Tag: inner work

A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Sunlight streaming through the rainforest on Vancouver Island creates an angel of light.

Happy holidays as we say bye to 2024, and meet what is arising in 2025. This fall was a time of focus, preparing two new additions for SHIFT-IT School. I’m happy to announce them now! New in-person processing events, and a new Home Study Kit with my inspiring colleague, Anneke Lucas … with a Level… Read more »


HOLIDAY GIFT: Mini Visual Coaching Retreat

free annual gift of visual coaching with christina merkley's specialized maps

Happy Holidays! It’s tradition this time of year to gift my Mini SHIFT-IT Retreat. Like a virtual stocking stuffer … Visual Coaching Retreats can happen at any time. However, there are transitional times in our lives that deep reflection can be particularly useful. Like at the close of one year and the beginning of another, on… Read more »


SHIFT-IT SCHOOL – Upcoming Events

SHIFT-IT School courses banner shows Christina Merkley working with a group on a Zoom screen as she draws a visual map on the drawing tablet. Backdrop of her abstract art with turquoise, reds and creams.

GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE! Play Santa or have someone play Santa for you! The gift of personal and professional development. Email the team at admin@shift-it-coach.com DROP-IN SATSANGS | Online: Non-Dual Processing First and third Sunday of the month (both now at 10am). Next Gatherings: #80: January 5, 2025, 10:00 am – Noon, Pacific Time, convert to your zone #81:… Read more »


GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: DAN DOHERTY

These grad spotlights can be from across the world, however, this one is from my own home town, Victoria BC Canada! Dan and I have known each other for over a decade. First meeting as fellow trainers and facilitators using the same downtown meeting/training facility. He first took my Visual Skills Bundle to improve his… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Banner image for A Note From Christina section of the eZine shows the title against a sprig of impossibly bright red small berries.

Another month has flown, as our world unfolds during hyper-novel times. Nestled in beauty, I continue to have the honor of helping all sorts of people see and navigate their current situations … be they happy, optimistic, sad, mad, pessimistic, scared, mourning, or another place on the emotional scale.   The variety of processing continues… Read more »


GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: HERMEKA RAY

Visual Coach Spotlight on Hermeka Ray. Hermeka smiles out at the camera. A woman of color with long hair and a geometric sweater in taupe and black agains a geometric wood grain background.

MY LEARNING JOURNEY TAUGHT ME TO SHIFT FROM THE PROVERBIAL “DOING” TO “BEING”. A POWERFUL CATALYST THAT HAS FOREVER SHAPED A PROMISING FUTURE FOR ME AND MY CLIENTS. The work of a coach is all about change and the ability to draw a clarified vision, values, and insights – painting a purposeful picture filled with… Read more »


NOVEMBER’S PARALLEL PROCESSING

Christina Merkley with free visual coaching session with Hannah YouTube Cover has both of them smiling at the camera against a backdrop of Hannah's visual map: The Dial is in Your Hands

Recorded Individual Session [Non-Dual Inquiry] The Dial is in Your Hands – Hannah with Christina Merkley Summary: Exploratory Chat (first 42 minutes): Hannah is a budding visual practitioner. Admiring the unique range of my career, she asks various questions, to which I give answers. Non-Dual Self Inquiry: (jump to Self Inquiry) I draw out Hannah’s own… Read more »


SHIFT-IT SCHOOL – Upcoming Events

SHIFT-IT School courses banner shows Christina Merkley working with a group on a Zoom screen as she draws a visual map on the drawing tablet. Backdrop of her abstract art with turquoise, reds and creams.

Upcoming events for 2024/2025: DROP-IN SATSANGS | Online: Non-Dual Processing Now twice a month! First and third Sunday of the month. Next Gatherings: #77: Nov. 17, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Pacific Time, convert to your zone #78: Dec. 1, 2024, 10:00 am – Noon, Pacific Time, convert to your zone Details and Registration P.S. New In-Person Satsangs… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Beautiful sunset over the straits from Saltspring Island in British Columbia

My monthly communique as to what’s happening with me and SHIFT-IT School … for October 2024. Here in the Pacific Northwest, it is a ping pong of balmy sun and misty rain. Very pleasant compared to the intensity that some of my clients and colleagues have weathered on the East Coast. Ongoing prayers to those… Read more »


GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: CARLA YETTER

Graduate Spotlight Banner shows Visual Coach Carla Yetter smiling at the camera in a lilac shirt against the backdrop of her visual map: Imagine Where We Could Go!

All sorts of folks find their way to Visual Coach Certification. Some of the bravest are those in conventional environments looking for a different, deeper, more creative way of working. When Carla travelled in person to one of my Magic Marker Masterminds, she’d already discovered the visual way of working and was courageously applying it… Read more »