Uncovering and Engaging Polarities: Coaching Clients' Wholeness through Engagement of Opposites Sam House and Debra Wilton-Kinney USA

Why Polarity Wholeness: The State of the World Out of Balance: Divided In–Balance: Wholeness Through Crisis? OR Consciousness? Consciousness?

Leap to a Whole New Level À la Einstein: Can’t solve imbalance with the same mindset that created it – we need no less than a Fundamental Transformation of Consciousness Where? –Integral thread across multiple disciplines –Ancient wisdom –Nature-based principles –Participating with creative forces larger than ourselves

What is the Shift in Mindset? From : To: Expand awareness to engage possibilities Simultaneous perspectives embraced together Divide and conquer Resolve and make it happen Material Power Power that comes not from us but through us Linear Ebb and Flow Compromise Full Engagement and Cooperation

Unleashed Capacity to Create –In and out breath Lifeforce –Heart beating Lifeblood –Rain and sun cycles Life flourishing –Computer on and off bits Artificial intelligence –Airplane high and low pressure Flight –Chaos and orderCreativity –Autonomy and relationshipAuthentic connection Simultaneous perspectives co-creating in relative balance unleash a Third Energy that is naturally life supportive and generative

Make Polarity Visible as a Whole (Frame it) Expand Awareness Make Meaningful Connection (Amp it up) Navigate Flow with Purpose (Plug it in) PAWS: Polarity and Wholeness System

Pick A Challenge Career Career Money Money Health Health Relationships Relationships Romance Romance Fun and Recreation Fun and Recreation Physical Environment Physical Environment Spirituality Spirituality

Navigate Flow with Purpose Keep the channel openKeep the channel open Resistance Acceptance Resistance as information and Acceptance of what is to open to possibility Attend to co-creative balanceAttend to co-creative balance Observe Experiment Observe and Experiment … turn it around …. change it up Guide the emerging flowGuide the emerging flow Intention Surrender Focus with Intention and Surrender

Daily Practices for Engaging Wholeness –Follow your breath in AND out as an access point to consciously look for two aspects of any other wholeness –Substitute “both/and” for “either/or” thinking and language –Catch self in act of strong opinion and look for the opposite –Notice constriction in body or thought, then release

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