Assisted Self Discovery - Spiritual Adviser And Mindfulness Coach
About
I work with a lot spiritually-minded people who are looking for clarity and insight in how to deepen their connection to the spiritual world. A longing or even a calling they feel is important but aren't sure how to proceed.
When I work with people, we'll co-create a roadmap for you to deepen your connection to your own truth and calling. You’ll have a custom list of specific activities and insights. Simple, direct actions that will help you on your journey and new insights and resources to bring into your daily life.
My background includes founding the Quest Institute for meditation, in Dallas TX and I teach mindfulness, ones, and intuition classes at BE meditation in Seattle. In addition, I run a popular meeting call Intuitive Jam where people can safely explore their relationship to intuition. In Spring 2021, I will give a TEDx talk on "Why we should all learn the Language of Mindfulness." Local references from professional intuitive and spiritual teachers are available on request. You can find out more about me at Langugeofmindfulness.com and assistedselfdiscovery.com
The single most rewarding experience I have is when people break through to some understanding that was beyond their grasp before we started. That "ah-ha" moment when you jump levels to a new understanding is a very rich experience for me as well as you.
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Frequently asked questions
What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
My job is to listen deeply, fully, and see truly. To hear your concerns and question and help you resource your natural strengths and special gifts. To see deeply into your essence and even into the spiritual world where we are all connected. We all have special qualities and my strength is help you find or remember them - and facilitate grounding you in those resources. This may involve specific guided meditation or practices that help and also assignments to work on to help where you need to build strength and insight.
It's a very supportive, nourishing, and personalized, experience.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I'm a certified hypnotherapist in Washington State.
I’ve had the good fortune to have studied with some of the best talents in the world.
- Training in Counseling and Therapy: These teachings were truly astonishing in their sophistication and groundbreaking approach to working with people in a mindful state. It is here that I learned to listen beyond the story, be present with strong emotions, track shifting emotional states, learned character maps, worked to refine many very specialized and practical techniques that I use in sessions as appropriate. I am trained as a teacher of Loving Presence workshops that Ron Kurtz invented.
- Ron Kurtz, the founder of Hakomi , and creator of Loving Presence workshops.
- Jon Eisman, Re-creation of the Self.
- Meditation
- For a decade, I studied with Audle Allision, founder of the Lotus Center. After several years of study, I founded the Quest Institute in Dallas where I taught beginning and advanced meditation techniques for a couple of years. This was an esoteric spiritual practice where I “woke up” as they say, to the reality of our spiritual life. As a result of these practices, I developed a refined sensitivity to energy, intuition, and what most people call psychic abilities. However, those are small things when compared to the oneness that we can all experience. This connection to oneness helps me keep things in perspective and see the great good that wants to emerge. We’ll work on exploring this very precisely and examine how you can leverage your natural strengths as well as your relationship to what’s holding you back.
- Training in Somatic Practices
- As a young man, I studied movement in the form of martial arts, expressive dance, and contact improvisation. These are great ways to learn to be present. The body is always in the moment.
- The Work: for several years I studied with a community focused on the teaching of Gurdjieff called “the work”. This was an exceptionally challenging experience physically, emotionally, interpersonally, and spiritually. But as a result, I learned what it meant to truly inhabit a body. To own the reality that I was (and we are all) placed here on this planet in a body that is connected to the world and that by really owning that – you can find your place not only in the world but in the cosmos.
- Group Dynamics and the Group Field
- For several years I worked with Amina Knowlan, founder of Matrix Leadership Institute. Amina has developed an incredible process for working with groups that is transformative for all the participants. In these training, really came to understand who I am and I participate in groups in my life. I learned and have a deep reverence for the innate knowledge inherent in the group as an organism. Due to my particular sensitivity, I am for whatever reason attuned to the “group field” which is present in any group and has sort of a life of its own. Learning how to read and be present with this field has been, to be frank, a blast. It’s an extremely rich experience with unending variety and nuance that is both fascinating and humbling.
Do you have a standard pricing system for your services? If so, please share the details here.
Standard pricing is $140 an hour or by special arrangement.
What questions should customers think through before talking to pros about their needs?
Go with your instincts about who to work with and do not hesitate to say stop working with someone when you feel it's not working as well as it should. I sometimes encounter clients who spend far too much time and money working with "pros" and getting marginal results. You should be getting definite and clear value out of your sessions so that if asked "is it working for you" the answer is a definite "yes." That kind of help is what I try to offer.