Category: Visual Coaching and Events

Visual Coaching – Upcoming SHIFT-IT Retreat

How are you doing during these unique times?! You shifting ok?! No small feat, with the continued intensity happening. I’m writing to point out that one of my online SHIFT-IT Visual Coaching Retreats is around the corner – which offers a supportive community for figuring out your next moves. SHIFT-IT Retreats are useful for Newcomers… Read more »


Gathering Now: Private Visual Satang

A new Private Visual Satsang is right around the corner. Satsang means “community of true people”. It’s a small private cohort dedicated to deep Inner Work, during this time in our lives and in the world. Visual, because if you know me, pretty much everything I do has a visual component. As sketching our thoughts… Read more »


Shifting the Power – We Start in a Few Days

Shifting the Power banner with Christina Merkley and Anneke Lucas

I’m back with Anneke Lucas for a summertime offering of our online course, Shifting the Power. As per usual, we are attracting attendees from across the globe, particularly Europe given Anneke’s tragic childhood in that continent. Our themes of power, and courageously facing and integrating authoritarian and narcissistic abuse, are timely. Doing our deep inner… Read more »


In-Person Visual Coaching Training

Hello, this summer I’m finally back to in-person trainings – yay! While I love the efficiency of online work, nothing beats the tactile pleasure of paper, markers and other physical supplies! This 3-Day workshop is the Fundamentals of Visual Coaching. All the ins and outs of how to work visually with individuals, partners and groups.… Read more »


Visual Coaching – Upcoming SHIFT-IT Retreat

How are you doing during these changing times?! You shifting ok?! No small feat, with the continued intensity happening. I’m writing to remind you that one of my SHIFT-IT Visual Coaching Retreats is forming – which offers an aware community for thoughtful processing. SHIFT-IT Retreats are useful for Newcomers (who come for the first time)… Read more »


Nurture Your Journey – Fall Programs Starting Soon

upcoming courses at SHIFT-IT Coach with Christina Merkley: 3 individual course graphics of Christina working at her tablet for Visual Satsangs, Shifting the Power and Fundamentals of Visual Coaching

The Fall semester has started in SHIFT-IT School, and I have a powerful season ahead of me. Each of these upcoming courses, in its own unique way, brings needed support during these shifting times. 1. Shifting the Power with Anneke Lucas Dates: 10 Thursdays, October 12 – December 14, 2023 Time: 11:00-12:30 pm Pacific Time… Read more »


Visual Coaching – Upcoming SHIFT-IT Retreat

How are you doing during these changing times?! Hanging in there?! No small miracle, with the continued intensity coming at us from so many angles. My coaching practice is currently a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ to quote some good ol’ Dickens … “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it… Read more »


Deep Inner Work Via Shifting the Power

Shifting the Power banner with Christina Merkley and Anneke Lucas

We’re delighted to report that the launch of our new course, Shifting the Power, is going very well! We begin on Thursday, February 16 and have 40+ registered so far. Click for Full Details and Registration My co-host Anneke Lucas is originally from Belgium. She and her story are known in Europe. As such we… Read more »


Shifting the Power with Anneke Lucas

Shifting the Power banner with Christina Merkley and Anneke Lucas

I’ve been coaching for a long time, almost half my life. When I first started, I was doing a lot of corporate Strategic Planning, so my coaching was pretty Left Brained (logical, rational and linear). However, as I experimented with visuals, took tons of varied training, and worked with more and more people … I… Read more »


Visual Coaching – Join Fall’s SHIFT-IT Retreat

SHIFT-IT Online retreat dates printed over a desk full of visual maps

How are you doing during these intense times?! Still hanging in there?! No small miracle, with the intensity coming at us from so many angles. My coaching practice is currently a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ to quote some good ol’ Dickens … “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it… Read more »