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”Awaken Voices: Journeys of a Brave Community” is a podcast where Christi and Eve explore themes of coaching, spirituality, and community, inviting listeners on a journey towards greater trust, self-awareness, compassion and bravery. By engaging with members of the Awaken community in heartfelt conversations, they navigate the depths of human experience, sharing insights and conversations that inspire growth and self-discovery.
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
Have you ever noticed how seen, understood and appreciated people feel when your questions are really tailored to their understanding of the world?
What if you could take it even one step further and build your questions considering their unique set of strength?
Jennifer Doyle Vancil shows us how by being more aware of our strength allows us them harness their strength to be more authentic, to empower others with our strength and to experience the lightness and joy of sharing from your zone of genius.
Join our community to get to know Jennifer personally and experience more of her wisdom and strength.
🌀 On top of that, you get access to monthly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with experienced business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with senior coaches and special guest from around the world)
- and much more.. depth, presence, care, connection, trust.
Join our Community (https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community).
📲 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become a (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
About out guests
Jennifer Doyle Vancil is a Gallup-certified strengths coach, career strategist, and executive mentor with over 20 years of experience. Her work centers on helping individuals and teams leverage their unique talents to create meaningful careers and improve workplace dynamics. A passionate advocate for strengths-based living, Jennifer brings a wealth of knowledge, compassion, and creativity to her coaching practice. You can connect with her at communicatingstrengths.com.
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
🌀 Be part of a community of like-minded coaches that want to go deep, create belonging and impact the world with their unique gifts and powerful presence.
Join our Community (https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community).
Next to an amazing network, you get access to monthly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with successful business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with experts and guest around the world)
- and much more
📲 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become an (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
In this episode, Stacy Crawford, PCC, and Christi Byerly, MCC, explore the intersection of coaching, personal growth, and lifelong learning. They discuss the benefits of coaching frameworks, the forward-focused approach of coaching versus therapy, and how tools like CliftonStrengths help clients discover their potential. The conversation also highlights their transformative experiences in coach training, likened to a personal pilgrimage. Both hosts emphasize the importance of grace and patience in integrating new skills, underscoring coaching as a continuous journey of growth and connection.
About our guest
Stacy Crawford has been an educator and learner for her entire life. She is a proud alumnus of the Awaken Coach Institute and is honored to serve as a faculty member.
Stacy is a Gallup Certified Coach and a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She has more than 300 hours of training through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Stacy wants to leave a legacy of lifelong learning, love, and laughter. One of her favorite things is one-on-one coaching with those who want to live a life of their own design, full of joy. She is known for bringing mind-body wisdom into her life and the lives of others. Occasionally, she can be found singing and playing the ukulele.
Connect with her on Social Media:
Website: www.klearwatercoaching.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stacycrawford-klearwater
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Klearwatercoachingwellness Instagram: klear_water
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Every experience we encounter offers us a chance to shape our own narrative. We have the power to make meaning from what happens to us, and storytelling is a vital tool in that process. It not only empowers us in our own stories but also connects us with our audience, creating a shared understanding of human experiences.
Become a member in our community to learn more from Michelle & Michelles’ wisdom on Storytelling.
🌀Deepen your Coaching skills and strengthen your unique style as a Coach and Leader!
Get access to monthly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with successful business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with experts and guest around the world)
- and much more
Join our Community (https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community).
📲 Connect on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become a (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
About out guests
Michelle and Michelle teach a class called StoryCraft that guides students in telling true personal stories about their lives. They get excited by witnessing the growth of their students as they uncover the core of their stories, and learn more about themselves.
Experience more of their work @ StoryCraft
Check out their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@storycraftteam7290
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
💌 Join Kathryn’s Monthly Story Circles:
An one-hour online circle where you'll listen to a story drawn from old and new childhood favourites from across time and around the world, and reflect on and engage more deeply with the messages these stories can offer each of us through exploratory art and conversation.
Become a member in our community to join the next story circle on November 7, 5pm CET.
🌀Deepen your Coaching skills and strengthen your unique style as a Coach and Leader!
Get access to monthly/weekly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with successful business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with experts and guest around the world)
- and much more
****📲 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become an (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
In today’s conversation, Kathryn Abbott and Kathryn Masso explore the profound impact of storytelling on personal growth and community connection. They discuss the nature of stories, the emotional connections they foster, and the importance of personal narratives. Through the sharing of the parable 'The Blind Man and the Elephant,' they illustrate how different perspectives can lead to deeper understanding. The conversation emphasizes the heart connection that storytelling creates and offers resources for those interested in exploring storytelling further.
About our guest
With deep interests in human development and nature connection, Kathryn is passionate about creating and participating in communities that are dedicated to supporting people in being their whole, beautiful, truthful, creative selves.
She seeks to support and nurture people in building strong, loving, honest relationships with themselves, so they have the foundation to create the lives and connections they want.
With over 16 years of experience in working with people in 1-1 and group settings, she is known for her empathy, compassion and deep listening.
Connect with her on LinkedIn
Additional resources to dive deeper into story telling:
- Therapeutic Storytelling by Susan Perrow for healing stories
- David Sewell McCann’s podcast, How the Story 🎙️
- Works by Sharon Blackie for cultural storytelling and place-based narratives
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Are you curious to learn more about Organizational Coaching?
🎧 Listen to our previous podcast with Yael Leinman:
#10 Unleashing Organizational Potential: The Power of Systems Coaching
🌀 Would you like to deepen your Coaching skills and uncover your unique essence as a Coach and Leader.
Join our Community (https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community). Get access to monthly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with successful business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with experts and guest around the world)
- and much more
📲 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become a (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
About out guest
Yael Leinman is a mental health clinician with nearly two decades of clinical, managerial, and commissioning experience in NHS (National Health Service - UK) mental health services. She now works with leaders to help them shift relational challenges in their team dynamics, removing barriers to team cohesion and achieving outcomes by integrating differences; within themselves and their communities. Integrating differences is a crucial part of our ability to survive, develop, and transform as a society. This is also true for our inner system just as much. Yael loves sharing her knowledge, creating meaningful and authentic connections, and believes that we can only survive challenges by truly listening to one another and being open to differences so that we can collaborate to generate healthy ways forward as a society.
Connect with her
on LinkedIn
via her website
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Join Lyssa deHart’s event LIVE on Ocotber 16th: Sign up now to learn to establish a strong foundation on trust and safety in your coaching relationships
Sign up here: https://www.awakencoaching.com/products/214718-Build-Your-Foundation-on-Trust-and
🌀 Join our Community (https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community) and uncover the depth of your true genius and unique essence as a Coach and Leader. Get access to monthly:
- Mentor Coaching (with our senior faculty)
- Coaching Supervision (with founder and MCC coach Christi Byerly)
- Business Masterminds (with successful business consultants)
- Deepen your Coaching Skills (with experts and guest around the world)
- and so much more
📲 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook | Linkedin | Instagram
🎗️ Become a (ICF certified) Spiritual Depth Coach live or online.
About out guest
Lyssa deHart, LICSW, MCC, BCC, is an author, podcast host, and coach. She authored 'StoryJacking,' 'The Reflective Coach,' and 'Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors.'
In 2018, Lyssa developed the Power of Coaching with Metaphors, leveraging the Core Competencies and her understanding of neuroscience to support professional coaches in their work to listen deeply and partner more fully with their clients. In 2022, Lyssa developed the Updated Credentialing Exam PREP to support coaches in preparing for the exam.
Discover Lyssa’s books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/13630143.Lyssa_deHart
Connect with Lyssa
Website: https://LyssadeHart.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssadehart/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LyssadeHart
Insta: @LyssadeHart
FB: @LyssadeHart
Here are some key insights from today's conversation:
- Imaginative Goal Setting: Encouraging clients to envision their goals as immersive experiences helps them connect on a deeper level. When clients visualize their desired outcomes, they become more motivated to achieve them.
- Clarity as a Goal: Instead of traditional metrics, let’s focus on feelings like clarity. Clients may express wanting to move from "head in the weeds" to a place of clarity—a metaphor that can be powerful and meaningful.
- Client-Led Exploration: The best metaphors come from the client’s own language. It’s vital for coaches to follow their lead and adapt our questions to suit their unique perspectives.
- Reflective Practice: Regularly reviewing our coaching sessions allows us to witness ourselves and focus on enhancing our proficiency and effectiveness. This self-analysis is essential for honing our Coaching skills.
- Building Trust: Establishing a safe and trusting relationship with clients encourages them to share their thoughts openly, leading to richer coaching experiences.
Let’s continue to explore the art of coaching with metaphors and embrace creativity in our sessions!
💬 I’d love to hear your experiences with using metaphors in coaching. What’s a metaphor that has resonated with your clients?
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Are you curious about becoming certified with the International Coaching Federation? Then you should definitely listen to this episode:
Christi and our guest Matthew Cintron-Quinones, both ICF assessors and MCC coaches, share an insightful yet humorous behind the scene view of ICF Coaching Assessments, and what makes them fun for Matthew. Together, they discuss the importance of individuality and uniqueness in coaching, and the need to move away from rote verbatim scripts. Matthew highlights several things he would like coaches to stop doing, such as unnecessary preambles, overusing phrases like 'tell me more,' and using nonverbal sounds while the client is speaking. He also emphasises the importance of deep listening and being present with the client as the human connection is what sets the foundation of the client’s personal transformation. Highlighting the limitations of standardised behaviours they emphasise the need for coaches to show up as real people and ask powerful questions that challenge their clients.
Their experiences with the MCC assessment process is revealed as they encourage coaches to have fun and be creative in their coaching sessions
Celebrating diversity, embracing different perspectives, and creating a world that values creativity and laughter is what can make a real difference in coaching.
Key Takeaways:
- Assessments and mentor coaching can be a fulfilling and meaningful aspect of coaching practice.
- Individuality and uniqueness should be valued in coaching, and coaches are encouraged find their own style and approach.
- Coaches are better off when avoiding unnecessary preambles, overusing phrases like 'tell me more,' and using nonverbal sounds while the client is speaking.
- Deep listening and being present with the client are essential skills for effective coaching.
- The ICF competencies provide a structure for coaching, but coaches should not be overly rigid and should use their creativity and interpretation. Coaches should show up as real people and ask powerful questions that challenge their clients.
- Coaches can allow themselves to have fun, be creative, and embrace humor in their coaching sessions.
- Diversity and different perspectives should be celebrated and valued.
- A world that values creativity, laughter, and human connection should be created.
About out guest Matthew Cintron- Quinones
Matthew is known for being generous, intelligent, clever, and resourceful, all wrapped up with a big caring heart and a lot of laughter. He bring expertise in assessing learning, measuring coaching skills, and delving deep into his passions, especially in the realm of creativity. What excites him most is helping others to embrace what makes them unique, tapping into creativity to bring out the fun in the mundane, sharing knowledge and learning with others, and building meaningful partnerships and relationships.
Connect with Matthew via LinkedIn or his website.
Deepen your coaching skills and grow in a community of brave, heart-centred coaches at https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community
You can find our upcoming community events here.
Become an ICF-certified coach by joining one of our next coach trainings
Online in September 2024
‣https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/coach-certification-course
Live in Spain May 2025
https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/spain-retreat
Keep in touch and follow us on Social Media
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Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Wednesday Sep 04, 2024
Coaching can be a game changer in moving through the most challenging times in your life (e.g. serious illnesses like cancer). It can allow you to create deeper and more meaningful relationships to yourself and the people you care about.
Our guest in this weeks episode, Ray McGhee, is a former social science researcher that dedicates his time post-retirement to coach individuals and small teams to be true to themselves and live in alignment with what’s meaningful to them.
During the Awaken In-person Coach Certification Course in Spain, he discovered a new path for himself through Coaching. Facing a serious illness like cancer he recognised what truly matters in life — investing in relationships, pursuing passions, and finding joy in every moment. Coaching allowed him to not only deepen his relationships, but also increase the awareness on how he wants to live his passion and purpose in the years he got gifted after curing from cancer.
In the conversation he shares about his approach to coaching, the importance of reciprocity in relationships, and the impact of feeling and sharing about his emotions on his personal growth.
He also shares insights into the spiritual practices that sustain him and how coaching has enriched his personal life, particularly his marriage. Whether you’re a seasoned coach or just curious about the power of coaching, Ray’s story will inspire you to embrace life fully and connect more deeply with others.
Key Takeaways:
- The power of coaching lies in its reciprocal nature—both coach and client grow together.
- Facing serious illness can clarify life’s priorities, making relationships and passions even more valuable.
- Spiritual practices like meditation and prayer provide a strong foundation for navigating life’s challenges.
- Coaching can take unexpected turns, leading to diverse experiences and deep personal growth.
- Embracing emotions, rather than avoiding them, can lead to profound personal development.
About out guest - Raymond McGhee
Ray McGhee’s journey is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the profound impact of coaching on both personal and professional lives. He is a man who values human connection, affirms the dignity and value of all people, and sees unlimited growth potential in everyone.
Hospitality is very important to him as he wants to offer a safe space where anyone can feel belonging and connection.
Connect with Raymond via LinkedIn or his website.
Deepen your coaching skills and grow in a community of brave, heart-centred coaches at https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/the-awaken-community
You can find our upcoming community events here.
Become an ICF-certified coach by joining one of our next coach trainings
Online in September 2024
‣https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/coach-certification-course
Live in Spain May 2025
https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/spain-retreat
Keep in touch and follow us on Social Media
We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode! Leave a review or reach out to us on social media.
Welcome to Awaken Voices:
Journeys of a brave community
Are you looking for a brave, wholehearted community with others that want to go deep?
This podcast is our way of sharing our lived community experience with curious souls seeking for belonging, depth and wholeness.
Christi and Evelyn from Awaken Coach Institute are inviting you into a space where you can belong, feel seen, and walk along side our community members to create a connected, heart-centered way of being together through empowering one another.
We aim to create a space for meaningful conversations on topics close to our hearts, and invite authenticity, vulnerability and deep insight.
Dive deep into your spirituality, identity and beliefs, become a braver, more compassionate leader & get interesting insights around coaching according the standards of the International Coaching Federation.
Join us and be part of this beautiful journey!