Awareness Practice
Support for being happy, engaged, centered.
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If the answers to our problems were outside ourself, we would have found them by now! Looking within holds the key. No matter what the content of our life - relationships, money, or the state of the world - looking at ourself with the light of awareness reveals the possibilities, happiness, and freedom we seek.
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What is Awareness Practice?
Most of us deeply believe that managing the "externals" of life will lead to having the life we want. If I can find the right relationship, I'll be happy. If the world were more ____<fill in the blank>, then I'll be at peace What we can fail to notice is that it is futile to try to "fix" ourselves and the world without first addressing the internal processes that perpetuate the problems. ​
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We can't solve problems by using the same level of consciousness that created them.
- Albert Einstein
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Offerings
Awareness Coaching
One-on-one coaching provides a supportive space where you can explore, reflect, and gain clarity through the lens of spirituality.
Through guided exercises, reflection, and discussion these 30-minute virtual sessions will help you work with any life content such as creating healthy habits, dealing with strong emotion, procrastination - any content you want to work with! Everything in our life can be a gateway to gaining deeper self-understanding and awareness!
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To schedule a coaching session or for more information, see the "Get In Touch" section below.
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Group Coaching
Do you and others in your life struggle with similar life content? Through reflection, exercises, and facilitated discussion, virtual Group Coaching offers your circle of friends, co-workers, or neighbors a path to clarity and insight on a common topic of concern such as parenting, healthy eating, compassionate self-discipline, scheduling, and more.
Gather your friends or colleagues and navigate life together in a supportive, structured environment. For more information, see the "Get In Touch" section below.
Peaceful Politics
Peaceful Politics is an innovative program designed to help individuals navigate the turbulent political landscape with clarity and compassion. It equips participants with tools to transform their relationship with politics and cultivate well-being and peace in an increasingly polarized world. Regardless of your current level of civic involvement, Peaceful Politics provides a way to engage in public life without the stress, anxiety, and division that often accompany civic participation. This program encourages you to meet challenging times with presence and equanimity, fostering both public and personal transformation.
About
My life has been a rich tapestry of experiences that bridge diverse spiritual and religious traditions. Having begun my career as a lay minister in the Catholic Church and later a faith-based community organizer, I was introduced to Zen Buddhist meditation in 1997 and began steadily exploring the internal patterns of thought and beliefs that were driving my life. After my youngest child left home, I immersed myself in spiritual practice and trained as a monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Northern California. Living at the Monastery for 10 years confirmed for me what I had long suspected, namely, that the journey within is the only thing that will bring us the lasting happiness that our heart desires.
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This conviction did not come easily. I spent decades of my life trying to fix the externals -- myself, my relationships, and society to name a few -- only to find that the source of all the dissatisfaction, fear, and angst was none other than my habitual, conditioned internal processes known in many spiritual traditions as "ego." Getting ego out of the driver's seat and realizing our authentic nature has been and continues to be the adventure of a lifetime!
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I invite you into this adventure of exploration, to let go all that keeps you stuck in suffering and BE what you actually are!
The Sufi Bayazid says this about himself:
I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was “Lord, give me the energy to change the world.” As I approached middle age and realized that half my life was gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to “Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my family and friends, and I shall be satisfied.” Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, my one prayer is, “Lord, give me the grace to change myself.” If I had prayed for this right from the start I should not have wasted my life.
- Anthony de Mello in The Song of the Bird
Live inspired.
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel, or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life. They are the artists of being alive.
- Frederick Franck
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People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
- Augustine of Hippo
Get In Touch
Reach out to schedule a coaching appointment, a Peaceful Politics event, or to request a free discovery call to see if we are a good fit for each other.