Personal Mentoring Reflections & Resonance

Standing at the Threshold

Most who enter Integrative Mentoring with me in Ashland, Oregon are at a powerful crossroad or threshold of change:

Ending of Career
New Creative Enterprises
Health Challenges
Facing Changes in Home Living
Losses of Relationship
Fiscal and Legacy Planning.

Many come having tried “regular talk therapy”, having been referred by those who have worked with me in Ojai, California, who have read my writings, or heard one of my newer Lived Essence Songs.

I often hear upon first correspondence that they had a strong sense of relating to my work, my sensibilities and to my perhaps unusual mix of both right-and-left brained integral approaches …leaving no aspect unaddressed in their mentoring needs and next life pathway.

In a sentence:

I work with people facing a life crossroad/threshold who sense there is more to it than meets the eye; those who (having tried other fixes) recognize there may be something truly essential in what they are asked to meet and to traverse at this time.

Many sense that in order to get the most from challenging times of life transition, it requires a deeper-than-mind levels sense of perception --- one more deeply rooted in the fabric of creativity and direct connection with the subconscious and luminous spaces we call soul.

How Integrative Mentoring Helps You Move Forward

Feeling stuck is usually a signal of internal misalignment —
not lack of effort.

The strategic work and the creative arts we employ here is not motivational.
It is deeply integrative.

We meet:

• What is actually ending.
• What is asking to emerge.
• What you have outgrown.
• What you have not yet allowed.
• What asks to be entered at this new next life juncture.

The shift that arises is rarely loud.

It is a faithful opening into your next cohesiveness and path.

And this naturally reveals another next form of coming home to oneself
in what your life asks now.

How the SoulArts Process Works

Together, we allow patterns and inner parts of self to speak for themselves.

The invisible agreements you made early
The ones you are subliminally making now.
The roles you learned to inhabit.
The strengths that carried you — and now overextend you.
The paradoxical strengths that often become weakness at next new doorways asking to be opened.

When these patterns are heard, seen, and appreciated cleanly,
right movement becomes the lead.

Peace arrives as creative intrigue in action.
Faith arrives as delight and energy expressed.

This disciplined yet creative perception has evolved across decades of my own personal work and that I have been honored to share in advisory work, leadership counsel, and integrative mentoring practice.

Reflections from Clients

“What I experienced was not coaching. It was clarity.”

“You saw patterns in me I had lived with for decades — clean and without judgment.”

“This integration changed how I lead and how I live.”

“I did not expect music to be part such an essential of this —it opened me words could not.”

(If you like, see in earlier Guestbooks, reflections shared here)

Creative Integration — Your Essential Self Song

My unique ways of working in Private Integrative Mentoring combine two somewhat “disparate languages”:

I utilize my researcher-left-brain strengths to do the heavy lifting for a structured incorporation of what is needed in one’s life at this time. (physical, emotional, spiritual, practical tools and technologies)

along-side my creative-right-brain portals into the subconscious and super-conscious where one’s true life genius and essence hold the brightest light for finding and navigating the pathways needed.

Put these two: left-brain-strategic and right-brain-creative forces together and that is what true rich Integrative Mentoring encompasses.

When a life’s patterning, and its underlying genius, are enveloped jointly on your journey in this work, it reveals a unique tone. When we create together a “Strategic You Plan” within the context of your own “Essential-Self-Song” – there is a natural coherence that alights your path forward in ways not either one of those alone could do.

This is what has brought about: SoulArt Studio.

It’s a remarkable experience.

This process selective by design. It may be entered online/remotely together or by formal private retreat here in Ashland, Oregon.

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