Category: Misc.


[SHIFT-IT Online] Happily Create Your Next Phase in Work and/or Life

Ready to define and create what you want next?! Right around the corner is SHIFT-IT Online — my supportive 7-Week online course that provides expert life coaching, visual tools, structure and community with like-minded and hearted people from across the globe. Offered only twice a year this powerful online experience defines and ignites your 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 »


[Learn Visual Process Skills] Early Bird Ends at Midnight …

Add the power of working visually to your own process toolkit! These skills are also referred to as Graphic Facilitation, Visual Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Scribing, etc. Join fellow consultants, facilitators, trainers, coaches, speakers, therapists, managers and other Process Professionals from around the globe in this leading-edge training. FINAL REMINDER: EARLY BIRD ENDS TONIGHT! Just a… Read more »


[SHIFT-IT School] Add “Working Visually” To Your Process Toolkit

Learn Visual Faciitation Skills

Just an FYI, that the next Online Version of our internationally acclaimed Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals workshop starts October 6th (the Early Bird registration ends this upcoming Monday, Sept. 8th). Interactive-Visuals” is the umbrella term I use to sum up the four main ways of working visually with groups and individuals: Studio Work Graphic Recording Graphic… 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 »


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 »


WHY I ATTENDED CONTACT IN THE DESERT

Contact in the Desert is a conference dedicated to the wide-ranging fields connected to what is popularly known as UFOs. It was held (for the 2nd time) in Joshua Tree, California, U.S.A on August 8-11, 2014. And I attended, along with 2000 others from around the world. Why? Well, for a lot of reasons …… Read more »