Our Approach
The focus here is making the sometimes harrowing, sometimes ecstatic journey into an ever deepening aliveness. Or, the focus is getting to know the deepest version of yourself (beneath layers of conditioning and confusion) and bringing that uniqueness out in a way that is helpful to the world. That's just two ways of saying the same thing.
The method is hanging out together in an ever greater willingness to notice what's true...and what feels aligned to a felt sense of the Divine. Even when it's not comfortable. Even when it robs you of the feeling of being special or superior. Even when it doesn't jive with conventional reality or the beliefs through which you stabilize your sense of self. No teacher and no student. Just that shared willingness and all the doors that it opens.
Our approach applies some of the rigorous inquiry that spiritual systems use to test insights and stories: seeing if cherished beliefs match the lived wisdom of old sages and poets. Noticing if an experience nestles comfortably in with established teachings of this or that tradition. Exploring the techniques and practices that help reveal hidden dimensions of reality. And at the same time…we’re not in the business of building stairways to heaven. We live in this world - which can’t be tidied, transcended, fixed or healed. So we’re left with the opportunity to sit on the ground together and acknowledge the richness of reality as it is: no magic fix-all cures, no escape hatch.
As a Certified Life Coach I guide you in the process of discovering the core essence of who you are by uncovering your truth, your values, your beliefs and of course the heart of your being. I work with clients who are on a journey of fully understanding who they are and finding their way back home to themselves.
What is inner work coaching?
When we live in a world that pressures us to be or act in a certain way, it can feel confusing to really understand who we are. Inner work coaching allows us to take a look at how we have been conditioned and the lens in which we see the world and ourselves. Focusing on goals, the present and the future, coaching guides you in the journey of discovering your full and authentic self. !
Approaches
- Mindfulness
- Inner Child Healing
- Shadow Work
- Divine Feminine Healing
- Mirror Work
- Somatic Healing
- Higher-Self Connecting
- Identifying Self
- Limiting Belief Reprogramming
- Self-Relationship Tending
Inner work coaching is a beautiful invitation to dive deeper into self and peel back the layers to come home to the truth of our heart and soul.
Approaches
Meditation isn't a method or a technique, it's another word for the extraordinary courage to dive into our shaky, vulnerable, sensitive, bored and restless nervous systems and discover our divine, unbroken nautre, our inner parent and best friend, our true home.
Meditation is boring, and that boredom will eventually save you, for meditation will bore down into your defences, and crack open your heart, and that's the least boring thing of all...
Jeff Foster
My name is Shawn...
I offer support for you in living life from a deeply spiritual perspective: uncovering the untamed, unlimited, unknown nature of who and what you are.
When you travel outside the narrow limits of the known, it seems to help to meet with someone with whom you can share a bit of what's been seen. A meeting where the point isn't to coax your experiences into fitting within a spiritual system or a psychological structure. Instead...taking the opportunity of meeting to explore what's been experienced - and what's happening now - on its own terms.
The Details
All Coaching sessions are held online via Zoom video in CST.
I recommend scheduling a free 30-minute connection call to see if working together feels like a good fit.
The next step is to book in a 90-minute initial session to go over an intake process and goal setting. (rate of standard session)
Once the initial intake session is complete, we then will schedule weekly 60-minute sessions.
Rates:
- Weekly calls for the 3 months (total of 12 calls)
- Unlimited e-mail and voice messaging support
- Session summaries and homework per session
In other words, meeting becomes a way to support your steadiness when spiritual earthquakes rumble through mind and blood and bones. I'm here for when the world breaks into your home and startles you with a sacred strip tease - showing more and more of its hidden layers. It can be difficult to meet those surpises alone. That's what I contribute to: the opportunity to be less alone in your unique apprenticeship to reality.
I function as a sherpa that helps carry the load as you wander out into wild, primordial, spiritually rich spaces that may be most supportive of freedom and real maturity. And I'm a good companian for a campfire chat - to listen deeply to the raw, gritty, incredible, ordinary details of what's happening in your life.
I guide human beings who are struggling with…
Dissolution of the Known
Working with your unconscious mind to uncover the parts of yourself that you repress and hide from yourself.
Awakening of Head, Heart & Gut
Self-love work requires acceptance and compassion of self. It involves forgiving oneself.
The Boddhisattva Ideal
Fear is an emotional response to when we feel we are in danger. Often causing a fight, flight or freeze response.
Boddicicita
Discovering all parts of self. Getting to the root who you are, your values, truths and beliefs.
Meeting Intense Emotions
Connecting to the inner child that still lives within us by tending to the inner child’s wounds allows us to heal the deep pain that still exists.
Cancellation Policy
I ask for 24-hours notice for any cancellations or rescheduling. The vision here is providing everyone a certain steadiness which is just simply easier to offer when appointment commitments are kept. I understand that things happen and life can be unpredictable, but when a client cancels without giving enough notice, it prevents another client from being seen. For this reason if the notice is not received before that time, you will be charged 50% of the amount of your session.