Tag: orphan rescue

SARAH SHIFTS SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

Posted on June 15, 2020 by

Sarah came of age in a racist family and community. To survive she hide her queer/gay self and became an angry bully…

SPIRIT FAMILY GUIDES LOLA’S ELDER YEARS

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – 2020 #17] Lola is a retired Canadian social worker. The pandemic honed her awareness about vulnerability, loneliness, sibling jealousy and her role as an elder. What started as a Future Self journey morphed into a mediumistic dialogue with deceased parents and grandparents. Who offered perspective on repetitive generational patterns… Read more »

ORPHANS: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & VIETNAM

Posted on June 3, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – 2020 #16]. This was a complex Orphan Rescue session with a retired, female, liberal, boomer, American woman. The present day triggers ranged from riots, masks, social distancing, beaches, lung issues and the euthanasia of her sick pet. And led to inner child and inner adolescent rescues from the Civil… Read more »

ISABEL SEES THEM FIGHT

Posted on April 24, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #10]. Isabel’s side hussle in Graphic Facilitation was finally starting to pop … then Covid hit. Now she’s stuck with office dynamics that leave her livid yet strangely teary and silent. What’s up? Through Orphan Rescue we discover deep roots in the domestic violence of her adolescence… Read more »

CREATIVITY SACRIFICED AT 9

Posted on April 20, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #8]. Like many of us Joan has a love/hate relationship with the pandemic lockdown. We found it through her expansion-constriction polarity. Then we discovered a very important Orphan. Her 9 year old self who valiantly (and tragically) sacrificed her creativity (and other fun kid stuff) to fulfill… Read more »

FLIP IT: OUTER VS INNER PRODUCTIVITY

Posted on April 17, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #6]. Dorothy’s partner (visual skills student of mine) referred her. So glad she did as I personally found this session extraordinary given the spiritual/soul perspective on leadership, identity, status, aging and mobility issues. Poignant example of struggle between what our personality values versus what our soul does.… Read more »

FLIP IT: TRIBAL VOICES

Posted on April 16, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #5]. Valerie opens with a list of pandemic related triggers, so I select the FLIP IT Good process as the approach. Watch her list out her ‘tribal thoughts’ and then get her Future Self’s help on the flips. Along the way a few Orphan Rescues and Ancestral… Read more »

ORPHAN RESCUE: CRIB AND LETTER

Posted on April 8, 2020 by

[Visual Coaching with Christina Merkley – COVID Pandemic #1]. Orphan Rescue – use present day triggers to find and integrate earlier stress and trauma. Volunteer triggered by responsibility for household members during shelter in place. Rescue located two Orphans (0-5 and 26). Young Orphan – siblings with special needs and early deaths. Psychopomp assistance (death… Read more »

INNER WORK: RESCUE YOUR ORPHANS

Posted on April 7, 2020 by

Hosted a fourth online Processing Pop on April 2, 2020 to provide mental and emotional support using my Visual Coaching processes and tools. Online Process Group – COVID (April 2, 2020 – Visual Coaching). How to consciously use present day charges and triggers to uncover and integrate unconscious trauma from earlier in your life, your… Read more »

The Joys and Challenges of Group Dynamics

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Download MP3 Back in the day when I studied Organizational Development, we learned a model of development for teams called The Tuckman Model. And its something I’ve come back to again and again… Read more »