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Joining the Saturday Satsangs

Christina Merkley — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:57:09 +0000

As you may know, Satsang is Sanskrit for ‘in the community of true people’. Twice a year, I offer these Private Visual Satsangs – which are very special online communities. The next one begins this Saturday. Repeaters and newbies are warmly welcome. Satsangs are a safe place to gather with awakening people from around the... Read more »

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GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: SARAH HERD

Christina Merkley — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:51:51 +0000

As an HR Executive and a Digital leader, Sarah is well-versed in large system change. In her corporate leadership role, she’s responsible for large digital transformation projects across HR … sometimes several at the same time! It was my sacred task in Visual Coach Certification to hold space for her. Give her the room, resources,... Read more »

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FINDING AND USING MY VOICE

Christina Merkley — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:51:37 +0000

[Non-Dual Self Inquiry] Finding and Using My Voice – Diane Sits with Christina Merkley Video: Visual Map: Finding and Using My Voice Summary: A really beautiful Inquiry about the path of cultivating one’s voice. We begin with what is – meeting excitement in Diane’s Belly, and simultaneously a restriction in her Throat. Empathy arrives, then... Read more »

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A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Christina Merkley — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:56:49 +0000

A nice respite. Enjoying the West Coast summer. Cheers! I celebrated my moon child birthday. I am conveniently bad with time, so they are amorphously blending into one another nowadays. My friends, even the doggedly left-brain ones, know not to remind me which one I’m on! I had a lovely time in Parksville on Vancouver... Read more »

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Fall Processing Groups

Lisa Orchard — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:31:41 +0000

There are three processing containers coming up this fall. Where we compassionately meet everything arising in the now. Community during these exceptional times. 1. Satsang Day – In-person in Victoria, Canada Date: Sunday, September 14, 2025 Time: 9:30 – 5 pm, Pacific Time This is my only in-person event this season. A rare opportunity to... Read more »

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A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Christina Merkley — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:42:38 +0000

Sliding into summer in the Pacific Northwest. Our backyard bank of St. John’s wort has erupted into a sea of yellow. Watching the first bloom emerge, then the winnowing down to the last. Such a wave of exuberant beauty that I delight in each year! The so-called little things in life that summon immense pleasure.... Read more »

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GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: JAN RICHARDS

Christina Merkley — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:42:29 +0000

Today’s grad, Jan Richards, is located in Silicon Valley (where I was based in the 90s). A longtime business consultant and former National Baldridge Examiner, she’s a Grove Consultants aficionado (my former employer back in the heady dot-com days). Jan knows the efficient practicality of ‘working visually’, having successfully used the Grove’s Strategic Visioning and... Read more »

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LUXURY TO TALK

Christina Merkley — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:42:20 +0000

[Non-Dual Self Inquiry] Luxury to Talk – Ana Sits with Christina Merkley Video: ? Visual Map: Luxury to Talk – Early Years Summary: We begin with what is – meeting Ana’s current relationship to motherhood. Sadness connected to her own desire and ambivalence, and a series of contradictions and polarities with her own mother. The... Read more »

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A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA

Christina Merkley — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:59:43 +0000

Oh my. These are intense and shifting times, are they not?! As The SHIFT-IT Coach, I continue to shift too. In my personal life, I continue to support my parents to age in place. For privacy reasons, I won’t go into details, but suffice to say, this context adds a bittersweet component. One of the... Read more »

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GRADUATE SPOTLIGHT: DONNA CHEWNING

Christina Merkley — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:59:23 +0000

Donna has both personal and professional reasons for working visually. On a personal level, she is the mother of an adult son with a lifelong disability and limited communication abilities. Professionally, her career in Restorative Justice, Conflict Resolution, and Mediation – including her work with her state’s Supreme Court and Alternative Dispute Resolution Department, as... Read more »

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