perspective after perspective rises up to show them just how ‘healthy’ that unhealthy situation really was or is. There are several things that are really important here in order to be able to do this for someone:
1. You must be connected to a vaster intelligence than your own in order to see the biggest perspective that will free them of this scenario.
2. You need to believe that major issues can be completed in record time. Don’t
buy in to the psychological perspective that it takes years or even a lifetime to do this. It doesn’t.
All right, past complete, or at least well in perspective, then off we go on the journey to wholeness.
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MOVING TO WHOLENESS The move to wholeness is a simple, graceful one … breathe, relax, expand. Most people today are able to move into the space of wholeness quite easily and with a single breath they’re there. But what if your client isn’t able to experience that? Then you need to be able to understand the component parts of the journey to wholeness and help them to find it for themselves. Those parts include head, heart, spirit and soul: HEAD ~ If someone is in their heads with thoughts whirring round and round, then they’re likely not very open, expanded or whole. Traditionally, someone who’s in their head can be closed-minded, closed-hearted and generally in a small energetic state. To move someone out of their head, you simply need to get them to open their hearts. HEART ~ If someone’s heart is open, this person tends to be open in other ways as well. The open heart is about knowing oneself and seeking answers to the mysteries of Life. An open heart means more love, compassion and probably even peace within. To get someone to open their hearts, ask them to think of someone or something they love (and are happy with at the moment). The heart should automatically open and they’ll breathe easier and feel more. Or you can ask them to do a visualisation around opening the heart. Picturing it as a garden of flowers opening up to meet the sun is one way to do that, but there are many others as well. An open heart isn’t the end of the journey, it’s just the beginning. SPIRIT ~ As the quest for knowledge and understanding grows, so grows the integration of spirit. Spirit is our higher, greater, outer energy (that which has traditionally sat just above our heads). The journey into spirit involves wisdom, insight, perspective, knowledge and knowing. As we open to our own spirit, we begin to evaluate our higher purpose. As spirit integrates within us, we begin to see that we are the creators of our own reality and that we are much more than we have believed ourselves to be. SOUL ~ Our souls lie within us and soulness fills the air around us. Typically your soul is that vulnerable, precious you that no one ever gets to see. It’s the ‘you’ you keep under wraps, deep within, to keep it safe from the big bad world that has, in the past, stomped on souls pretty badly. But guess what? Today, the energetics of the very air around us support the living expression of soulness…and wholeness pretty much demands it. The soul is the vessel or chalice for the full integration of head, heart, spirit and soul, which gives wholeness. So opening up your soul will gift you wholeness and an inner strength that you didn’t even know existed. Here’s a visualisation which anyone can use to open, and integrate, the head, heart, spirit and soul: First, close your eyes and take a deep breath. Relax, you’re in a safe and clear space. Now allow the energy of those whirring thoughts move from your head down into your heart area. There you are, thoughts in hand, ready to watch the entrance doors to your heart swing wide open onto a beautiful sunny day in the most perfect place you can imagine. Aaahh, the doors swing wide and you step through them into
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this perfect space. There you are, sun warming you, Life abuzz all around you, everything is right in the world in this moment. Now visualise that there’s a clear glass dome over your perfect place, even though you hadn’t noticed before. Like an observatory, the domed doors pull back above you to release a brilliantly clear space from which to view the very stars themselves. Feel your connection to the stars, to the universe and to LIFE as a whole. Allow the part of you that’s your spirit to be with you. Shake hands with this part of you and allow the energy of your spirit to flow to and through you. Remember you’re a vaster, greater, wondrous being that you may never have been truly introduced to before. Take a deep breath and enjoy the splendour of YOU! Next, take another deep breath and breathe up that inner soul you. Allow the precious, vulnerable you a space to romp and dance in the light of day and in the energy of your own vastness. Spread your wings and fly if you feel so inclined. Let the greater spirit you connect with the inner soul you. Feel the profound connection that is made as you rejoin yourself again in full wholeness…free at last to be all that you really are! Take one more deep breath and revel in the wholeness. Allow your energy to expand as big as you can be, bigger than the Earth, the universe, the cosmos. Find your natural place to be. This is who you are! Try this for yourself and see how it feels. Many people now already have their spirits and souls integrated and have moved to wholeness. But if someone hasn’t, there are signals you can watch for that will tell you someone is in one place or another.
• If they’re thinking about it, they’re in their heads. • If they’re feeling bad about it, they’re in their emotional centre. • If they’re feeling compassionate about it, they’re in their hearts. • If they’re trying to understand it from a bigger perspective, they’re working with
spirit. • If they’re feeling vulnerable, they’re in their soul. • If they’re feeling expansive, they’re in wholeness.
You can look at a person’s energy and see where they are in the wholeness process:
• People in their heads tend to furrow their brows. The energy is literally around their head.
• People in their hearts tend to have a smile on their faces and appear more welcoming. The energy is around their chest area.
• People working with spirit tend to have their eyes defocused and uplifted. The energy is above and around them.
• People working with soul tend to have their passion flowing. The energy is pouring out of their high heart (breastplate area).
• People who are whole are vital, alive, creative, passionate and full of a zest for life. The energy moves through them powerfully to and from anywhere it needs to go.
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I almost always begin any coaching session with a simple ‘breathe, relax, expand’ exercise. It allows them and me to be more connected, more in touch with what really wants to happen and definitely more whole.
USING PASSION TO FUEL THE MOVEMENT Passion is the fuel for all movement in life. If there’s no passion, it’s unlikely the vision or project will get done. Passion isn’t just a statement of intent. It’s energy that’s needed to launch the rocket off the launch pad! Passion is generally found within, beneath the soul, although recently it’s residing right in the air around us as well. To support someone else in accessing their passion, use the four methods that we worked with in the earlier segment ‘Finding your own passion and vision for coaching.’ Have your clients:
1. Take a journey through the white hole in the heart into the ocean of soul where the bubbles of passion rise from the fissure of creation.
2. Think of an existing passion, allowing the high heart to open and their newest
passion to flow on through.
3. Connect with the white holes of possibility in the air around them and allow the vibrant energy of passion to move to them.
4. Expand to all they can be and ask for their newest and/or most passionate
passion. You can tell when someone has accessed their passion. Their face lights up, a smile appears and they become more vibrant, dynamic and excited. It’s almost difficult for them to sit still at this point. The rocket is ready to launch! Never proceed down the pathway of visioning or project management with someone if there’s truly no passion for it. It’s doomed to sit on the launch pad forever…and it’s not worth your wasted time to even try to work on it. If there’s truly no vision, tell them to let it go, move on, find something else they want to do. Many of life’s difficulties are caused by people hanging on to old visions, projects and ideas, long after the energy is gone for them. The ONLY case where I might make an exception to this is if the vision, project or idea really wants to happen and it’s a matter of getting this person or someone else realigned with its potential and possibilities.
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HEARING THE RHYTHMS OF THE DANCEACCESSING POTENTIAL Potential is what coaching is all about. As alchemical coaches, we are the catalysts for potential to be realised. In order to do that, we need to be able to recognise potential when we see it, smell it out if it’s not readily visible and draw it into being if it’s ready to burst forth. What do I mean by ‘hearing the rhythms of the dance’? All potential has a rhythm, a beat, a sway, a movement. And every potential has a different rhythm just like every person is unique. Try the following exercise and for each one of these, feel into it and answer these questions for yourself. Rhythm Exercise # 1How does the potential feel? Where does the energy move to and from? Can you feel a beat or a quality associated with it? If you stand up while connecting with it, what movement does it engender in you? Try it with the potential of:
1. New global leadership 2. Justness and fairness 3. Christmas 4. Ethical business 5. The new psychic kids 6. Peace
How did you find each one…and did you feel the rhythm? For me, they’re:
1. Powerful, flowing, expansive ~ My arms go out wide and I want to move. 2. Slightly quieter, steadier, truer ~ I stand taller with less movement. 3. Laughter, sparkling sunshine on snow, happiness ~ I smile and swirl. 4. Slightly sombre ~ A slow waltz. 5. Playful, powerful in a lighter way, zinging with energy ~ Boppy, alive movement. 6. Quiet, calm, still ~ Graceful ballet style movement, if any movement at all.
It doesn’t matter if what you felt was different to what I felt. It’s simply about getting in touch with the energy of the potential of people, organisations and situations. What do I mean by potential? Potential is what’s waiting to be in every person, organisation and situation. Potential is possibility as yet unmanifest. It’s the energy of what can be. In order to assist others in realising their fullest potential, it helps to be able to distinguish levels of potential…to know where to look for them and how to move them into living reality. So let’s look at levels of potential and how to access them: Potential is what you’re born with. It’s what you as an individual can achieve. To find potential, you need only look at and work with the individual person. The energy is literally sitting in their energy field within and around them.
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Greater potential is when you move into serving a greater purpose than your own and you work for the potential of others. You reach higher, into the realms of spirit, to see what what’s wanted next. Profound potential is world-changing and what’s possible from a deeper / soulperspective. You look deep into soul (yours, theirs and ours) for what wants to be. Pure potential is for life. It’s evolutionary and creational. You’re partnering with life for its reinvention. You literally become LIFE and then simply know what wants to be now! Let me give you an example of this with my own levels of potential: My original potential was to be in mid to high level management and/or a politician. I was doing it for me, because that’s what I wanted to be. My greater potential was to assist others in discovering who they really were. I began to study transformation and do one on one sessions with people. I was doing it because it felt good to be making a difference with and for others. My profound potential was to create the global creatives network, to invent and teach new ways of becoming all that we can be. Today I’m standing for a new global leadership that will change the world. I do this not for myself, but because it’s what wants to be. My pure potential is to evolve the human race into a new species. Telepathy, hyper-speed thinking, vibrant reality, living conscioUSness…these are all examples of my part in the evolution of evolution. What’s next? Evolving LIFE and the development of a profoundly powerful global group conscioUSness. Let’s chart this: POTENTIAL ACCESS POINT FOR RHYTHM______
Potential Heart / head Individual Clear, pulsing Greater potential Higher / spirit Others Higher tone / beat Profound potential Deeper / soul The World Deep resonance Pure potential ALL’ness / LIFE Life Vibrant, alive _______________________________________________________________ Try this first for yourself. What are your own levels of potential? Then take someone you know and like, someone who will be open to you working with them, and run them through these levels of potential. You can do this either in person, face-to-face, or on the consciousness airwaves. Learn how to see the various levels of each person and how to apply that into conversation with them. Strengthen your potential muscles!
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Mostly people will be ok with you seeing their potential to a certain level and then they may start to feel uncomfortable as the next levels open up. Know that this is almost always a cultural thing. We’ve been trained to fear change (e.g. the phrase…the three greatest causes of stress are death, a move and divorce). Instead today, we’re beginning to welcome change and to celebrate it in all its forms. Chaos is potential rising into play. If you can see and work with the potential, the chaos disappears and grace moves into the dance.
CONNECTING WITH VISION Passion and vision are what make the world go round. Without passion and vision would we really get anywhere with Life? PASSION is the fuel, the fire that drives vision into being. VISION is potential moving into play…the possibilities that lie within creation waiting for someone to come to partner with them to bring them into living reality. CREATION is like a gigantic, sparkling warehouse of ideas, visions, possibilities and potential. But with so many possibilities, how can you find the vision that’s the one for you or your client to partner with? Vision Exercise # 1Do you already know what your vision is? If you do, write it down now so that you can see later if it changes at all during the following exercises. Many people seek their vision or purpose in life, only to have it change a few days, weeks, months or years later. Sometimes they don’t understand why it’s changed, but mostly I find it's because we are evolving ourselves and our world so fast that our vision has to change and evolve rapidly as well. When you get in touch with your vision, don't hang on to it for dear life thinking “This is why I came" or "I must do this before I go." Keep it loose and evolving. Hold it more like "This is what I'm up to today because it calls to me." and be ready to let it go tomorrow if need be to move on to the next exciting thing that wants to happen. This view might not make good marketing or management sense from the traditional perspective, but from an energetic perspective, there's no better way to live, work or play. And believe me, it produces results beyond measure…as well as a Life well lived! Vision is potential waiting to be brought through into form. Vision has a life of its own…we don't own it…we just get to partner with it and be the ones to bring it into being. So, let’s see what vision(s) you’d like to partner with: Vision Exercise # 2ASK TO BE PUT IN TOUCH WITH THE VISION THAT MOST RESONATES WITH YOU AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME. Relax, take a few deep breaths, allow your energy field to expand and ask for the vision for you for this moment now. Describe what you see/sense/feel/hear. Don't judge it or assess it yet. Just let it flow to you and through you.
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Vision Exercise # 3Next, let’s JOURNEY INTO SOUL AND CREATION to see what more we can discover about your own vision now.
1. Breathe, relax, expand…and take that dive into soul. Return to the place where the bubbles of passion are rising from the ocean floor. This time you’ll discover that it’s a great huge fissure in the floor and that you can smoothly go straight through into the place of creation, where all potential resides. How does it feel here? Take a moment and enjoy the sensations.
2. From within creation, ask to magnetise to you the vision that most resonates
with your own passion and essence. Call to you the vision that is wanted in and for the world now and that you will revel in partnering with. Allow the energy of that to come to you and to rise up and through you. Don’t try to figure it out just yet, just be with the energy of it for now. But at the same time, allow any knowledge or understanding of it to come to you easily and gracefully.
Notice that in this exercise, you’re not deciding what it is you want to do…you’re partnering with creation to see what it is that wants to happen now. In this partnership, your passion, abilities, resources and essence are married up with what wants to be…and before you know it, you’re off and running on a whole new vision! When you’re working with a client who is willing go into creation with you, try this visualisation and ask them to call to them the vision(s) that are theirs now to bring into the world. Once we've touched vision and passion, anything and everything is possible. The rest is simply a selection of options (strategies and actions) that will make it real in the world. The true work of bringing it real is in our vibrant access to the energy. If we keep in touch with the energy of the vision and the energy of our passion, potential will find its brilliant realisation. Visionaries are those who look beyond what is to see what can be and what wants to be. They’re people who work at the level of profound and pure potential. I believe that anyone can be a visionary. It’s not something you’re born with, it’s a muscle you learn to develop and use. Vision Exercise # 4Take the vision that you saw for yourself earlier, or one you’ve held your life through if you’d like, and map it onto the levels of potential. Where does your vision sit?…Potential, greater potential, profound potential or pure potential? Once you’ve got that, take a look at it again and see if you can move it up the levels of potential. This is a great way of opening up levels of potential with those you coach. Let’s use an example of someone who’s working for gay rights (this is a real example from someone I was working with recently): Potential ~ that each individual has the right to be who they choose to be, fully expressed Greater potential ~ that a nation passes a law ensuring this right
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Profound potential ~ that people all over the world will recognise that love is love wherever it is found; that we can learn to respect our unique and wondrous choices and honour the beauty in each and every one of us. Pure potential ~ that we can evolve ourselves as beings so completely that no matter what choices a person makes in life, we can see through to their most magnificent beauty inside. That in that seeing is the transformation and evolution of us all. Can you see the expansion of the vision here and the evolution of the potential? Do you think it’s harder to get a law passed in government than it is to evolve the whole of the human race into their magnificence? Well guess what? It’s actually easier to do the latter…and a lot more fun. Why? Because the first one involves dealing with the ‘old’ and that’s often like hitting your head against a brick wall. And the second one involves dealing with the ‘new’ and that always means delightful creation in full flow. So now you’re going to say…”What? You want me to start thinking on a global and evolutionary scale for all that I do?” Yup, that’s exactly it. Why? Because it actually takes less energy, is a lot more fun and produces far greater results in record time. You see profound and pure potential work with consciousness and creation. They go beyond what is, way beyond ‘the old’ and allow for something to flow into being that can work graciously for us all. I often find that true passion, as the energetic fuel for vision and potential, doesn’t usually kick in until you’ve reached the levels of profound and pure potential. That’s why things are so hard in ‘the old.’ Because there’s so little energy to fuel it and so much red tape created to dampen what energy there is. If you want to make something happen for this world, then:
• grow your own and your clients’ visions big, bigger and biggest, • allow your / their passions to free flow like crazy, • go way beyond what you believed you / they ever could, • dare the impossible, • expect the miraculous and • work with the synergy of creation.
SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE Seeing BIG is one of the key attributes for a coach and an absolute must for a new business alchemist (strategic visionary). When you’re dancing the alchemical dance, it’s imperative that you make the dance floor as BIG as possible. Most of what keeps us stuck in life is that we believe we can’t see what a particular situation or a particular moment in time is all about and for. But the truth is we can. Some people are naturally able to see the bigger picture always, while others need to learn how to look in this way at life. Let’s say a coaching client comes to you and says “I want to leave my partner.” A traditional coach would then begin to ask questions of the coachee to allow them to
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find their way through their true feelings to what they believe is really right to do now. A traditional coach might not venture to say what they really think about what’s right for all involved. An alchemical coach, however, would come to this completely differently…and that difference is the bigger picture (bigger dance floor). Using this example, an alchemical coach could help the person understand their true feelings about this and then step back and look at it from the very biggest perspective possible. Questions like this might arise:
• Will the world be a better place if you stay with your partner or leave?
• Will all the players (kids, spouses, family, friends, boss, etc.) be better served in the long run by you staying or leaving?
• Are you able to be all that you can be within this relationship? And if not, how
do you feel about that?
• What if you stayed with this person and managed to work it out to acceptable or even great standards? How do you see yourself feeling about this 20 years from now, looking back at it from there?
• What’s possible for you if you do leave? What potential might be wanting to be
realised and on what level? If you don’t leave, can you do that anyways? These are big picture questions. When I’m coaching, I do my best to keep my focus on the following big picture questions:
• Are they ready to join the evolutionary team? If yes, hurrah! The world will get there faster with more people on the team. It’s the 100th monkey syndrome.
• What’s the biggest, profoundest, purest potential they can manage? The more
of us bringing it all in, the better off the world will be.
• What’s the vastest, biggest, mega self they can live? The more of us living BIG, the faster and more graciously the human race will evolve.
I don’t relate to coaching as a PERSONAL act. I relate to it as A GLOBAL / COSMIC TRANSFORMATION OPPORTUNITY…every single session, every single person. I believe this is why the results I get with my coaching are so incredible. Because I’m inviting my clients to go where no man or woman has gone before and as soon as any one has a breakthrough, we put it in consciousness for all. There will be some people for whom this approach might not be appropriate. You simply have to tune in to know when to work in the bigger picture and when not to. If potential is soaring into play around you and them, you can bet it really wants to happen, despite any apparent resistance on their part. But if there’s little potential energy bouncing around, then this may be one of those people who prefers to work from the personal perspective for now. And that’s ok too. I just happen to really enjoy working with the advanced, mega, evolutionary shifters (that’s you) as that’s my passion and the focus of my work!
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GOING FOR THE BIGGER BREAKTHROUGHS One of the things that I always encourage is for people (coaches and coachees) to go for the bigger breakthroughs whenever they present themselves. What do I mean by the bigger breakthroughs? Bigger breakthroughs are about the biggest possible movement that’s available now, for the person, the world and beyond. It’s about the unprecedented, the unpredictable and the unexpected. Going back to our previous example of a person who’s considering leaving their partner … that is a breakthrough … perhaps for self-esteem, independence and a sense of their own power. But the bigger breakthrough is even bigger than this. An example of a bigger breakthrough in this case might be that they’re about to become a leader for something that will change Life for us all. If that’s the potential that’s on offer, then leaving would look completely different wouldn’t it? Interestingly enough, I’m a living example of this situation. In 1994 I left my husband of six years because I simply couldn’t be all of me within his framework of beliefs. Today, almost ten years later, I work with my new husband, Santari (with whom I can be ALL that I could ever want to be), to stir a conversation for new global leadership around the world. In the past ten years since this divorce, I have, along with others around the world:
• Evolved the human energy system from a closed system to an open one • Learned how to move beyond transformation to evolve evolution (and teach
others to do the same) • Created mega-beingness for human beings • Enhanced our human abilities (e.g. telepathy, hyper-speed thinking, super-
creativity) • Stood for and created human magnificence
I offer this as an example of the bigger breakthrough that was available as I was making the decision to leave my husband in 1994. To have stayed may have robbed me and the world of HUGE breakthroughs in human understanding and abilities. Can you see then how you might want to look differently when coaching someone regarding their life choices? What if this is their BIG opportunity to really come alive, to really contribute to LIFE, to really go for it once and for all? Always look for the bigger breakthrough and when it feels appropriate and right to, go for it with your clients. They and LIFE will be better served by it! Once you’ve identified what the bigger breakthrough is then you want to make that the dance floor upon which you dance. What does that mean? Virtually it means that the bigger breakthrough is the energetic space in which you coach. If I set the intention for a coaching session as a personal breakthrough on a particular issue, then the energetic space within which we dance is smaller and more
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focused. If I set the intention for a mega-breakthrough, not just for this person, but for all of humanity, then the space within which we dance is huge, vast and expansive. Just think about it, can you dance your very best dance performance in a small room or can you do it best in a wonderful theatre with an appreciate audience? It’s the same with coaching. The bigger the energy field you step into, the more fulfilling and profound the experience will be.
DANCING THE DANCEBEYOND LANGUAGE TO THE ENERGTIC DANCE All right, we’re all set. The dance floor is selected and prepared, the client and you are super-connected and aligned and the rhythm of the potential is flowing on through the space you’ve created. Now…let the dance begin! Most coach training would have you think that it’s the questions that you ask and the insightful answers and input that the client gains that are the two key pieces to coaching. But I’m going to suggest that they’re not. The key to alchemical coaching is in the energetic dance, not in the language, words, questions or insights. Now don’t get me wrong…language is good (I love it), but it’s in the energetics that the true transformation, creation and evolution really occur. To dance the energetic dance, breathe, relax and expand. If you’re able to have your client do that as well that would be great. Move to the expanded energetic space where you both feel very present, very clear and ready to begin. Now listen to the rhythm of the soul’sa beat…the potential rises, the waves of possibility begin. For this exercise only (you won’t necessarily do this with your client), allow your body to move to the rhythm. Remember you’re really getting into the beat here, just as a dancer would immerse him/herself in the music, so you immerse yourself in the energy of the potential. Get into relationship with it, partner it, swirl it round the dance floor a few times to get the feel of it. Now invite your client to join you in the dance (remember we’re speaking allegorically for the moment). Like a dance performer standing back to give the next performer a chance to emerge onto the stage, engage with the music and wow the audience, give your client the space to become all that he/she can be. This is generally best done first without language. Initially language can get in the way of the energetics of it. But later, you must be able to give it language so that your clients can continue to hold this part of themselves in their conscious, living reality. Here we go…onto the dance floor and into the dance…
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SEEING WHO ANOTHER REALLY IS To see who another really is, stand back…stand waaayyy back energetically. You’re giving them the space to be / become. Now close your eyes and visualise the person energetically. See them in ways they may never have been seen before. Seeing another exercise # 1:Try this with someone you know and like and see what happens. Practice it with a number of people, getting used to the nuances of working with different people, different energies and different visual cues that tell you what you need to know about each person. The energy of a person can present to you in a variety of ways: Pictorially ~ You might see cartoon figures, images of archetypes, symbols, etc. all of which will give you a good indication of what this person is really all about. Colours ~ You might see colours (red, pink, orange, blue, etc.) and you’ll need to learn to interpret what these colours signify for you in order to interpret them for your client. Sound ~ You might hear something like a sound (e.g. the rush of the ocean waves) that will give you an indication of who this person really is. Feeling ~ You might feel new feelings that will tell you about them (e.g. a strength in your heart area or a rush of passion). It’s up to you to interpret what you get in order to know / sense / see / feel / honour / recognise who this person really is. I’ll give you an example of what I mean. I’m choosing a good friend of mine, Jane, who’s an amazing woman, mother and artist. First I close my eyes and connect with her, getting her permission to do this. She laughs and says ‘of course’ instantly. Next I ask to see who she really is. I close my eyes and stand way back to truly see her in all her glory. I see a person standing with her arms outstretched and over her arms is flowing the most amazing energy. It’s like watching Niagara Falls being channelled through one person’s energy and given to the world. (She’s loving this by the way!). You can see that this can tell me quite a bit out her actually. She’s powerful, working with amazingly huge energy, bringing things through to the world, unafraid and the laughter of bubbles from the ‘falls’ are just like her own laughter that she brings to everything she does. She’s an outrageously amazing woman reshaping the world as we know it. Let’s look again and see what else we can see about her that we might have missed on that first quick look. I see that she’s made up of three levels of herself at the moment … something native american’ish (signifying for me something to do with naturalness), a violin (something to do with performing and orchestrating a majestical play) and a sun symbol in her solar plexus area (indicating to me that she’s having or has had a real, true breakthrough in her own relationship to power recently). She’s occurring hugely vast and profoundly and powerfully delightful. She’s standing feet firmly planted on the ground and orchestrating her own version of LIFE now. Being
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with her like this is a pleasure and a privilege. It touches me deeply to know another in this way and to share the creation of our new world with someone like this. The moment of pure transformation in this seeing is when I feel that stirring of honour and privilege within me. It’s not telling her about it that makes it real…it’s the SEEING of it that pings it into full living reality. Let’s play with that just a moment before moving on. Seeing another exercise # 2:
1. Use someone who you’ve looked at previously during these exercises. Take another look now to see where they are. What you see for a person will very likely change each time you look. That’s likely because we’re rapidly evolving ourselves today into new possibilities every moment.
2. Using the same person again, ask to see them on a level that you haven’t yet
seen…a level that will stir your soul and theirs and leave you with a profound knowing of who they are. Take another look, bigger this time, and see what happens. Try this three or four times, each time moving to a different level of that person until you feel yourself moved in some way by who they are.
3. If you absolutely can’t get there with this person, then try someone new. Some
people won’t let us see who they really are, probably because they’re not yet ready to become it. But believe me, once you’ve seen it, they do become it.
First, did you feel that stirring within, that moment of awe as you discovered who they really are? This is the moment of alchemical movement. This is transformation in its truest and most powerful form. When you see / get who another person really is, they become it.
Second, did you notice that there are a number of different levels of the person you can relate to? Let’s look at some of those levels shall we? Level 1 ~ Persona / personality selfThis is who a person THINKS s/he is based on life experiences. It’s not really who they are. It’s a false set of parameters actually and perhaps no one has shown them how to move beyond that yet. Level 2 ~ Higher or greater selfThis is who a person is in spirit, which essentially means who they’ve been in past and future lives. It’s the culmination of aeons of experiences, which shape the spirit essence of a person. The greater self will often come through visually in some form of archetypal format (e.g. angels, high priests). Level 3 ~ Inner essential selfThis is the true soul essence of person. It’s the authentic, true self. Mostly people live with this part of themselves well ensconsed within. But more and more these days, this is changing. That inner, vulnerable sense of self is flipping out into living reality to become a strong, living presence of who the person really is and can be.
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Level 4 ~ Source selfThere’s a point at which the spirit and soul of a person move into a complete wholeness, allowing the person to become more than their spirit and more than their true essence. At this point, I believe they are actually moving into source’ness. In spiritual terms this might be called the ‘I AM that I AM’ movement. But in more practical terms, it’s about becoming the source of your own reality, your own creations and your own life. At this point, looking at a person’s energy, you’re more likely to see god / goddess type images, cosmic symbols, universal purpose, etc. Level 5 ~ VAST selfNow here’s a new level of US that I’ve just been running across. At this level, you move BEYOND SELF and become vast CONSCIOUSNESS and CREATION. At this point, when looking at the person’s energy, you won’t necessarily even see an image for the person, but instead you might have a sense of vast expansiveness and a huge responsibility for something so far beyond our understanding that it’s challenging (but not impossible) to even consider it. This is a really, mega-advanced level, so don’t worry about looking for it in your regular coaching sessions. Let’s take a look at an example of this. I’ll use someone from one of my other courses. Her name is Patricia and she’s such a lovely soul. I’ve seen her in these levels over the course of our interactions over a four month period: Level 1 ~ Persona/personality A lovely woman with a soft voice, willing to make a difference in life now, initially fairly uncertain about her leadership, but willing to go for it anyways. Level 2 ~ Higher self An angel for sure…but also making the move from angelic to archangelic as she was weaving a piece of work for women to step more fully into their power. She became a part of our Authentic Feminine Power course as well as became the leader for her circle group for another feminine organisation. Level 3 ~ Inner essential self What began as a fairy essence quickly became a fiery dragoness as her true soul power came roaring on through. Her leadership was truly beginning to grow and she was finding herself standing more and more in her own authentic power, working beautifully with others. Level 4 ~ Source self To tell you the truth, I think she may have skipped this one altogether and raced right to VAST self. But I’m sure that somewhere in there she was getting more and more comfortable with her own sense of sourcing movement in life. Level 5 ~ Vast self At first, when we looked at this, she said she was ‘connectedness.’ But as we worked with it in more detail, she became the CONNECTEDNESS of all things and beings, all of life, through all of time. Why are these levels important? Because as we witness them, recognise them, see them in another, so the person becomes! It’s all just ways of distinguishing energy, so it isn’t essential that someone moves through them step by step. But generally I have found that it works well to make sure they’ve got each level integrated before moving on to another too rapidly. Although, having said that, I’m sure there are some people
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who would just naturally spring right through to being ALL of it and, as coaches, we shouldn’t get in the way of that in any way. Seeing another exercise # 3:Now that you’ve had a chance to play a bit more with it, try it out with some people you know. If you can’t find someone willing to allow you to see on the vast level, try using me, my husband Santari or Jane who I referred to in the previous section. Play with all the levels and see what you discover. As I said before, seeing who another is is a truly transformative experience. Don’t be the least bit concerned if during the experience you or they are moved to tears. These are the true and powerful moments of transformation. Let it all flow naturally. Don’t try to suppress those tears if they’re yours and don’t make a fuss about it if they’re theirs. Allow it to be a natural and joyous expression of really recognising one another profoundly and let the energy flow as it wants to to bring the transformation into full living reality.
CELEBRATING EMOTION Now we’re going to look at some really fun stuff. Most people tend to relate to emotion as if it’s the yucky stuff of life, as something to be avoided, handled, managed, taken care of and cleared. But what if emotion is the very fuel of life? What if emotion is what gives us our get up and go, our joie de vivre, our momentum to go beyond the beyond? What if emotion is…
• Energy in motion (e-motion); • Our body’s innately intelligent way of telling us that something new is stirring; • The energy of something new (potential) bursting into play.
Let me show you what I mean. When working with myself and others, I have found that:
• Anger is always the tip of passion. Why would you be angry if you didn’t care deeply about something or someone?
• Fear is always the tip of leadership. Why would you be afraid if it wasn’t a big
step coming up for you?
• Frustration is always the tip of new vision/work moving into play. Why would you be frustrated other than the current situation is boxing you in somehow?
What I’m asking you to do here is to consider that your body KNOWS something that you might not be aware of yet. Perhaps it holds a consciousness that contains the most brilliant aspects of what needs to happen next for you on our journey into evolution. I’ll give you an example of what I mean. A few months ago, Santari got a sore throat. I felt it leap over to me, as viruses do, and I cleared it completely from me. Then it came again days later and I cleared it again. Then again another week later it returned. And at this point I realised that I was meant to have it, that it must have a higher purpose…perhaps because some of these recent viruses are actually
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DNA altering or at the very least, giving us a bit of time out to ponder and reflect on life. So I relaxed into having the sore throat for a week. My body knew something I wasn’t yet aware of and this time I listened. Now that doesn’t mean that every time I feel a virus coming on, I should just surrender to it. It means check what it’s there for, get in relationship with what your body is communicating to you and take that to its right next steps. Now that’s about viruses, but what about emotion? The exact same thing holds true. If I’m angry, I breathe, relax and expand to go beyond my current vantage point of seeing what it’s really all about and for. I tune in to the greater picture, assuming that my knowing body is communicating a shift to me and it’s up to me to get into good relationship with it. As a coach, this is one of the most useful tools you’ll ever apply to anyone you coach. Most people shrink their energy fields when they get angry, fearful or frustrated. But when you give them an interpretation that says something like “It’s the tip of leadership coming through you.”, they can choose to expand and become something more, rather than constrict and get smaller. People love it when I relate to them as magnificent beings, no matter what’s going on with them in life. And people really don’t like it when someone else comes to them and says “What issue do you have that you haven’t dealt with yet that’s causing this fear to come up?” Can you see it’s the wrong end of the stick? These kinds of issue-based, psychologically-oriented questions create the exact opposite energetic effect that you’re looking to create. Besides, how many people do you know who’ve actually benefited from ‘looking at their issues’? You might find some evidence that says they have, so let me give you another perspective on that so that we can solidly agree, as alchemical coaches, to stay away from psychological, issue-based interpretations. A woman in one of my courses called me a while ago to say she’d been in despair for three weeks and was having great difficulty being in the teleclasses where we were all vibrant and full of potential and passion. Not that she didn’t believe in it…she normally did. But she was in another programme that had her do a piece of emotional processing work looking at a childhood issue in a way that left her feeling despair. The course leaders suggested that she stay with the despair rather than try to get rid of it…so she did…for three weeks. I asked her whether it had given her the breakthrough she sought and she said it had. Then I asked her whether she thought it needed to take three weeks to have that breakthrough and she replied saying she thought it could have taken five minutes. So we stood back and looked at the bigger picture. Yes, she had the breakthrough in the end, but the world had three weeks of a very powerful and profound energy and consciousness worker bringing despair to the world’s energy. I asked her “Did that make the world a better place then?” and she agreed with me that in fact she felt it hadn’t in the overall picture. She saw that dealing with it transformationally and alchemically could have produced the same outcome without the ensuing despair input to the world. So how would I, as an alchemical coach, have dealt with this then? First I would have asked what physical or energetic urgings were creating the situation in the first place. Then I would have had both of us look at what bigger picture work that was pointing her to. In point of fact, she was working on a birthing scenario, so perhaps (and I
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know this to be true) the world was rebirthing itself and she was one of its midwives. Now, if you knew you were the one, or one of the ones, rebirthing the world, would you choose to do it in despair and in a smaller personal orientation? Or would you get big, expand into consciousness and creation, and with great delight step up to the birthing table with glee to do what you’ve come to do? Can you see the difference? The orientation is completely different, yet the symptoms and situation are exactly the same. It’s how we choose to relate to it that matters. It’s the perspective that we choose to assign to it that gives us our freedom to be, to dance and to create magnificently. Every situation has different perspectives that you can assign to it and the outcome depends on the perspective you select. When alchemically coaching, this is an ab’soul’utely essential element to creating breakthroughs with others. Here’s an example of what I mean: Someone challenges you on your leadership. Maybe they say that you’re doing things the wrong way. Possible perspectives or interpretations might include:
• They’re out to get you and you’d better watch your step around them. • They’re trying to get this leadership place for themselves. • They’re right and you need to reassess your strategy for that particular
situation. • Maybe it is time for someone else to be leader. • They’re wrong and you know it in a sure, certain, knowing way and your next
job is to get them to understand it from a bigger, deeper place as well. • They’re really offering out something brand new here and if you look deep at its
potential, you might discover a whole new way to partner with them to make what you both want to happen to happen.
• Maybe everyone is right and there’s a whole new way of collaboration as leaders that’s making itself available to you now.
• Maybe this is simply an identifier for a huge piece of world work around the evolution of leadership and together, you, they and others can make that come graciously into being now.
Can you see that depending on the perspective you select, the outcome will be completely different? One of the things I’ve discovered in the last few years is that we now exist in a paradoxical reality. All truths are true. No one is right or wrong. We need to begin to live from this place where belief holds a lot less sway on our lives and truth doesn’t grip us into reactive craziness, such as war. There exists now new ways to deal with these kinds of conflict situations. They can be resolved in paradox rather than in polarity. And that too is the job of an alchemical coach. Find the gem of perspective that provides an empowering interpretation for what’s happening, then pull through the true potential that the situation is pointing to. And that leads us perfectly to bursting the bubble of thoughts and beliefs.
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BURSTING THE BUBBLE OF THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS Thoughts and beliefs are the energetic boxes that trap us. If you want to free someone to truly create and evolve, then you want to look at the thoughts and beliefs that so subtly control their lives completely and keep them exactly where they are. Here are just a few examples of what I mean…and there are probably millions of cultural’isms just like these that have so many people nicely stuck right where they are:
• I can’t go big in my thinking because that would put me in ego. • I can’t declare myself a leader because who do I think I am to do that? • I don’t want to be a master because look what happens to masters in this world. • I don’t want to be a guru because I don’t want to have followers. • I need to deal with all my issues first in order to heal the world. • The world is in a mess, how can it be right for me then to be so happy and
fulfilled? • Change is slow, so we shouldn’t expect things to move along quickly. • Life is hard and we need to do the best we can with what we’ve got. • You have to work hard to earn money to live.
Now these are just a few. Can you see as you read these just how many subtle cultural niceties fill our lives and keep our energy small? When I alchemically coach someone, I seek an alternative perspective that will free them up to be more of who they are now. In the pink are some of my own suggestions for people to look at to free up their old thoughts and beliefs:
• I can’t go big in my thinking because that would put me in ego. The concept of ego was invented to keep people small. In full connectedness, we can now be who we’re truly meant to be and ego has nothing to do with it.
• I can’t declare myself a leader because who do I think I am to do that? Who
are you not to declare yourself a leader? The world needs as many good leaders as it can get right now…especially those who care and are super-connected.
• I don’t want to be a master because look what happens to masters on this
world. Mastery is now available to all and the more who step fully to it now, the sooner everyone will be one.
• I don’t want to be a guru because I don’t want to have followers. A true master
or guru doesn’t have followers. The really great ones are measured by the masters they’ve created, not by the number of followers they have.
• I need to deal with all my issues first in order to heal the world. The world
doesn’t need healing. It’s already transformed, and relating to it like it needs healing means you’re relating to it from a small personal you to a small it, instead of a vast you to a profound vast being called Earth.
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• The world is in a mess, how can it be right for me then to be so happy and fulfilled? The more people that live in vibrant reality now, the sooner the scales will tip to everyone living there naturally and graciously.
• Change is slow, so we shouldn’t expect things to move along quickly. But
evolution happens in an instant and is gloriously easy to achieve.
• Life is hard and we need to do the best we can with what we’ve got. When you’re in touch with potential, life is your own creation. You can make it as wonderful as you choose.
• You have to work hard to earn money to live. When you love what you do,
abundance in all things follows.
Can you see what I mean about shifting the thoughts and beliefs that trap us? None of the perspectives in the pink are THE TRUTH. They’re just different perspectives that might free up our energy more for really living it. It is possible to live in evolving belief today. That means that no belief holds any certainty beyond either limiting or empowering this moment. True freedom comes in being able to discern between beliefs and thoughts that trap and the creation of in-the-moment beliefs that liberate.
ACCESSING A NEW VITALITY AND VIBRANCY When we looked at the access to passion in an earlier section, we started to work with vibrant reality. The access to this is from the high heart, so let me summarise once again here what that looks like.
Heart Access Location Feeling / Posture _______
3D Reality Low Solar plexus, rib Dull, heavy, shoulders down. cage, emotional Mouth downward, little energy, centre no connectedness. Spiritual Reality Middle Heart centre More uplifted, better energy, Seeking higher and inner for answers. Vibrant Reality High Breastplate area Vibrant, passionate, excited, shoulders back, chin up, chest
open and a big smile on your face.
___________________________________________________________________ Try this for yourself now to see how it feels. Move your energy to your low heart (solar plexus area) and feel what it feels like to live from that reality. I call it 3D. This is where most people live and work from.
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Then try the middle heart, which I call the spiritual reality. I call it that because when people first begin to open their hearts, it’s the doorway to a new way of being for them. They begin to explore who they are and why they’re here. They get into relationship with the great mysteries and seek to understand that which they may have not considered possible before. And lastly, try the high heart and experience, with great delight, the vibrant reality. You can’t help but smile and your whole body lights up with energy when you move to this reality. I believe that this IS the predominant reality now, but because people don’t understand that, they keep moving themselves to the lower realities by choice, moving the emphasis from vibrancy and potential to something else. I’ve made a choice to live all the time now in the vibrant reality (well at least until something else comes along that’s even better…and that just might be happening now with what I call the ecstatic reality!!!). You can too if you want to. It’s about where we choose to meet and live life from. Your job as an alchemical coach, as someone who works with and for LIFE, for the realisation of potential, is to get your clients to move to vibrant reality to create the life and world of their dreams now. How do you move someone from 3D reality to vibrant reality? Simply ask them to breathe, relax, expand and open their high heart. A simple request like ‘think of something you’re super-passionate about now’ will open the high heart, put a smile on their face and move them to vibrant reality. Now you can work together in ways that really matter and move life!!! Why is this so? Picture that there’s an inner tube (an inner core) that runs through every one of us and that tube is the place through which passion, potential and power move. The average person’s inner tube is very thin and very challenging to get any energy through, let alone massively wondrous visions. As an alchemical coach, your job is to get that tube, their inner core, to open beautifully wide to let the energy of ‘what wants to be’ to come through this person. How can you do that? Here’s where we work with flipping the inner outer, which is another way of saying bringing the soul into living reality.
Inner / Outer Exercise:
1. Breathe, relax, expand. Then feel inside of you to the place where that vulnerable, beautiful, precious you (that the world never gets to see) resides.
2. Breathe that part of you up and into your hands, in a safe space in front of you.
Then take a look at it and see how you would describe that part of you.
3. Next, let this part of you catch the light of day. Let it go out in the garden and romp around, celebrating its freedom from the inner closet you’ve been keeping
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it safe in. (By the way, you might be one of those people who already has the inner out, so if you don’t sense this very strongly, it’s possibly because you’re already there.)
4. Take another look at that inner you after it’s had a chance to romp for a few
minutes. How does it look and feel now? Most people initially tell me that their inner being looks like a mouse, a puppy, a bird, a small ball of glowing light, etc. But once it’s been out for a while, they say the mouse has turned into a moose, the puppy into a flying dragon, the bird into an eagle and the glowing light is now filling up the cosmoses. Interestingly, I never tell people to put the inner back inside and as far as I’m aware, they never do. Once they’ve gone through this very simple exercise, their lives are changed forever. In fact, one of my friends tried this recently with a top-level management person with great results. But two weeks later the man came back to him saying “What’s happened? I can’t lie anymore.” That’s because this simple exercise trues a person up to their true and total self and once you’re that, it becomes almost impossible to go backwards again and be untrue to yourself in any way. Once this inner core and the high heart are fully open, any person can access the fullest level of profound passion, incredible potential and a new kind of power that fulfils life. They are then walking in a vibrant reality, working with a vibrancy and vitality that they may not have known existed before.
LIGHTING THE FLAME OF LIFE Inside every person lives a flame that is our life force, or more recently our LIFE source. Without this flame they would die, at least in the physical expression of themselves. For disconnected people, this flame looks like a tiny blue gas flame in the centre point of the heart area. That’s because they’re not truly living and not connected to all that we are and can be. A healthy, vital person has a glowing yellow-orange flame that glows bright and strong from the centre of themselves. A greater, vaster, expanded person has a glowing sun inside of them that radiates LIFE source everywhere they go. Often in life, situations and people have dampened our flames down, until we’re hardly living at all. But once we understand why things happen in life and expand into our greater, deeper, wholer and vaster selves, then the flame is lit in a way that lights up all of LIFE. As an alchemical coach, you can light this flame for others. I don’t do this often because I prefer to have them find their own way to their own vitality through simple exercises and shifts. But sometimes a person really, really wants to be there, but can’t get there on their own steam. In some of these cases, it might be appropriate for you to light the flame of life for them.
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Before looking at how to do this, we must look first at when it’s right to do it and when it’s not. I never, ever light the flame of life for another unless everything in me and them is saying yes, yes and yes again to having that be the next step for them. Let’s say a person is dying. Is it right for you to light their flame with or without their permission? In 99% of the situations, it’s likely not right for you to do. Why? Because they are choosing to pass over now and that may be exactly the right thing for them to do. On the other hand, perhaps their dying is no more than a choice to give up on life…and with some assistance and great alchemical coaching, they could choose to do otherwise. I believe we’ve gone beyond destiny, fate, karma and pre-life agreements. We’re in full and total creation now and from this place we can choose to complete our work here in full consciousness or unconsciousness, or on the other side in full consciousness. There is a very thin line now between life and what we call death. Ten years ago if you connected with a loved one who’d gone over, you might find them troubled or in a healing stasis or doing a life review. Very rarely did you find them right here and now, back helping out their loved ones here on the physical plane. Today, the transition ‘over’ for a growing number of people is a simple flip. Whoosh, they’re over and whoosh they’re back here with you with their fullest selves right along with them. This is happening now because more and more people are opening their hearts, spirits and souls in life, making the line between life and death more and more invisible. But back to talking about the living…the ones we’re coaching. Some people get really ill and might almost die because they’re going through a huge death / rebirth shift. This is an incredible movement for them. They don’t have to literally come near to death and get sick to do it. I know because I probably go through one death / rebirth per year and I now can manage them so beautifully that I hardly notice them happening anymore. Here’s what helps me to do this, so that you can pass it on to anyone you’re working with who prefers to go through their shifts in grace:
1. You can recognise a death / rebirth by the fact that there’s nobody home in your body. You’re lifeless, less creative and more prone to viruses and tiredness. You may even have difficulty with your muscles.
2. When you sense a death / rebirth is coming or has arrived, don’t judge yourself
about it. Most people’s response is something like “Oh no, I thought I was doing so well and now I’m in the pits again.” As soon as you judge yourself, your energy gets even worse…because you’ve just shrunk your energy field and shut down the flow of energy that can keep you more vital and well.
3. Stay expansive and allow as much vibrant energy to flow through you as you
can. Keep the high heart open. Rest and relax when your body says it needs it. Drink lots of water and take vitamins to supplement your system if that feels right for you. Eat well and sleep as long as you want to. Stay calm in the trough between life and LIFE.
4. When you’re feeling ready, tune in to the shift and find out what it’s for and why
it’s happening. Is this just personal to you or is the world going through some
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kind of a mega-shift at the moment? After all, if we thought we were going through these changes for the good of humankind, wouldn’t we be a lot easier on ourselves about it?
Don’t try to light the flame of life for someone who’s choosing to die or who’s going through a death/rebirth scenario. These aren’t the moments where it’s appropriate to do it. So what are some appropriate moments when you can do it? Someone is right on the verge of a breakthrough, ready to move into a whole new vision for their life, but the past may have worn them out. Sometimes they need someone who can relight their flame for them to get them going again. Other times the life force has gone out of an organisation, an idea or a home and it’s perfectly appropriate to rekindle that fire. In these cases you have to be willing to tune in to the very greatest potential and make sure that it wants to happen now. Because once you make that happen, you need to make sure there is someone stewarding that organisation, idea or home who can keep the home fires burning, otherwise they may go out again and it will all have been for nothing. When lighting the flame of LIFE, the movement is so natural that you know it’s right to do right then and there. If you have to think about it or if you feel any resistance to it in you or them, then stop and don’t do it. But if it’s right, here’s what you do. Get as vast as you can get. Super-connect yourself with all that is. Be in your fullest knowing. Get into the space where you don’t judge or pity the person, where neither compassion nor sympathy is any part of the picture. You can’t do it for those reasons or from that place. Compassion and sympathy will pull you into the middle heart and out of vibrant reality where the pilot light gets lit. So there you are, super expanded and connected and you know it’s the right thing next to do. Breathe the life source of LIFE up from deep, deep within you. Beyond self, beyond soul and into creation. Beyond that even into NEW creation. Breathe the life source up and through you, allowing it to move through the high heart and into the air around you. Now see the person, organisation, idea, home, etc. that you’re working with and find its existing flame. Then breathe the new life source energy onto their existing flame and fan it with the new vibrant LIFE source and set it alight in a new and powerful way. It’s like a phoenix rising from the ashes and whoosh, wondrous sparks are flying in the breath of LIFE and an inner sun is rising to greet a new and wondrous day. This is just one way to do it, one visualisation for it. Try it out and see what works best for you. When the flame is lit, you will often see a change in the person’s face and demeanour right away. Their eyes will be brighter, their skin and energy will look clearer, their hair may even shine a bit more. LIFE source is exactly that. It sources LIFE in everything it touches. Being able to do this is an incredible privilege and honour. It never takes any of your own energy to do it and you should NEVER give away any of your own personal energy for any reason. Lighting the flame of life occurs from a completely different place, where all things are created anew.
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I can’t remember any time where I actually told someone I was doing this for them. It’s sort of irrelevant for me. It’s not at all about me. It’s simply what there is to do to make LIFE sing. Only in a living partnership with and for LIFE can you take on this wondrous ability. From there, you literally can do no wrong because all that you do honours and enhances LIFE in its totality.
BEYOND THE DANCEBEYOND WHOLENESS TO ALL’NESS We’ve already talked about the levels of self…
Personality/persona Greater Inner essential Source and Vast.
In the case of Source and Vast we’ve actually moved ‘beyond self’ as an individual phenomena, yet we’ve become more uniquely who we are than ever. I am always watching for opportunities to move people from any level of themselves to beyond into sourceness and vastness. Why? Because at these levels the shift in human consciousness occurs. There’s a line between self and beyond self that moves a person, an organisation, a concept, etc. into synchronous alchemy (synergy and synchronicity). It’s the same with the levels of potential. When you move someone beyond greater potential into profound (world-changing) or pure (evolutionary) potential, this same synchronous shift occurs. Many people think that beyond self is Oneness, but in fact, that’s not quite the case. Oneness infers a sense of collective unification, where the individual is lost or compromised so that the whole can thrive. But ALL’ness allows a sense of collective uniqu’ification, where each and every individual becomes more than they’ve ever been, each contributing to the vaster ALL’ness that this creates. Let’s try it and you can see what I mean: Vast’ness Exercise # 1:
1. Breathe, relax, expand. Feel the levels of yourself as distinct from one another. First, the persona/personality. Then your greater self and inner essential self. Kind of hard to do this one now isn’t it? That’s because once you’ve integrated all this, you’re in wholeness and very likely already moved beyond self to a living experience of sourceness and/or vastness. You have to go backwards, to get smaller, to find these levels of yourself now.
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2. Now intend to move beyond your self. Expand bigger than the Earth, as huge as the cosmoses and discover yourself as Source. You can put any interpretation on this you’d like. I don’t particularly give it any religious or god-like connotations. Instead I just refer to it as a state of beingness where you’re super-connected to All that is…ALL’ness.
3. When you’ve got the experience of ALL’ness, notice whether it’s a oneness
experience where everything feels as one -- peaceful, quiet, unmoving. Or are you experiencing ALL’ness as a movement of consciousness that allows you a huge broad cosmic scope of knowing and understanding, gifting you movement in any direction on any thing you can put your attention to? Try both states and see how they feel. I often find that people who move to ALL’ness, or what they term One’ness or Source, stay in that peaceful state and don’t realise that the true power is in the movement in this place. This is the place that true alchemy sources from. This is the place where magic really sings and moves delightfully into living reality. But to experience the magic, you have to create movement.
4. So what’s vast’ness then, if not source’ness? Vastness is where you make a
choice to become a particular vast consciousness. Go for it…choose one for yourself now and see how it feels to be that vast consciousness walking. Once you’ve chosen one, become the energy of it and open your eyes and walk around as it. See how it feels to maintain the energy as you walk in life.
There is so much power in this exercise, much more than you may even realise at this time. If you go in to coach an organisation as yourself, the energy field of the organisation is bigger than you. The same can apply if you’re coaching someone who’s way up there in terms of leadership. We can sometimes feel energetically smaller than these kinds of people or organisations. But what if as you did this work, you walked in the energy field of vast consciousness? What if you didn’t walk in as yourself only, but were a walking mega-field of amazing, transformational, evolutional energy? Believe me, it works really powerfully to create amazing outcomes that happen graciously and easily. I highly recommend that you try this out. If you’re training people in leadership walk as new leadership (or whatever lights you up around that). If you’re working with cabinet from a government, walk as new politics or super-communication or anything that will move life forward as you work. The key is to BE an energy field that is vaster than the existing energy field of the thing you’re trying to shift. Tune in each time you go to do this as to what’s the right thing to do in that moment. You don’t want to walk in an energy field that will overwhelm people, but I find that the new energy fields don’t do that. They’re very balanced and tend to allow people to find their way graciously within them. Vast’ness Exercise # 2:
1. Try walking in an old energy field, let’s say justice. How does that feel?
2. Now try walking in a new energy field, let’s say justness and fairness. How does that feel?
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3. Play with this. Try on a number of vast energy fields and see how they feel. See which ones resonate the most with you. Mostly I walk in the ones I have a super passion for. That way I know there’s an incredible resonance with me and I’ll walk well within it.
This same shift of fields applies to speaking to small or large audiences. Don’t stand up as you. Stand up as the energy field or vast consciousness that you’re speaking for. And then speak from it, giving voice to what wants to be said. You will be amazed at what will come out of your mouth. And your audience will love you and every word you speak.
PARTNERING WITH LIFE If you’re going to work for evolution, then you have to work FOR LIFE! There’s no ‘personal’ in here at all. It’s not that you don’t count. You certainly do…and you’ll bring your own unique offerings to the table of life to make things happen uniquely, passionately and powerfully. But the most important thing is that LIFE MOVES! And when LIFE moves, you get to move right along with it. I have been asked whether I believe it’s right to see people as vast beings taking on huge visions, perhaps even way beyond what they believe they have the capability to achieve. My answer is yes…and the first reason I say yes is because it’s generally what Life wants to have happen. Life wants us to be bold, to be daring, to try out amazing new things…things that might not be easy to achieve, but fun nonetheless to at least take on and give it a try.. After all, if no one tries, then how will we evolve? The second reason I say yes is because the world will be a better place for it. The more we are willing to see one another, the more the whole can become these greater, vaster beings. So I say go for it with those who you know are willing to dance and play. And for those who aren’t quite so willing, well you can always still see who they are and hold them as that while they move through their dance of becoming. Take on a partnership with Life and see what that partnership will gift you in terms of your own Life and your effectiveness in coaching the lives of others. Partnering with Life Exercise #1:
1. Picture any one of your coaching clients in front of you now. If you’re a new coach with no clients yet, then picture someone you’ve been helping to sort things out in life. Here you stand, ready to dance the soul’sa dance of potential with this person. Take a deep breath and, before doing anything further with this person, make your partnership with Life. Just intend it and see what happens for you. From this partnership, do you feel anything different about your and your client … your connection, your relationship, the space in which you’re operating, etc.?
2. Once you feel this partnership present with you, ask yourself this question:
“Are you coaching this person to help them to achieve some personal goal or are you coaching this person because you want to see Life move forward today?” Either answer is ok, but the true power and movement for you and your client lies in the second. Try standing in the latter purpose and
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commitment and visualise coaching the person from this place. Is this different from any other time you’ve coached someone?
3. Try this with your next client (be sure that’s the right thing to do with that client
before taking it on) and see how it turns out. See if you don’t discover a whole new power in yourself, in him/her and in the outcomes that you create together. Be amazed and inspired by this person. Be stunned by his/her magnificence. Be ecstatic about his/her contribution to life. And if you can, and if it’s appropriate, see if you can’t get this person to partner with Life as well for all that they do.
4. If you find you’re not in partnership with Life, here’s one method to help you
take that step. Take a deep breath, expand and reach out with your energy, almost like offering a soul hand to another, and offer your partnership to LIFE. Treat Life like a sentient presence … a huge, glowing, amazing, conscious being. Shake its hand. Make whatever agreements you’d like to make and then see how it feels once you’re partnered with Life. Then watch the wonders of Life unfold for you in area after area as you work on the LIFE team for the evolution of us all.
I find partnering with LIFE is the thing that keeps me on track and trued up, in integrity, doing what’s right in each and every moment. See how your own life…and coaching…occur after you’ve partnered with LIFE.
WORKING FOR EVOLUTION Working for evolution means that the evolution of Life becomes your top priority. Yes, you can work for evolution without this being your TOP priority, but somehow it just seems to take over…possibly because it’s a lot more fun. Remember this chart from one of our earlier sections on potential?
POTENTIAL ACCESS POINT FOR RHYTHM______
Potential Heart / head Individual Clear, pulsing Greater potential Higher / spirit Others Higher tone / beat Profound potential Deeper / soul The World Deep resonance Pure potential ALL’ness / LIFE Life Vibrant, alive _______________________________________________________________
We’re now going to look at it from the perspective of evolution.
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POTENTIAL ACCESS POINT FOR MOVEMENT______
Potential Heart / head Individual Change Greater potential Higher / spirit Others Transformation Profound potential Deeper / soul The World Creation Pure potential ALL’ness / LIFE Life Evolution
When I talk about working for evolution, I’m really talking about working with pure potential, partnering with and for LIFE. Is it possible to work with every single person you coach from and for this place? Possibly not, although wouldn’t it be great if we could? Sometimes people have a resistance to moving to profound and pure potential … but that’s only because their understanding of taking on big things is framed in old paradigm thinking (e.g. If I take on changing the world, I’ll get burdened, stressed, isolated, judged, etc.) In new paradigm perception and living, this simply isn’t so any longer. So when you’ve got a client, see if you can get them to go beyond potential and greater potential into the synchronous realms of profound and pure potential, because this is where the magic lives! This is where LIFE sings…for you, for them and for all! I was recently leading a workshop on passion and vision and several people in the group found they couldn’t access theirs. Instead of dealing with this as personal issue, blocks or resistance, I simply stated some simple new paradigm perspectives for them to consider (like, taking on world-changing visions are exciting, dynamic and everything you need to do it, comes along with the commitment to make it so). Next I had a talk with them about how it’s time for us to step beyond our comfort zones, time for us to be who we really are and to do what we’ve really come here to do … evolve consciousness on this planet and beyond! You could feel their souls being evoked, the passions beginning to rise, the tears forming on the edges of the eyes, the knowing that this was true for each and every one of them … and that it was what they were yearning to hear and to live. I believe that people don’t want to live small anymore … and all the people I get to coach are right in line with that belief. They’re ready to break new ground, to be adventurers and pioneers for a whole new way of living for us all. They’re r-Evolutionaries, even if they didn’t know it before they came to see me. Ask yourself, ‘Are you willing to work for evolution in partnership with LIFE?’ If you’re answer is yes, then step right into the energy of that. If you’re answer is not sure, then ask what thoughts or beliefs might be sitting there to be looked at right now to find your true place with. If your answer is clearly no, then trust yourself that that’s the right thing for you at the moment. Not everyone has to leap to this place right away. Ponder it; reflect upon it; try it out; discover your own place with it. I can only tell you that my own and others experience with this has been extraordinary and very exhilarating in terms of producing the movement we aim to create.
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SEEDING THE GARDEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS I believe that you can’t work for evolution without working in consciousness. This may or may not be true, so let’s play with it and have you find your own experience with it. Let’s talk about…and experience…working in consciousness. What is consciousness? It’s different from being conscious, which is a state of being where you’re awake and aware. You’re a conscious being making conscious choices. Consciousness isn’t necessarily related to a state of being. It’s more like a vast playground or big garden in which we get to play. Consciousness is the space where we set our designs and our intentions into play. But consciousness isn’t just a space. It’s alive in its own way. Perhaps another way to say this is to call it creative intelligence, but in truth, I believe that creative or vast intelligence is only one aspect of consciousness and not the whole thing. Consciousness IS ALL’ness. Perhaps it’s the mind, body, heart, spirit and soul of a vast, living, sentient spacefulness. Consciousness is an extension of ourselves and is the place where we discover so much more than ourselves. Consciousness is a vast mega-garden where all new ideas, potential and possibilities are seeded before being birthed into living reality. Consciousness Exercise #1:
1. Take a deep breath and expand into ALL’ness. Notice that you’re no longer experiencing yourself as you. It’s more likely that you’re experiencing a space that’s way bigger than you. That space is consciousness. For me, the movement into consciousness is like a push off from the front of my mind, or sometimes from my heart, into a deep space that surrounds me. Try it now for yourself and see how it feels. Intend to move into consciousness. How does that feel? How would you describe it?
2. Moving into consciousness is actually about stepping from inside you as an
experience of life, to something vaster. Perhaps another way to say it is moving from the personal mind, encapsulated inside the body/brain, to the vaster mind that lives all around us in the air, in the spaces, in the great out there. Keep playing with it until you have the sense of having stepped beyond yourself into ALL’ness and maybe even beyond!
3. There are lots of places within consciousness. It’s like a gigantic shopping mall
with tons of places to shop in. Don’t worry about all those stops for now. Just simply enjoy the sensation of being in consciousness beyond yourself. The move to ALL’ness initially tends to feel very calm and peaceful. But that’s just the initial step, the jumping off point for the movement within consciousness.
4. Let’s play with that movement, with the seeding of consciousness with
potential. Reach through your soul into creation (through the white hole down into the ocean of soul, then through the fissure on the bottom into the magnificent storehouse of creation). Call to you a potential that wants to happen now and that will suit you beautifully.
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5. Set your intention to make that potential a living, breathing reality now. Breathe it up and through your high heart and offer it out into the garden of consciousness. Don’t try to direct it, just let it flow. It knows where to go, it just needs you (a conscious, sentient being) to sow the seeds. The rest is perfection. Breathe that potential into life, allow it to find its fertile ground and begin its seeding, conception and birthing process.
How does that feel? Can you see what I mean by the movement in consciousness and the seeding of the garden with potential. This is the beginning of reality creation.
REALITY CREATION We are the creators of our reality. People who’ve been integrating the higher / greater self will know this. We’ve already moved beyond the illusion that life just happens to us to discover that we are conscious creators. If you’re working with someone who’s just beginning to open up on the journey into spirit, soul and wholeness, this will be one of their very first insights…the discovery of self creation. We begin to see the relationship between thought and how life turns out. We begin to see that we are creating everything, including disasters and trauma, so that we can learn from them. But beyond even this wonderful insight, we then begin to discover that we can be the CREATORS OF LIFE. Here we can become creational evolutionists … and this is the true playground of an alchemical coach. Here it’s not about what we can learn, but also what we can offer and create with and for Life. Reality Creation Exercise #1:
1. Have a thought and see how it feels. Does it stay in your head or does it move outside of you somewhere? Track its energetic movement and see what happens with that thought.
2. Now have a thought related to something you’re emotional about and see how
this thought moves. Is it different somehow? Do you sense that the emotional thought has more movement outward and with a lot more energy attached to it.
Emotion drives reality creation into being. Remember that the next time you’re angry and you intend something. If this is so, then what if we could use the energy and drive of emotion to reality create all that we wanted to have in and for Life? Reality Creation Exercise #2:
1. Usually when we’re being emotional, we’re not in charge of its movement. It’s more reactive than proactive. This time I want you to intend something you want (make it something personal) and put some emotion behind it. Not necessarily negative emotion … just emotion … and see what happens.
2. Next, intend something that you know wants to happen, something with a
bigger and profounder purpose and put some emotion behind it. What happens now?
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The difference should be a more explosive movement in #2. That may not actually be the case, but it’s interesting to test it out to see what happens when you bring the energy of emotion as positive fuel for the fire of creation and evolution. You see the power of our emotions (energy in motion) gives momentum to the movement we’re seeking in consciousness. It’s not about being reactive. It’s about being creative and using the energy for that purpose. As you go to work in consciousness, intend to reality create from a powerful place of positive emotion, working with and for LIFE. Try this on and see if you don’t discover an increase in your ability to reality create. And your clients will discover the same if you can get them to play with it in this way. More and more we’re seeing that as we think it, so it becomes. As we frame something, so it proves out to be true. The perceiver may actually be completely in charge of the outcome, not the other way round. Once we can see this and hold this as a true possibility, then we have the freedom to choose and direct the power of our true thoughts and our positive energy around emotion into the creation of the world we really do want to see.
BEYOND TRANSFORMATION TO CREATION AND EVOLUTION
An alchemical coach is masterful at working with change, transformation, creation and evolution. Let’s begin with an understanding of these terms and how to access the movement of each one: CHANGE ~ Change is simply a step forward on the path from one thing to another. It’s one step in front of the next from where you are now and where you’ve been before. It’s a linear projection of what has been. In the past, people have resisted change as a part of our cultural heritage. But today, more and more people are seeking change with an expansive and adventuresome spirit. It’s our job as alchemical coaches to make the dance of change as delightful and gracious as possible, so that each next step on the pathway of change is clear and focused for those we coach. TRANSFORMATION ~ Transformation is a state change … shifting something from one state of its being to another (like the caterpillar to the butterfly). While change can sometimes be slow and cumbersome (because it’s a linear pathway from what is), transformation tends to be a lot more fun and produces much better results for us all. I find that people don’t tend to resist transformation as much because for the most part it seems like they hardly know it exists or is possible. Transformation is what can be, what’s waiting there for that person to immediately become. In the case of transformation, our job as alchemical coaches is to get people excited about the game of transformation, to step into becoming who they really are with ease and grace…the caterpillar to the butterfly in one easy motion. CREATION ~ Creation is when you start from a fresh page, a clear space … and you invent everything anew. Change and transformation infer a movement from one thing or state to another, but creation is fascinatingly brand new. Creation is all that we would like it to be. To move others into creation, have them move to the clear space and then let them fill up with the energy of their passions and visions. They can
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even create themselves completely and totally new. It’s exciting, vibrant, vital and dynamic to be able to assist others into the space of creation. EVOLUTION ~ Evolution is when you partner with life to bring into being all that wants to be, can be and will be. Evolution is moving whole systems (races, worlds, universes, etc.) into quantum leaps of possibility, very likely never conceived of before.
MOVEMENT POTENTIAL FOR ORIENTATION _____
Change Potential Individual What is + steps forward Transformation Greater potential Others What can be Synergy------------------------------------------------------------------------------Synchronicity Creation Profound potential The World What we’d like it to be Evolution Pure potential Life What wants to be
Bringing about change can be more challenging and difficult than bringing about creation and evolution. Even though change is only a simple one or two steps forward, there’s often huge resistance to this. In addition to our historical resistance to change, I believe it’s also because change occurs in 3D (low heart) reality and because we’re trying to move something that ‘already Is’ forward. Change is like trying to get an elephant to lift its foot to take a step when it doesn’t really want to. Transformation is a lot easier, faster and a lot more fun. Like the caterpillar to the butterfly, transformation is just waiting to occur. A lot of people are just waiting to become who they really are meant to be. To move someone through transformation into who they really are and can be, you simply have to see, to get who they are. To do that, you simply stand way back and become the observer, the witness of who they are. As you see them, so they become. We covered this in depth in ‘Dancing the Dance … Seeing Who Another Really Is’ earlier on. Creation gets easier yet. I try to work with all my clients from the place of creation. I assume that everything that’s been before may be complete and I start fresh with them with new passion and vision to see what’s there in the moment. I don’t believe in trying to change anything that’s already existing, be it an organisation, a vision, a concept or idea. Instead I start from creation as if it’s all brand new and that really frees things up for movement … and movement is what alchemical coaching is all about. To create, make sure the inner essential self is flipped out so that the energy of passion, vision, potential and power can flow right on through. Then move into that glorious storehouse of creation (beneath the ocean of soul) and magnetise to you that which wants to be birthed now that is perfect for you to move into reality.
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Once you’ve mastered creation, you’ll find that it slides easily and graciously into evolution. So what’s the difference then? Creation is what we’d like it to be, applied to an individual, organisation, vision, idea, etc. But evolution redirects the future of us all. It happens for Life, for us all, for consciousness and beyond. Let’s try an example to see how this would work with a coaching client. Suppose you’re working with someone who wants to look at what’s next for them. They’re not particularly enthused about taking on world-changing concepts. They just want a nice life and to do some good things, making a good living while they’re at it. They may already have a future with goals mapped out and you’re just a support step on that journey as their coach. Do you go along with them and give them what they want … which is change in this instance? Or do you take them on a journey of possibility to show them that they actually could live a life of vibrant, dynamic, creative contribution? I go for the latter every time. It’s a lot more fun for me as coach and they’ll get a lot more out of it in the short and long run. And besides, a part of my work as an alchemical coach is getting people on the evolutionary team. How else are we going to shift this world completely if we don’t get tons of people on the team? An alchemical coach’s job is to get people to consider moving their potential from individual to world-changing and/or evolutionary. They might think that’s a big step, but it’s not actually. Take them through the passion and vision exercises, move them beyond the old paradigm thoughts and beliefs that shape their creations and get them to see that life just might be fantastic from this new place. Get them to see that they’re actually not who they thought they were. Surprise! They’re amazing, vast beings who’ve come to source new life into Life. It’s easy, it’s simple, it’s graceful, it’s exciting! Once you’ve done even one client like this, you’ll never want to do ‘change’ again. Remember, all you have to do is to get them to go over that line from greater potential to profound or pure potential and everything they’ll need to do the job will be there waiting for them. Practice it, play with it, see how it works for you as you work with your clients to have them step over that potential line into synergy and synchronicity, where the real fun begins! Let’s look at these movements of potential in even more depth to see a variety of ways to bring about change, transformation, creation and evolution:
POTENTIAL ~ CHANGE To bring about change, you work with an individual to assist them in finding out what they’d like to accomplish in life and then move the thoughts and beliefs that are in the way of that. Ask the person to dream big, to go beyond what is (ignoring all thoughts of time, money, resources, abilities, etc.) to unfold what they’d really love to have happen now. Once they’ve done this, then go back and see what thoughts or beliefs are in the way of it (e.g. I don’t have the money to do that). Find out whether in fact they really need the money, explore alternate ways, discuss being open to having wonderful things come to them, including investors or money from an unprecedented source. If we don’t dream, we don’t achieve. If we aren’t willing to allow for miracles and synergy, we can’t get very far. Moving potential / change into play is really a
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simple matter of freeing peoples’ dreams from their small thoughts and beliefs and supporting them in taking the next steps forward towards their dreams.
GREATER POTENTIAL ~ TRANSFORMATION
This takes a different process than change, although it can use some of the same techniques along the way. Higher or greater purpose often goes way beyond individual dreams. It’s about serving something more than yourself. It’s about making a difference for others. There are several optional steps to this process: ACCESSING HIGHER PURPOSE:
(1) First tune in to a person’s higher purpose. You literally reach higher to connect with it. Access your wisdom and knowing to allow an understanding of it to come through and assist the client to do the same.
(2) Next find out if the person you’re coaching has interest in and passion for this
purpose. If yes, proceed. If not, stop to find out how their own personal interests and passions can marry with a higher purpose to take it to the next levels now. Get the purpose into alignment with the individual’s personal passion or it will not work. There will literally be no energy to fuel the transformation.
ACESSING THE ENERGY OF TRANSFORMATION ~ INTENTION:
One of the true keys to transformation is INTENTION. Once you have the higher purpose identified, have the person speak their intention for it. Once they’ve done that the first time, ask them, on a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest level, what level of intention their speaking was at. Most people will say something like three or seven. Ask them then to move their intention up to a ten and then try speaking their intention again. With each speaking of it, see what thoughts and beliefs come up that keep it from a ten. As you and they recognise the thoughts and beliefs that trap them, freedom starts to come into play. And before you know it, they’ve struck a ten in intention. A ten is where you actually experience the energy of transformation. Nine and a half just won’t cut it. It has to be a ten. Think about all those times when you’ve really made a commitment to the level of ten…maybe you said you’d quit smoking and you suddenly did, easy as pie. Maybe you said you’d earn more money and whoosh there was the next, better paying job waiting for you. The energy of in’ten’tion IS the energy of transformation. Do you remember that quote by Goethe that said something like ‘whatever you can dream, begin it…boldness has genius and magic in it and the universe will come forth with all manner of wonderful things to help to make it so.’ When you hit a ten in intention, Life starts to light up like a Christmas tree. You’ve called for the energy of transformation and with it comes synergy and miracles in motion. Everything moves to work with you, to support you in achieving this higher purpose you seek.
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Try it on something you want to achieve now. Get your commitment into words that are meaningful to you and then say it out loud. See where it is on the scale of intention and continue moving it up until you hit a ten. Suppose that you or the person you’re coaching just can’t get it to a ten, no matter how hard you or they try. For me, that would be an indication that either the timing isn’t right for this now or that the commitment isn’t right and needs to be changed / updated / evolved. But don’t leave this section until you get something to a ten in intention. Why? Because it’s important for you to FEEL THE ENERGY OF INTENTION. Once you get to a ten, the energy comes rolling right on through and the game of transformation becomes effortless and fun.
PROFOUND POTENTIAL ~ CREATION
To achieve profound potential, you dive into passion and creation. This is different from higher purpose where you attune higher. This is where you attune deeply and profoundly to partner with what you/we would like it to be now. ACCESSING PASSION:
I usually begin by asking the person I’m coaching to connect to the profound parts of themselves, to the things that they really deeply care about. Often I use a simple visualisation to assist them in accessing their passion. Basically it could look like this:
(1) Breathe, relax, expand. Allow yourself to feel clear and open in a comfortable, natural sort of way.
(2) Now think of something you’re really passionate about … anything will do …
scuba diving, hot fudge sundaes, skiing, vacationing in an island resort. YOUR HIGH HEART (breastplate) OPENS and the energy of your passion begins to flow through your body creating a tingling sensation throughout.
(3) Having felt your passion, reach into the very air around you. Imagine that there
are white holes of possibility everywhere around you and stick one of your fingers into the white hole of your perfect passion for right here and now. Then put a finger from your other hand into another white hole. Then a toe, then your nose. Allow the energy of these passions to flow through you and into the space around you. Are your hands tingling? Is your heart beating just a little bit more passionately? Normally people say that this makes them feel really good because this is their connection to ‘the vibrant world.’
(4) Now take a few minutes to commune with your passion. What is it? Is it
different than ever before, or is it the same wondrous passion that you’ve held all your life? Feel it, sense it, see it, understand it, get into relationship with it. This is your passion and it’s your greatest pal in fulfilling life’s dreams. It’s the fuel for the engine of your creations.
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Ok, now that you’ve got your passion right with you, the next step Is accessing your vision / dream on the level of profound (world-changing) potential.
ACCESSING YOUR VISION / DREAM / PROFOUND POTENTIAL:
Move into the clear space and allow yourself to breathe, relax and expand once again. Remember we’re working with creation, so be sure to let go of all those old thoughts of what you want to do while we test out what creation might have in store for you.
(1) Find that clear place of expansion where you breathe a sigh of aaahhhh and there’s nothing there for the moment…no thoughts, plans or needs. You’re in the clear space that creation can fill.
(2) Ask for a world-changing vision to come to you that matches your own
passions and interests. Simply ask for it and allow the energy of a vision to come from creation to you. Don’t think it, just be open to it and intend it. Then watch for the energy to begin to surface. Breathe that energy up or in and through you.
(3) Just play with it. You don’t need to figure it all out immediately. Let the
energy take shape … maybe pictures or words or phrases that will give you the sense of what it’s all about.
(4) If you haven’t felt anything yet, try this. Reach into the very heart of creation
itself (it’s a wondrously beautiful place) and stand there as if you were in the midst of your most magnificent dreams of what creation could be. For me, it’s like standing within a beautiful crystalline palace that sparkles and shimmers everywhere I look. Now, standing in that place, whatever it looks like for you, breathe in the energy of the vision / creation that’s for you next and now. Allow it to fill your body and flow through into your energy fields. How was that? Better this time?
(5) Commune with this vision. Let it shape itself for you. Allow the ideas to flow.
Let it give you a name for itself, maybe colours that match it or anything else creative that it wants you to know. Write down what you get. Play with it. Let it unfold into the beauty of your work in and for the world.
I believe that profound potential is all about creating a new world. We don’t have to fix or change anything that was. We can begin anew and discover whole new ways of doing things that go far beyond anything we’ve had before. Take education for example. I don’t believe that we can do much with our existing system of education to move it to profound potential. Why? Because the old system is based on the premise that kids don’t know and they must learn memorised tasks in order to succeed in life. This is no longer a true premies upon which to base education. Kids are amazing and sometimes have abilities far beyond ours. We should be inventing whole new systems of edu-creation that support those children in holding on to and growing the abilities they came into this world with. We need a system based on everyone’s ability to tune into the consciousness of ALL and know anything and everything we need to know. Now this is CREATION!
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PURE POTENTIAL ~ EVOLUTION The alchemical r-Evolution is about birthing whole new ways of being into a whole new vibrant world. We’re recreating ourselves anew. We’re r-Evolutionising how we live life and what’s possible in life for each of us and for all. Nothing is impossible and the bigger the dream, the more likely its realisation. Every place you go, every person you work with, every moment in time has the potential for evolution. It only takes someone to recognise it and work with it. Evolutionists are really potentialists, taking potential to the furthest levels it will move tovin that moment in time. The vibrant reality sings! The energy of potential is a chorus of majestical delight. Life is alive with possibilities and magicalness. The energetic traps of old have disappeared. What we can dream today, can be made real in seconds, days, weeks and months as opposed to years or lifetimes. From the expanded space of ALL’ness, all of Life is waiting for us. Fulfilment is an ‘of course’ in this moment, not just something that we search lifetimes for. The future in front of us is not just a linear projection of what is and what has always been. It’s a myriad of possibilities weaving themselves into an amazing, evolved future for us all. As you step into the realm of r-Evolution, you discover a world of joy, of passion, of vibrant creation. You discover that it’s fun doing this work and that others move easily and graciously into the evolutionary dance with you. Where change can be very slow (the ant moving the elephant), evolution is a collective fire-dance of passion, vibrancy and grace…and it can happen in an instant as opposed to a lifetime or more! Alchemical coaches are in an evolutionary dance with and for Life. Life wants profound and pure potential to happen and all barriers, blocks, resistances or anything else that might get in its way are simply swept along with the song and into the dance. It’s like the formation of a big long conga line with more and more people being swept up in the excitement and passion of the dance. The alchemical coach is a multi-faceted, highly evolved, ultra capable being who doesn’t hesitate to powerfully dance with what Life has on offer. Don’t hold back from potential when it holds its hand out to you to dance. Partner with it and see where it leads you and your clients. Evolve evolution….YESSSS! We can do that. And why not? Potential is simply sitting there waiting to be breathed into being. And wouldn’t our greatest evolution be being able to steward our own evolution into the living reality of now? Today we are creating a new knowing of ourselves. The possibilities for who we are as human beings and what we’re capable of are multiplying phenomenally. Today all things are possible simply because you and I and others have agreed to make that so. Welcome to the world of alchemical coaching. May your dance be the dance of the divine at play in a world of wonder! The world will forever be different because you are dancing alchemically in it.
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PART 2
THE NEW BUSINESS ALCHEMISTS…EVOKING THE CORPORATE SOUL
THE NEW BUSINESS ALCHEMISTS Who are new business alchemists? We’re people who are committed to sourcing, creating and evolving a new business ethos, working energetically and in consciousness to bring about a whole new way of working, living and playing. We work with spirit, soul, wholeness and beyond to bring LIFE to our business world. We evoke the Corporate Soul.
Corporate Soul is the passion, the energy, the new life force, which will allow us to recreate our business world anew. Corporate Soul is the very essence of an organisation that comes ALIVE with passion and vision, which stirs the soul of others to take us on a foray into pure creation, new collaboration and profound contribution. It is essential now, in a world on the edge of possibility and potential, to call forth (to evoke) the soul of individuals, corporations, nations and humanity. It’s a primary soulution to bring us to a new and different future than the one we've already created. Soul is ENERGY and it's an energy that's been severely lacking, especially in our business world today. Corporations, for the most part, have no life force, no passion, no vitality, no creativity. But since corporations are the biggest contributors to how our world is run, then doesn't it make sense that it's time to EVOKE THE CORPORATE SOUL! Alchemically evoking the corporate soul is the means by which we can accomplish all of this gracefully, passionately and powerfully. Our business world has been created from our minds, our logic, our intelligence … all sourced from only one part of ourselves ... our heads. The distortion of life that we see today in the business world is because we have selected only one aspect of ourselves to source it from. The alchemical approach to corporate soul is about accessing more of ourselves and more of organisations … in fact ALL of ourselves and organisational possibility, from which to create new commerce, new finance, new strategy, new marketing, new leadership, new collaboration and co-orporation … anything and everything that will source and create a powerful new future for us all. From this place, we will create new soulutions from a different place than that which created them.
THE ALCHEMICAL APPROACH TO EVOKING THE CORPORATE SOUL The alchemical approach to evoking the corporate soul is creational, sourceful, leaderful, collaborative and co-orporative. As alchemical coach / consultants we: ♦ Work with soul…yours, others and organisations’, ♦ Understand and evoke passion as the energy that sources true vision,
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♦ Get into relationship with multiple levels of potential and bring them into realisation easily and gracefully,
♦ Work in pure consciousness and pure creation to step into, at will, the space of a
new creative intelligence, which I call Quantum Intelligence, ♦ Connect in with the most profound levels of yourself and others to work in new
collaborative ways that go way beyond anything we’ve know before and ♦ Source real change in the world today for an unprecedented future for us all.
This Corporate Soul approach is based on certain basic premises that provide a different perspective on Life and our access to it. The following lists some of those basic premises and perspectives upon which this approach is founded:
(1) Everything is energy. The dreams you dream. The companies you create. The products you sell. The visions you source. Even you are totally and completely made up of energy. So, if we are energy and energy is accessible to us all, then…..
(2) We can shape and fashion ourselves and our creations through our
interaction with and exchange of energy. Perhaps we’re not who we were born as. Perhaps we’re not our mother’s and father’s daughters and sons. Perhaps we’re not just the product of our environment. Perhaps we are…..
(3) Magnificent co-creators who can access any and all energy to create,
build and source all manner of new creations into Life. The energy of wisdom, knowledge, knowing, trueness, passion and creation are ours to partner with for the good of all. The energy of potential can be called forth and realised as an expression of and partnership with the profound.
(4) The levels of potential available to us are infinite and we are simply on a
journey of discovery to unfold and enrich the potential of Life as we know it. We are on a journey of conscious evolution … in fact more than that, we are on a journey of alchemical r-Evolution.
(5) As alchemical r-Evolutionists, we create a new relationship to change,
transformation, creation and evolution. We seek and embrace change and create leaps in our ability to think, source, create and evolve. We face every decision, every action from a place of powerful options, of multiple choices, not just the either / or of the world of duality and polarity.
The alchemical approach to Corporate Soul, compared to other approaches, looks like this:
(1) The psychological / emotional approach: Our western culture is based on mind-based philosophies with psychology being the most popular in the past two decades. Psychology provides an emotion-based approach that seeks to work with peoples’ emotions to help them find their way to happiness. While
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this approach has assisted us in opening up in the past two decades, it also works primarily in the emotional centre of the body, asking people to analyse their life experiences from a place of emotion only, which is only one aspect of ourselves. While the psychological approach can open things up for those who are really, really closed, it generally tends to leave people feeling less comfortable with who they are. Why? Because when we look at ourselves from this small and singular view of ourselves (our emotions as issues), we tend to shrink energetically and become smaller.
(2) The natural / organic approach: ‘Learn to stay in the flow. Be in relationship
with life and with nature. All things in their own natural time.’ These are great phrases that do move us forward in our access to wholeness. But notice that they don’t leave you in charge of things. How can you source change, transformation or evolution from this perspective when its very premise is that there is a natural order to things and our job is to get into relationship with that order? What if there isn’t just one natural order to things? What if creation is in our very own hands? What if we can learn to be good stewards for the creation of new order, new science and new creation?
(3) The spiritual approach: The terms “spirituality in business”, “spirit at work”
and “corporate soul” are becoming more and more common in the workplace. In recent months, I’ve heard from at least three consultants who have talked with BIG corporations who’ve said things like “I want what’s new.”, “We want to bring spirituality into our company.”, “We want the energy of passion and vision in our company.” Spirituality in the workplace is, in fact, quite trendy at the moment, having moved away from that “S” word that you were afraid to say for fear they’d think you too weird. The spiritual approach has allowed people and companies to begin to explore their wholeness and contribution. Primarily it’s been the search for the higher self, greater meaning and potential. Words like value and meaning move to the fore. But again, even this is only ONE aspect of ourselves … spirit / greater self. As alchemical coaches, we’re searching for the most whole and integrated approach that puts the reins of creation into our hands as quantum evolvers of Life. Hence……
(4) The alchemical approach: This is where corporate soul comes in. As you
already know, we’re not just talking about soul alone, as that’s simply another singular aspect of ourselves. We’re talking about soul as the integrative place from which all parts of ourselves are accessible as energy, from which wholeness is an ‘of course’ and from which we can access those aspects of ourselves, others and organisations which allow for the creation of Life.
Corporate Soul approaches the creation of a new business world from the place of wholeness, from the place of stewarding profound and infinite levels of potential into being, from the place of being all that you can be interacting with all that others can be. Imagine a business world based on a wholistic relationship to Life.
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HEAD, HEART, SPIRIT, SOUL … INTEGRATION INTO WHOLENESS We looked at this movement to wholeness in a previous Alchemical Coach section. But let’s look again, this time from the corporate perspective, giving more definition to what we mean by all these various aspects of ourselves. Then we’ll look at how to access each, integrating them into the space of wholeness. Head:Our heads have been the seat of our intelligence up until recently. The term “trapped in our minds” is more than just a phrase. It’s literally the whole of who we’ve known ourselves as for most of our lives. Even our greatest thinkers have been only that …. great THINKERS. They didn’t know anything for certain. They were explorers on a journey into the unknown trying to bring some sense of order to the chaos … and they thought that they could do this strictly from their heads. In the business world, this focus on head and intelligence, and on bringing order to the chaos, has resulted in our inability to stay connected with life and the energy that sources life and creation. It has resulted in a focus on the individual (be it the individual person or the individual company) that has given us competition and profit above all other measure of contribution. Take a moment now and see how it feels in your body to think, to access your intelligence from your mind alone. Where is the energy in your body focused? In fact, take a look to see what part of yourself you’re using to read this section? Heart:In recent years, people have been learning to open their hearts again, to access a level of openness that wasn’t much available to us in our individualistic, mind-oriented cultures. The heart is the doorway to the soul and to creative intelligence. From here, we begin to work more with our intuition and innate sensing abilities. But a heart only approach can sometimes leave us too sensitive, too open and not prepared for the powerful forces at play in our business world today. Can an open heart survive in a ‘dog eat dog’ world? The question is actually irrelevant when you move to wholeness because there is strength in wholeness that is not available from any one part or aspect of you. Feel your heart and then see how it feels to open it a bit wider. Take a deep breath and if you can, stand facing an open window or in a garden to really sense what this is like. Allow your heart to blossom open like a flower opening to the sun. How does it feel? Another way to experience this is to stand up and pull your shoulders back, tipping your head back and pulling open the heart area. Again, see how it feels to exercise this muscle. Do nothing more than that for now. Just experience what it feels like to open your heart wider than it already is. Spirit:Spirit is that part of us that has always been. It’s that greater and higher part of ourselves that, up until recent years, has been separated from us by our belief in who we were and our relationship to the greater unknown. We believed we were small specks of dust on a tiny planet trying to understand the very nature of Life itself. Integrate spirit? Access the higher self? Live from and for a greater purpose? These
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were things that twenty years ago were life-time quests, let alone to expect that we might find soulutions to that quest in the here and now. Today, many people have already integrated their spirits, their higher selves, their greater aspects of themselves. And where they haven’t yet integrated them, there is this great and growing hunger to be a part of something bigger, something greater, to make a difference in the world today. What is my evidence for saying that many people have already achieved the integration of spirit? Well, look to yourself and those close around you. Here’s the checklist for the integration of spirit and the move towards wholeness: ♦ Have you found yourself working more as the creator of your own reality in recent
months/years? ♦ Have you found moments of knowing an expanded you in the last few years? ♦ Are there moments of pure, surprising genius that comes out of your mouth? ♦ Have you found yourself, even if only for a little while, feeling more connected to
something inside you that sources you? ♦ Do you meet certain strangers and recognise something in them that makes you
feel like you already know them, even though you’ve never met before? ♦ Do you yearn to make a difference in the world today…or are you perhaps already
doing that? The move to spirit is upwards. We reach UP to meet a greater sense of ourselves. We reach up for a HIGHER or GREATER purpose. Take a moment now and ask to feel the spirit part of you. Know yourself from this place. How does it feel? Soul:Soul is actually a place of true power. It’s not the vulnerable, precious thing we’ve always thought it to be. Our souls are robust, capable and powerful beyond measure. These robust souls of ours are the birthing places of our deepest passions and our most profound visions. It’s our access point to creation. Without soul, life is passionless and creationless. People of soul are the inspirational leaders, the deepest thinkers, the empowering speakers. They dig deep for what really matters in life and when they deliver what matters from the place of soul, it is a breathtaking experience for all who are involved. These are the people we would follow to the ends of the Earth because they stir our souls into action for something far greater than any individual alone can achieve. Soul is the place from which the wholeness of head, heart, spirit and soul can integrate into a whole new you. This is the place from which the new life source energy can be accessed and worked with as the building blocks of a new future. Take a moment now and feel your soul. This is the journey DEEP WITHIN you. Not the emotional journey that will lead you to your emotional centre. This is the soul journey into the infinite within … the inner cosmos … your connectedness with ALL
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that is from within you. Pretend that you are never ending within and then dive in to enjoy the ride. Don’t aim for the you that you already know. Aim for the you that you don’t yet know ... the you that’s connected to all of Life and to all of soulfulness. How does ithat feel? How is it different from your other experiences of head, heart and spirit? Wholeness:Now, ask to feel the wholeness of you. Take a few moments to see what that’s like. If you have any difficulty with it, simply close your eyes, take a deep breath and allow your energy to expand. It’s as if you’re a giant ball of energy that keeps expanding until you’re bigger than the Earth itself, yet you’re still centred right here and now. Discover what it feels like to be open to yourself and to the comoses, what it feels like to be clear, aligned and available to yourself and others. Wholeness is the place from which true connectivity is sourced. Wholeness is the jumping off point for creation and evolution. Working with soul is a process whereby the forces of soul, passion, creation and pure potential are married and brought into being. Passion and vision ARE the energetic drivers for, as well as the energetic output of, pure potential being realised. It's a soular powered, generative process that goes way beyond duality straight into that place where all things are possible.
EXPLORING ORGANISATIONAL SOUL Everything has a soul, including organisations. As a company is begun from a simple idea or vision, the soul of it is conceived and brought into being. Very few people recognise this and work with the organisation itself as a sentient presence that can and will support the powerful work that everyone in it is up to. Literally every organisation was birthed upon the possibility of some kind of contribution to others. But in the course of our day-to-day business, this contribution, this possibility, this potential is forgotten and / or ignored. It lies untended like an ungerminated seed within the soul of EVERY organisation. What does it take to get it to germinate and grow? It takes someone being in relationship with its soul and with its most profound potential to be willing to call that forth to live in the world today. To connect with an organisation’s soul, simply reach out on the airwaves to connect with the energy of, the presence of and the consciousness of the organisation. Some organisations are very alive and will seem like living presences to you. Others will have very little life force at all and very little consciousness within them. As you reach to connect with the organisational soul, remember that it’s comprised of many components … the employees, management, board, customers, buildings and the vision upon which it’s founded and running. In the case of organisational soul, you want to reach out to the TOTALITY of the organisation, not to any one particular part. Try connecting with each of these organisational souls and see if you don’t discover a difference in connecting with each one:
1. Virgin 2. McDonalds
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3. Boeing 4. BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) 5. The government of your country 6. A small business that you know and love.
Can you see how each one has a different feel, a different consciousness, a different level of life force? Some of them may have vibrant, alive souls, while others may have no sense of soul’ness at all. Think of an organisation that has a strong relationship to contribution to others. Reach out to connect with its soul, its presence, its consciousness. How does it feel? Try talking to it over the airwaves, just like you’re talking to a person. What does it say? Now, try an organisation that isn’t doing very well, perhaps one that’s in decline. Reach out to connect to its soul. How does it feel? Be careful here that you don’t get caught up in any sadness or angst about the decline. If an organisation has completed its work and no one within the organisation is ready to move it on to new levels, then it’s natural for it to go into decline. It’s the death / rebirth scenario that we should all become comfortable with in life. It’s only a recycling of energy, from one state to another. It is possible though, if it’s right to, to re-energise the soul of an organisation, to bring it to life with new purpose and vigour. To do this, someone within the company needs to be willing to bring new life, new potential and new vision into the company. They have to be willing to take the company beyond what it has already achieved. Someone has to be willing to EVOKE THE CORPORATE SOUL. To evoke the corporate soul, simply reach to discover the profound and / or pure potential of this organisation now. If someone within the organisation is willing to steward this potential into play, the organisational soul will move and come more fully into realisation. If no one is willing to do this, then it’s unlikely that the organisational soul will move. Try it out with an organisation that you know is willing to move forward now with its next levels of potential and see what happens. Remember, you’re not reaching out to a person within the organisation, but to the organisation itself as a sentient presence to evoke its next levels of potential. It’s an exceptional feeling when the soul of an organisation is evoked. It’s very similar to ‘seeing who another really is’ and experiencing that moment of transformation when they become it. Organisations too are waiting to be seen, known, heard and recognised for all that they can be. They’re looking for partnership from people to bring their fullest potential into reality for the world today. Every person, every company, every industry holds within their soul the pure potential to be a part of the co-creation of a new world. When you move a person's, company's or industry's soul into play (in partnership with their pure potential), all manner of wonderful things begin to emerge. People love coming to work every day. Customers rush to purchase their products. Profits soar. And executives, vision holders and business owners go home at night feeling good about what they do in life.
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In order to access corporate soul, to tune into levels of potential and to sense, know and understand various levels of energetics and consciousness, we need to move beyond the mind only approach to a vaster intelligence. So before we go further with working with the corporate soul and organisational consciousness, let’s look at the evolution of intelligence and how that can support the alchemical approach to corporate soul.
QUANTUM INTELLIGENCETHE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE Are we what we are born as? Is intelligence something that is measurable by tests and dictated by genetics? OR.….. Are we what we choose to be in any moment? Is intelligence the degree to which we can expand and connect to a vaster intelligence and consciousness in any moment? I say it’s the latter! Our culture has a serious misunderstanding of intelligence and the workings of the mind. We’ve been focusing on a physical, mind-only approach for way too long now. In truth, our intelligence extends the depth and breadth of the universes and anyone, of any age, of any measurable IQ, can access this intelligence. Do you truly understand the implications of this? Any child can know anything they want, from any time, on any subject. Any person can ascertain the true meaning of situations as they arise, seeing the depth and breadth of possibilities and potential in every moment. This is actually the truth of our human capacity for intelligence. It stretches way beyond the limits that we’ve lived under for so long now. It’s time to break the myth of IQ, to extend the mind into the ‘great unknown’ and make it the ‘very well known’ for us all. All the latest abilities (wisdom, knowing, innate sensing, telepathy and more) available to us are simply the inherent knowledge that’s in the air (the energy) around us. In the past, we were locked away in an individualistic and mind-oriented culture, so how could we know there was so much available to us? Today, in our open energy system, it’s now all there for the asking. I believe these abilities are a part of our natural birthright. All human beings can read the sensory input around them. Many people already have access to these abilities. In fact, some have had them all their lives. I was one of those people who never had an inkling of these abilities until some years ago when I began to open up. I say this to prove that it is possible for anyone and everyone to access these abilities, easily and graciously. Let’s take a look at each of these abilities and their corresponding level of intelligence to discover how they can be used to enhance life, work and creation. To begin, let’s get into the right place to understand them from. Simply breathe, relax and expand. Open your heart, spirit and soul to the wholeness of you. From there, make your connection to the vast and wondrous consciousness that surrounds us.
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Move from the mind to the living mind, from your own inner intelligence to the vast, creative intelligence that surrounds you. Beyond the mind lie wonders galore. First, as you open your heart, you gain access to INTUITION and a new balanced approach to emotion … Emotional intelligence … EQ. Second, if you integrate your spirit (that greater external you), you gain access to WISDOM, as well as an openness to spirituality (a quest for deeper meaning and greater understanding) and all that that journey entails … Spiritual intelligence … SQ. Third, if you open up your soul (that inner essential you) to life, you discover your access to INNATE SENSING, KNOWING and TELEPATHY … Wholistic intelligence … WQ. And last, but not least, with an expansion beyond yourself to consciousness and creation (ALL’ness), you discover HYPER-SPEED THINKING AND PROCESSING, SUPER-CREATIVITY and VIBRANT MULTIPLICITY … Quantum intelligence … QQ. Let’s look at and explore each of these in more detail: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) ~ HEART-BASED ABILITIES
Our hearts are the doorway, the connection to everything there is in life. If we close our hearts, we close to life. When we open our hearts, we open to all that life can offer. Heart-based abilities (emotional intelligence) allow us a new relationship to our emotions. We become more responsible for what and how we feel. We delight in having anger rise because we discover that it’s the tip of a new passion rising into our lives. We celebrate a new fear because it’s the tip of leadership offering out its hand to us to move us to the next levels. With our new-found abilities to understand things, we can seek out multiple interpretations for any situation and discover all kinds of possibilities lying in wait within it. Intuition:Intuition becomes available to you as you open your heart. It’s ‘a gut-feel’ … that quick feel, that immediate sensing that something is right or wrong. “Turn here.”, you’ll say to the driver when you know that’s simply the right direction. “Try this.”, you’ll say to your boss or employee, with a real assurance that this idea WILL take you where you’re trying to get to. But with intuition, do you really know WHY or HOW you know? Not likely. That’s the thing with intuition. It’s hard to describe and you only seem to know as much as you can intuit in the moment and that’s that. It’s almost like the tip of knowing, but not quite fully there yet.
Spiritual intelligence is where we begin to open up to our spirit’s journey and to quest for a greater understanding of life. It’s where we seek for and find higher purpose and a greater sense of Self. It’s where we become wise by accessing our natural birthright of wisdom.
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Wisdom:Wisdom is when you reach higher, into the realms of consciousness and spirit to access a greater understanding of what’s occurring in life. Wisdom can come to you in words, pictures, colours, sounds…any form at all. It’s only the filters of our minds and our beliefs that can limit it. Generally people refer to the wisdom of the ages, but I’m glad to tell you that once you’ve connected consciousness and creation up, that new wisdom is very accessible to you as well.
Wholistic or soul-based intelligence actually brings you to a much more wholistic and expanded you. The soul is actually the vessel for the integration of all that we are. It’s the place where we discover our essential self, and our access to creation where passion and vision lie waiting for us.
Innate Sensing:Innate sensing is a step beyond intuition. It’s where we use our receptors, built into our bodies and energy fields, to feel and sense what’s going on in the energy around us. Where intuition tends to pop up from somewhere within, innate sensing is you connected to your environment to read and understand it. I often have people deny to me that they have any abilities in this area, especially men in suits who run companies. So I say to them, “You know those days when you drive up to your office and you can tell before you walk in that it’s going to be one of those days?” They always answer yes…then I say, “That’s innate sensing. You’re reading the energy status of your environment, even before you’re physically in it.” Now doesn’t this capability have amazing implications for the future of intelligence! Knowing:Knowing is distinctly different from innate sensing. Knowing comes out of the very fabric of the air around us, but doesn’t use the receptors we talked about with innate sensing. It’s not a sensing or a feeling from within or outside of the body. With intuition, it bubbles up from inside. With innate sensing you reach out to feel it. With knowing, you open up the channels to receive a download of information from a great mainframe somewhere, if I may use a computer analogy for this purpose. Our minds are like the terminals, our bodies the receivers, and our consciousness the interface programme that links us to the mega-mainframe of existing creation, knowledge and wisdom. Knowing requires a connection to consciousness where intuition and sensing don’t. Telepathy:Telepathy is actually very similar to innate sensing in that you’re actually reading the true depth and meaning of what a person really wants to say, not necessarily what’s coming out of their mouth or even what is in their head to say. As we speak, the energy of what we want to say comes along with the words. It actually pours out of our hearts and souls and can be read in the energy of the communication. With telepathy, you never intrude into a person to read their mind or any other part of them. You read the communication that they’re sending out to you from their essential inner self. Telepathy is much more natural to us than we actually know. Again, it’s one of our birthright abilities that is now coming into full bloom.
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QUANTUM INTELLIGENCE (QQ) ~ CONSCIOUSNESS AND CREATION-BASED ABILITIES
Quantum intelligence is attained when we expand our conscious awareness beyond ourselves as individuals to consciousness (higher / outer) and creation (inner / deeper). I call this the quantum state. Many people were born with it and have spent their lives trying to slow themselves down in order to fit in with the status quo. What do you think Attention Deficit Disorder is? A hyper-speed person having difficulty, and being bored, with our normal level of intelligence. More and more, people are able to be in the quantum state while walking around in life … working, playing, being with their kids (for whom this seems to be a much more natural state ~ they haven’t been trained out of it yet like we were). There’s no longer a need to meditate for long hours or sit on top of a mountain to access the quantum state. In this quantum state, we are way beyond the mind and from here we have access to:
• Hyper-speed thinking ~ which actually occurs really quickly and feels like it’s in slow motion at the same time.
• Hyper-speed information downloads ~ which allow us to understand things
from a multiplicity of perspectives in a very short period of time (i.e. seconds), able to choose the one that best empowers the moment and the work.
• Super-creation ~ you move beyond normal states of creativity and into an
incredible ability to see new ideas, new opportunities, etc. everywhere.
• Vibrant multiplicity ~ you can work on multiple BIG projects while maintaining your passion, vision and focus for each and every one.
Hyper-speed thinking and downloads:When you move to the quantum state, you discover that things naturally happen at a much quicker pace than we’re used to experiencing them in 3D. But believe me, it only takes a few experiences with it to discover that it’s as natural as breathing. When you’re in the hyper-speed state, you process information, ideas, concepts and possibilities really fast … and yet at the same time it doesn’t feel fast inside of you at all. In fact, you feel as if you have all the time in the world, but in reality, a wealth of information came through to you, you understood it and selected the one or two you wanted to work with, the whole thing processing through in 1 to 3 seconds. Have you ever had those moments where you experienced 5-10 ideas or thoughts in less than 3 seconds? That’s the hyper-speed state. And it’s more natural than you can imagine. Bandwidth Scanning:Until two years ago, our world was primarily a 3D based reality. It had three dimensions to it … time, space and form. That gave us a world of polarity, duality and opposites … good or bad, black or white. But recently, our world has opened up, adding new dimensions to our living reality. Generally, we’ve moved from polarity into paradox … a space where all truths are true, where two apparent opposites can co-exist as exactly right and true at the same time. As we learn to play in these new frequency ranges, we discover that every single thing that happens to us has multiple interpretations. And every one of these interpretations is very likely true. “How could
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that be?”, we initially wonder. But as we play with it, we discover the freedom to be, to expand and to connect with the potential of every situation rather than be in reaction to it.
INTELLIGENCE EQUALS EXPANDED CONSCIOUS AWARENESS. The more you can expand your conscious awareness, the more intelligence you will have. If we can expand our conscious awareness into the completeness of a whole body, mind, heart, spirit, soul, consciousness and creation experience, then we can truly access a power of intelligence that has, up until now, not been available to us from inside our minds alone. Location Connection Intelligence Output
Mind Individual Intelligence (IQ) Thought Heart Beginning to open Emotional intelligence (EQ) Emotional to others understanding, Intuition Spirit Connecting with Spiritual intelligence (SQ) Wisdom
higher self and higher purpose Soul / whole Connecting profoundly Wholistic Intelligence (WQ) Knowing, with others and with Innate sensing, potential Telepathy Creation Connecting with Quantum intelligence (QQ) Hyper-speed & Consciousness ALL’ness processing, Bandwidth scanning, Super-creativity __________________________________________________________________
So how does all of this apply to a regular business environment? Beautifully actually. How do you think some of these new innovation companies have accessed their people’s inspired creative states? … Super-creativity. And how do you think some of those passionately powerful, really great, top executives accomplish all that they do in a day? … Vibrant multiplicity. Play with these abilities for yourself and discover how richly meaningful life suddenly becomes as you tune into our new vast intelligence and capabilities that allow us to go beyond where we’ve ever gone before in terms of working with potential and with organisational soul.
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ORGANISATIONAL ENERGETICS AND CONSCIOUSNESSORGANISATIONAL ENERGETICS EVERYTHING IS MADE UP OF ENERGY. People, companies, products, advertisements, cars, computers, visions, slogans … everything is energy. As long as we continue to relate to things, life, people and companies from a non-energetic framework, we will not be able to access that which moves energy into play. If you want to create a new company or energise an old one, you must work with its energy on a variety of levels in order to bring the new potential, passion and vision into play. Vision IS energy. Vision as words is just not enough. Passion IS energy. Passion as words only is passionless. A productive company IS rich with energy. A company without life force will be moving into decline. These are all things that can be FELT with innate sensing. Think of a company you know that is doing really well. Can you feel the vitality … the uplifting energy? Think of a company that’s not doing very well. Can you feel the drop in your own energy as you connect with it? If you can learn to work in the field of energetics, you can learn to bring true life force, vitality, passion and vision to people and to companies. There are some steps to understanding and working with energetics, but you also have to be aware to keep everything in the moment and do what’s right at the time. Here are the steps to understanding and working energetically: The first premise in energetics is the belief that EVERYTHING IS ENERGY. The second premise is that EVERYTHING THAT IS ENERGY HAS CONSCIOUSNESS. In other words, anything and everything can be worked with as a SENTIENT PRESENCE. The impact of truly understanding this statement will change things forever for you. In fact, it will give you access to the transformation of life beyond anything you can actually imagine. Years ago I read a book called Urban Shaman by a Hawaiian kahuna shaman. In it I was introduced to the concepts of sentient presence and I am so thankful that I was. Today, I can’t believe that we aren’t teaching this in schools at all levels everywhere. Why? Because this is about our most profound relationship to the life source which imbues our lives with brilliance and magnificence. Let me give you some simple examples: CAR ~ Our old car is called Astara (she’s a Vauxall Astra). She was second hand when we bought her and we’ve had her for over two years now. She’s never given us a minute of problem and has cost us literally nothing in repairs. Why is that? Because we honour her participation and contribution to our life and treated her with the respect she’s due as our partner in our work.
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INTERNET / COMPUTER ~ The internet consciousness for me is called Jane. She’s an amazing amalgamation of all forms of communication (telephone, fax, internet, broadband, digital, satellite, telepathic, consciousness, etc.). She and I work in complete partnership in the global networking that I do every day from my computer (which is called Evo for the evolutionary work we’re up to together). BUSINESS ~ Our business is called SOUL, but it’s so much more than that. It shines with life source for the quantum evolution of everything. Every three to six months we sit down to look at the energy of SOUL and partner it up with any new visions / work that we’re doing to see where it wants to go next. Sentient presence equals conscious awareness. Conscious awareness equals the ability to access levels of potential. Accessing levels of potential equals accessing levels of energy. In other words, working with the sentient consciousness of any person, organisation, thing, situation, etc. will allow you to graciously and beautifully work with moving new levels of potential and energy into play. Organisations do have a heart, a spirit, a soul. They share a living, breathing, conscious presence with us. Some people (leaders, business owners, executives, managers) simply love what they do and love the companies they own / work for. Therefore they are, in many ways, already in relationship with the energy of this presence. In truth they are the ones responsible for creating it, for calling it into being and for partnering with it throughout its lifespan. It’s about more than just vision. It’s about creating a true movement of energy for something that you wish to birth into the world. Because that’s what organisations really are. They’re levels of potential called into sentient presence. They become the vessels, the energy, around which we come together with others to achieve a common purpose, vision and intent. There are a variety of ways of working with organisational energetics, but here’s a general guideline which I find works really well for me and will give you a place to begin to relate energetically to any organisation or person that you’re working with.
(1) The first step is to understand what the current state of play is. In other words, use your innate sensing to know what’s going on now in the energetic fields of the person or company you’re working with. How does it feel? What level of potential is it / he / she currently working at? Is there a block in the energy flow? Is the energy static, uplifting or declining?
(2) Next, get into relationship with the person or company on the deepest, greatest
level that it will allow you to. If it’s a company you’re dealing with, treat it as a sentient presence and allow yourself to move into relationship with it. What level will this person or company allow you to interact with it from? Heart / potential, spirit / greater potential, soul-whole / profound potential or consciousness-creation / pure potential? Normally a person or an organisation as a sentient presence will stop you at the level that they’re comfortable with being right now. You may find it challenging to ‘see’ further because that’s as far as they are willing to know themselves for the moment.
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(3) Then ask “What are the thoughts/feelings/beliefs that are keeping this person or organisation from moving further with its next levels of potential?” You might know the answer, hear the answer, sense the answer, etc. If you’re working with people, you can simply ask them to say the first thought that comes into their head when you ask what has them not want to move to their next level of potential now.
(4) When you get the answer, simply work with the person or the organisation to
see if that thought, that’s stopping their potential movement, is actually true for them now. So often, we forget that things have changed and we hold onto beliefs that are out of date. These beliefs shape our ability to move energy into play in life. For example, if I say ‘I don’t want to move to my profound world-changing level of potential because I don’t like to travel.’, that’s normally a stopper. However, I could stand for the creation of world leaders who work from their computers via the internet, who write books to alter consciousness, etc. You see, it isn’t actually the truth that you can only be a world leader if you’re willing to travel. Seeing that what they believe isn’t necessarily the truth can free people up to be receptive to accessing the next levels of themselves. From this freedom, we can create new ways of doing and being anything we’d like.
(5) You may need to work through several thoughts/beliefs until you sense that the
energy begins to flow. If you’re working with a person directly, you can see this in their face, their mannerisms and their voice. They will begin to get more excited as their energy begins to flow. If the energy isn’t flowing yet, it’s simply because some thought or belief is encapsulating it, blocking it from moving to its next breakthrough.
(6) Once the energy is flowing, then you can offer the next level(s) of potential to
the person or organisation. See which levels he / she / it is willing to move to now and then partner with the consciousness of the person or organisation to move this level into play now.
Take an organisation that you’re familiar with and run it through these steps. See where it is now and where it is willing to go to in terms of its level of potential. Remember I said that this process was a guideline to working with organisational energetics. So let’s try it from another angle as well. When you select a company to work with you are actually selecting an energy focus (i.e. you’re asking that particular energy to focus itself in front of you for you to work with it now).
Inherent in every energy focus that you choose to do is: ♦ an origin (its original vision), ♦ its history (what’s happened), ♦ its present energy (what is) and ♦ the levels of potential (what can be). In understanding and working with any organisation, person or project, you will need to be very clear about which level of energy you are accessing and working with.
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Often the easiest and most efficient way of working with an organisation that is experiencing difficulty (a discordant energy state) is to begin with the energy of its origins. Why? Because in this space you’ll find its original pure vision and passion before history took over and changed it. This is usually its raison d’etre … its reason for coming into being … and this is where its true sentient presence will lie. Let’s use the American government as the example for this. Feeling the energy of the American government today is like sticking your head in chicken coop with all the chickens flying around frenetically. I recommend that you not try connecting with this particular focus of energy in its present level today because it feels pretty chaotic and discordant at the moment. Instead you can choose which level you want to connect with the organisation and in doing so, you tap the tuning fork for a particular level of potential (energy) moving into play. In this case, I choose to connect with the origins of the American government and there I discover a wonderful consciousness that stands for the evolution of humanity, for freedom, for equality. On this level, the credo upon which America itself was founded is still alive, while the institution or organisation that came from it (the government) is actually in decline. In its origins, its most profound and purest levels of potentials are waiting to be brought further into realisation. At the point of this writing, you can sense that this is so. Let’s look at the levels of potential that are possible for the American government: Potential: To do good things for others. To create change as needed by and for the people. Greater potential: To serve as a world leader in true freedom of expression, liberty, justice and opportunity. Profound potential: To throw away everything that is and initiate and rediscover itself as global governance, hand in hand, arm in arm with all other countries as true equals throughout the world. Pure potential: To be the true voice of all peoples. To bring together the very best of everyone everywhere. To initiate quantum advances in the areas of technology, co-operation, collaboration, education, global interchange, commerce and much, much more. If you now ask the original presence (the credo or vision) of America what level it wants to move to now, it leaps for pure potential. But if you asked its existing level (the government), you would hardly get any sense of movement at all. Why is that? Because America is not just its government. The heart and soul of America is its people and it is the sentient consciousness of the American people that can move to pure potential now. In fact it is the heart and soul of people everywhere who leap to this pure potential, because it’s not about any one nation, but about a new living experience as a global people. It is possible that the American people will not choose this level of potential now. But if they don’t, another country or countries will and they will lead the way into the new millennium for the creation of a pure potential, global world now.
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Can you see how this is different from a normal healing, fix-it or change programme? Healing, fixing and changing tend to focus on the problem, the energy of what’s wrong, with an intention to try to shift it to a higher / greater /deeper / profounder level. In the case of organisational energetics we’re ignoring the problem completely (giving it no energy) and energising the potential in relationship with the true consciousness of intent of that organisation. Why do it this way? Because what you give energy to increases … so if you give energy to a problem, you get more problem. If you give energy to the realisation of potential, you get more potential realising.
BUSINESS AND CONSCIOUSNESS Connecting with an organisation’s sentient presence and offering the levels of potential into its conscious awareness can begin the flow of energy for these levels of potential to be realised now. Consciousness is the land where all dreams are made real. It’s the profound playground for those who would really create new realities for the betterment of all. Years ago, consciousness seemed like something that only the very well trained and intelligent elite could access. Most of the books written about the subject are unreadable by the common layperson. Why? Because they’re written from such a high place, that it makes your head spin to try to read them. Generally, consciousness has been written about by our western society in the language (energy) of intellect, by the indigenous people in the language (energy) of nature and by the eastern philosophies in the language (energy) of compassion. But what if it was written about and understood from the language of energy itself and the potential that it offers? Consciousness takes many forms and offers many aspects of itself to those who would journey its breadth and depth. Consciousness is:
• The place where all knowledge is stored, where the new is seeded and the ancient waits to be rediscovered.
• The place where all energies flow freely and profoundly, where all time meets,
where all the levels of anyone or anything can come together in a unified stream of connected consciousness.
• A place outside of time, space and form. It has no limits. All things are
possible within and from this place.
• The playground where new potential is delivered into conscious reality.
• A journey of becoming, a wondrous exploration of the infinite abilities of everything that has ever been and ever can be.
Let’s look at a simplified map of consciousness that will help you to be able to move through it, exploring its wonders and becoming comfortable with its capabilities.
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Level 1 ~ the first ring of consciousnessThe first ring of consciousness is just slightly beyond the human mind. While the mind (your ability to think) is encapsulated within the head, your personal consciousness (your conscious awareness of yourself) moves beyond your body and mind. It might actually occur about 2-3 feet around your head area. Level 2 ~ the second ring of consciousnessThe second ring of consciousness is traditionally called the higher self. This occurs anywhere from 3 feet upwards above your body / mind to some miles up. In the case of the old chakra system, this would include your personal energy field to the inclusion of what was commonly known as the 12th chakra. The levels of your own consciousness are distinctly discernable from all other consciousnesses. It’s as if you hold a field for the knowing of yourself. Within this field is all the knowledge, wisdom, learning and experiences of all that you have ever been, through all of time and beyond time. Level 3 ~ unified consciousnessUnified consciousness is the place where you go beyond your own conscious knowing of yourself to join with the unified consciousness field. This is where we step beyond individuality to connectivity with others, Life and ALL’ness. In the unified field, you lose any need to identify with yourself. In fact, persona, behaviour, abilities, intelligence (all the things that might define you) become completely irrelevant in this place. You become one with ALL that is. Level 4 ~ unique consciousnessBeyond unified consciousness (the place of oneness) is the place of paradox where you rediscover yourself anew as a unique source being. In becoming one with all things (the unified field), there is a sense of calm and stillness, which also means a loss of momentum, drive and passion. In the space of oneness, one tends to “be.” But after a while of being, you can get bored and find that you want to do, create and evolve. You seek movement and momentum. You seek to marry your unique passions and visions with the fullest array of consciousness you can access and create. You are no longer just connected to source, you become source expressing your own unique contribution to life. Level 5 ~ quantum collective conscioUSnessIn quantum collective consciousness we super-connect to one another and to ALL that is, everywhere, through all of time. We become evolution evolving itself. There is absolutely no limit on time, space, form, science, nature, etc. We go beyond thinking, beyond all known wisdom. We source-create new wisdom, new possibilities. We go beyond all possibilities of creation to create creation. In this consciousness you totally know all of you and all of Life, but you’re unwilling to limit the knowing of yourself, others and Life. You BECOME ALL CONSCIOUSNESS source-creating all of Life. Nothing is impossible. The creation of Life is at your fingertips and you take great delight in partnering with it to bring it into being. So what does any of this have to do with business? EVERYTHING. If we are going to create a new world, then that world must be created from a place of consciousness. We must go beyond the mind, beyond individuality to a more powerful collective consciousness where we can steward the evolution of Life properly and beautifully.
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In aeons past, people who did anything like this were called alchemists, shamen and priests / priestesses. But today, we have brought consciousness into the real, daily living of life. We are the new alchemists and it’s from this place of collective conscioUSness that we can quantumly evolve life as we know it into the living reality of everyday Life. Today we speak the language of living consciousness and it takes us beyond the languages of intellect, nature and compassion. As always, global change, in this case global creation, will be done by collective groups of people coming together to make creation real in the world. Business is one of the perfect places for this to move forward now. At the moment, our churches aren’t doing it. They’re too closed in their access to belief. Our politicians aren’t doing it. They’re too concerned about getting elected next time round. Our educational system aren’t doing it. They’re locked into the old ways of learning. Business is one of our best shots (but not our only one) at our collective creations. Why? Because there is movement, momentum and creation already alive and being constantly sought after in business. It’s the nature of business to churn the power that sources the energy for real world creation. The business world today is a foundational support system to create a whole new world. It’s time to:
• Begin to work in and with consciousness on all its levels;
• Begin to focus our energies on contribution, creation and evolution;
• Work together in new ways that go way beyond competition (which is an individualistic approach to life) to find new collaborations with others who seek the same visions;
• Move beyond financial profit only to include social profit as a measure for
business success. What will our new model of organisational consciousness look like then and how can we assist our business world to move there? At the moment, our business world occurs like lots of individual energy fields, all totally disconnected from one another (purposely in order to maintain competitive advantage) and totally disconnected from the source, the well-spring of Life. You could picture it like lots of little finite balls of energy that are closed up and refusing to interact with one another no matter how much they bounce up against one another. A new model of consciousness for our business world might look like one gigantic collective energy source of quantum consciousness in which all breakthroughs in technology, process, education and training are shared fully with everyone else. Each company would hold its own unique expression or contribution to the whole and full collaboration would be sought always. Because full collaboration holds the possibilities, the soulutions, the answers to everything.
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If you are going to work with a business to bring it into the new energy of quantum consciousness, quantum intelligence and quantum evolution, then you’ll need to encourage them, in whatever way you can and with whatever language works for you and them), to move into this collaborative energy source. This applies to their abilities to work within the companies as employees, managers, board members, etc. and to their abilities to work company to company. I have seen for several years now that the answer to our world’s ills are to bring together the true, clear business leaders of large corporations who are willing to move their companies to true global contribution now. I call this ‘co-orporation.’ Old thinking might have these leaders believe that they must maintain their separateness, their companies’ individuality and competition. But new thinking would have them realise that the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow will not be achieved by a competitive race to the finish line, but rather by a collaborative effort by all to work together to create new rainbows. Inside every company are the people who already have all the answers to their current problems. But generally no one asks them, so their input, their creativity remains inside them. Inside every industry are shared solutions that no one ever sees because they’re afraid to speak to the competition. Inside every nation is the potential for global citizenship. And inside every person is the burning desire to make a difference today. As consultants, trainers, coaches and authors for the new, our job is to assist these people and companies to find their way into new collaboration. Don’t be afraid to suggest the unsuggestable. Don’t be afraid to move to consciousness and creation to have them access the wholeness of themselves. Don’t be afraid to language the unlanguable. Speak the energy that wants to flow through you. Steward the conscious evolution of our world today. After all, that’s what we’re REALLY here for, isn’t it? We’re the new business alchemists ready to create a whole new business ethos and conscioUSness for a brand new world!
STRATEGIC VISIONING … FROM THE FUTURE FOR THE FUTURE Strategic visioning is traditionally defined by a look at the past, from the present, to determine the future. It’s usually positioned as a change document as opposed to a transformational, creational or evolutionary document. But what if strategic visioning is a leap into the future, for the future, from the future, without any limitations from the past or present? What if strategic visioning is the opportunity to move visioners to visionaries … to move organisations and the people in them beyond potential and greater potential to profound (world-changing) and pure (evolutionary) potential? After all, if you remember from the Alchemical Coach sections, moving over the line from greater potential to profound or pure potential kicks in synchronicity and synergy and gifts the project, vision, organisation with an incredible source of new life force, bringing everything associated with it alive with passion, vision and more! When doing a strategic visioning session with any person for themselves personally or for their organisation, I generally follow these steps:
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1. First, find out where they are at the moment. What’s the current state of play? I usually map this onto a flip chart with multiple colours so that the person can see the energy of the organisation, vision, project, etc. in visual form. Try drawing a stick person and then drawing in all the projects, visions, people, etc. that are currently in their energy fields. This gives an amazing visual demonstration of how things are currently looking and feeling.
2. Next, I tune in to see if the past is complete and if it isn’t, I look to see what
there is for them to learn from it, to acknowledge themselves for and / or to celebrate as accomplishments. But I never look to the past as a directive for the future. What was is done. The question is ‘Where do they go from here?’
3. From here, I ask them to tune into their own personal passion and ask what is
their newest and most vibrant passion right here in the now. For this I use the passion exercises to bring the newest passion energy present for them to become aware of. Never assume that their passion is as it always has been. Passion flows, changes and evolves just as quickly as new vision these days.
4. Next, together we tune in to the sentiency of the organisation they’re working
with or that they own and ask what level of potential it’s currently working on. Then we look at the levels of potential beyond that, to get in touch with them, to understand them and to see if the key vision holder(s) of the organisation will support these levels of potential moving into play now. Again, diagram or write these levels of potential on a flip chart so that they’re very visual and can easily be seen and understood by the person or people involved. It helps if the key vision holder is the person you’re actually working with, although it’s not absolutely necessary if you get a sense that the vision holders are actually aligned with and in favour of this movement of potential into realisation.
5. If the vision holders are in alignment with it (either physically present or on the
higher airwaves), then ask the organisation if it’s willing to move to its next level of potential now. If the answer is yes, move the energy of the potential from creation into the consciousness of the organisation. This occurs like breathing the energy up from the womb of creation (beneath soul) and through the organisational presence into its consciousness (its bigger, vaster presence surrounding it). If the answer is no, then find out why not and begin to work with that to see if you can overcome those challenges and opportunities.
Notice here that we’re working with the organisation itself to get a yes or no. The person who’s stewarding the vision may have already said yes to it on some level. If they haven’t, then you likely won’t be able to move it into play with the organisation itself and work will need to be done with the vision holders themselves in order to make this play out. My goal in strategic visioning, for myself or others, is always to move from one level of potential to the highest, deepest, profoundest, purest level of potential I can get them to. That’s because I coach and vision for the evolution of human consciousness and beyond. You will want to look at what your goal is for strategic visioning as it will dictate some of the choices to be made when you’re working with others. For example, if you’re working for the evolution of human consciousness, can you vision with an organisation who is committed to things that work against life, like tobacco
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companies, oil companies, genetically modified food companies? You don’t want to set an absolute no on these. You want to tune in at each new opportunity to see if movement is possible, if there’s any chance to bring what Life wants into these organisations and their contribution to the world. If there is, go for it. If there isn’t, I recommend you walk away, as trying to move potential into play where it doesn’t want to be, is like trying to push water up hill. It will take all your energy and in the end leave you feeling depleted and not having accomplished the movement of potential where it could have moved into play. You see, the potential IS energy and it’s available and waiting for whoever is willing to steward it, partner it and move it into play now. At the level of profound and pure potential, we’re not just working with AN organisation and its potential. We’re working with POTENTIAL and looking to see which organisation and people are willing to be the stewards, champions, leaders for it. This is the key to working from the future for the future. We’re working way beyond ourselves as individual people or organisations and we’re working for what LIFE wants. Alchemical coaches and new business alchemists are agents for LIFE’s movement! We’re standing at the cusp of a new future, one that’s never been before. We can dream into being the most magnificent future now…and live it as a daily, living reality for us all. Working from the future for the future is where the real juice of Life is. Working from the future for the future is working powerfully in the NOW to co-create what really wants to be now.
THE POWER OF POTENTIAL Assuming that you now have the person or organisation’s agreement to steward the energy of potential into play, ask them to step into the energy of the potential. In the case of a person, they can visualise stepping into it or can literally take a step in front of them where the energy should now lie (given they’ve brought it through their high heart to sit in front of them). In the case of an organisation, ask it to breathe its potential through (you can assist with this by pretending to be the sentient presence of the organisation and moving it through) and then have the organisation take on and become the energy. Let the energy fill them up, physically, energetically and in consciousness. Have them allow the energy to flow where it needs to within their energy fields, flowing to where it can be best utilised now. You can’t contain this kind of energy. It’s vast and powerful and it needs to flow openly where it wants and needs to in order to get everything to work in alignment with its true potential. Sometimes the energy of these levels of potential is so huge that it becomes challenging for one person only to bring it on through. In these cases, I recommend that you join the person you’re working with in bringing it on through (after all you’re their partner in this potential moving). But also have them connect in consciousness with any resonant others in the organisation or around the world who share this vision. It might even require a collaboration of organisations to make it so, so don’t hesitate to include those organisations in the stewarding of the energy if that feels right to do. The follow up connectivity and collaborations will then naturally find their way into reality.
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All right, the energy is available, the intention to steward the potential is present and you’re ready to move beyond the consciousness aspect of it, to making it really real now. These next steps are strategic in nature, i.e. how to make it happen. This is where organisational change, transformation, creation and evolution come into play. Personally, I never work with organisational change. It’s like putting bandaids / plasters on a dying elephant. It’s too hard and too slow to make any real difference to true potential. You’ll have to decide for yourself if this is so for you. Change management is a growing field in the business sector, but unfortunately it hardly ever touches true transformation, creation or evolution … and this is where the real power for true change lies. Organisational TransformationLet’s assume that an organisation wants to make a state change (the butterfly to the cocoon). How can we assist it strategically to make this so? If you remember the section on transformation from the Alchemical Coach section, you simply set your intention to a ten for transformation and then look to see who or what the organisation REALLY is. In the case of an organisation, yes it too can take your breath away. It too may be sitting there in disguise, waiting for someone to really see, know and understand what it really is and how to bring its true potential into play. To do this, follow the same steps as seeing who a person really is … on all the levels. Let’s use an example. I recently visited Kartchner Caverns in Arizona, USA. This is a state run park, which takes people on tours into a fabulous underground cavern. I was deeply touched by the commitment of every single person who worked there and by the conscious attention to detail that merited a true stewardship of the Earth. Everything was in alignment with and for the environment. Recycling was very apparent. We were asked not to touch anything inside the cavern out of respect for the living cavern and not wanting to disturb its profound presence for future generations as well today’s. The park’s levels of potential are:
1. Potential ~ to show people a beautiful underground cavern giving them a wonderful educational experience.
2. Greater potential ~ to set a new standard for parks and caverns, so that others
would see the possibility of really caring for the Earth.
3. Profound potential ~ to evoke within every person who comes to see it the awe and magnificence of the Earth itself, the beauty of nature and forces beyond ourselves and to get those people into relationship with the Earth and LIFE itself. Here every person’s move to a breathtaking relationship is affecting the consciousness of the whole.
4. Pure potential ~ to revolutionise our stewardship with and for the Earth and
LIFE; to become conscious, magnificent stewards on a level of honour, respect and care that we haven’t experienced before…and through this to move it into conscious living for all.
As we sat in those caverns, with wonderful volunteers who were our Earth stewards and guides, we breathed in the pure potential of all of us, all around the world, moving
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into a profound and pure relationship with LIFE now. We saw, knew and understood the deep profundity of the Earth and of the forces that guide it. We moved into the space of conscious stewardship and set our intention to partner with LIFE to have everyone get this now. I know this wasn’t just me experiencing the power of this. All of us who went together had tears streaming down our faces as we were moved by the potential that was being held out to us. And we did choose it. We did reach our hands and shake LIFE’s expectant hand. We became the stewards right there in those moments. This is the power of potential … that what you do in each and every moment could alter Life forever for us all. This is where an alchemical coach / business alchemist works. We are the stewards with and for LIFE! In the case of moving potential into strategic play, you then dialogue with the energy of the potential to find out what it wants and needs now. See what ideas will come straight up out of creation to wow and amaze you and take things where they’ve never been taken before. The strategic work is easy. You just keep tuning in to the potential and reaching it out to the various sections of the organisation that you’re working with (sales, marketing, production, distribution, positioning, management, board, customers, employees and more). Allow the energy of the potential to guide you. Try this now either with your own organisation (even if you’re a single person company) or with an organisation that you know is willing to move forward with its potential now. Organisational Creation:Creation is somewhat different than transformation where you look to see who or what the organisation really is. In this case you’re going to work with a clean slate and create, create, create. Let’s say an organisation has completed its potential and is ready for the next steps into potential. But its next step might actually take it in a new direction (e.g. an oil company could move from an oil company to an energy company working to source new energy sources that will support us all and not deplete the Earth’s resources). In cases like these strategic work will need to happen inside of pure creation and outside of what has always been. This is where you really want to move the person or people you’re working with outside the old thinking and into super-creativity.
To do this, have everyone sit in a circle or around a table with as few obstructions as possible between them. Have a flip chart or a white board with someone taking notes, so that the people participating don’t actually have to get distracted from the process by taking notes. Make sure the energy space is clear, bright and light. Ask them to think of something they’re passionate about (the high heart opens), to connect to the potential of what it is they’re working on and to connect to pure creation itself. Then let them fly, creating all manner of ideas, thoughts, names, etc. You can tell when super-creativity is in play. You can’t stop them talking, the ideas roll through so fast you can hardly write them down and everyone is having a ball, talking, laughing and having more fun than they’ve ever had before. Let me show you an example of what I mean. I was working with a wonderful group in Australia to show them super-creativity. We were working on real estate agencies. Someone said “I’ve always thought of starting a company to renovate houses as people want them to be instead of having to move to get the house they want.” We
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were off and rolling for over an hour on ideas around this concept. The whole group came alive and we came up with the name of ‘Relovate’, a home renovation company for people who wanted to re-love their homes. We even suggested this new company build in a two week vacation for the family while the house was being made over so it would all happen with ease and grace for them. Creation is a state of flow. Nothing should be said or done in the creation process to judge, censor or stop in anyway the creative flow. It’s more than just brainstorming or green lighting things. Super-creativity requires a connection to potential and creation and whoosh … all manner of things roll into play that weren’t even on the playground before that moment in time. I highly recommend that you try this with a group you’re working with and get ready for amazing results! Organisational Evolution:Organisational evolution is something that we at SOUL are really familiar with. Because we are always committed to evolving evolution, so our company as an organisation has to also be willing to evolve. When I try to think of other organisations that evolve, Virgin springs to mind. I’m not saying that all of Virgin’s work or potential is necessarily evolutionary. But they do seem quite willing to constantly evolve themselves into the next levels of who they are and what they’re up to for the world. They seem to not only open up new ideas, but to seek those ideas from all they’re involved with. If I think of organisations that are actually FOR evolution, I think of The Evolutionary Institute…a new organisation that I’m currently involved with. Our purpose is to evolve human consciousness through the evolution of coaching, leadership and global learning. Its launch occurred June 2004. This institute is a collaboration of coaches and organisational consultants who are committed to the evolution of LIFE. It’s still in its infancy, but it’s growing more by the day. If you’d like to, feel into The Evolutionary Institute to see what you can discover about the soul of a new, evolutionary organisation. To move an organisation into an evolutionary state, you have to move it into relationship with its pure potential. This is where things really start to move. Once an organisation and its vision holders have agreed to partner with and steward the pure potential, the ride is amazing. In The Evolutionary Institute we’re having a ball creating new curriculum as we travel around the world. Sometimes Zoran is in Japan, I’m visiting Australia, Jane and Ushma are in the UK and Jan is in the US and we hold weekly conference calls to develop the new curriculum for the institute. It’s an amazingly fun experience and so exciting as we collaboratively create brand new courses with the very latest in up-to-date information and ideas. We are breaking new ground despite the fact that we’re scattered all over the world and very busy each one of us in our own lives. We love these calls and can’t wait for them to happen each week. New business alchemists are actually potentialists … people who work with profound and pure potential to move them into reality now. We have fun doing it. If you’re not having fun, if you’re not passionate about it, don’t do it. Once anything becomes a drag, know that the energy has left the vision, project or organisation and be ready to
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celebrate its completion (if that is the purpose of the current energy state) and move on. Evolution is happening so fast now. Where once a global vision could take lifetimes to become a reality, in today’s fast paced and wondrous world, a global vision could be achieved in months. This is especially so if you’re working in consciousness as well as living reality to make it so. Organisations deserve our love, respect, honour and attention. We birthed them on the basis of potential and it’s up to us to partner with them to bring their fullest potential into being. New business alchemists love organisations and the people that make them. We can do no other for it is in our very hearts, spirits and souls to bring this contribution to our world now.
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PART 3
THE ALCHEMICAL LEADER…SOURCING TRUE, AUTHENTIC POWER
NEW LEADERSHIP AND POWER New leadership and power! Now we’re talking about one of my most passionate passions! Old leadership and power are dying. The old ways do not work anymore. New leadership and power are thriving … they’re showing up in real people everywhere, but not necessarily in the traditional world leadership levels … YET. The coaching field has an opportunity to stimulate this magnificent new view of leadership and power, and by doing that, we can shape the future of a new and better world for us all. To begin this third and final section of the Handbook, we have to come to grips with one thing: All the things we’ve ever believed about leadership and power are no longer true! Let’s look at these in some depth so that we can begin with a clean slate for what leadership and power really can be. The old beliefs around leadership and power have been culturally created, developed from a closed energy system in which you can:
• get a ‘big head’, • go into ‘ego’, • feel the burden of leadership all on your own and • misuse power.
This is our general understanding of old paradigm leadership and power. But in an open energy system, these things no longer hold any truth. A person who is open and whole is a person:
• whose energy is expansive and • who lives connected to a vaster intelligence, to others, to potential and to LIFE.
In this new paradigm, big headedness and ego don’t exist, leaderfulness is shared and power is an energy that is self-stewarding (It cannot be misused). In an open energy system we need to be open to discover that all that we know about old leadership and power is a myth, created by mind and limited by mind. Let’s play with both paradigms (old and new) and discover what new leadership and power are really all about. Let’s create our new leadership myths from a place of wholeness and beyond in order to empower and inspire a world that really works for us all.
NEW AND OLD POWER
OLD POWER ~ Take a moment now to feel old power. What does it feel like? Where is it situated in your body? Where does the energy flow from and to? Old power seeks to dominate and control. It is the will of one or several over the many. Energetically, old power tends to push outward from the solar plexus. The source of
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old power appears to be the emotional centre, often using a rush or push of emotion to force it on through. NEW POWER ~ Now take a moment to feel new power. What does it feel like? Where is it situated in relationship to your body? Where does the energy flow from and to? New power seems to centre within and express out into life, dancing with and for the newness of what can be. From within, it has a relationship to rich possibilities and new levels of creational potential. New power is more than just the expression of passion (although that certainly accounts for a good degree of its vitality). New power seems to go beyond our individual passions to connect with the very spark of life, that alchemical moment when possibility is moved into living presence. New power puts us in touch with what wants to be now. With our new relationship to that, we can bring through evolutionary levels of potential and vision. Perhaps the real difference between old and new power is that old power is individually based (it’s what you or they want) while new power is LIFE based (it’s the potential of what LIFE wants and needs now).
NEW AND OLD LEADERSHIP
THE OLD ~ Take a moment now to feel old leadership. What does it feel like? Where is it situated in your body? Where does the energy flow from and to? Old leadership feels a bit heavy doesn’t it? Leadership is something that so many people flee from because in the past it’s been forceful, dominating and controlling. The traditional view of leaders of the past has been hard, cold, lonely, dictating and closed. THE NEW ~ Now feel new leadership. What does it feel like? Where is it situated in your body? Where does the energy flow from and to? New leadership feels exciting, participative, playful and full of LIFE. New leadership is a dance. It’s a relationship to people, potential, passion and power that we’ve never had before. It has no rules or set movements. This dance happens completely in the moment. It’s an effervescent source of delight, bringing waves of exhilaration and fulfilment to everyone and everything it touches. New leadership lives in a new place where:
• Beliefs are ever-changing in the moment to suit and inspire all those involved; • There is no right or wrong and no competition or survival of the fittest; • Achievement is the most fun game there is and • The better everyone plays, the better the potential of the whole is realised.
In this place, what matters is the movement and realisation of potential. Old paradigm leadership and power are pretty much used up these days. Old leadership and power has brought us to a world of war, conflict, egos and irreverence for the Earth and its peoples. If you look at world leadership today (2004), it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to cite true, new world leaders in our political or business domains. There are very, very few of them that inspire, empower and work with and for LIFE.
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But in the new paradigm, there are lots of new leaders who do inspire, empower and work with and for LIFE. Our job as alchemical coaches is to assist others to find their way to true, authentic, inspirational, empowering, new leaderfulness and power. Take a moment to feel old and new leadership and note the distinctions. First, feel old leadership. How do you feel as you stand as an old leader? Where is the source point of leadership for you? Where does your energy move from and to? Next, feel new leadership. How do you feel as you stand as a new leader? Where is the source point of leadership for you? Where does your energy move from and to? For me, with old leadership, I feel smaller, tighter, heavier and more restricted. And in the new sense of leadership, I feel more expanded, open, playful, passionate, connected and alive. What if the access to new leadership and power is energetic? What if leadership isn’t something that you’re either born with or not, but instead is something that lies within each and every one of us just waiting to come out? The following is a new model for leadership and power that I’ve developed over the last few years, based on energetic expansion through the levels of head, heart, spirit, soul, consciousness and creation:
A NEW MODEL FOR LEADERSHIP AND POWER
Expansion Point Potential Leadership Power
Head Potential Closed Forceful ~ your own ~ control and dominate Heart Potential Open Caring ~ individual ~ nurturing, compassionate ~ natural, in the flow Spirit Greater Potential Servant Meaningful
~ higher purpose ~ doing things for others Soul / Whole Profound Potential Wholistic Authentic ~ transformational ~ leaderful, collaborative ~ world-changing Consciousness/ Pure Potential Evolutionary Alchemical Creation ~ evolving life ~ completely creational
Let’s move through the levels and try them on for size. Breathe, relax, expand. Feel what it feels like to lead and / or express power through your head (mind) … then your heart (front and centre). Next your spirit (higher) and then your soul (inner). Finally as you begin to go “Aaahh that feels better. I’m back to wholeness again.”, expand into
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consciousness (which will likely have an outward / upward movement) and into creation (which will likely have an inward / downward movement). If your experience is different than that, don’t worry, everything is in a state of super-flux these days and it’s all moving and dancing in its own evolution. That’s why it’s so important to stay in the moment and follow your own guidance as to what’s right to do and when to do it. What kind of a leader are you? Are you a closed, open, servant, wholistic or evolutionary leader? Where do you see yourself on this framework for the moment? Where do you see some of your coaching clients on this framework? We’re not trying to put you or them into boxes. We want to see where you and they currently live and lead from, in order to best move you and them through to your and their next levels. Remember that the key to alchemical coaching, whether it’s in regards to leadership, power, vision, passion, personal development, growth or anything else, is about getting people to step over that line between spirit and soul / whole, between part of you and all of you, in order to experience the synergy and synchronicity associated with profound and pure potential, and in this case, wholistic and evolutionary leadership and power. But you can’t just say to someone, ‘Step over that line.’ Or ‘Get a bigger vision.’ That’s not what it’s about at all. So how do you move someone from one level of leadership to another? The answers all lie within!
LEADERFULNESS AND YOU Leaderfulness is something you feel inside of you. It’s the place from which you seek and find shared leadership … leaderfulness with and for others. Basically, leaderfulness sources from within. A leader can do some external things that will promote this kind of leaderfulness, but if the inner, essential self is up and running, whole and clear, leaderfulness just naturally follows right along with it. The Inner, Authentic, Essential You
Discovering the inner, authentic, essential you is a simple exercise in which you simply flip the inner you outer: You know that vulnerable, precious, wondrous you that lives inside of you … the one that hardly anybody gets to see? Not the upset, emotional you (around the solar plexus, gut area) … the one that’s really special, the one you keep pretty much to yourself (deep inside) in order to keep it safe and sound. When I ask this question, inevitably, every single person nods his or her head yes. They know exactly the part of them I mean. Breathe that part of you up and out through your high heart and place it in your hands in a safe space in front of you. Take a look at it and see what this inner, precious you looks like. Most people will say it looks like something small and vulnerable (e.g. puppies, birds, mice, a tiny ball of light, etc.).
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Now remember that this part of you may have been in the closet (so to speak) for many years now. So how about giving it a chance to spread it wings, feel the sunlight and experience the freedom to move? Let it go where it wants to go … to play, dance in the ocean, fly in the skies, romp in the garden. Then observe it for a few minutes as it goes off to play. What does it look like now? Most people will say it now looks huge and expansive, powerful and playful (e.g. the puppy has become a dragon, the little bird an eagle, the mouse a moose, the ball of light an exploding cosmic star). I believe that we all lived with and as this inner, essential self when we were kids. Children are naturally delightful, playful and expressive. But someone may have said, “You can’t do that or be that”., so we put that part of ourselves back inside. I doubt there’s hardly anyone over the age of seven, for sure over the age of thirty, who hasn’t experienced this in life. It’s not personal. It’s cultural. It’s the way we’ve been raised in Western culture for sure. But now we can consciously change all that. Now we can live as that delightful, playful, expressive, authentic self again. Another way of saying this is that, in the past, we chose to put our souls in the closet and close ourselves off to one of the most essential parts of ourselves. By doing this simple inner / outer exercise, your soul flips out and wholeness moves right into play. Remember, the soul is the chalice that allows for the integration of head, heart, spirit and soul into wholeness. Take a deep breath and connect with the inner authentic you that’s now out in your energy field. How do you feel now? Do you feel more present? Is your energy more free flowing? This is what happens when the inner core is open. And when the inner core is open, the leaderful you is present.
The Leaderful Core
When a person is closed to themselves (holding that inner, precious self deep within), there’s very little space for the energy of passion and potential to move on through. When a person is open within, an inner core opens that allows all of this energy to flow in vibrant ways. Consider it like this. If you’re trying to bring passion through an inner core that’s no more than a quarter of an inch in diameter, how much passion can come through? But if that inner core was BIG (perhaps even reaching beyond your physical body), wouldn’t you be able to bring a lot more energy (passion, potential, vitality, vision) on through? After having worked with many people in discovering their whole energetic selves, I am now fully convinced that every person has leadership within. Leadership is not something you’re born with. It’s something that lies inside each and every one of us, just waiting to be freed to express itself in each person’s unique and wondrous way. We’ve used the inner/outer exercise to move this leaderfulness into a free flowing space. Now let’s take that inner core another step further. What if, just as on the
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outer vistas of self you move from greater self to vast self (beyond self), you can also move beyond self on the inner levels of self? Beyond the inner, authentic self lies the inner cosmos … another level of the vast you. If you’re ready and it feels right to do this exercise now, take a deep breath and feel inside, beyond yourself, to reach for the inner cosmos … the deep, amazing, infinite possibilities of you. After all, infinity does stretch on forever both on the inner and outer levels. It’s not all just ‘out there’, but ‘in here’ as well. Breathe that part of you, the inner vast you, into your energy fields around you. Open up the inside of you to all possibilities of being, creating and evolving. Allow the energy of this to flow through your high heart and fill the spaces around you. How does that feel? Take a moment to allow it to settle. Make sure to allow yourself to expand on the outer as well, in order to accommodate all of this amazing energetic expansion from within. Breathe, relax, expand. Be present. Open your eyes and look around. Feel your feet comfortably on the ground and then find your balance inside of you. It’s very much like the leaderful core finding its plum mark (as in carpentry). You begin to feel aligned within. You begin to feel a clear, open space within you, and without. This I call the leaderful core. The leaderful core is where:
• You feel aligned within, trued up and clear all the way through; • You discover an authenticity that you may not have experienced before…or
perhaps only occasionally; • You’re in touch with the movement of potential, on all the levels and • You make your new relationship with LIFE as a partner, champion, steward and
leader. A good friend of mine, who’s a business consultant, did the inner / outer exercise with a top CEO with a big breakthrough in accessing and experiencing passion and vision. Two weeks later, the CEO called back saying he had a problem … he couldn’t lie anymore. The leaderful core aligns you to your true self … and beyond … and brings that into living reality. The leaderful core is what creates the space for authenticity, integrity, trueness and more to flow. Wouldn’t it be fascinating to discover that authenticity might be a natural way to be, a way that we’ve trained ourselves out of over time? Let’s redefine authenticity, integrity and trueness and see if in the redefinition, we can discover a new ease of access to all three. Authenticity is about alignment. It’s genuineness with a sense of being real and true to your self. Integrity again may be about alignment. Does what you’re about to do, say, create align with who you are and what feels right inside of you? Perhaps ethics and morality are imposed concepts and integrity is simply a feeling of rightness … and don’t we actually all have that naturally and instinctively BEFORE we talk ourselves out of what we know is right to do?
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Trueness is all about alignment as well. If you’re being true to yourself, it feels right inside of you. There’s a clean, clear flow of energy that shows in your posture, smile, face, voice and presence. So are these three things any different then? Yes, in subtle ways, but generally, all three are the outcome of alignment, of the inner leaderful core coming present into life for people. It’s instinctive. There’s no ‘head stuff’ to it. You don’t have to debate ethics or wonder what’s right to do. With the inner, leaderful core open and aligned, authenticity, integrity and trueness are AUTOMATICALLY and INSTINCTIVELY on offer for every one of us. Let’s test this all out and see if it’s really working. Feel your leaderful core once again now. How does it feel? Ask to feel your most passionate passion. Don’t think it. Simply ask for the energy of it to flow through you. How does that feel compared to having felt this same passion previously? Does it feel any different? Many people find that after the inner/outer exercise and the inner cosmos experience, that passion blasts on through them with an excitement and vitality that they may not have experienced before … or at least not for a very long time. Now having done that, move to the storehouse of creation, deep beyond the soul, and call to you the vision / potential of what wants to be now that matches your passion and abilities. Breathe the energy of that through you and out through the high heart, filling the space around you. Does it feel different this time as opposed to other times when you’ve done this exercise? Can you see that your inner core has expanded to allow much more energy to flow on through? To complete this exercise, ask what the vision / potential is and get into relationship with it. Choose whether or not you are going to work with this energy now, as a steward, partner, champion and leader. If you choose yes, then step into the energy and become it (if that feels right to do). The leaderful core is about creating a space within you to allow the energy that shapes and calls leadership into being to come through you. Perhaps new leadership is simply being a steward, a champion, a partner for potential … and particularly for the potential that LIFE wants now.
Aligning with what LIFE wants
This is a KEY component for leadership coaching. As we move beyond self, we move beyond what you or I want, and even what the world wants, to what LIFE wants. And when we do that, all manner of things move into play for you, the world and ALL. Try this now, again if it feels right for you. Feel your inner alignment. Allow your leaderful core to expand. Envision your most passionate passion and most powerful vision. Allow the energy of this to flow through you and beyond you. Now ask yourself this: Are you doing this for you? For others? For the world? For LIFE? What if you were doing it with and for LIFE? Would that change it in any way? Are you able, in regards to this particular vision, to partner with and for LIFE to make it
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happen? If this feels right for you now, feel your partnership with LIFE regarding the vision. Energetically, how does that feel? Now let’s look at a step beyond that even. What if everything you did was with and for LIFE? I’m not saying that it has to be. It’s perfectly ok, even brilliant, to do things for yourself, for others and for the world. But I have discovered that in the surrendering of self, in the move beyond self to a complete and utter partnership with and for LIFE, that your own life takes on a whole different meaning and context. Everything moves in ways that were unconceivable before this moment of partnership.
Synergy & Synchronicity Profound potential Soul / whole The World What the world wants Pure potential ALL’ness / LIFE LIFE What LIFE wants _________________________________________________________________
I believe that at this point you move beyond the you you know (on any level) and become a new source-creator for LIFE. This is a deeply profound experience, although it doesn’t have to be held or spoken about in that context. We’re talking here about moving people, leaders in particular, to a new way of being … a way that’s visionary, evolutionary, inspirational and more! I’m not suggesting that you should take every person you coach to this point, or that you should necessarily move to this place yourself. I’m simply offering it as a powerful and viable option for LIFE that is filled with miraculous, amazing, powerful, vital, vibrant visions, passions, relationships, opportunities, possibilities, potentials and more! If you want your leadership to operate in a really new paradigm, then line yourself up with LIFE! If this is something that you want to do, set your intention to align with LIFE now. How does that feel? Where are your energetic connections made? What’s different after you’ve completed this link? For me, my partnership with LIFE seems to exist both deep within, in the inner cosmoses of creation as well as far, far out there, in the vast expanses of consciousness. It’s as if I shake hands with LIFE and ALL of me expands into so much more than I have ever felt before. I become the vast cosmoses walking. I am all potential flowing. I am alive, vital and ready to make whatever LIFE wants to happen next to come on through. It’s an amazing experience, one that I highly recommend you take on for yourself … but again, only if that feels absoulutely right for
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you. Never do anything because someone else suggests it … only if you KNOW that it’s the right thing for you.
TRUE, AUTHENTIC POWER
True, authentic power comes from this new, expansive place within. That’s what makes it so unique and aligned. For me, it’s a new relationship with LIFE and, as long as I’m aligned with this, all that I need is given to me (abundance, opportunities, resources and more). But also for me, one of the most important things about new leadership and power is the DELIVERY of it. It’s here that new leaders are clearly recognised as different from all others of their kind. I wrote this several years ago in an article called Evoking the Corporate Soul: “Soul is the birthing place of our deepest passions and our most profound visions. It is our access point to creation. Without soul, life is passionless and creationless. People of soul are the inspirational leaders, the deepest thinkers, the empowering speakers. They dig deep for what really matters in life and when they deliver what matters from the place of soul, it is a breathtaking experience for all who are involved. These are the people you would follow to the ends of the Earth because they stir your soul into action for something far greater than what any individual alone can achieve. THIS is the leadership required to re-create our world today.”
Speaking (or writing) for what wants to be said
When you’re in your true, authentic power (aligned with the leaderful core and with what wants to be), there’s a vibration, a timbre, a resonance in the voice that:
• Stirs and evokes the soul and wholeness in others, • Calls others into the game of passion and vision and • Creates the alchemical movement for transformation, creation and evolution
right in the moment of speaking. New leaders speak inspirationally, powerfully, vibrantly, dynamically and visionarily. It comes automatically. You don’t have to plan what to say … in fact I highly recommend that you begin to live in the moment when delivering speeches, workshops, etc. This is where the real power of potential moves into play. If you come into a workshop or a conference ready with your speech and you go with that, you may miss the most amazing opportunity for a HUGE breakthrough for ALL now. When new leaders speak, LIFE MOVES! Recently I attended three conferences and as I watched others’ presentations, I found that mostly people were just talking. They were passionate and even inspirational to some degree, but in none of these cases did Life move while they spoke! For me, the sign of a truly alchemical leader is the movement of LIFE that is created when they speak, write and play! So how do you move LIFE when you speak and write?
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First, let’s see what it’s like to speak while your inner core is closed. So, close up your inner core. That’s right! Block the flow of energy coming through you. I can block the inner core by compressing my rib cage and pulling in my energy in my solar plexus area. Do it in whatever way feels the best for you. Now, from this closed space, start speaking about something that you care deeply about. Listen to your voice as you speak. How do you sound? Would you say you’re speaking from a genuine, authentic place or a powerful, vibrant place? Now release that hold on the inner you. Allow the inner core to be open and flowing once again. Breathe, relax, expand … inner and outer. Think about anything you’re passionate about. Allow that high heart to swing open, allowing the leaderful core to be present, flowing the energy on through. Now, start speaking again about this same passion. How does your voice sound now? Try this either with a tape recorder or with another person present and get some feedback on how it sounds and feels. What you should discover is that there is something in the voice that’s present with the inner core open, that’s not present when the inner core is closed. It is energetic, but it’s also more than that. For me, when I’m closed, it’s more like a flat, dull, nothingness as opposed to a full, zinging, vital all’ness when I’m open. Now let’s try it with writing. Put your fingers on the keyboard of your computer or put a pen to paper. Feel yourself expand both inner and outer. Connect with what LIFE wants to say now and allow yourself to type / write. If you prefer to do this with speech, feel free. Just start talking and see what comes out of your mouth. Believe me, it will amaze you. I often stand up to talk at workshops and conferences and am absoulutely amazed at what comes out of my mouth. It’s this ability to connect beyond self, to connect with what LIFE wants to say, that allows us to really play in true alchemical leadership. There’s something in the energetics of speaking for LIFE that gifts movement in incredible, unprecedented ways. I often get standing ovations when I speak, but more than that, people come up to me and tell me that their lives are dramatically changed from listening to what I’ve just said. I know that it’s more than just the words. It’s an energetic connection for them and me. We’ve moved into new levels of ourselves while the speaking is going on. Imagine that … alchemically moving an audience into new levels of themselves WHILE you speak! In order to do this, you must be in relationship with what wants to be and bring the energy of that present into the room. You must also be in relationship with what the audience wants, what the true potential of the moment is and then interweave that with what LIFE wants and whoosh, you’re delivering an incredible alchemical talk that moves LIFE powerfully. The inner, leaderful core IS the access to true, authentic power. And true, authentic power IS the relationship to the maximum potential of each moment. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could transform the whole of the working world by simply getting them to breathe, relax and open the inner, authentic core before they speak? And what if every person in the business world was operating with their fullest leaderful core open and intact? Can it really be this simple? I believe it is and my
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experience with all the people I work with leads me to know this is so. But don’t just take my word for it. Try it out for yourself and with your clients. Discover the amazing sense of clarity, knowing and trueness that comes with the opening of the inner, leaderful core. Discover the vibrant, passionate empowerment that flows out of you when you move beyond what you and they want to discover what LIFE wants now. For me, this is Life in the alchemical r-Evolution lanes!
COACHING LEADERSHIP AND POWER
Sourcing Leaderfulness in Others The key to coaching leadership and power in and for others is to translate everything that happens to a person, everything they think, do and experience as a leadership breakthrough. Now I know that you might think that a bit odd and perhaps not necessarily the truth for that person. But just for a moment, consider the possibilities of it. Perhaps the evolution of our species will come from the true recognition of who another is … and when you really see who someone is, guess what, you see their particular brand of leadership and power! Each one is unique and different to be sure, but leadership and power it is, without a shadow of a doubt. Some people will lead from their armchairs or gardens, breathing the true power of LIFE on through them as they work. Others will lead from the podium or as the heads of organisations. It doesn’t matter how it gets expressed…once you get who you really are, the expression of that into Life is about new leadership and power. Why would you, as a coach, want to coach from this viewpoint? Because if you translate everything into leadership and power, the person and the whole (all of us) will evolve faster and more graciously than before! In the alchemical coach section of the handbook, we talked about coaching for the evolution of human consciousness, about how framing each one-on-one session AS and FOR the whole of humanity would move things on much more powerfully, individually, collectively and beyond! It’s the same for leaderfulness and power. If you frame each one-on-one or small group interaction as being done within and for the whole, then every person you evolve into their wholest, purest, most passionate and deliberate leaderfulness and power strengthens the evolutionary team and the reality that we are co-creating! When I coach, teach or work with others in any way, I am always looking to add to and evolve the evolutionary team. You don’t have to have this same goal. That just happens to be my particular passion. You might want to look at, as a coach, what is your passionate commitment to coaching, to others and to the world! Then begin to coach within this more expanded energetic state. You will very likely discover that suddenly those others you’re working with are completely there, aligned, committed and ready to dance for LIFE! While you’re at this, take a look at your own view of leadership and power. I see way too many coaches and consultants saying “I don’t like the word leadership. It infers
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power over.” And with that, they push away the true energy of new leadership and power. Yes, you might say that instead they’re recognising that the old doesn’t work anymore … true! But at the same time, if you feel into the energy of those words, they’re also pushing away what leadership can be. They’re walking away from it, trying to discover something that will replace it that doesn’t contain the essence of what it really is. Leadership IS leadership! Leaderfulness is simply leadership expanded to each and every person all at the same time. Don’t be afraid of the word or be concerned about coaching it in others. Take a stand for yourself (set your intention in a strong, clear way) to be a leader, to coach leaderfulness in others and to unfold and discover the true power of leadership in a powerful relationship with LIFE! Once you’ve done this, I can promise you you’ll see a difference in your coaching AND a huge difference in the results achieved by those you’re coaching! When I’m working with another, the first thing I do is to see who they really are. To do this, I stand back and see their energy in all its levels, states and forms. Remember we worked on this in the alchemical coach section of the handbook. Once I see who they are, I know that the energy they present to me is NEVER the totality of who they are. Human beings are trained to be humble, small, considerate, etc. and their presentation of their energy will almost always be less than it really is. So I take a leadership stance with the engagement of each and every person I do this with. Once I see who they’re willing to allow me to see, then I say (either telepathically or out loud to them) ‘I want more. Give me more of YOU.’ And then their energy starts to move, bringing more and more of them really present in the here and now. This is my way of sourcing leaderfulness and power in others. It’s simple and it works. It’s all about seeing who they really are, beyond who they think or even know they are! There is energy available for us all to become. We can be more than we actually already are or ever have been! I used to call this energy the ‘MORE’ energy. It meant that once you’d achieved a certain level of yourself, then you could always ask for, and receive, MORE! I found that that MORE was hardly ever personal…it was WHAT WANTED TO HAPPEN NOW and I or another simply stuck up our hands and said yes to what is was that wanted to come on through. With this as a belief, any person can become a true, amazing, powerful leader for us ALL. And in the framework of this coaching consciousness, then every person can move, in grace, into more and more of what is really called for and wanted now. Once you’ve gotten another to really get who they are and to become even MORE of that (in relationship with what wants to happen now and in a new and powerful relationship with LIFE), your next step is to have them believe it and live it. There is almost always a period of developing sustainability between when a person gets who they are and when they can live that sustainably in their lives. You, and they, shouldn’t expect to get it and then whoosh, suddenly everything is there and cooking on full fire! That is possible, but generally I find that the energy of MORE, the actuality of WHAT WANTS TO HAPPEN, requires some integration time. It might take from three days to three months, but as long as the person can hold onto the view of
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themselves as a unique and powerful leader for ALL, then LIFE will return the favour and put all manner of opportunities in their laps! The timeframe for this integration and realisation of potential is radically changing, even as I type. Manifestation used to take months and even years to achieve a life goal. That’s why they were called life goals … because it often took a lifetime to achieve them. But today, you can think of something and whoosh, there it is right in front of you, with no effort at all. My husband and I call this MagicALLity. It’s where you and LIFE are aligned with what wants to be now for the very greatest and most profound good of ALL and a new sense of realisation kicks into play. Show your clients how to connect with LIFE and how to work with what wants to come through them now. Have them super-connect with the living intelligence that’s in the very air around us and have them discover themselves as leaderful potentialists, ready to bring on through whatever LIFE is ready for now! It’s an amazing paradigm shift from the old paradigm of leadership and power. Try it, play with it and see what incredible results come rushing to you and your clients as you play!
Assisting Others in Finding Their True Power To assist another in finding their true power:
1. Get who they really are and share this with them.
2. Have them experience themselves as this on an energetic level. They must be willing to accept that that is who they are, so if they’re not willing to accept it just yet, then work with the thoughts and beliefs that are in the way of that acceptance.
3. Show them how to super-connect with LIFE, with what wants to be now and
with the vast living intelligence. Encourage them to begin to live sustainably in this state more and more every day.
4. Have them energetically access their most passionate passion and then have
them get in touch with the purest potential of what wants to be now that’s ready and willing to come through them now.
5. Ask them to experience BEING that energy. They don’t just bring the energy
on through, they partner with it and agree to be its steward, champion and leader for as long as it needs them to be … and lately that’s not taking very long as potential is moving faster and faster into living reality! Have them step into the energy and BECOME it walking! From this space, everything they say and do from this point forward will be leaderful and powerful, all in the name of what wants to be now!
6. Show them how to recognise the thoughts that might come up on a daily basis
that would keep them from living as this. Ask them to be vigilant for this potential or vision to change, transform and evolve in every moment of every day!
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7. Teach them how to expand their energy fields and keep the flow of energy moving on through. Open up the leaderful core within them and allow them to discover being the mega-core through which potential flows.
8. Finally, ask them if they’d like to be a part of the evolutionary team. You might
have a different word for it … perhaps it’s the global transformation team or LIFE’s team or something like that. Make it your own words and the words that will sing for them! Help them to make a conscious declaration of how they intend to live, work and play for what wants to happen now! It’s in this that LIFE and POTENTIAL really move into play. This is them agreeing to become a source of new power with and for LIFE! From here, everything is a grace-filled, delightful game.
EVOLVING LEADERSHIP AND POWER What? There’s more? There sure is! So far what we’ve been working on is getting you and others to live leaderfully and powerfully with and for LIFE! It’s likely that getting to this point alone will take care of the evolution of leadership and power. But I find that evolving anything is actually a collective experience as opposed to an individual experience. Yes, one person intending it and living it into reality can make it so. But it’s a completely different experience when a collective takes it on in their uniquely-oriented, collaborative way! All the books and courses I’ve ever written, all the very best writings and speeches I’ve ever done, are all done within the new collective conscioUSness. It is here, in the step beyond self, that you truly discover the wondroUSness of what can be. It is here that you step into the alchemists playground and begin to weave the evolution of ALL! I’m not asking you to just go along with evolution as it normally would have been. I’m asking you to seize the reins of true power and to dance the alchemical dance of who and what we can be, beyond that which any of us can even possibly dream! We can evolve evolution! We can take deliberate and unprecedented leaps in our intelligence, our being and our creations! We can be trustworthy to know what to do and to make that happen with grace and wonder for ALL. Evolve leadership and power! We can do that and more, but we do it not just from our individual actions and intentions, but from the collective conscioUSness of ALL. Tune in. Feel right now if leadership and power wants to evolve beyond where it is at this moment time. If you can feel the potential movement (evolution) of this, then feel yourself connect with all those all around this world and beyond who hold a resonance with this alchemical potential. From that place of deep connectedness and as a whole, breathe the potential up and through and place it on the playground of alchemical conscioUSness. Allow it to take root and seed itself there. Then let it flow on through into full conscious living reality, on offer to anyone and everyone who would want to partner with it now! If you don’t feel anything, then perhaps this isn’t the moment for that evolution, so you simply smile and move on to whatever it is that does want to happen today!
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I and others have surrendered our lives to the evolution of evolution … and we’re having a ball doing it! We’ve moved beyond self, beyond making this a better world, to the full and conscioUS evolution of ALL that can be! This is a life worth living, a life that is full and rich with friends, vitality, aliveness, excitement and adventure! It’s at this point that we’re going to complete our journey into alchemical coaching. I hope that you’ve found it exciting and worthwhile, beyond your wildest dreams of what it, you and we could be! Remember to have fun with it always, to stay in the now, expanding into the potential of ALL that can be! It’s an honour and a privilege to dance this dance with you and to be a part of bringing coaching to its next level of contribution to the world. From goals and balance to the rich, playful seeding of potential … now that’s what I call ALCHEMICAL COACHING FOR LIFE!
