Life continues to be busy in a great way. Current Visual Skills Class: The 9-week online version of Fundamentals of Working Visually is winding down … they have now experienced all four ways of working visually and have learned about documentation methods. The final weeks we discuss the business development, brand/identity and marketing sides of… Read more »
I’M ON A MISSION TO WEAVE THIS VISUAL, CREATIVE, HAPPY WAY OF BEING INTO THE REALM OF SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND INTO MY LIFE OVERALL. I’M TRULY GRATEFUL. THANK YOU, CHRISTINA! “When I found Christina’s work I was already aware of Graphic Recording and beginning to weave it into my work as a Speech Language… Read more »
Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here I’m sure there are other moments earlier in my life, but the defining moment I remember about the power of sound came during an excruciating workshop in 2008. I was in Las Vegas… Read more »
Spring has sprung here in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Being a dog owner I have to be outside several times a day regardless of weather. We had an extremely mild winter this year so it wasn’t that bad in the scheme of things. But nonetheless I sure LOVE IT when spring comes and the… Read more »
SINCE THE TRAININGS I’VE CRAFTED OVER A DOZEN GRAPHIC CHARTS FOR USE IN MY CLASSROOM, OTHER FACULTY MEMBER’S CLASSROOMS, THROUGHOUT MY DEPARTMENT, IN COMMUNITY MEETINGS, IN TEACHER TRAINING, IN EDUCATION COUNCIL MEETINGS, AND EVEN IN A COLLEGE WIDE PRESENTATION TO OVER 500 PEOPLE! “Last year I participated in Christina Merkley’s 3-day in-person Fundamentals of Working… Read more »
Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here If you are new to me, hello I’m Christina Merkley. I’m a seasoned Visual Practitioner and teacher of various process skills including Studio Work, Graphic Recording, Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Coaching (which are… Read more »
The spring season is continuing to truck along nicely. SHIFT-IT Online’s current cohort is awesome — tons of deep inner work being done with the Visual Maps with clarity and physical manifestations popping up already! They are just moving into the final stages of SHIFT-IT … moving from energy alignment into finalizing their action plans.… Read more »
Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Born in ’68 I’m a Gen X’er. Sometimes I find myself wishing I was a Millennial … oh, to be so fluid with technology having grown up a “digital native”. But then I… Read more »
Some of my coaching clients are solopreneurs and small businesses. And some of them contemplate using a newsletter (aka eZine) like I do to keep in touch. I always gently warn them about the realities of this medium. If you are going to employ it, you gotta publish on a regular, reliable basis. And that… Read more »
MY MIND WAS BLOWN. INSTANTLY, GRAPHIC RECORDING AND FACILITATION MOVED TO THE FOREFRONT OF MY BUSINESS AND I HAVEN’T STOPPED DOING SINCE. “I had been an admirer of Christina’s work for many years and was immediately drawn to it. Yet I constantly rejected the idea that I could learn to do such a thing as… Read more »
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