SHIFT-IT SCHOOL – 2023/2024 CALENDAR

visual coaching live class photo with Christina Merkley

ONLINE COACHING AND PROCESSING: Private Sessions One-to-one with Christina Merkley via Zoom. Public Visual Satsang – Free 3rd Sunday of each month. Times vary. Next Gathering: Sunday, December 17, 2023 1:00 – 3:00 pm Pacific Time, convert to your zone SHIFT-IT: Online Visual Coaching Retreat  Save 50% Spring 2024 (Extended Format): January 20 – March… Read more »


Processing Group Starts Saturday [Private Visual Satsang]

The times sure are giving us plenty to process, aren’t they!? Our souls have picked a poignant time to incarnate, that’s for sure. FYI, a new Private Visual Satsang is starting this Saturday. If you could benefit from being in a deep community with supportive people. These special private processing groups happen just twice a… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Misty morning in the Pacific Northwest. Christina Merkley walks her chocolate lab who is stopped on a log overlooking a pond with the back drop of the evergreen forests and low lying mist.

The season is shifting here in the western rainforest of Canada. Sunny days are more frequently giving way to fall mists. I’ve been harvesting the last of the veggies from my garden, and laying in some flower bulbs for spring. Putting the container beds to sleep with a blanket of maple leafs, incrementally gathered from… Read more »


GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: MELINDA COLLINS

Melinda Collins Certified Visual Coach in a black top with a big smile, set against a background visual life maps in this graduate spotlight blog header

All sorts of beautiful people come through my Visual Coach Certification, and today’s spotlight is on one who positively glows. As a Spiritual Director, Melinda Collins accompanies people as they refine and integrate the spiritual fruits in life. Based in the USA in the Greater Boston area, her clients have had a range of religious… Read more »


CALIBRATING THE MYSTICAL

Follow up from Public Visual Satsang #62.  Meeting the challenges and the blessings of these shifting times. See below for video, timestamps, summary, visual maps and date of next Public Visual Satsang – all welcome! Video: Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome and Meditation 00:09:33 [Self Inquiry] Calibrate the Mystical 00:51:57  Closing Summary: Self Inquiry: Calibrating the Mystical… Read more »


SHIFT-IT SCHOOL – 2023/2024 CALENDAR

visual coaching live class photo with Christina Merkley

ONLINE COACHING AND PROCESSING: Private Sessions One-to-one with Christina via Zoom. Public Visual Satsang – Free 3rd Sunday of each month. Times vary. Next Gathering: Sunday, October 15, 2023 1:00 – 3:00 pm Pacific Time, convert to your zone Private Visual Satsang  4 Spots Left! October 21, 2023 – February 3, 2024 16 Saturdays, 10:00… Read more »


Nurture Your Journey – Fall Programs Starting Soon

upcoming courses at SHIFT-IT Coach with Christina Merkley: 3 individual course graphics of Christina working at her tablet for Visual Satsangs, Shifting the Power and Fundamentals of Visual Coaching

The Fall semester has started in SHIFT-IT School, and I have a powerful season ahead of me. Each of these upcoming courses, in its own unique way, brings needed support during these shifting times. 1. Shifting the Power with Anneke Lucas Dates: 10 Thursdays, October 12 – December 14, 2023 Time: 11:00-12:30 pm Pacific Time… Read more »


Visual Coaching – Upcoming SHIFT-IT Retreat

How are you doing during these changing times?! Hanging in there?! No small miracle, with the continued intensity coming at us from so many angles. My coaching practice is currently a ‘Tale of Two Cities’ to quote some good ol’ Dickens … “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it… Read more »


A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

A note from Christina banner of puppy Presley running on the beach with the clouds and olympic mountains as a backdrop for the water and waves on a sunny day.

Thunder is rolling in as I type. An oddity for these parts. The sky is going gray and the wind is picking up. Rain is dumping. Summer of 2023 is being a smidge dramatic here in British Columbia as it closes out. August has flown by. I was intending on taking the month off. Which… Read more »


GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: KRISTEN WIENS

visual coach graduate spotlight on Kristin Wiens banner with Kristin in a circle of white, against a turquoise line art of the ocean and an anchor created by Kristin Wiens

I appreciate all our Certified Visual Coaches, however I have to admit to an extra special fondness for Kristin, given we went to the same high school back in the day … and she went on to do great work in our local school district, much of it visually! Kristin’s passion work is Inclusion and… Read more »