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Please note that I have an ongoing weekly drop-in group coaching on a sliding scale of $0-22 that meets on Mondays (7:30-8:30 pm ET). Zoom link, occasional cancellations, and whatever you need to know about that can always be found on the homepage of this site. Everyone is welcome and the population keeps shifting even as regulars reappear!
What follows is about closed coaching groups with defined parameters, including start and finish points, and fixed membership. These self-contained groups allow for participants to go deeper and move more deliberately as individuals and in the joint force and momentum of what we're doing together. We consciously aim toward greater breakthroughs and tangible shifts in mindsets, behavior, and capacity to apply what we talk about and workshop together in sessions. In mutual support and individual power, we step with greater, clearer agency into right, inspired action toward creating the life we want. Beautiful things happen when people consciously come together in the name of love, together believing in transformation, offering one another kind mirroring and support. The force of what unfolds in this journey far surpasses the sum of the parts and is apparent in the lived outcomes & what participants take away as new & improved ways of perceiving & operating.
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Sometimes, I create a group based on a certain theme or for a particular population and invite people to it. Sometimes,
IF YOU'D LIKE TO CREATE A GROUP I offer a drop-in group low-price coaching option for anyone that routinely happens on Monday nights (see top of homepage). If you want this more specialized group for more focused work with a consistent population that you know you're aligned with, call them together! Once you have the people in place, send me an email with everyone included, and we'll go from there. Experience has already demonstrated that something profound & powerful ensues. This document begins with a description of what happens in sessions, then all structures and fees are laid out. Please feel free to direct any questions to [email protected]. WHAT GROUP SESSIONS ARE LIKE In each session, there's time for two to three group members to be in the hot seat to share what's up for them and receive coaching or launch a process we all drop into together. Group members are never passive participants; you are not simply witnessing other people’s work. Whenever you're not in the hot seat, you're asked to find the matching situation or person or realm of life where you struggle with similar beliefs or limitations or have similar feelings evoked. One of my favorite things about the group process is that everyone benefits from all the work we do together: you each experience release and renewal, gain clarity, and refine your personal-growth process every time any individual comes to the fore with specific things to work on. In session, addressing all three centers of intelligence (body, heart, and head), we breathe together and feel into body sensations; we pause with emotions that spike and drop into the feeling body; and we tend the mind by responding to language, interpretations, and ways of framing things. The more we notice where we're placing our focus (as revelaed by paying attention to body, heart, and head), the better and more swiftly we can adjust it to create joyful and effective movement toward managing current conditions better and shifting them (or allowing them to shift) so that life looks and feels better and better, and better matches our vision of what we most want to be, do, and have. Together we use various processes and tools that the moment calls for. Participants are always welcome to request a particular process they want to explore further in this context. HEAD CENTER As the one in the hot seat describes challenges and current circumstances, I listen carefully to your language to mirror back how you’re perceiving and holding your reality. For example, you feel like a victim of a person or situation; you feel tied to old insurmountable patterns; you feel your life as a puzzle that can’t be solved; you feel ill-equipped to deal or incapable of dealing with something in your life; you can't seem to move a dream forward; you can’t get to self-acceptance in a certain realm; you're trapped in dissatisfaction or judgments in relationship; you’re in scarcity mentality; you're focused on what's missing or hard, and not on the joy and inspiration of what you want and what already does work; and so on. With the language spoken by an individual exposing these things (giving us very good information to have), we all find where this is relevant for us and together move through questioning and releasing what doesn't serve us, finding the empowering reframes, and setting ourselves up for meeting this culprit next time it comes knocking. We may use inquiry to question and reframe thoughts, especially through The Work of Byron Katie or parts of that process. We may practice noticing upstream thoughts and reaching for downstream thoughts, or simply reaching for one better-feeling thought after another to give the mind a lot of ways to think and speak about something in a more empowered and aligned way. Whenever it's relevant, I draw on the Enneagram to help people understand their difficulties, to know their power, and to make sense of their beautiful life journeys through the lens of the personality programming they’re running on, and all that's possible beyond that. HEART CENTER We may go back in time to tend a past self and offer the comfort, encouragement, and reality checks that weren't available at the time. We sometimes simply breathe emotion to let it have its life and give it room to dissolve and dissipate. We may bring presence to rejecting no part of ourselves and cultivating supreme self-honoring. We may do forgiveness and release work involving others. I love the teachings of Abraham-Hicks about our emotional guidance system, or emotions as guidance. Very simply put, when you feel bad, you're out of alignment with Source energy or with the truth of who you are. The invitation is to use negative emotions as a call to realignment in order to move forward in ease, love, clarity, flow. What we're taught to do instead, and typically do until we learn another way, is to use negative emotion to focus on what feels bad and isn't to our liking. We analyze and try to figure things out. We look outward to fix external conditions and straighten out other people or launch conversations with them. We end up amplifying problems by focusing on what's wrong and seeking to fix things from a wobbly place that is neither clear nor aligned. So as emotions arise in our coaching together, we'll look at shifting the arrows of attention inward instead of outward to allow for new insight. Where does the negative emotion wants to point us to that will feel better? BODY CENTER Sometimes, we simply pause to take in how something registers in the body. We breathe consciously in order to make more space and lightness. This allows for the unimpeded flow of energy through the physical system as we play with old and new beliefs and perspectives. We may use a felt-sense process to drop in very closely to how we hold and feel something in the body and to notice how that felt-sense is not new to the current situation, but a life companion that we've met many times before. This allows us to release wrong things we taught ourselves earlier in life that we keep needlessly reinforcing and almost always leads to an empowered sense of being able to do it differently. A 3-centered process I love to use is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping). This modality, which involves tapping particular acupoints, clears out pain and beliefs lodged in the cells of the body, calms the nervous system, and has a strong grounding effect. It also shifts emotional states, almost certainly leaving the heart soothed. We just feel better after tapping. Because we speak the negative beliefs and feelings out loud at the beginning of the tapping session then give more time to reaching for better-feeling thoughts and articulating what we really believe or want to believe, and speaking to ourselves as allies and supporters (rather than accusers and scolders), the process sort of turbo-charges any new insights, releases, and new ideas we’re ready to experiment with. Finally, I tell stories and teach or reinforce concepts to support participants to stretch their thinking to what is truer, more authentic, and more empowered. I support their ongoing connection to Source and self and others (and for the latter, this includes right boundaries). I support each one present to know and follow their own belief system, and most important, their own guidance system. I offer no-bullshit non-glossy Law of Attraction principles, especially as taught by Abraham-Hicks, with a focus on feeling good way more often and following your own amazing inner guidance system. I will encourage you to tune in to your own knowing, clear out what’s in the way of clarity or forward movement, meet resistance and anything in yourself without judgment, and learn to navigate by your powerful guidance system without talking back or getting in your head about it. I strongly believe anything can be healed, and you are here to thrive and to offer your gifts to the world in a way that’s deeply fulfilling to and fun for you. Inevitably, this will also bless other individuals and the entire planet. WHAT PARTICIPANTS GET FOLLOWING EACH SESSION Each time, within 48 hours, I’ll send out
GROUP STRUCTURES Either 9 or 16 weeks (weekly or biweekly) 8 coaching sessions (90 min each), plus one check-in session (60 min) Check-in session After coaching session #4, at the halfway point, we have a check-in session to evaluate, recalibrate, and integrate the work in light of our initial intentions as well as current relevance. This will keep us on-point, refine our process, and allow for the best possible journey and outcomes. I welcome an individual email exchange with each participant after this session and before our next meeting. (See Takeaways guidelines near the bottom of this page for ideas of how you might structure what you send me.) So while the session is shorter, I will give the same or more time total. If you prefer a one-on-one conversation by zoom instead of a written exchange, we'll schedule one to last around 20 minutes. PRICING (for 4 people or more) $633 per person for 9 or 18 weeks** Pay exactly that amount if by check (write me for my current snail-mail address). Pay $645 if by PayPal or Venmo. PayPal: paypal.me/jayathetrustcoach Venmo: @jayathetrustcoach My preference is to receive full payment up-front. If you'd like to break up payments, please write me about that. **The person who organizes the group pays $500 total. PARTICIPANT NUMBERS Group must include (not counting me) a minimum of 3 people and maximum of 9. If you wish to form a 3-person group, the price shifts to $744 per person (or ). Once a group begins, membership is closed. ATTENDANCE When you agree to the established meeting time, please be reasonably sure that you can be present for most sessions. Life happens, so this could shift, but don't join a group if you know from the start you'll miss more than two meetings. If you can make it to all meetings live, that's the ideal. Sessions will always be taped (video recording to be shared only with group members). When you miss a meeting, please follow this simple two-part protocol:
The latter could mean a 15-minute conversation with one other group member, or more or all of you for up to an hour. Please establish and follow your own boundaries and desires! No one is obligated to say yes to someone else's request for a meeting. If no one is available (or if for some reason inviting others feels beyond you in the moment), please contact me and we'll connect on a brief call. GROUP THRUST If I organize the group, the thrust will be clear. If you organize the group, you can invite people to a specific intention or brainstorm it together and let me know what you land on. This could be very general:
It could be general with an overarching theme:
It could be super specific:
INDIVIDUAL INTENTIONS These will vary widely from one person to the next. Before our first session, I’ll send all of you a questionnaire that will support you to articulate what you’re up against and what you do and don’t know or feel good about in terms of how you’re showing up. These are designed to get you to a statement of intention. You’ll return these to me individually (no one else will read your responses), and I’ll either approve your statement of intention as is or invite you to some tweaking. Don't belabor these. They could even change as we go because of the transformational aspect of our shared process. Answering the questions will support you to connect to what you wish to gain from the adventure and to put it in writing. Let the intention be as general and loose as you need it to be to feel at ease with it, and know that you can articulate something new if it reveals itself along the way. You never need to share these with the group unless you feel inspired to do so (for example, to pair it with the issue you're bringing up in the hot seat). POSSIBILITY OF EXTENDING THE GROUP Beyond the 9 or 18 weeks: The group can renew for once-monthly sessions 3 at a time for $190 per person total (or $193 if by PayPal or Venmo). You may notice this amounts to a lesser price per session from our original gatherings. At this point, there's such a solid base and ease established that it just feels right and good to me to alter the pricing as well. The caliber of our work together will not change. INDIVIDUAL ADD-ONS A single individual session: $111 (This represents a significant discount.) You can take this one-time 60-minute session anytime during our time together or within 8 weeks following our last session. Individual takeaways after each of 8 group sessions: $99 total. (Pay that up-front or talk to me about a tweak to that timing.) After each session, you send me a write-up of whatever you gained (insights, deepening understandings, intentions for application, and so on), plus any follow-up musings and questions. I write you back individually. This will deepen your process and help you to remember and better integrate and practice the things we talk about. Note that if you write scant takeaways, my response will be briefer accordingly. When people really drop in with takeaways, we have meaningful exchanges that leave them with a written record of the journey and further food for thought or more clear understanding of application. I can’t tell you how often clients let me know they keep rereading takeaways beyond our work together. You can use the process of takeaways to keep your individual intention in view to coincide with what you bring to the the group, and to ensure deeper reflection and greater application. If you’d like greater support and accountability for active participation, takeaways fill the bill. Note that the total cost of group coaching plus takeaways is significantly less than the cost of one-on-one coaching. Takeaways allow you to get more individualized attention to support you beyond the group process. For people in groups that meet weekly, takeaways are due within 48 hours of meeting unless otherwise negotiated with me (just email to tell me when they’re coming if not at the agreed-upon time). For those in groups that meet biweekly, send them any time within a week (due date is on our usual meeting day on the off-week). Takeaways guidelines (for those who choose to do individual takeaways; you may also use these for your email following our check-in session at the halfway point) Some helpful questions for or things to include in session takeaways:
AGREEMENT FOR CONFIDENTIALITY & FOR HOW WE HOLD THIS SPACE I agree to keep confidential anything shared in this group. I agree to use the recording of sessions only for myself and share with no one else. I agree to hold space for each being present, seeing everyone in the highest light. For these hours together, I agree to put aside any negative story that comes up or any preconceived notions I have or accruing impressions I might collect about anyone here. Instead, for everyone gathered, I take the stance “My love is greater than your fear.” I agree to continue bringing back to myself any insights and advice I find myself directing toward another. I will apply these to my own process. I am here to work on myself and my life. I will also seek to hold myself in the highest light. Where I’m concerned about what others think of me, I’ll keep coming back to what I think of myself. I will seek to be in good standing with myself, to meet whatever comes up for me with compassion, and to move as directly as I can at any given moment toward the highest vision of myself accessible to me right now. I am willing to believe in my own evolution, to boldly and authentically step into the next best version of myself. |