Last week twenty wonderful people joined me here in Victoria, B.c. for my last offering of my popular graphic recording and faciliation training series. They traveled from all over to attend - Nova Scotia, Alberta, Texas, Illinois, Washington D.C., Tennassee, Brazil, Netherlands, etc.

For four days we covered the use of interactive graphics in group settings, including:

• How to create prepared charts to use during your meetings (agendas, process maps, posters, etc.)

• What materials to use (markers, tape, wall size paper, etc.) and where to get them

• Color choices and how to use markers to get definition to your lines and shapes

• Basic drawing techniques for beginner and advanced icon libraries

• Clear distinctions between graphic recording and graphic facilitation… and demos and practice drills for each method

• What templates are… whats on the market and how to create your own for your own unique processes

• Marketing and business development practices (how to explain the benefits of this way of marketing to clients - in terms they will understand)

• Contracting, fees, and other tricks and tips on the business side of things

• Plus more, more and more

The Meeting Graphics 101 & Graphics Bootcamp participants
November 2008.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of our workshop participants and mentees over the last decade. It has been a pleasure and delight to share my knowledge of meeting graphics with you and see the unique and varied ways you apply these skills into your own practice and share them in the world. Yes we can!!!

Many people at this last workshop asked me if I was sad to be ending my trainings in graphic recording and graphic facilitation skills - and I could honestly answer that I wasn’t at all. I feel complete in this chapter of my journey knowing I’ve done my part to instill these valuable group skills live through others.

Christina guiding the participants through their graphic work.

I’m now ready (and chomping at the bit) to get going on my new phase of development - turning my FULL attention to my passion work… applying the wonderful interactive graphic skills to the medium of coaching personal growth and self-actualization.

In 2009, I will be unveiling a new workshop “Graphics for Coaches” and SHIFT-IT licensing and certification program. Giving other coaches, counselors and helping professionals what they have been asking about for years. I’m so excited about what is coming! It’s now time to empower other healing professionals in how to use graphics with their own clientèle and populations.

Announcements about these new offerings will be made in The SHIFT-IT ezine - so stay tuned if you are interested. I anticipate my first “Graphics for Coaches” workshop will be held in Victoria in the April / May 09 time period. The Nov 28th ezine will contain the registration details including a hefty “early bird” discount (I anticipate, due to the pent up demand, that this first offering will sell out quickly as is the usual pattern for my workshops) - so reserve your space quickly to claim a spot. As per usual, various payment plans will be offered.

All of the best to my graphic recording and graphic facilitation mentees - I look forward to continuing to hear of your adventures and accomplishments. And for those “graphic coaches” who will be joining me on my next stage of things - I anticipate our meeting and collaborations with pleasure!

Christina Merkley
The SHIFT-IT Coach

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As I backed my car out of the garage, focusing on the mirror that was close to the wall … I heard a sickening crunch on the other side of the car.

In my haste to get to the airport and my focus on the mirror side, I had left my driver’s side door wide open … and driven it right into the doorway … Crap!

No damage to the garage entrance thankfully - but I did a real number on my car window. It wouldn’t close properly … a good five-inch gap. No way could I leave it parked at the airport in rainy November weather like that. So, I re-parked it in the garage and called a cab.

My cab arrived in minutes and after commiserating, the friendly cabbie said the most Law of Attraction-based statement to me. “Oh well, you never know why things happen … could be a good reason why that occurred.” I laughed at that and said he was “absolutely right”. I’d been cranky about what I had just done, calling myself “stupid” and “an idiot” in my mind. And, wondering what I had done LOA-wise to cause such a thing. It could have been far worse. And who knows, perhaps I was being protected in some way by not driving my car at that time.

As we drove … I began to get a sense of why it was important for me to be in this cab with this particular driver. “Oscar” began to tell me the most inspiring story. Even though it was pouring rain, he was happily complimenting our city on its virtues. Telling me how much he loved living in Victoria and being self-employed with his cab.

He explained that he had just moved to Victoria a few years before from Vancouver. Before that, he had been in Toronto and before that, Rome. And before that he had been in Saudi Arabia … then, many different locations in Africa. After fleeing his original homeland of Ethiopia as a young man. He had spent many years in assisted refugee camps and moved slowly through the relocation process … meeting his wife in the process. Over their moves, they became parents to four children … in their early teens now.

Oscar went on to tell me how he had sent his children to Ethiopia for their vacation this past summer. That it was important to him that his children see where he came from and understand the contrast for themselves. It was still too dangerous for himself to return but his wife did — and his mother got to meet her grandchildren for the first time. He said he was pleased with the perspective his children came back with.

Wow, suddenly I was looking out at the rainy landscape with a new appreciation and happiness. Oscar explained the sense of freedom and safety that we all take for granted. No night curfews where you are shot on the spot if an emergency drives you out of your home at night. He admits that sometimes he gets frustrated at people in his cab who complain about small things (hmmm … like a busted car window, I thought to myself).

Everything is relative isn’t it? Sometimes having tough things happen can carry wonderful benefits — like a life long appreciation that you are no longer in those circumstances. Appreciation is of the highest vibrational tones. When we appreciate, life opens up for us. Like attracts like.

He dropped me off at the airport, early I might add (the time had flown.. I was so entranced with his story, his positive attitude … and the lift in my own vibration).

Sometimes all it takes is a bit of perspective to lift one’s mood — and alter our personal energy and outlook. Our focus and what we choose to put attention on is so key. We can see rain, hectic morning and crunched windows, or we can see freedom, liberty to pursue an entrepreneurial path, and a safe environment. I thank Oscar for helping me see and appreciate the latter — which is always around me if I choose to see it.

Here are a few Oscar-inspired questions for yourself:

(1) What can you be thankful for in the now?

(2) What challenging situation have you overcome and triumphed from?

(3) How has your present improved, prospered and developed well beyond where you used to be?

(4) How is life evolving through you, your family, and your children (if you have them) compared to your ancestors?

(5) What irritation, inconvenience or problem can be put into proper perspective… when you contemplate all that you do have?

Look for for the Oscars on your path … maybe you can be one for someone else too. A little reminder of just how good things are, right under our every day noses.

© 2008 Christina L. Merkley

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Early New Year: Private Graphic-Recording & Graphic Facilitation Training:  There is nothing like face-to-face, custom mentoring to catapult your skills, confidence and direction.  I’ve trained up and coming graphic recorders and very seasoned facilitators wanting to add graphics to their toolkit for over a decade - to rave reviews.  However, all things must eventually end.  If you want to be personally mentored in these highly effective, crowd-pleasing and lu-crative skills, you must ACT FAST.  This GR/GF option will disappear off my site FOREVER in December.  Contact info@shift-it-coach.com to schedule design session and determine dates (fall schedule is full, scheduling now into 2009 … you must contact us before I take the web page off in December, after that its too late).  Click here for More Info.

Jan. 5 – Feb. 23: (100 Level): The SHIFT-IT Virtual Coaching Group:  What’s the IT(s) you want to SHIFT?  Get crackin’ with our winter offering of this powerful 7-week group coaching experience. Precisely clarify your Personal Vision and Action Plan.  Identify and bust through your self-sabotage, perceived barriers and negative mindset. Get moving on the next chapter of your life’s journey!  Conducted via webinar technology with like-minded and supportive participants from around the globe.  Includes SHIFT-IT Home Retreat Kit (dis-count if you already have it!).  More Info Act Fast to Secure Early Bird Pric-ing!

April / May: “Graphics for Coaches” Workshop. My first ever fundamental skills training on “graphic coaching” - using visuals in coaching, counselling and personal growth settings. Coming Soon!

Mid-2009: SHIFT-IT® Training and Certification Program. Be empowered to use my SHIFT-IT Process® with your own clientele. In-depth training and individual licenses. Coming Soon!

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I’m sitting in the Victoria airport … about to fly down to L.A. to attend an internet marketing conference (Ali Brown’s “last ever” online success blueprint workshop).

Ali’s been a great resource and guide for me for many years - so I’m looking forward to learning more from her … and seeing many friends, colleagues and clients who will also be attending.

I had my own “last ever” event last week - hosted my final Meeting Graphics 101 and The Graphics Bootcamp. A wonderful, diverse, international group keen to learn all they could about graphic recording and graphic facilitation (the group applications of the visual way of working). Thank you folks for coming - we had an awesome, productive time, eh?! And … a good cocktail party too!

The participants of our “last ever” Meeting Graphics 101 & Graphics Bootcamp

Many asked if I was sad at doing my last one - but I can honestly say that I wasn’t. I feel complete - it was my goal to “train out” my unique group facilitation knowledge so I can focus exclusively on the coaching / self-actualization side of my interests. And now, that time has come.

We have some great plans for 2009 - including a new “Graphics for Coaches” workshop, a SHIFT-IT training / individual license program and a SHIFT-IT Coach Certification. These programs have been years in the making - an answer to those helping professionals (coaches, therapists, consultants, etc.) who have wanted to learn my unique visual approach to coaching and personal visioning / planning work. I’m now finally ready to share my secrets with others - so SHIFT-IT work can expand and assist globally. It’s time to move it beyond just my solo practice, so more people can benefit and SHIFT!!

There is a huge shift in consciousness occurring on the planet … and I feel called to do my small part in helping that shift occur. So, I look forward to collaborating with you as a client and / or colleague as our future unfolds.

“Yes We Can!”

Christina Merkley,
The SHIFT-IT Coach

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Just had my 4th private session with “Theo”… the non-physical intelligence (12 archangels) that Sheila Gillette has been channelling since a near death experience in 1969.  http://www.asktheo.com

Sheila is the woman that Esther Hicks (of Abraham-Hicks fame… the Law of Attraction teachings by Abraham) credits with guiding her on how to open to Abraham’s connection.

I’ve written about my experiences with Sheila and Theo before: click here for previous blog post.

As the American election nears, and I’m helping myself and my clients seek relief from the pressure and worries that many of us sometimes feel (so much change and dramatic events happening)… I decided to do a private session with Theo to ask questions and gain some larger perspective on our current times.

When asked about the election, ‘economic crisis’ and the seemingly ‘amped up’ energy I and others are feeling, here is how Theo answered:

“Its not only for the United States that this is occurring, its globally.  We have spoken this many years past… that the year 2012 being a culmination of this ‘evolution’ if you will.  A transformation, the 5th dimensional energy fully in place allows for a global economic structure to be put in place… global economy, global governmental position much like the United Nations, but more powerful.  And the leaders of the countries changing dramatically so that there can be dialogue and agreements globally in the best interests of human kind.  Do you see?

—

The man, Barack Obama will be the leader of this country, that will be a forerunner for others and he comes by the desire of the people, not the political structure and the old paradigm. 

—

Many will feel relief, not only because of the election, and there then will be the movement forward, the decision will have been made.  Do you understand?  But relief that it is over.  There is an exhaustion energetically for people at this point.  For the energy of activation has been intense.  And this election is only the outward manifestation of what is happening within all internal processes for human beings.

This energy began in the end of the 1960s… 1969 particularly was a catalyst energetically.  And this has been coming to fruition over these 40 years time. 

—

You have chosen to be incarnate in these times of grand change to be a participant as well as a facilitator to bring about this inner soul integrative position.

—

There is an acceleration, for all beings are being effected energetically as they are beginning to ask.  And those who are not are leaving the embodiment.  There are windows of opportunity of transitioning that are occurring. There are those that are eventually overwhelmed. 

—

You are an empath.  When you listen to the television, radio, information… they are promoting fear.  It is difficult to not engage with the mass fear… the picture is not as it seems.  It is a correction, a change that is extremely necessary that will be better.  And those losses that are being spoken about are only paper and temporary.  They are not actual losses unless there is a knee jerk reaction emotionally by people. 

—

People react out of fear, which is the wrong reaction.  Because again, as we stated, tomorrow it will be different.  And it will be better because the global economic structures that will be put in place make it easier for human beings throughout the world connectively, with their economics.  It’s all connected. 

—

It will happen.  It is the time we have been speaking about, and have spoken about for 40 years.“

From private session, 9am PST, Saturday, Nov. 1st

Sheila has a new book coming out, in hard cover, in January, called “The Soul Truth: A Guide for Inner Peace”.

We have a tentative agreement to do some sort of live tele-seminar together… where I can introduce Sheila and Theo to my e-zine list.  So watch The SHIFT-IT e-Zine or this blog for emerging details.

I’m so excited!  I’d like to use an operated assisted conference call, where you will be able to ask your questions directly to Theo in an organized queue.  Will be a fascinating dialogue for us SHIFTers!

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MAKES SENSE EVEN FOR LEFT-BRAINED TYPES LIKE ME

“Christina knows how to translate her program into ideas that make sense even for left-brained types like me. She offers a rare combination of business sense, a keen understanding of the human psyche, and a positive energy that just draws people into her orbit and makes them want to stay there.”

Cathy Goodwin, PhD, Copywriter and Internet Marketer
Seattle, WA, www.copy-cat-copwriting.com

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This events calendar was originally run in the SHIFT-IT Ezine.  Subscribe by clicking here.

Nov. 5-8: Meeting Graphics 101 and The Graphic Bootcamp (level 1 and level 2 combo): Yes, its true. This is the LAST EVER offering of my popular, inspiring and nurturing training in using interactive-graphics in group settings.  Learn the base underlying skills for graphic recording and graphic facilitation, no matter what level of artistic ability. Plus all the inside scoop on marketing, business development and personal mindset … for both internal and external consultants, facilitators, trainers, etc.  Let my over 14+ years experience live on thru you!  More Info  Sold Out… Huge Waitlist

Early New Year: Private Graphic-Recording & Graphic Facilitation Training:  There is nothing like face-to-face, custom mentoring to catapult your skills, confidence and direction.  I’ve trained up and coming graphic recorders and very seasoned facilitators wanting to add graphics to their toolkit for over a decade - to rave reviews.  However, all things must eventually end.  If you want to be personally mentored in these highly effective, crowd-pleasing and lu-crative skills, you must ACT FAST.  This GR/GF option will disappear off my site FOREVER in December.  Contact info@shift-it-coach.com to schedule design session and determine dates (fall schedule is full, scheduling now into 2009 … you must contact us before I take the web page off in December, after that its too late).  Click here for More Info.

Jan. 5 – Feb. 23: (100 Level): The SHIFT-IT Virtual Coaching Group:  What’s the IT(s) you want to SHIFT?  Get crackin’ with our winter offering of this powerful 7-week group coaching experience. Precisely clarify your Personal Vision and Action Plan.  Identify and bust through your self-sabotage, perceived barriers and negative mindset. Get moving on the next chapter of your life’s journey!  Conducted via webinar technology with like-minded and supportive participants from around the globe.  Includes SHIFT-IT Home Retreat Kit (dis-count if you already have it!).  More Info

This Note from Christina was originally published in The SHIFT-IT Ezine. You can subscribe for free by clicking here.

Really great couple of weeks – continuing to train out my knowledge in graphic recording and graphic facilitation as my self-imposed deadline of December 31st nears.

I love these unusual skills of working visually with groups (they so are powerfully effective in meetings, retreats and conferences), but I only have one life to live and other passions are calling. Soooo, I’m training like crazy this fall to get these rare skills out of me and into inspired and motivated people.

Barrie Levinson from Portland, OR and Marlene Thicke from Ottawa, Ont. were here earlier (was awesome meeting and working with you ladies!) and today Sara Heppner-Waldston from Montreal, QB visits.

I’m also doing A LOT of my own SHIFT-IT work — keeping my vibe in a good place and organizing my team for our next adventures. With my new local assistant on board, we’ve turned Sunday afternoons into a special Visioning / Law of Attraction time … so in this issue’s article I’m sharing what we do to keep our aim clear and our energy positive — developing an organizational culture based on Law of Attraction principles.

Enjoy!

See you next issue!

Christina Merkley,
The SHIFT-IT Coach

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As a Law of Attraction practitioner I’m doing my conscious best to bring this philosophy and way of being into my business and into its organizational culture - to walk my talk. To not only coach others in how to use these powerful principles in their work and life but to build a congruent business and working environment that practices what it preaches.

I was inspired by stories I had heard about Rhonda Byrne and her team (the creators of the hit movie The Secret) who had supposedly applied Law of Attraction principles throughout all the stages of their wildly successful project.

I don’t know if the stories I heard were true or not, but it would certainly be in integrity of them to do that, and it would help explain their massive success. There had to have been a heck of a lot of visioning, aligned energy and actions in order for them to have the impact they did. Regardless of what you might personally think about the movie (some love it, some loathe it), you’ve got to appreciate their impressive accomplishment. And I aim to integrate Law of Attraction principles into my business just as thoroughly.

I’ve been using Law of Attraction principles myself for the last seven years or so. They are woven into the fabric of my SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Processâ and even more so in the Merkley Manifestation Mastermind and my private coaching with clients. As my practice has grown from a one-person operation to a small company, I’m integrating these spiritual principles into our internal business practices. Using LOA techniques in our quarterly planning forums and in weekly meetings.

To give you an example of what this actually looks like, below is the exact process that my new local assistant and I go through each Sunday afternoon (or as close to the beginning of the week that we can). It’s a series of four spiritual based exercises – designed to clear our energies, reset our intentions and send precise instructions out to ‘the universe’ about what feels best to us. By doing this each week, we hone our thoughts and feelings and become slightly different people with slightly new areas that we have reached into. That is how things continue to evolve so well for us.

So, here’s our four part weekly process:

1: Randomly Select a Page Out of “Opening Doors Within”:

My new local assistant is a little shy, so she doesn’t want me to share her name yet. She’s been a long-term client of mine who first met me when I came into her organization and led them through a strategic planning retreat. Since then she’s done practically every SHIFT-IT retreat, product and experience that I’ve offered, on her own. She’s a very spiritual and tapped in woman and has had some wonderful adventures. One of which was living at the Findhorn Foundation, the spiritual community in Scotland, for a time.

She introduced me to a beautiful little book, called “Opening Doors Within” by one of the co-founders of Findhorn, the remarkable channel Eileen Caddy. The book has one page for each day of the year in it. You can read it logically, one day at a time as you go through your year. Or, you can use it like a deck of cards and randomly flip open a page to see the guidance that it contains. We do the latter. We set our focus, ask for a page to come up with something that we specifically need to receive at that time … then read it. Remarkably there is always beautiful wisdom in the page that we turned to that speaks directly to what is going on for us at that moment.

I’ve just done this right now, for the purposes of including a page for this article, and this is the page and message that came up (so I guess we are all supposed to read this!):

See that you have an aim, a goal in life. Never be satisfied to drift through life like a ship without a rudder, being blown about by every wind of change; for without a definite aim, you will get nowhere. You must know where you are going and what you are doing. Far too many souls are willing to let themselves drift through life with the result that they accomplish nothing very constructive. Find inner peace and certainty, and without any stress or strain follow the path that you know is yours. Do what you know you must do because it is something which has been revealed to you from within, not from without. Always know from within that what you are doing is right; then you can go right ahead and sweep all obstacles aside with real strength and conviction. Know that I AM your compass, I AM your guide, and I will lead you to your goal, no matter how difficult the path may appear to be. Opening Doors Within, received by Eileen Caddy, Findhorn Press, randomly opened to June 20 page

2. Do a Verbal Round of “Positive Aspects”:

After receiving guidance from Eileen’s beautiful work (she passed in 2006 at the age of 89), we next turn to several Abraham-Hicks processes (my favorite source for Law of Attraction information), the first of which is a process called Positive Aspects. We verbally speak out the positive things that have occurred for us personally and for the business in the last week – alternating back and forth between the two of us. This warms up our energy and vibe, as we actively start focusing on positives … cause there are always plenty when you take the time to selectively sift them out. And it feels so good to notice them and speak about them (you get a real warm and fuzzy hum going in your chest – that is positive vibration!).

I’ve written a previous e-zine issue about this process and included one of my graphic maps to help you do it. Click here to access that issue.

3. Do a Verbal Round of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice If”:

Close on the heels of doing Positive Aspects, we do another Abraham process called ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…‘ (this activity is included in the 22 processes at the back of Jerry and Esther Hicks’ wonderful book called Ask and It Is Given).

Basically you just complete the sentence, starting with the words ‘wouldn’t it be nice if’. This gives us clues about what the other person likes and wants… and hearing each other’s thoughts helps us think of even more things that we would like to be, do or have (we piggy back off of each other). The beauty of this exercise is that you aren’t committing to anything. You are just playing a ‘wouldn’t it be nice’ game. By taking the pressure off you are able to come closer to some ideas that you might not otherwise be able to if you hit them face on. It tricks you away from some of your regular resistance.

4. Create and Express a “Virtual Reality”

The cherry on top is a final exercise called “Virtual Reality”. This is just pure, good visioning. The best visioning exercises are when you talk about your desired future like it has already occurred. Like you are standing in that now. Therefore you use present tense language and speak like you are already your Future Self.

Here’s a little example, to help you get your head around this (it’s a little virtual reality about me and SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc’s emerging future):

I am the head of a progressive, successful and fun self-actualization company. We are a university of sorts, with several levels of excellent curriculum and courses. We have wonderful products and services with a distinctive look and feel that assist people in manifesting their greatest selves. Our clients are interesting, progressive, fun loving, creative individuals, with a lot of heart, who are part of the global shift in consciousness that is rapidly occurring. We have a small, close, uber effective team with well-organized and effective systems using modern technologies. We have a fantastic network of associates, partners and collaborators whom we are proud to be associated with. We have created a beautiful existence with meaningful work; great relationships and a spiritual purpose that continues to unfold before us and are a model and inspiration for others to do the same, in their own unique ways.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, yummy, that feels good. The trick with virtual realities is to keep poking around and wording things so that you get the best feeling you possibly can. If you reach for something and it feels too large (and your resistance kicks in) then ratchet it down a tad until you can comfortably hold it. Over time, the more you do them, the more naturally feeling your virtual realities will become – until they start manifesting all around you!

I hope this article gives you some ideas about how to start institutionalizing Law of Attraction and other spiritual processes into your own life and business. I invite you to move from the realm of ‘concepts’ and ‘intellectualism’ with LOA and actually start doing practical things with it, like these exercises. I’ve found that the results are quite astounding and I wish you all the best in running your own energies and reaching alignment on what you most desire.

© 2008 Christina L. Merkley

WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE? You can, as long as you include this blurb with it:

Christina Merkley, “The SHIFT-IT Coach” and creator of the SHIFT-IT Method® is a Visioning and Strategic Planning Expert specializing in Graphic Facilitation and Law of Attraction techniques. Based in charming Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, she works deeply with individuals, partners and groups in defining and getting what they really, really want. For more information visit: www.shift-it-coach.com

I have my friend and graphics mentee Erik Hanson, of The Kindness Crew… to thank for pointing us to this fun Ted Conference video from graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister.

He takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy—and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.

Interesting from a visual / design aspect and also from a Law of Attraction perspective… notice all his references to the importance of feeling good, the role of humour and also, aesthetics.

Thanks Erik for sending in.

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