Spacious Mind
Coaching
Coaching
Welcoming Life As-it-is:
Coaching, Conferences and Courses
Contemplative Dialogue based on Non-dual Buddhism and Advaita
Coaching, Conferences and Courses
Contemplative Dialogue based on Non-dual Buddhism and Advaita
HOW COACHING SESSIONS WORK
In learning to genuinely accept our moment-to-moment experience - comfort and discomfort, joy and suffering - we enter Spacious Mind, where conflict and problems dissolve in stillness.
Spacious Mind Coaching synthesizes contemporary western psychology with non-dual Buddhism and ancient Eastern wisdom.
Meditative Conversation and Deconstructive Contemplation
Spacious Mind Coaching brings awareness into the foreground, creating a relaxed detachment in which fixations are gently released. The result is a spaciousness that transcends and dissolves the conditioning and stories that hold us hostage.
Whether in person or on the phone, Spacious Mind coaching sesions start with what the client is actually experiencing at the time of the session. Any life transition or topic can serve as a starting point, provided there is a willingness on the part of the client to use his or her experience to go deeper into presence. In this spacious openness, identification with who we think we are and preoccupation with our problems and concerns dissolve. In this openness, it becomes possible to see the mind-made constructions, obstacles, biases, and fixations that often inhibit our experience of joy and flow in life . Through this detached awareness, we come to see how our attachment to ideas, opinions, judgments - the stories about our lives that we construct - condition the future and set the stage for our continued suffering. Clients have the opportunity to look at their experience through a variety of lenses, For example:
- By experiencing how we condition the future in our here-and-now experience through the core fixations of attraction and aversion:
- This is it (I like it, approve of it, want more of it, would like it to last or be there whenever I want it, etc.)
As we become more and more still, the true healing and transformative power of spacious mind operates. We begin to recognize the formless one life in all, the stillness and spaciousness in which everything arises. Through that still presence, true healing takes place, the healing of the mind and body. This enables the client to embody presence more fully and to learn to live a life of inner peace and harmony.
- This isn’t it (I don’t like it, want it to go away or stop, etc.)
"STAY PRESENT, and continue to observe what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of “the one who observes,” the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens… …
WHEN YOU DENY EMOTIONAL PAIN, your actions, thoughts, and relationships become contaminated. You then emanate negative energy, and others pick it up subliminally."
Eckhart Tolle
A Contemporary Approach with Roots in Timeless Wisdom
The Spacious
Mind approach is an innovative and contemporary synthesis of
the ancient wisdom found in Hindu and
Buddhist non-dual traditions,
incorporating their essence into a unique and
powerful life coaching method.
Spacious
Mind Coaching is complementary to all contemplative approaches,
including Mindfulness (Vipassana) and other forms of meditation. Where
these meditative approaches tend to be practiced in silence, the Spacious Mind approach uses both silence
and
speech to engage clients in various types of
conversations and inquiries into the nature of the client’s experience
in the present moment. The purpose of these contemplative conversations
is to become aware of how our interpretations of what is occurring in
the moment - the constructions and stories we invest in - condition
the next moment, thus sewing the
seeds of our own suffering.
The central aspects of Mindfulness – serenity (Shamatha) and penetrating insight (Vipassana) - form the contemplative container for these interchanges and lead to the gentle release of fixations, thereby faciliating access to the Spacious Mind.
At the heart of this process is the direct experience of pure awareness, being, freedom from compulsive thought and reactivity - spacious openness to the moment - Presence. Being present and open to life is the ultimate goal of all human endeavors. Buddhists refer to this state as resting in unconditioned mind, or spaciousness, while the Advaitists refer to it as abiding in the Self.
To arrange an interview contact: michael@spaciousmindcoaching.com
The central aspects of Mindfulness – serenity (Shamatha) and penetrating insight (Vipassana) - form the contemplative container for these interchanges and lead to the gentle release of fixations, thereby faciliating access to the Spacious Mind.
At the heart of this process is the direct experience of pure awareness, being, freedom from compulsive thought and reactivity - spacious openness to the moment - Presence. Being present and open to life is the ultimate goal of all human endeavors. Buddhists refer to this state as resting in unconditioned mind, or spaciousness, while the Advaitists refer to it as abiding in the Self.
To arrange an interview contact: michael@spaciousmindcoaching.com
