Audio Version: Click Player to Stream or Right Click on Link to Download. For full Audio Library of Past Messages, Click Here Working visually in Process Work with groups and individuals is growing rapidly. Having been a practitioner for over 20 years (a teacher for 15 of those years) I often encounter people who are… Read more »
Category: Visual Coaching
The Riches of Satisfaction Interrupted
Business and Life Coaching are offerings in my suite of services. I work mostly with Process Professionals (either internal within organizations and/or with external solo practices) and also progressive business owners and managers of various sorts. And I use a whole range of left-brain and right-brain approaches with my clients. Having coached for the last… Read more »
Visual Coaching Tools: 3 Examples Plus Other Goodies
I’m in the midst of offering the spring online version of Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals. In this, my flagship visual skills program, I teach the four main ways of working visually, in an interactive way, with groups and individuals. The four ways of working visually are: Studio Work, Graphic Recording, Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Coaching/Counseling (fyi,… Read more »
Christina Merkley: My Right Brain Journey
A few posts ago I shared my left-brain journey. Now I’m going to share my right-brain journey. Not as a narcissistic exercise or true confessions but rather to hopefully be of help and service. To give equal attention and merit to the right-brain sides of us, which often gets short shrift or even derogatory treatment… Read more »
Christina Merkley’s Bio: My Left Brain Story
I’m in the midst of evolving my website and offerings again to keep pace with my continued evolution. What I really want to do is write and share my ‘right brain story’ — as exciting developments have occurred these last few years (like kundalini awakening!). However, in order to do that, I’m being guided to… Read more »
Aaron Johannes: Certified Visual Coach Congratulations
It’s my pleasure to welcome Aaron Johannes from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to the ranks of Certified Visual Coach®. Aaron is a lifelong learner and teacher, specializing in curriculum development for adults — specifically for people with disabilities and those who support and care for people with intellectual disabilities as family members or staff. He… Read more »
The Equal Value of the Right Brain
Writing a post on the left and right brain has been brewing within me for a while. More particularly, I’ve been gathering speed for an impassioned holler for equal respect for the right brain as well as the value of integration between BOTH sides of the brain – taking a decidedly HOLISTIC approach. Holistic Process… Read more »
Learn Visual Thinking Skills: Hope and Fears of New Participants
“Excited. Love This Work! Going For It With Conviction Feels Scary! Ready to Take It To The Next Level. Scared Yet I Want to Feel Confident” Those are some of the conflicting phrases expressed by participants as we kicked off the spring online version of Fundamentals of Interactive-Visuals this week (my course that teaches the… Read more »
Visual Coaching Templates: Pros & Cons to Native and Foreign Language Use
As per usual, we have a great cohort in SHIFT-IT Online (online coaching group using my Visual Maps to aid professional and personal shifts). I run this program twice a year and it’s also a pre-requisite for Visual Coach Certification (for coaches, therapists and other helping professionals to work visually with their own clients and… Read more »
[Balance to My Digital World] The Many Moods of Victoria’s Shoreline
It has snuck up on me these last years — working virtually with my SHIFT-IT clients and those I mentor in visual skills. I do occasionally travel and some clients do travel to me here in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia Canada … however, the majority of my work nowadays involves working with folks from around… Read more »