The SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process

Declaration of Intent
USERS MANUAL
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Produced by:
Christina Merkley, MA
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Merkley Map
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THE SHIFT-IT GRAPHIC COACHING PROCESS
This Merkley Map is part of a larger Graphic Coaching process called SHIFT-IT.
SHIFT-IT is a seven-stage process to assist individuals in doing their own personal visioning
and planning work. There are 17 visual templates in the process (called Merkley Maps). These
tools can be used in order, or separately to supplement other coaching or personal development
work.
The Declaration of Intent exercise falls into: Take Action.
1. At the Crossroads
2-5. Life Maps
6. Catch & Release
7. Focus on Me
8. S.E.L.F. Inventory
9. Essential Extracts
10. Future Self Visioning
11. Magnetism
12. Flip It, Flip It Good
13. Inner Alignment
14. Archeology of Beliefs
15. Big Picture Plan
16. Take Action!
17. Declaration of Intention
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DESCRIPTION:
Congratulations on making it to the nal move of The SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process ---
well done!!!
By now, you have completed all seven stages of SHIFT-IT, with up to 16 of the individual maps
completed. You have noted your Satisfaction Interrupted Harvested Your History Investi-
gated Your Now Focused on Your Future completed your Trouble at the Border work as
well as Ink It Dont Just Think It and your Take Action plans. Whew --- that is a lot of inner and
outer work. Bravo on your commitment and dedication Im impressed!
This Declaration of Intent map is a nal place to declare your intentions loud and clear. To sum-
marize what you claim and release. And to write and witness your commitment and intention
as you step into your desired future.
SHIFT-IT is deep and special work. It is not everyday (or even every year or decade!) that you
complete a full evolutional scan of your past, present and desired future. As such, it is important
to reect and bring proper closure to your experience. To take a moment to summarize this
particular round of SHIFT-IT (as each round is unique and different). The Declaration of Intent
map will help you do exactly that.


PURPOSE OF MAP:
To mark the end of your planning work
(and the beginning of your real-life work).
To transition from thought to committed
action.
To bring formal closure to the retreat
portion of your SHIFT-IT work.
How Wonderful It Is That Nobody Need Wait A Single
Moment Before Starting To Improve The World.
Anne Frank
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CREATE YOUR DECLARATION OF INTENT MAP:
Quick Summary of Steps:
1. Gather Materials And Create Quiet Space
2. Write a Closing Letter to Yourself
3. State Key Things You Release & Claim
4. Compose Top 3 Closing Comments
5. Symbolically Step Over the Line
6. Sign, Date & Witness Your Intention
7. Seek Ongoing Support & Assistance
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OVERVIEW OF MAP:
Quote and Notes:
Summary statements as you
stand at your commitment
line ... what do you need to
say, express and take note of.
Claiming:
Notes about what you are
consciously stepping into ...
claiming for yourself and
your future.
Releasing:
Any notes youd like to make
about what you are releasing
or leaving behind.
Commitment line:
Internal line that must be en-
ergetically crossed in order to
claim your personal vision.
Letter to Self:
Your Signature
Date
Signature of a Witness
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STEP BY STEP DIRECTIONS:
STEP 1: GATHER MATERIALS AND CREATE QUIET SPACE:
Create Quiet Space
Create a quiet space for yourself, where you arent likely to be disturbed. Set aside about 30
minutes to complete this exercise.
Gather Materials
Youll need this Map (Declaration of Intent), plus a pen or pencil. Youll also want to have
your other completed SHIFT-IT maps (as this Map is a closing move to The SHIFT-IT Graphic
Coaching Process it wont make much sense on its own!)
USE PEN OR MARKER:
Using pens or markers as opposed to
pencil is recommended, as ink will last
longer than pencil (you may want to
preserve these maps for a while).
One Of The Greatest Discoveries A
Man Makes, One Of His Great Surprises,
Is To Find He Can Do What He Was
Afraid He Couldnt Do.
Henry Ford
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STEP 2: WRITE A CLOSING LETTER TO YOURSELF:
As a way to bring closure to your SHIFT-IT Process, take 15-30 minutes to write a letter to your-
self. This is a special letter. It is a letter that is from yourself and to yourself.
As you stand poised, ready to complete the nal move of your SHIFT-IT retreat, take a few
minutes to write down your main thoughts and reections. Note the main insights, ahhas and
revelations you have received by way of doing this deep and reective work.
You will receive this letter sometime in the future (you will be giving it to somebody you trust
to mail it back to you sometime in the next 4-12 months --- dont worry, youll give it to them
sealed and in a self-addressed stamped envelope, so theyll never view it or see it --- its for-
your-eyes-only).
So write to yourself from this unique vantage point while your SHIFT-IT experience is fresh and
bubbling. Your current self is writing to the self you will be in a few months time. What do you
need to communicate to that self? What does s/he need to know or be reminded of?
Here are some other questions to spark your letter writing:

Whats Been The Most Important Insight Or Aha From Your SHIFT-IT
Retreat?
What Do You Need To Tell Or Remind Yourself Of?
What Is The Most Signicant Thing You Need To Do Or Be As You Move
Forward?
What Encouragements Will You Need To Hear In The Future?
What Feeling About This Work Do You Want To Remember?
What Commitments Are You Making For Yourself?
What Are Your Intentions For Yourself? For This Process Of Transformation
That You Have Sparked?
As You Step Into Your Future, What Do You Release Or Let Go Of?
As You Step Into Your Future, What Do You Claim For Yourself?
What Three Things Do You Need To Keep Top Of Mind?
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Seal in a Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope:
Take as much time as you need. You may just write a
short one-page note to yourself, or you may wish to write
a lengthy letter, with several pages. Whatever feels ap-
propriate.
When you have completed your letter, seal it in an enve-
lope and address it to yourself, complete with name and
mailing address. Add the appropriate amount of stamps
that it will take for your friend or colleague to mail it back
to you.
Give Your Envelope to a Trusted Person:
Select a trusted person to give your letter to. It might be a family member, a friend, or a col-
league. Or perhaps someone who has also done the SHIFT-IT Process --- youll know who to
ask to do this for you.
This person will be responsible for mailing your letter back to you at some point in the future.
Tell this person that they are to mail the letter to you when it feels like the right time to do so.
Sometime in the next 4-12 months. Tell them that they will just intuitively know when it is the
right time to send it to you that they can just trust their gut and toss it into a mailbox when
the time is right. That something will remind them to do it and it will all work out ne.
You or they might want to write the date that you gave the letter to them on the back of the
envelope as a little note that they can refer to, to remind them how much time has passed
since you gave them your letter.
Let your letter go with this person, knowing that youll see it again, sometime in the future ---
probably when you need a good reminder about your Vision and what you are in the process of
creating for yourself.

Your Own Resolution To Success Is More Important
Than Any Other One Thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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STEP 3: STATE KEY THINGS YOU RELEASE & CLAIM:
Now turn your attention back to your Declaration of Intent map. You are now going to harvest
some of the main points of your letter as a way of summarizing your key thoughts as you bring
closure to your SHIFT-IT Retreat.
Main Things You Want to Release:
Take a moment to note the main things you are releasing, as you stand ready to step into the
next chapter of your life.

What Am I Releasing?
What Do I Choose To Let Go Of?
What Am I Deciding To Not Bring Forward With Me?
What Am I Dropping?
What Am I Putting Down?
Write The Things You Are Releasing In The Release Section Of Your Map.
It Is In Your Moments Of Decision
That Your Destiny Is Shaped.
Anthony Robbins
Main Things You Want to Claim:
Now, turn to considering the things that you are stepping over the line into. Write down the
main things that you are claming for yourself:
What Are You Stepping Into?
What Are You Claiming For Yourself And Your Life?
What Do You Say Yes To?
What Are You Moving Towards?
What Are You Continuing Or Bringing With You?
Write The Things You Are Claiming In The Claim Section Of Your Map.
Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate; Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are
Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light, Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.
We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented And Fabulous?
Actually, Who Are You Not To Be? You Are A Child Of God. Your Playing Small Does
Not Serve The World. There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other
People Wont Feel Insecure Around You. We Were Born To Manifest The Glory That Is
Within Us. And As We Let Our Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People
Permission To Do The Same. As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our
Presence Automatically Liberates Others.

Nelson Mandela Quoting Marianne Williamson
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STEP 4: COMPOSE TOP 3 CLOSING COMMENTS:
Continuing with your Declaration of Intent map, what are the three top sayings or comments
that you need to express as you get ready to step over the line into your future? In order to
help you really feel this and identify your three main expressions, consider creating an actually
line that you can set up to step over.
Literally Create a Line to Step Over:
At this nal stage of your SHIFT-IT process you are literally stepping over a border or line into
your future. You are moving from one stage (the stage of planning and preparation) to another
stage of real-world tangibility.
In order to make this line more real and vital, consider actually creating some sort of line or
border to step over. Make a physical or outer symbol to represent the inner, psychological line
you are crossing over.
You might do this by making a line on your oor with masking tape. Or pulling out some string
or rope. Or, use something long and narrow: like a ski pole, golf club, or long ruler. Think of
one side as your current world and the other side as the world of your desired, best-case sce-
nario future. The world where your Vision lives and exists, just waiting for you to allow it and
manifest it.
Stand at the Line and Compose Your Statements:
After constructing your line, and determining which side is which, stand on the side that repre-
sents your present circumstances.
With your Map in your hand or close to you, consider what you have written in your release and
claim sections. And, really feel the separation of the line between your now and your desired
future. Make it real (because it is). What else needs to be said, before you step over the line
and make a symbolic (and literally!) move into your future?
Start By Doing Whats Necessary, Then Do Whats
Possible, And Suddenly You Are Doing The Impossible.
Saint Francis Of Assisi
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What Top Things Come To Mind As You Stand On This Important Threshold?
What Is Most Real And Crucial To You?
What Do You Need To Say? Proclaim? State? Yell? Swear? Commit To?
What Needs To Be Spoken To Make This Retreat As Complete As Possible?
What Do You Need To Hear Yourself Say?
Write your Top 3 Statements in the Quote Bubbles on your Map and
Sprinkle Any Other Comments Over the Top Area of Your Map:
The Greatest Opportunity And Gift Of Life Is To Recreate
Yourself A New In The Next Grandest Version Of The Greatest
Vision You Ever Held About Who You Are.
Neale Donald Walsch
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STEP 5: SPEAK AND THEN SYMBOLICALLY STEP
OVER THE LINE:
When you are ready, settle yourself, take a deep breath and say your three top comments
aloud.
Speak out whatever it is that needs to be spoken at this critical threshold of your SHIFT-IT work.
This is an important moment. Savor it. Respect it. Dont rush it. Instead, take your time and
say what you need to say to honor this step that you are taking.
Step Over the Line:
When you are ready. Step over the line. Step boldly into the realm of your future --- the realm
of your Vision that is pulling you towards it.
Feel the signicance of this moment. You may feel a rush of excitement or exhilaration. Or no-
tice a subtle shift taking place. Or, you may not feel too much of anything. That is ok. Go with
whatever comes up for you. Your rational mind will place all kinds of things onto this moment,
but your deeper mind has acknowledged the commitments and intentions that you have written
and spoken. It has taken note of what you desire and is already putting things into play that will
assist you in getting what you want.
My Philosophy Is That Not Only Are You Responsible For Your Life, But Doing
The Best At This Moment Puts You In The Best Place For The Next Moment.
Oprah Winfrey
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STEP 6: SIGN, DATE & WITNESS YOUR INTENTION:
As a nal step, sign and date your Declaration of Intent map. If you have done this process with
another person present (or in a coaching group), act as witnesses for one another and sign on
the witness line.
Sign and Date Your Map (and Witness If Doing With Another).
And, Remove Your Line You Aint Going Back!
Before you wrap up, be sure to remove the line you constructed so you dont step back over it!
You have made the step. You have committed. There aint no going back even if you wanted
to. The gears have been put in motion. So, remove the symbolic line you have crossed you
are now in the land of your Vision.
Trust That Seeds Have Been Planted:
Over the next months and years your Vision will unfold. Bit by bit and iota-by-iota. Like a seed
that has been planted, trust in the growing process that is happening, even if the sprouts havent
quite burst into the visible world yet. They will. One day visible signs will emerge and youll
nd yourself living in the world that was once just a gment of your SHIFT-IT Process!
When You Get Into A Tight Place And Everything Goes
Against You, Till It Seems As Though You Could Not Hold
On A Minute Longer, Never Give Up Then, For That Is Just
The Place And Time That The Tide Will Turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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STEP 7: SEEK ONGOING SUPPORT & ASSISTANCE:
It will be important to keep the energy and gestalt of your SHIFT-IT Process alive and to imple-
ment the beings and doings of your Take Action Plan. Thinking and envisioning your desired
end state will do a lot for you, but unfortunately (or fortunately!) there is no substitute for
aligned action. You must keep moving and taking action small, measured steps do add up to
signicant change and transformation over time. So keep taking steps, even if they are small
ones!
Seek Help & Like Minded Individuals:
Find other people who can relate to and encourage your plans for yourself. When we are in the
process of becoming our next self, it is often necessary to shed or change previous relationships
and replace or supplement them with people with new kinds of thoughts, attitudes and ways of
living life.
Create a Mastermind or Support Buddy Structure:
A great way to keep the momentum going is to create a mastermind group or create some
sort of support buddy relationship. Mastermind groups are groups where like-minded individu-
als come together on a regular basis to support and encourage one another. They operate by
shared ground rules and require balanced participation and involvement. Consider forming one
with other folks who have done the SHIFT-IT Process, or recruit a couple of friends to create
one. Support buddies are just a smaller version of a mastermind group. Where groups of two
or three come together for the same kind of purpose.
Apathy, Procrastination or Paralysis: Get a Coach!
The coaching profession is all about helping people create great lives and livelihoods. If you
run into a major case of apathy, procrastination or analysis paralysis consider hiring a coach, at
least to get you over the hump.
Coaches make great condential listening companions and strategy consultants. Different coach-
es have different styles, so be sure to shop around for one that ts you, your temperament and
your goals. Some coaches are process coaches who help you deal with the ups and downs of
whatever you are dealing with and other coaches have unique specialties and expertise areas:
like small business coaches, internet marketing or money coaches or coaches who deal strictly
with a niche population: like retirement coaches or coaches who work with new moms or people
with attention decit disorder (ADD) and the like.
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Of course, here at SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc we are happy to offer you many different kinds of in-per-
son and tele-coaching services --- AND your SHIFT-IT maps are a great resource to share with
WHICHEVER kind of coach is best for you.
And, Get the Word Out to Others:
Your maps also act as great communication tools, should you wish to share your work with oth-
ers (family, friends, colleagues, counseling professionals, nancial advisors, etc). So let those
close to you (and whom you trust) in on your vision and plans. Help can come from many ex-
pected and unexpected places so get the word out on what you are creating!
Recommended Resources:
Check out the Recommended Resources section at the end of this Manual for helpful recommen-
dations on SHIFT-IT compatible resources.
Then The Worlds Mine Oyster.
William Shakespeare
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CASE STUDIES:
Case Study One:
Example of a Declaration of Intent map from an American businessman re-committing to his
business after a nancial setback.
Opportunities Multiply As They Are Seized.
Sun Tzu
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Case Study Two:
Example of a Declaration of Intent map from a Canadian woman with a strong spiritual faith.
NEXT STEPS:
Congratulations on completing your SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process. SHIFT-IT is an ongo-
ing process just like life is! There will most likely come a time in the future when you will want
to go through the SHIFT-IT process again. To help you get your bearings when you encounter
another signicant crossroads in your life journey. Until then, enjoy your manifestations and
new creations. SHIFT-IT is here for you, when you are ready for another round of clarity, deci-
sion-making and action.
The Overall Moves of the SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Process:
AT THE CROSSROADS:
Satisfaction Interrupted ---

Start with the rst template of the SHIFT-IT Graphic
Coaching Process. Identify your current Crossroads
Issues and your desired outcomes. Get clear on why
you are doing SHIFT-IT and what you want to get
out of the process.
LIFE MAPS:
Harvest Your History ---

Map out your own life-to-date. See your evolu-
tionary story all in one place. Identify the events,
people, places, thoughts, and things that have most
impacted you. Harvest insights, appreciations and
pinpoint what you want to release and let go of as
you move forward.
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FOCUS ON ME:
Investigate Your Now ---

Create a visual representation of your now (a life
wheel). Gauge and quantify your current level of
satisfaction in eight main areas of life (what is work-
ing and what is not). Determine the primary areas
you want to address and change.
S.E.L.F. INVENTORY:
Investigate Your Now ---

Build an honest inventory of your Skills/Strengths,
Evolutionary Inklings, Learning Areas, and Founda-
tional Support. Acknowledge what you have to work
with. The nudges you have been receiving about
your future. The weaknesses and development ar-
eas you can own. And the assistance and supportive
resources you can draw upon.
ESSENTIAL EXTRACTS:
Focus on Your Future ---

Begin to build your Personal Vision. Discover the
essence of what you really want. What you like and
what makes you feel really good. Bypass your ratio-
nal, skeptical mind and tap into your intuitive, sub-
conscious wisdom.
FUTURE SELF VISION:
Focus on Your Future ---

Align with a powerful inner ally your Future Self.
Create a link to an internal resource that you can
continue to consult and seek guidance from. Receive
powerful information about your best-case scenario
future and what you really, really want. Get advice
from the best person to give it you
MAGNETISM MAP:
Focus on Your Future ---

Pull your vision components into a powerful, focus-
magnet: your Personal Vision Statement. Create
concise, clear, focused statements about your de-
sired future. Test your ability to allow your Vision.
Learn tips to speed up manifestation.
FLIP IT, FLIP IT GOOD:
Trouble at the Border ---

Discover what you really think about your Vision and
your ability to manifest and receive. Extract your
negative thoughts and beliefs so you can see what
your vibrational set point naturally is and then ip it
for the better. Get the Law of Attraction working for
you. Shift your energetic to a more positive place.
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INNER ALIGNMENT:
Trouble at the Border ---

Identify and work with your internal resistance and
self-sabotage the thoughts, attitudes and beliefs
that inhibit and block manifestation of your Vision.
Discover and work with sub-personalities that ob-
ject to what you now want for yourself. Educate,
persuade and negotiate new roles for these valuable
inner aspects of yourself. Get them on your side,
working with you instead of against you.
ARCHEOLOGY OF BELIEFS:
Inner Alignment ---

Take a look at your bigger, evolutionary picture. Un-
derstand the larger context of your family and cul-
tural background. Identify inuential beliefs that
may be impacting your ability to manifest what you
really, really want.
BIG PICTURE PLAN:
Ink It; Just Dont Think It ---

Link your vision to your current reality. Begin to
dene your major steps. Create a one-page big pic-
ture plan of your Vision, your supports, your chal-
lenges and the big action areas that you need to
take to bridge your current reality with your desired
future. Move into action-mode.
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TAKE ACTION PLAN:
Take Action ---

Create a detailed action plan. Organize your Top 3
action areas into doable mini-steps with priority and
specic due dates. Build responsibility and account-
ability structures --- implement your steps for ongo-
ing, incremental movement. Step-by-step creation
of your Personal Vision over time and with sustained
action.
DECLARATION OF INTENT:
Take Action ---

The closing move of SHIFT-IT Graphic Coaching Pro-
cess. Lock in your learning and dene true, strong
intentions for yourself and your manifestation jour-
ney. Bring closure and step over-the-line into your
new reality. Activate supportive energies and alli-
ances.
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PRESERVE YOUR INSIGHTS:
You have taken the time to do this deep and thoughtful work so be sure to
preserve it for ongoing and future reference.
Create a SHIFT-IT le folder or binder to collect your notes and manuals in.
If you are working through the full SHIFT-IT process, each Merkley Map will become a page in
your Graphic Coaching report. Simply work through all 17 templates in order, then staple them
together. For more lasting preservation, go to your local stationary or ofce supply store and
have them bound together into a formal report (with a clear (transparent) front cover and a stur-
dy, cardstock, back cover). Or scan your maps into digital les that you can save and share.
SHIFT-IT is an ongoing experience that you may wish to do again and again. Preserve your
early experiences so you can compare to your later ones: witness your changes and progress
and more clearly see the evolutionary ow of your life.
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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES:
Here is a list of resources that my clients have found helpful as they navigate
their SHIFT-IT work. Different people have different processes and needs and are
attracted to different things so feel free to check out what resonates with you and
skip the rest.

PERSONAL AWARENESS
BYRON KATIE, THE WORK
Personal inquiry process called the work. Four
questions, when applied to a specic problem,
enable one to see what is troubling in an en-
tirely different light. Process for loving what
is, instead of struggling against reality.
www.thework.org
ECKHART TOLLE
As a spiritual teacher Tolles work is pretty
deep, however its a great reminder to be in
the now as opposed to focusing on the past
and the future ( a tricky balancing act when
one is doing visioning and planning work!). A
great grounding tool for those of us who are so
future-oriented he helps us to center and be
where everything happens in the now.
www.eckharttolle.com/
BERT HELLINGER / TRANS-GENERA-
TIONAL FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS
Fascinating family systems work that consid-
ers impact of events/issues/confusions of
one generation on subsequent generations.
German therapist Bert Hellinger maintains there
are natural laws or order in a family system
(Orders of Love) that can be restored once dis-
rupted. Hellinger has international network of
practitioners who are certied in his approach.
www.hellinger.com/international/eng-
lish/index.shtml
THE ENNEAGRAM
DON RICHARD RISO
The enneagram is a very useful tool for those
dedicated to their own growth and self-aware-
ness. I often introduce my coaching clients to
it. Don Riso is one of my favorite authors out
of the pick of enneagram teachers. He offers
an online test to help you determine your type
and offers pointers for growth and integration
once you have determined your type. There
is lots of free, useful content on his site. I
recommend his workshops if you are interest-
ed in really learning about this complex and
fascinating tool. His books are a little more
psychologically complex than some of the
other authors.
www.enneagraminstitute.com
DAVID DANIELS AND HELEN PALMER
Two other well respected enneagram teach-
ers. She is known for her panel technique
that groups people together on panels to help
highlight the differences between the types.
The site has useful video clips and other in-
formation. Recommend her books as a useful
starting place for beginners.
www.authenticenneagram.com/
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SANDRA MAITRI
If you have studied the Enneagram for a while,
this woman is an excellent resource to take
your understanding to a new and deeper lev-
el. Focusing on the spiritual applications of
the tool, she points us to the deeper reasons
behind our types and how the types interact
together. She is also a Diamond Heart teacher
in the tradition of A.H. Almaas.
www.sandramaitri.com
MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
The ever-popular Myers Briggs Type indicator
is based on the work of Carl Jung. This typol-
ogy tool is used extensively in organizations
to help people better understand themselves
and others. Good tool for team building and
conict mediation. I use it in my work with
business partners and couples. (enter My-
ers-Briggs on any search engine to nd many
more sites with information on the tool and
ways you can type yourself).
www.personalitypathways.com/type_
inventory.html
KEIRSEY TYPE INDICATOR
Here is another typology / personality tool
based on the work of Jung and Myers-Briggs.
www.keirsey.com
THE HOFFMAN PROCESS
The Hoffman Quadrinity Process is an intense,
weeklong retreat for identifying and shifting
family-of-origin issues. It involves deep, ca-
thartic work done in individual, small and large
group settings. Hoffman is the gift that keeps
on giving as it can take several years for inte-
gration and deep understandings to emerge.
Excellent foundational experience for singles
and couples learning about how their family-
of-origin issues connect to their present day
relationships.
www.hoffmaninstitute.org/
CENTERPOINTE AND HOLOSYNC
TECHNOLOGY
Bill Harris Holosync System is a fascinating
meditation tool using audio and brain wave
technology. It assists you in reaching medita-
tive states in a quicker fashion than regular sit-
ting / insight meditation. His book Thresholds
of the Mind and his excellent online classes
do wonders in explaining how our beliefs and
underlying core assumptions create our lives.
www.centerpointe.com
KEN WILBER AND INTEGRAL NAKED
Genius philosopher Ken Wilbers excellent and
diverse website featuring tons of download-
able audio and video clips from interviews with
some of the most provocative thinkers of our
time.
www.integralnaked.com
ESTHER AND JERRY HICKS AND
ABRAHAM
Esther Hicks is a fascinating channel for meta-
physical knowledge. This site offers great
information on universal laws around abun-
dance, relationships, visioning, etc. They have
a free downloadable CD that contains the ba-
sics of their Science of Deliberate Creation
and the Art of Allowing. A great resource
for the meta-physically minded focused on The
Laws of Attraction.
www.abraham-hicks.com
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SANAYA ROMAN AND ORIN
This is another channeled resource. Good
information on writing, mission and purpose
work, spirituality and energy work.
www.orindaben.com
T. HARV EKER /
MASTERING INNER GAME OF WEALTH
Book, website and trainings. Identifying and
revising deep beliefs about money, abundance
and prosperity nancial blueprints.
www.millionairemind.com
RELATIONSHIPS AND
COMMUNICATION:
TERRY REAL AND THE RELATIONAL
RECOVERY INSTITUTE
Terry Real is the author of best selling books;
I Dont Want to Talk About It and How Do I
Get Through to You? Offers public workshops
and trains therapists. He occasionally offers
free tele-classes that are useful and really in-
formative.
www.relationalrecoveryinstitute.com
GAY & KATHYLN HENDRICKS /
THE HENDRICKS INSTITUTE
Gay and Kathleen Hendricks are well-known
couples and relationship experts who are the
authors of many books on the subject. Good
workshops and training materials.
www.hendricks.com
JETT PSARIS & MARLENA LYONS
Excellent, enneagram-based workshops around
relationships, intimacy, love and money.
www.undefendedlove.com
DOUG & NAOMI MOSELEY
Another husband-wife counseling team for
intimacy and relationship issues. Authors of
The Shadow Side of Intimate Relationships
and Make Your Second Marriage a First
Class Success. Offer residential retreats in
gorgeous Taos, New Mexico. They have been
offering a workshop in Canada (Calgary) once
a year.
www.intimacytraining.com/
MARSHALL ROSENBERG / NON-VIOLENT
COMMUNICATIONS
Simple yet powerful methodology for com-
municating in a way that meets both parties
needs.
www.CNVC.org
GENERAL COACHING INFO:
SCHOOLS & ASSOCIATIONS
THE COACHES TRAINING INSTITUTE
(CTI)
Creators of Co-active Coaching Model. One
of the foremost coach training institutions of-
fering certication and continuing education
programs. This is where I took my coaching
training.
www.thecoaches.com
COACH UNIVERSITY
First international virtual school offering two
year online coaching training program. Offers
interesting specialties in TeenCoach and Cor-
porate Coaching. Free coach referral service.
www.coachu.com
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HUDSON INSTITUTE OF
SANTA BARBARA
LifeLaunch Coach Certication program. Sem-
inars, consultations, coach training programs
and product line.
www.hudsoninstitute.com
INTERNATIONAL COACH FEDERATION
Largest professional association of personal
and business coaches. Seeks to preserve the
integrity of coaching around the globe. Good
source of information on the eld and free
coach referral service.
www.coachfederation.org
COACHVILLE
Global virtual community for coaches. Re-
source sharing for coaches and continuing
education offerings.
www.coachville.com
GROUP GRAPHICS / GRAPHIC
FACILITATION:
ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL
PRACTITIONERS
New association for the graphic recording/fa-
cilitation community. Host annual conference
bringing together eclectic group of practitioners
who use spontaneous visuals and graphics in
their group work: consultants, facilitators, re-
corders, cartoonists, and other artists.
www.visualpractitioner.org

GROVE CONSULTANTS INTERNATIONAL
I worked for The Grove in San Francisco from
1996 to early 2001. They are the pioneers for
working visually with groups. David Sibbet is
the founder. Excellent online store chock full
of facilitation tools. Especially check out their
Strategic Visioning Process. Excellent stuff!
www.grove.com
MINDMAPPING
THE WORK OF TONY BUZAN
Site for Mindmap- originator, Tony Buzan.
Graphic overview technique with the freedom
to roam the innite expanses of your brain.
Buzan Brain Friendly processes.
www.mind-mapping.co.uk
ALPHACHIMP / BLOG ON GRAPHICS
RELATED FIELD
Peters Durants packed, eclectic blog lled
with all sorts of graphic-related parapherna-
lia. Articles, inserts, quirky information all
in one central location and updated regularly
from different contributors.
www.graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/
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