Where Tech is Headed for Process Professionals and Humanity

Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Download MP3 For the sake of this article I’m going to out myself age-wise … I’m a Gen Xer born in 1968, so that makes me 48. My generation is the last straddle… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

I am having such a different-for-me year so far! As those of you who have been following my escapades know, I’ve had to vacate my usual work/live studio since September, due to construction right next door … which has entered the oh-so-lovely blasting stage. Online coaching and training and loud construction noises do not go… Read more »


IN YOUR WORDS: CONGRATS TO NEWLY MINTED VISUAL COACH LISA DYMOND

CANADIAN SPEECH PATHOLOGIST ADDS VISUAL COACHING TO HER TOOLKIT TO ASSIST CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND FAMILIES. “Before Visual Coach Certification, I was drawing and printing on table-tops covered with big sheets of newsprint. I would sit with my clients and record elements essential to our session (e.g., goals, strategies, characters from their ‘story’ that day). With… Read more »


Visual Coaching: Coach Does, Client Does … Or Both!

Visual Coaching

NEW ARTICLE: ANALYSIS OF VISUAL COACHING. Been pioneering the way with Visual Coaching for 2 decades now. The use of interactive visuals to help individuals, couples, partners and small groups think/feel and make important personal and professional shifts. Read my thoughts about ‘coach doing’ versus ‘client doing’ the visual record. And what my favorite way is. Lots of photos of work being done under different conditions.


A Note From Christina

The SHIFT-IT Coach and Process Skills Mentor

I’m just about to get really busy, as the spring semester (my longest semester for SHIFT-IT School) is about to fully kick in … Classes Already in Play: Practical Energy Work is completing from the fall, just a few more sessions left.  Spring SHIFT-IT Online is up and running with 3 out of 7 webinars… Read more »


In Your Words: Organizational Development Consultant Melinda Collins Gives Thumbs Up On Our Graphic Facilitation Training

A NEW WORLD OF TOOLS TO USE IN PRESENTING INFORMATION AND FACILITATING PROCESSES HAS OPENED UP. “Fundamentals of Working Visually delivers both the basics of working visually as well as the larger context of expanding these skills into more complex process work. Christina guided us through well paced material that she presented in an incremental… Read more »


Inspiring Examples of Deep Inner Work

Christina Merkley

NEW SHIFT-IT ARTICLE: INSPIRING EXAMPLES OF DEEP INNER WORK. The Only Way Out Is Through The Processing Of Our Deep Emotions Not Through Projection, Denial or Avoidance. See Three Inspiring Examples of Deep Inner Work. From a Woman Who’s Scared of Trump. Between a Wrongly Convicted Man And the Crooked Cop Who Was Responsible. And, Between a Rapist and The Woman Who’s Trust He Violated. If They Can Do It So Can We. Time to Do Our Inner Work!


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

The SHIFT-IT Coach and Process Skills Mentor

Welcome to 2017 … I always love this time of year when we let go of the old and step into a brand new canvass so to speak. Well, it’s probably not going to be a boring year, we’ll give it that, haha! So much is happening in the world that is bubbling to the… Read more »


IN YOUR WORDS: Graphic Facilitation Training: Susana Guardado Attracts a Fast Return on Her Investment

NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES HAVE OPENED UP DUE TO MY NEWLY ACQUIRED SKILLSET. THE INVESTMENT WAS COMPLETELY WORTH IT “Thank you Christina for your spirit of sharing with the Fundamentals of Working Visually. You have a wealth of knowledge and experience. Your approach to teaching gave me permission to try something new and tap into my… Read more »


Our Shift From Type 0 to Type 1 Civilization Status

Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here This issue of the SHIFT-IT eZine I’m sharing some thoughts and resources on a REALLY BIG SHIFT — the shift of our civilization from Type 0 status to Type 1 status.  A massive… Read more »