Category: Misc.

THE IMPORTANCE OF A SAFE HAVEN FOR YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF

Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Download MP3 As I end a busy season and prepare for the next one, and sit down to write this eZine … my mind wanders over the terrain of the last while. The people… Read more »


A Note From Christina

JJ the Yorkie

I hope you are having a lovely summer (if it’s the warm season where you live). And that your creative and authentic self is shining – whether you express it with markers or not. I’m about to take off for a much-needed vacation with my honey Darius and his two wonderful kids … part of… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Had a blast hosting the in-person version of Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals here in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Twenty-one wonderful organizational leaders, consultants, facilitators, academics, coaches and budding scribes from across North America (and Mary all the way from Australia!). We had three jam-packed days with our visual tribe … learning the four main ways of… Read more »


In Your Words

"FOLKS WERE FASCINATED WITH THE VISUAL RECORDINGS!" “Thank you Christina for Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals! Not only did I get some amazing new skills but you also took me deeper in my personal journey …I have another community now too! I’ve just returned from a Quality Academy for healthcare professionals that we teach – a 6-month… Read more »


How to Handle Visual Skeptics

  Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Download MP3 Lately I’ve been experiencing some similar conversations … chats with my students, mentees and interested bystanders about how to persuade authority figures who are skeptical about the visual way of… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Spring has sprung. The early cherry trees have burst into bloom … this morning as I walked back from the gym it was like walking through petal snow … so many of them blowing through the morning breeze.  At the gym I’m incorporating a medical movement specialist into my workouts. Turns out that my SHIFT from working… Read more »


In Your Words

Thomas Pfister

"VISUAL COACHING – A PERFECT ADDITION TO MY BUSINESS" “I came across Christina Merkley’s name in 2008 at different training sessions at The Grove Consultants in San Francisco. I was attracted by Christina’s very well elaborated three-step program for VVisual Coach Certification. As a visual addicted individual I was driven to participate. The mix of… Read more »


A Note From Christina

Things are going really great these last few weeks. Really hitting our stride in this season’s programs. SHIFT-IT Online wrapped up after its 7 week run … wonderfully supportive cohort with members with a high degree of personal awareness and ability to be vulnerable and share. A real pleasure. This week we kicked off the… Read more »


In Your Words

“VERY SATISFIED WITH VISUAL COACH CERTIFICATION® AND THE RESULTS WE CREATED” “I am really grateful to Christina and I really appreciate her and Visual Coach Certification®. I learned a lot and many things changed around me. We got gorgeous videos and a fabulous toolkit; we were taught how to properly employ The SHIFT-IT Visual Coaching… Read more »


How to Successfully Launch a Graphic Facilitation Career or Hobby

Basic Icons & Wall work

Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click HereDownload MP3 I’ve been in the Interactive-Visuals field for going on two decades now … and the field just gets richer, deeper and more known every year. It’s truly an exciting time to enter into… Read more »