Christina Merkley, M.A.
The SHIFT-IT Graphic Coach

Drawing Out Your Best Thinking

As a graphic coach, Christina Merkley helps individuals, couples and business partners reach deep within themselves to define and get what they really want.

Christina is the creator of The SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process™: a visual, template-based process that helps you accurately SEE and create your past, present and desired future --- making the shift between who you currently are to who you next want to become.

Her work juxtaposes her childhood love of doodling and drawing with a fascinating background in personal and organizational development.

Christina obtained a masters degree in Organizational Development & Transformation at the California Institute of Integral Studies, renowned for its holistic orientation.

Now with well over 700+ meetings and 400+ coaching engagements behind her, Christina began her career as a graphic recorder and facilitator with The Grove Consultants International (boutique San Francisco firm that pioneered the field of graphic facilitation), where she honed her skills in strategic planning and visioning working for such notable clients as Hewlett Packard, eBay, Stanford University, The Institute for the Future and The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Having lived and worked in San Francisco for over eight years, she created her own graphic facilitation practice in 2001 under the Make Your Mark, LLC banner (see www.makemark.com), eventually moving herself and that company to her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia Canada. She founded her second company, SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc in 2006.

Christina is a Co-Active Coach through The Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California and a Master Hypnotist with The Alchemy Institute. Other transformational and personal development trainings she has experienced include Money and You with Maria Nemeth & Associates, the Hoffman Quadrinity Process and the Holosync/Life Principles Integration Process. She is also a strong advocate of The Law of Attraction concepts conveyed in the work of Abraham-Hicks, Joe Vitale, Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill and Bill Harris (to name a few of her strongest influences).

A skilled trainer, Christina also regularly teaches the skills of graphic facilitation, graphic recording, and graphic coaching to other consulting, facilitation and coaching professionals who are intrigued with these rare, creative and strategic skills.

Her SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process™ is offered in face-to-face and virtual settings, as well as online via a full suite of self coach tools at www.shift-it-coach.com.

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