This very important article is almost like a glossary of 5 different Teaching Modes that are each vital components of a transformational retreat or workshop. In my nearly 20 years of experience as a facilitator, and in over 50 retreats that I’ve led and 100s upon 100s...
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Energy Is Real (& You Need This for Group Facilitation)
Folks who experience my retreats, workshops and talks often ask me how I am able to create and lead events where participants feel so present, so vulnerable, so connected to me and each other, and so deeply transformed. My answer is always the same: MASTERY. You need...
Uncovering Client Blocks & Toe-Dipping into Inner Child Work
I had the honor and privilege of coaching a volunteer named Joni. She brought a real doozy of an issue to our time together, and I demonstrated how to very quickly and very effectively: Laser right in to uncover underlying blocks and obstacles Connect the dots and...
One of the Most Core, Foundational Coaching Principles, Period
In my nineteen years of coaching, teaching, and facilitating…in my 10 years of parenting and working to raise daughters who are secure, confident and at peace…and in my many decades of being a human being communicating with family, friends, colleagues, and strangers…I...
A Not-So-Secret Ingredient to My Coaching Secret Sauce
My first business coach, who in so many ways was truly a wonderful coach and mentor, taught me a lot about boundaries. She was the first person to really open my eyes to the dangers of over-giving and allowing yourself to be treated (or treating yourself) like a...
Help Your Clients Get Off the Wheel of Sabotage
One of the worst feelings in the world is seeing that a client is engaging in self-sabotage, yet not knowing, as the coach, how to guide her out of this behavior. When a client is engaging in self-sabotage behavior, it can look like: Client has stopped taking actions...
Quickie Coaching Tool
A couple of years ago, I had a session with a client who also works with a healer. She was telling me that she was feeling so much pressure because the Healer had intuited something for her to do - to go to the beach for a week - but she just couldn't figure out how...
Some of My Facilitation Blunders (3 Case Studies & the Tools I Developed from Them)
It's true that I'm known as one of the best workshop, ritual and retreat facilitators in the industry, but what you probably don't know is this: In my nearly 20 years of facilitating (& training others to facilitate!), I've made tons of mistakes. Not just little...
Joanna Lindenbaum is the industry leader in the field of working with Shadow and a masterful and deeply loving guide, mentor, facilitator, trainer and coach. She is a powerful voice of integrity, profound wisdom and a masterful practitioner in the art of lasting transformation.
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