Shift-It: Christina Merkely
(My live blogging is flagging towards the end of a very full day. So much reflective stuff to write... ah...My camera battery was dead, so I have to find someone else's pictures!) Christina Merkley – Shift-It (Introduced the agenda, which I did not record…) Ground rules: Christina is showing us the visual bio chart – a nice beginning move for yourself. Create a visual bio to help you tell your story. I use mine on my website, in trainings off on the side. Marketing piece. People can identify you in different ways. Where you went to school, companies you worked with. Using it as a presentation tool, I’m from Victoria BC, got pulled into organizational development work. Worked in politics and realized we needed to get more coordinated. Started looking for schools. Attracted to SF, CIIS, an alternative grad school, to create my own study. Did an MA in OD and transformation. I did not know this graphics field existed. Never thought I was an artist. A friend at CIS, we had to do internships, did one with David at the Grove. He showed me their materials and for me it brought together my two creative and analytical sides. Did an internship. It was beautiful timing as they were doing the strategic visioning product development. Combined strategic visioning and the individual work. This juncture started happening. For thesis. Showed it to person at Clausson and they hired me. Spent a year as support person. In there in the Grove hub as support person to other consultants. Gave a bird’s eye view of the work. Close mentor said handed me a job for Monday. Jumped in and must have done OK. They switched me to being a graphic recorder. IN some ways people think that was cushy, but you have to immediately bring in your salary. You have to learn a lot about marketing. Huge learning curve. How to network and bring in the work. Spent four years at Grove as internal graphic recorder and moving into co facilitation. Then this individual track started to emerge. Love the work. In SF Bay Area Coaches Training Institute is there. No one else was doing graphics, so worked doing demos with students and they all wanted to work with me, collecting the insights and aha’s in the coaching experience. On to something here. I experimented for years with whomever I could get my hands on and the process started to evolve. Took hypnotherapy training, NLP, how people create their reality. Being the entrepreneur, itching to go out on my own. Moving into facilitator as well. Created my own company 6 months before 9-11. Make Your Mark LLC. It was tricky after 9-11. My work dried up. 911 was kind of a spiritual wake up call. I realized – what I really enjoy doing. Personal work. Meditation path. My own personal development work. I decided to switch my work. Enjoyed corporate work, travel, work with great facilitators. But this is what I loved. My exit strategy. How to switch out of corporate work and build a business model around this. Not interested in executive coaching where company pays. More into personal life coaching. What has evolved – it is organic, step after step. Out of this I realized if I was going to expand and make it easier on myself. What is this thing. Moved back to Victoria. Over a long rainy winter thinking – the process shifted, name popped out and the 7 stages. Went to Starbucks and all the templates fell out in an hour and a half. Then another three years of getting that into a product form. Partner with people to create. A lot of back and forth with designers. Shift-It Rapid Coaching Process. 17 moves to this. Gives me flexibility as coach. Map pack – all those different moves I do in order with the client. I work in Victoria. Doing a lot of training and mentoring in graphic facilitation. As moving into other work, want to train them out and get them to deliver. Started small. When I moved, there wasn’t much understanding about graphic recording and facilitation. It is a niche field, that is growing. It was a matter of survival to again learn more about marketing. Created Make Your Mark site. Content. On your site you want to create useful content. Free stuff. Wrote a lot of articles helped me get known again. Because of the internet, it didn’t just expand in Canada, but around the world. They didn’t want to fly me out, but they wanted to pick my brain. Opportunity – who would you recommend in my area. Some of you are on my referral network. I get a lot of traffic. Clients ask my opinion. Train out and partner up and now have business that sustains me. Graphic coaching niche. I coach a lot, also about marketing and internet marketing. In the last 5 years, people know search engine terms and finding us. A wealth of sites out there. I think it is very exciting, positive, growing, the world is our oyster and I like to help people get that mindset. The positivity around this work and where it is going. Depending on what your niche is and how you want to weave it in your own way. How things have grown, diversity of use and people being attracted. (Passing out raffle ticket.) Have productized into a kit that people can use on their own. Next step is e-elearning. 40% training and 50% coaching. Q: What was the process from swinging from working with larger and larger groups to the individual. A: I could not do corporate anymore from a values perspective. Quality of life rather than just money. If you do want to make a difference, need to think beyond 1 to 1 to telecoaching groups. License or empower other coaches and consultants to take it to their clientele. Very interested in Law of Attraction work and may create a new product line which can expand in an exciting way. Get it into a lot of people’s hands and make a difference. Work generally takes 3 hours, can be broken down into 12 calls or mini process in 6 calls. (Less moves). (She puts up her vision graphic. I’m too far away to see it.) Obviously I’ve been influenced by David’s work, the mandala, with a magnet in the middle. When we launch vision we pull things to us that align with our vision. The underlying symbolism. Use myself as an example. What is your next stretch. Mine is 7 years out. Earlier their were shorter time frame goals. At this point, what is my desire? What do I want to create? For 2015, put yourself there in present tense – I have great work, life balance, time to think and be, assistance in home front, virtual staff, successful multimillion dollar personal growth enterprise, perfect match life partner, fun and happier personal and family life (holistic), fit, healthy, feel great about myself, well known and respected brand, slightly famous, purposeful life that feels good to me and contributes to others. You can do a magnetism map on business or your full life and self. There are a couple of things on this template (hand out templates). You will have three of them. Take a color and a B&W pack. You’ll notice these red words. What I found helpful in visioning is to discover –this is a specific thing – what is underneath, what essence is this providing in your life? In this work life balance bucket – peace, calm and centeredness. To the universe, bring on any form that will give me peace, calm and centeredness. For biz –creativity, expression and growth. What do these things mean for you, the underlying essence, what you are about. Go through these things and pull up your essence. What you are really about. With Law of Attraction, you start to have these things come to you that meet the essence. Each one has a little check where we move into allowing. You create a vision, big step, then you get that freak out about the vision. Things that are pushing your buttons and you need to come into alignment with your vision. There are things that push my buttons. For me, if … checking to see if this is possible, in this amount of time. (missed had to plug back into power). This is where work as hypnotherapist comes in. You have to tap in to feel that security and energy. Hicks,, 17 seconds of pure energy and attraction kicks into place. One thing I’m good at is imagining. It starts to become more familiar, it doesn’t seem so strange. You become it in your mind. Keep it safe at first, then as you own it you become it. That’s what I do. Go with client and see how much they can hold and where is the stuff we need to shift. For me it’s the money and then how to integrate having kids and family. The rest – I’m there in a lot of the ways. I can hold it and allow it. As I do this with a client, this tells me where we need to focus our work. Demo the flip it process with you. 7 is the magic number or less in terms of the area. If there are more. Collapse them. Now work with LoriLouise to demo… The first template, wouldn’t it be nice if… we’ll start there as a little segue. Nice one to use with groups for visioning. Quick one. Bypasses some fo the resistance. Take a moment to think about the conference, even before you came here, things brewing in your minds about your horizons or where you want to go. Wouldn’t it be nice if…. A playful sentence. Finish the sentence for yourself. Keep writing. The good stuff comes at the end. This is where you are now. It continues to evolve. (Christina has now put up three charts – a magnetic template and two flip it charts. ) As we work with LoriLouise, given your work with “wouldn’t it be nice” how do you condense these into main things. Christina starts working with LoriLouise. I think this is too personal to blog, so I’ll take a pause in live blogging this… Each “wouldn’t it be nice” have a zing and zap of energy. All of you are going to have different things that turn you on. Lots of interesting stuff to work with. Now let’s test a little bit with time frame. If you are in transition, 3 years out? With more time do guided imagery. Now in 2009, who are you? Play with “I am…” (Again, I missed a bit as it is hard to hear in the back of the room where I am plugged in) (Ahh, giving up after the part with LoriLouise and am just listening. End of full day!)
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