What My Service is About — The Skeptical Hippie
My more visible task is helping my client learn, by doing, to make their meaning-making process more intentional. Our unintentional meaning-making is pervasive and subversive, and we cannot stop doing it. Rather, one cultivates improved awareness and better-serving practices. I think of it as spiritual fitness, like physical fitness. These practices include: This task is more subtle, and harder. I invite the client to open up to me for an authentic, though professional, bond. Through the experience of this authentic connection, they may better find that authenticity in their selves and in their lives. The underlying mechanism of forming this bond is my sincere belief in your best self. I wish to find that best self and make it belong: truly see it, get to know it, celebrate it, amplify it, support it, and set it free. Connecting the authentic in you is the magic sauce. It gives your meaning-making an undercurrent feeling of being relevant and true. You start feeling like you're working
My basic roles There are two. Collaborative intentional meaning-making My more visible task is helping my client learn, by doing, to make their meaning-making process more intentional. Our unintentional meaning-making is pervasive and subversive, and we cannot stop doing it. Rather, one cultivates improved awareness and better-serving practices. I think of it as spiritual fitness, like physical fitness. These practices include: Focusing on our basic sensations, be they physical, emotional, or more abstract. Appreciating these sensations as themselves , and to describing them more genuinely usi
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