“One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.”  ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A group of women, attending one of my first seminars ever, sat pouring over a list of values that I so cleverly provided for them in an effort to save time by showing them a vast amount of possibilities. The idea was to decide on what values and the accompanying emotional states of mind, were most important to them as a way of shaping their goals with what they really wanted most in life. HAAAA! The joke was on me. What I had done, thinking I was being ohh so helpful, was tantamount to what one of those restaurants with a 20 page menu does to it’s patrons; create too many choices resulting in anxiety over being asked to choose just a few of the enormous amount of tempting items.   After about 15 minutes of watching them highlight value after value, many of them redundant in underlying meaning, I decided to put a simple question out there that to my surprise resolved the issue immediately.

What emotional states would you most like to avoid in life?

Boom, boom, boom, the answers poured out in quick succession:

Humiliation, ostracism, disrespect, hate, fear, greed, manipulation, entrapment…

The list went on. After we defined what those avoidances looked like to them, we were able to reverse engineer what it was that they really wanted, what it was that really mattered to them. It was amazing and eye opening first to create the list (which surprisingly didn’t look much the same as the original long list of value states they had initially selected), then to recognize where all of the pieces fell into place throughout each of their lives.  Even more surprising still was further discovering how they internally prioritized each of those values when cross comparing them all side by side. Many of my attendees found that their initial top chosen value (as a state of being) was actually about 4^th or lower on their list and other hidden emotional necessities lay closer to their top priorities.

If you were to create your list and take a good deep look at it, you may just notice that those top value states and their opposing avoidances have been the driving force for decisions you have made throughout your life considering that we naturally move away from pain and towards pleasure. How can you use this information? By cultivating all your innermost desires into an energizing purpose that pulls you and learning how to release the stuff you don’t need that used to be part of what got you to move just to avoid it.

Transformation Artist? That sounds like hocomus pocomus! Ah but those who have used this most wondrous emotional, mental, physiological science for their own healthy gains wouldn’t care what you call it as long as it works, and it does.

Here are 7 “Q & A”s about Personal Transformational Coaching and how it can help you build your Happiness On Tap.

1. What is a Transformational Artist?
2. What kinds of transformation does a Transformational Artist coach?
3. What kind of training makes a Full Transformational Artist?
4. How long are your sessions, how often, and where?
5. What happens in a free evaluation?
6. Is this type of coaching right for everyone?
7. What’s in it for me?

What is a Transformational Artist?

A Transformational Artist/Coach helps you clearly define your visions, release any fears or blockages, and aids in developing tailored strategies to efficiently and effectively achieve your goals.

What kinds of transformation does a Transformational Artist coach?

Today’s most requested services from a trained master coach can be in any of these areas:

• Emotional trauma
• Chronic pain
• Sleep health
• Weight loss
• Personal relationships
• Fears (confidence, confrontation, rejection, failure, success, loss of control, phobias…)
• Habits (food, exercise, smoking…)
• Trusting/ Love
• Releasing unresourceful emotions (guilt, anxiety, anger, grief…)
• Goal setting and strategizing (business and personal)

What kind of training makes a Full Transformational Artist?

A Full Transformational Artist has been trained, licensed and certified in fields that cover health of the person as a whole, following the idea that there is no distinct separation between the body, mind and energy. For the mind and emotions, it could be psychology or neurolinguistic training or even hypnotherapy. For the body, it could be nutrition, fitness and body therapies like massage disciplines, chiropractics and acupuncture. Also included are one or more energetic trainings like Reiki, yoga and metaphysics and/or other spiritual modalities. All of the above cross over into the mind/body/energy whole.

How long are your sessions, how often, and where?

Sessions can be as brief as watching a video or listening to a teleseminar that interests you, engaging in an e book that asks beneficial questions only you can answer, participating in an evaluation to decide on your specific area(s) of focus, or be more involved from a single live 1.5 hour session as needed to a 6 month or even a life-time package that covers all of your whole-self needs.

What happens in a free evaluation?

Your time is valuable so we aim to get right to the point in this evaluation survey package. You can fill it out at your convenience and email it to me before we schedule our complimentary 30 minute call in which we can easily determine what you will benefit from most with a few focus tools. The survey itself can be quite an “ah-ha” before we even meet.

Is this type of coaching right for everyone?

No.
I take great care in looking over your evaluation prior to taking you on as a client as there may be certain issues in your life that would require a different approach or medical care beyond my scope of holistic practice.

What’s in it for me?

Let’s imagine that as a transformation artist I held the right questions, tools, and (through listening and being present to you) insights, that created the space for you to completely succeed, in 12 months, looking back over the year, what did you accomplish?

Are you ready to play a bigger game this year?

If you haven’t already, be sure to fan me on Facebook so you can take advantage of all the tips and goodies I am sending out this year. I am even including trips to Disney and Magic Mountain and doing some skydiving in my life adventure events. Wheeeee!

Cheers,

Heather

I am so looking forward to this new year!

2010 had amazing challenges and just as amazing rewards including more time with family, new career directions, new friends and experiences and everything that I needed (some of it not-so-fun) to launch me into 2011 raring to go!

In the next 31 days of January there are a few new habits that I will be getting used to. Some I have already been starting and others I begin today. Today I am celebrating the start of 31 days of Blogging!

It’s the ultimate perfectionism “smack down”  if you ask me.
There’s often way too much going on inside my head at 100mph and it’s a tad bit scary for me to slow down, type it all out and hope it makes sense but I am pledging right now to do just that.

I hope you’re getting just as excited as me about all the potential that this new year will see in you.

Cheers to 2011!