Practitioner Articles
New Tools for Personal Transformation
The shifting of a paradigm, the turning of an age—old tools and old ways are yielding to a new urge for deeper meaning. As more and deeper insights from the collective unconscious find their way to awareness, those who wish to navigate the deeper layers... more
The Fundamental Principles of Wholeness Work
Process Coaching provides the tools and training, and Wholeness Work provides the understandings and perspectives that enable people to remove inner blocks and have what they desire in life. The tools and perspectives work well together to help people ... more
The Four Stages of Learning
The learning process has often become more difficult than necessary because of the bad feelings people get when they make mistakes in learning. The bad feelings come from judgments like, 'not doing it right,' 'not good enough,' 'can never learn this,' etc... more
The Unconscious Mind & the Iceberg Metaphor
An iceberg can serve as a useful metaphor to understand the unconscious mind, its relationship to the conscious mind and how the two parts of our mind can better work together. As an iceberg floats in the water, the huge mass of it remains below the surface... more
Triggers and the 'Seat of Consciousness'
There are many parts of the Self buried deep in the unconscious. Some of these parts have experienced severe trauma, particularly parts from childhood and earlier. Although they may remain out of conscious awareness, these parts are still feeling the pain... more
Imprints
An imprint is created whenever there is an unresolved trauma. Another metaphor can help describe how this happens. The magnetic, sentient, feeling essence is at first like the surface of a lake. Smooth and calm, with gently rolling waves, the magnetic, feminine... more
The Resourceful, Loving and Parental Healer
The healing work depends on developing and nurturing a part of ourselves that functions as a resourceful healer capable of loving and parenting the other parts of ourselves that are traumatized, lost and suffering. A quality that describes the attitude ... more
The Healer's Faith
One of the ways to distinguish the Healer from other parts of self is by sensing your faith in the positive. Faith is another way of saying 'belief beyond doubt,' and has often been misunderstood to mean 'blind faith,' or believing in something without any evidence that it is true... more
Anchoring Resources
An anchor is any stimulus that generates a predictable response. In this exercise, you'll access a resourceful state and set visual, auditory and sensate anchors so you can easily return to the state. Later you'll be able to ‘fire’ one or more of the anchors and recreate the experience of inner resourcefulness... more
A Daily Practice
Cultivating a daily practice is a powerful and effective way to strengthen yourself as the Healer. Daily life can go more smoothly and healing can happen more easily when we make it a habit to set aside five or ten minutes every day to connect with what is going on inside of us... more
'The Movies' Metaphor
We have the sense of looking out into the world through the lens of our perception, and it seems that 'objective' information comes to us through this lens. But this isn't really what happens. At a deeper, unconscious level we have first projected... more
Make Your Movie the Way You Want It
'The Movies' Metaphor offers many ways to better understand what's been happening in life. One of the most powerful understandings is that we have the freedom and power to change the direction and focus of our movie, and therefore our life... more
Healing from Guilt
From the beginning of human history, each generation has taken on guilt and passed it down to the children. Parents, children, friends, spouses, partners, and others have used guilt for behavior modification, punishment and revenge... more
Judgment Release Practice
Here is an easy way to release judgments. Whenever something bothers you, ask yourself, “Where am I feeling this in my body?” Find the feeling in your body, and feeling into it... more
Perceptual Positions & Flexible Identity
Flexibility is the Healer’s most valuable skill, and the most useful kind of flexibility is being able to change at will our point of view and therefore identity. There are three basic positions from which we perceive reality.... more
Regression Process
Regression is probably the most profound tool of process coaching. Present issues can be resolved and healed by finding and rescuing parts of yourself that are still 'stuck' in past traumas, often in early childhood... more
Repairing the Past
(Regression process script to be read for another or for self.) Anchoring Resources 1. As you relax, I'd like you to get in touch with a good feeling. Allow yourself to remember the feeling you get when you're successful. You know, that feeling of strength and accomplishment... more
Short Form Regression Practice
Access the loving, resourceful healer before step one when doing this process intentionally. If you are triggered, use the ultra-short form below first, and then access the loving, resourceful healing part before step three... more
Running Energy Practice
The premise of this exercise is that there are two fundamental energies available to humans, the feminine, magnetic, 'earth' energy, and the masculine, electric, 'spirit' energy. The exercise helps us become more aware of these energies and balance them... more
Running Energy Script
This script can be used to record a tape that you can play back to prompt you through the exercise. Or it can be read aloud by a friend. Also, you can read it to yourself, keeping your place with your finger while you go inside to do what is suggested... more
Decording
As you become more aware of your psychic energy during the Running Energy practice, you may notice 'cords' between yourself and an other person. By definition, a cord is an obsolete or unwanted energy connection with another... more
Running Energy II
This is an advanced version of the original Running Energy Practice. As with the original practice, the purpose of this exercise is to get in touch with and move the two fundamental energies of the human energy system... the feminine, magnetic, 'Earth' energy... more
'Being Body' Practice
This practice underscores the power of 'flexible identity,' one of the most important principles of wholeness work. In this practice we are shifting the 'I am' from the accustomed identification with mind or inner spirit to identification with Body... more
Inner Dialogue
Inner dialogue is a vital tool in process work, enabling us to easily and quickly communicate with parts of ourselves that may otherwise remain in the unconscious. These include child parts back to the embryo in the womb; times before conception or between lives... more
Three Modes of Inner Dialogue
In healing to wholeness, the larger Being we connect with as the source of inner guidance and support is distinguished as two separate essences. The Universal Masculine represents conscious awareness at the cosmic level of Being; the Universal Feminine represents sentient awareness at the deepest level of reality... more
Written Dialogue Technique
Inner dialogue can be very informative and illuminating. It is much easier to keep the thread of the communication when it's written. The paper serves to hold the space, so you are free to be alternately the interviewer and the transcriber for the part... more
Working with Parts of the Self
'Parts' work is a quick and easy way to get to the bottom of issues and resolve them. Each behavior, feeling or thought we have can be attributed to a separate 'part' of ourselves. We can communicate with any part we wish simply by identifying it and... more
Core Desire Exploration
This inner dialogue process makes it easy for parts of the Self to come into integration and wholeness. Sometimes parts of ourselves act and feel as if they don't know what they really want, and finding its core desire can help the part become more clear... more
Working in the Transpersonal Realm
In the iceberg metaphor we mentioned that deep below the water line, the base of the iceberg of each personal unconscious connects with all others in the transpersonal realm. The first layer of the transpersonal is where all humans connect, and is called... more
Regression to the Transpersonal Realm
This process enables you to follow the chain of reenactments of an original trauma all the way back to its inception at the original cause of the imprint. Before beginning, get in touch with 'the Folks' as outlined here. 1. Experience a feeling that is... more
Releasing Denial Energy
Judgments are a form of denial, and are easy to release with the judgment release practice. When we release the denial embedded in the judgment, we open ourselves (and the emotion we're working on) to loving acceptance. The same goes for when we release... more
Driving Backwards
Healing what has already been hurt in us is much easier once we stop hurting ourselves. There are two major ways we continue to hurt ourselves - making judgments, and trafficking in the future. Thinking about, worrying about or being anxious over... more
Deep Practice for Healing to Wholeness
Once learned, the frames and tools of Process Coaching and wholeness work can be condensed into a few quick and easy steps that can be practiced any time. As when learning any new practice, you'll probably find this shortened version of the work easier to... more
Expressing! Practice
To direct our own process and honor our sentient parts as we heal ourselves through giving free expression to any feeling or sensation wanting expression, thereby giving ourselves more love, freedom, life, vitality, realness and fun... more
The Three Movements of Healing
There are three separate healing experiences that you as the Healer can create to get the most possible healing, learning and integration from a triggering situation... more
Clairsentience
The single most important skill in Process Coaching is being able to feel subtle energy in ourselves and in others in order to gain access to the vast resource of clairsentient awareness. The psychic faculty called clairsentience (clear feeling) is the tool we use to read energy, and it's surprisingly easy to learn... more
Intuition: The Best Guidance Possible
Intuitive information comes from the sentient depths without a searching of the conscious memory or without the conscious mind's use of the imagination. When we access the intuition we are practicing clairsentience, and we seem to arrive at an insight by a path from unknown sources directly to conscious awareness. Flash! Out of nowhere, in no time... more
Coming Out of Story
As we develop the skill of moving out of identification with the main character in our movie, the main character in the mind's story of who we are, we discover that we are so much more than we thought we were! We have believed that who we are is the 'I' in the story of our lives... more
Loving Life Force Energy
The most direct (and perhaps easiest) way to heal and integrate lost parts of ourselves is to love the energy of a feeling in the body. A story usually starts up whenever we feel hurt, scared or angry. However, the story is just a series of thoughts about the feeling... more
The Wounded Healer
In Process Coaching we are the Healer when we come to the aid of a part of ourselves, and interestingly there is a shadow aspect to this. The 'Wounded Healer' is a powerful archetype in the healing arts. Carl Jung uncovered this archetype in himself and traced it back seven millennia to the ancient Greek myths of Chiron, the wounded centaur, and his student Asclepius, who became the god of medicine and healing... more
Who Am I Now?
Repeating this simple practice often will help you develop yourself as a stronger, quicker to recover and more flexible Explorer/Healer… more
Reading List
Here are some recommended books that resonate well with the healing work: Abrams, Jeremiah, Zweig, Connie, (Editors). Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1991... more