The Shamanic Coach: The World Is As You Dream It...The Path of The Heart

Saturday, November 6, 2004
11:00 am–1:00 pm
Room 303 AB

The effective executive and personal coaches of today must assume many roles with their clients. In the course of this important relationship, we are called upon to be a facilitator, a teacher, a muse, a cheerleader, a listener, a provoker. This engaging and highly interactive workshop introduces a new role—the coach as Shaman.

Shamans, or medicine people, are healers who engage in three primary practices: healing, divination, and enlightenment—and they have been doing this for 100,000 years. Derived through years of trial and error, the practices that have been distilled to this age are proven and powerful. During this workshop Maya Balle, MCC, and Richard Whiteley will share one such practice with you.

Maya, shaman coach and a successful workshop leader, and Richard, a successful entrepreneur, author, and shaman practitioner, have created this high impact workshop to share one of the classic Shaman healing practices—the Power Animal retrieval.

Objectives
The objectives of this session are to help you to:

• Understand the role of Shamanic healing in the coaching process
• Learn how or deepen your knowledge of a Shamanic journey
• Discover your personal Power Animal
• Practice using your Power Animal to assist in achieving powerful coaching results
• Have fun!

The learning media used to achieve these objectives will include: presentation, individual exercises, small group work, application of the learnings to a real life coaching situation and to clients, and large group discussion.

For maximum learning, please bring to the workshop:

• A beginner's mind
• A current coaching dilemma for which you, yourself, would like some coaching

Maya Balle's and Richard Whiteley's handout (This is a PDF file)

MAYA BALLE, MCC, is the founder of Answer Journeys Coaching. Answer Journeys are an invitation to clients, from any religious or spiritual practices, to experience ancient wisdom traditions. Journey Coaching discovers paths of the heart that maximize the ability of spirit for healing and problem-solving. Her love for coaching journeys is inspired by Shamanic work in the wilderness and jungles of the U.S., Ecuador, Peru, Asia and India; her training at U. Mass Memorial Medical Center Mindfulness Stress Reduction Clinic, The Chopra Center, The Mind Body Institute at Harvard Medical School, and the Institute for Meditation. Maya leads workshops and Answer Journeys internationally. For more information: www.answerjourney.com.

RICHARD WHITELEY is a successful entrepreneur, dynamic speaker and award-winning author. He is the principal of The Whiteley Group and was co-founder of The Forum Corporation, a 700 person global training company whose annual shareholder return over 29 years was 36%. Richard has written four best-selling, award-winning business books including The Corporate Shaman. He is currently working on a book about selling. Richard also has a healing practice in Boston where he utilizes the methods handed down by shamans over many millennia. For more information, please refer to Richard's web site, www.whiteleygroup.com.