CWS Premises
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Basic Premises of ChangeWork Strategies:
- Happiness and well-being are your birthright: in fact, you are genetically and neurologically coded to thrive. Wisdom traditions and modern cutting-edge science agree on this point.
- Happiness, positive emotions and well-being can be accessed, practiced, cultivated and expanded. This positive energy in turn evokes confidence, self-efficacy constructive action and beneficial outcomes.
- You already know everything you need to know to be happy, motivated, inspired, energized and emotionally healthy. This knowledge, which is just beneath the surface, is located in the details of ordinary life.
- Uncovering what you already know is based on 5 interconnected principles: active noticing, radical inquiry, clarification, practice and congruent action. It all begins by asking evocative questions that help construct a new vision… with new possibilities.
- Real change happens when you are willing to take a risk, get out of your comfort zone, adjust your mindset, improvise on the fly and continually do what actually works.
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CWS incorporates the following simple action steps for training the mind and rewiring the brain:
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]ACTIVE NOTICING: This is a process of fine tuning your sensory acuity and training your mind to be present with reality as it shows up moment by moment. This involves seeing how you are impacted by the reality that shows up… on the feeling level. as well as the practice of accepting and allowing “what is’ without judgment, criticism, comparison, analysis or attachment to outcome.
INQUIRING WITH CURIOSITY: Inquiry takes active noticing a step further. This is a more penetrating investigation into the organizing principles behind thoughts, speech, feeling and actions. It’s a focused examination that uses the previous answer to probe even deeper, activating a kind of cascading effect that further uncovers the hidden dimensions of both your shadow side and your latent capabilities.
CLARIFYING WITH PRECISION: This is the place of the clear, strong, full heart that sees directly and communicates what’s being processed internally. Clarification fortifies the change process by strengthening your ability to use precise uncomplicated language to describe your experience. As you break through the previously unexamined and unfocused chatter that kept you stuck, you’ll activate a new vision, a new tone, a new attitude and new meaning that will expand and deepen your emerging self.
PRACTICING WITH INTENTION: Practice is the art of skillful doing; it’s about experimenting, testing, expanding, circulating and deepening and feeling into what works. Basically, it’s a crystallization process that provides the support, nourishment and cultivation of your ongoing change process. In fact, it is the linchpin to the whole shebang; without practice, nothing sets.
ACTING WITH CONGRUENCE: Action is where the pedal meets the metal. This is where you allow your maturing internal guidance system to direct you, energize you, resonate with you, surprise you and bring synchronicities into focus.. This is where your embodied passion, values, and authenticity naturally align with action and move you forward in a way that might have seemed impossible at first go.
Please note, although these steps are presented sequentially, they are really interdependent; working on one, actives the others. They are strategies that zero in on the way you organize your life and structure your experience. They go behind the scenes, directly to the “HOW” of what you think, say, feel and do. They illuminate where you get stuck and where you are out of alignment so you can make conscious adjustments and get on with business of living YOUR life. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row us_bg_overlay_color=”#dddddd”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research indicates that therapeutic work progresses when both therapist and client share similar views about how change happens. In essence, we all operate from an internalized understanding of human nature and the change process. Whether conscious or unconscious, this internal sense underlies our thoughts, behavior and attitude; and for a therapist, it underlies the way the therapy is practiced. My goal in this section is to communicate my understanding of change by laying out the groundwork of ChangeWork Stratagies in order to provide you with information you may need to feel comfortable, confident and secure about working with me.
Although the application of these skills varies with each individual, the skills themselves are simple, yet profoundly life altering. They involve paying close attention to what you’re already doing by developing awareness, attention, deep listening and the specific practices that train the mind and expand your experience of what is possible. This is fundamentally a holistic approach and includes the many and varied levels of your being: the physical body, mind, brain, relationships, work and spirituality.
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Change is an interesting process; you don’t get it by trying to make it happen or by forcing yourself to be different. It comes on it’s own when you’re willing to do the work.
Here’s the 5-Step ChangeWork Strategy I’ve developed to help you move forward with the life you are meant to live.
Please note, although these steps are presented sequentially, they are really interdependent; working on one, actives the others. They are strategies that zero in on the way you organize your life and structure your experience. They go behind the scenes, directly to the “HOW” of what you think, say, feel and do. They illuminate where you get stuck and where you are out of alignment so you can make conscious adjustments and get on with business of living YOUR life.
ACTIVE NOTICING: This is a process of fine tuning your sensory acuity and training your mind to be present with reality as it shows up moment by moment. This involves seeing how you are impacted by the reality that shows up… on the feeling level. as well as the practice of accepting and allowing “what is’ without judgment, criticism, comparison, analysis or attachment to outcome.
INQUIRING WITH CURIOSITY: Inquiry takes active noticing a step further. This is a more penetrating investigation into the organizing principles behind thoughts, speech, feeling and actions. It’s a focused examination that uses the previous answer to probe even deeper, activating a kind of cascading effect that further uncovers the hidden dimensions of both your shadow side and your latent capabilities.
CLARIFYING WITH PRECISION: This is the place of the clear, strong, full heart that sees directly and communicates what’s being processed internally. Clarification fortifies the change process by strengthening your ability to use precise uncomplicated language to describe your experience. As you break through the previously unexamined and unfocused chatter that kept you stuck, you’ll activate a new vision, a new tone, a new attitude and new meaning that will expand and deepen your emerging self.
PRACTICING WITH INTENTION: Practice is the art of skillful doing; it’s about experimenting, testing, expanding, circulating and deepening and feeling into what works. Basically, it’s a crystallization process that provides the support, nourishment and cultivation of your ongoing change process. In fact, it is the linchpin to the whole shebang; without practice, nothing sets.
ACTING WITH CONGRUENCE: Action is where the pedal meets the metal. This is where you allow your maturing internal guidance system to direct you, energize you, resonate with you, surprise you and bring synchronicities into focus.. This is where your embodied passion, values, and authenticity naturally align with action and move you forward in a way that might have seemed impossible at first go.
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CWS Building Skills
- Experiencing the observing mind
- Contacting the present moment
- Becoming mindful during ordinary activities
- Separating what can from what can’t be controlled
- Separating thoughts from feelings
- Tracking changing emotional tone
- Reframing pain and discomfort
- Refraining from habitual responses
- Understanding complex reality
- Developing tolerance under fire
- Giving up the struggle for control
- Cultivating radical acceptance, willingness & patience
- Communicating with clarity, empathy and compassion
- Watering the seeds that nourish the spirit
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CWS Resource Skills
- Building sensory acuity
- Understanding and using self-hypnosis and visualization
- Developing daily practices and aspirations
- Incorporating holistic nourishment
- Creating positive intention
- Cultivating creative potential, innate intelligence and a sense of the possible
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CWS Action Skills
- Accountability and responsibility
- Getting support
- Identifying values, passion and direction
- Committing to positive action
- Following through
- Working with setbacks and obstacles
- Following bliss
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