Time with Mother Earth

I‘ve just returned from eleven days in New Mexico for the first retreat of a program called the Black Lodge. Of course for tax purposes this program definitely qualifies as Professional Development and I‘m completely clear that program is about my own personal and spiritual growth and development.

Desert scrub and red earth dust.

About 80% of this time was spent out of doors, which is a BIG perspective shifter, let me tell you. As I was unpacking my bag this morning, I was bathed in good, red earth and the healing smell of a wood fire. It brought back memories of simple meals shared around a communal campfire; of robust, wildly curious conversations and long afternoons spent alone in contemplation on a ledge overlooking a beautiful canyon.

I am shaped by these days like the river has shaped the canyon. I am grown like the fierce pinyon trees reaching out their sturdy roots towards life. I feel as limitless as the wind and as filled with possibility as the morning sunrise. It was a Good Eleven Days!

I was reminded over and over again of the beauty of the work of CTI, of the depth and resonance of our Co-Active Coaching Model, and of the grace of coaching itself.

There is a depth and an intimacy to coaching that is incredibly life affirming and very, very healing. What do you love most about the intimacy of coaching?
KKH