How to Shift From Consulting to Coaching

Visual Coaching, with Christina Merkley

I attract a lot of other Process Professionals in my work. Some want to add visual skills to their toolkits or enhance the ones they already have. Others seek help in building their practices. Others want to shift their personal or spiritual lives. In this interesting mix I also encounter professionals who do process work… Read more »


What Are the Odds?

Ok, which one  of you planted this for me to find?! I’m strolling along yesterday afternoon down at JJ’s favorite off-leash beach … and plunk myself down on a log to soak up the delicious sun. When a rock perched further along the log catches my eye. What’s that … it has something written on… Read more »


[Calgary Visual Practitioners] Using Visuals For Problem Solving Workshop

Passing this along from two of our Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals grads … who are in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and are organizing a Visual Meet Up group of other practitioners interested in getting together for sharing, fun and collaboration: “Calgary Visual Practitioners is an informal meet-up group designed to connect professionals who have a keen interest… Read more »


Integration of Summer Travels

I had a REALLY good summer ‘vacation’. Quotes around the word vacation, cause a lot of it was still work related but thankfully I have the kind of work that fits in with my natural preferences so it doesn’t feel like ‘work-work’. It feels like curiosity, exploration, research, fascination and adventure … it feels FUN!… Read more »




ORPHAN RESCUES FOR SELF-EMPLOYMENT

I had a Distance Session client earlier this week … a follow-up with a woman who took my Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals course last season. She’s doing phenomenal … weaving the visual way of working into her current work and also strategizing a 6-month transition plan to launch into an independent practice. In the course of… Read more »


Certified Visual Coach Ayn Hanna’s Autobiographical Badge Project

I’m very fortunate as the nature of my work and life contains many, many blessings. One of the most pleasurable is being connected to awesome Process Professionals from across the globe. Talented, smart, kind and big-hearted people creating their own remarkable livelihoods and making our world a better place in the process. Today, I was… Read more »


Belleruth Naparstek’s View: Time for a Rant On Robin Williams, Bipolar Illness & Our Need for Simple Answers

I was on the road when a friend texted me about Robin Williams suicide. The note was followed by several unhappy face emoticons 🙁 🙁 🙁  … which is a good summation for how this impacted pop culture. The news cut through our world and brought a vibration of sadness, concern and shock.   For… Read more »


A Note From Christina

I’m technically on vacation (even though I’m holed up in the lovely Palm Desert Public Library writing this Zine until I can check into my latest hotel on my road trip). I just spent a week in the California Desert of the Mojave Preserve … right near the spectacular Joshua Tree National Park. It’s the… Read more »