A Note from Christina: July 2008

Wow, it’s July, can you believe it?! It’s a little hard for me to believe, cause I have a big birthday coming up in a few weeks… amazing to me how quickly I got here!

Lots of changes going on here at SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc. Going through an ‘adult-ization’ of the business if you will –– adding more assistants, updating my price structures, automating and creating new systems, etc. Something about turning the big 4-0 that galvanizes things. Feels like it’s the time to up the ante and we are! I’m excited about some big things coming up.

In order to grow consciously, I’ve decided to intentionally prune some services and offerings that aren’t in line with my Vision anymore (I just can’t keep doing everything… as I’ve in essence been running two businesses for the last several years).

As such, I have decided to officially end my mentoring and training in the skills of graphic recording and graphic facilitation by December 31, 2008.

In order to be remain sustainable and walk my talk of a balanced, calm lifestyle, something has to go – and after 14+ years of doing and then training these fantastic group facilitation skills, its time to move on, so I can devote my full-time focus to SHIFT-IT Coach and the graphic coaching side of my business (which is growing in leaps and bounds).

Sooooo, if you have always wanted to come for one of my well run, fun and very, very effective trainings in visual facilitation skills for group settings… and thought ‘some day I’ll do that’… well, your someday is now or never (I’d clone myself if I could but alas that’s not possible).

The final public workshop series of Meeting Graphics 101 and The Graphic Bootcamp is in November, and it’s already close to sold out. Or, you can claim your spot for one of the few remaining opportunities for private trainings for 1-3 people with me in my Victoria, BC studio – some dates still left between now and December.

In honor of this segue that I’m personally going through, this month’s article is “How to Know When to Go”. Oh, and by the way… as part of my ‘business adult-ization’ process I’ll be bumping the delivery of The SHIFT-IT e-Zine up to twice a month… so you’ll see a shorter format version two Fridays from now.

Enjoy! See you next month,

Christina Merkley,
The SHIFT-IT Coach