Integral Master Coach
Inner Landscapes Coaching
Helping People Live An Authentic Life
Introduction
When we have problems or feel stuck in life, we often look outside ourselves for solutions. In some situations, that is exactly where we need to focus. However, in many circumstances, what is slowing us down or keeping us stuck, is coming from obstacles that we have created inside ourselves.
As children we do the best we can to deal with the imperfections of life. We develop strategies to protect ourselves from feeling hurt or frightened. These initial strategies can become reactive behaviour later in adulthood causing different kinds of ‘problems’.
These ‘problems’ show up in our negative self-talk and in the repeating of unhealthy or ineffective behaviour. Uncovering our old patterns and learning how to deal with them effectively opens us to internal resources that were not previously available.
These old psychological/emotional processes are just part of our inner landscape.
Inner Landscape
Our inner landscape includes everything that is going on inside of us all the time. This encompasses our thoughts, our emotions and the felt sense of our bodies. And there is so much more. The vastness of the inner world offers an openness to life’s mysteries and to releasing into our very essence.
The inner landscape is a deep source of information and strength that is mostly outside of our awareness. Paying attention to, and becoming comfortable with, diverse aspects of our inner world, brings us vision, insight and deep personal fulfillment. It opens us to resources that we did not know we had.
Coaching Process
The coaching process starts with your coaching topic – an important issue in your life where you feel stuck in some way.
Working with the topic you will uncover and make peace with the patterns of thinking and feeling that are currently holding you back. This results in you developing new perspectives and capacities for moving forward.
With practice, you create a safe space within yourself where you learn to be with whatever is arising within you at any particular moment. You begin to consistently align your behaviours with your core values and goals. You also have a space from which you can explore the more transpersonal aspects of the inner landscape.
The work develops a skill set that you take with you long after the coaching sessions come to an end. The culmination of this life-long process is to come home to yourself and to live your life from a place of authenticity and connection.
The inner journey is experiential, not theoretical. You take your journey at your own pace and move in the directions that you choose. As your coach, I accompany you each step along the way.
Integral Master Coach™
Gordon Mackay
“Integral Coach® is a registered trade-mark in Canada owned by Integral Coaching Canada Inc. and licensed to Gordon MacKay.”
My personal inner journey spans more than five decades and like yours, is unique yet universal. I have many years of study and experience in various fields, including: Gestalt Therapy, Buddhist meditation, non-dual thinking, shamanism, inner child work, Therapeutic Touch, Alcoholics Anonymous, palliative care, dementia support, and, of course, training to become an Integral Master Coach™. My inner work has also been guided throughout my life by visions and dreams and by many wise and gifted teachers.
In my earlier career, I was the manager of a communication and client services area of a large organization before moving into Human Resources Development as a management development advisor. There I provided executive coaching services, ran group coaching circles, designed and delivered soft-skills management training courses, and led team development processes. I have been a Certified Integral Master Coach™ since June 2005.
Inspirational Quotes
Inspirational Poems
Summer Kitchen
by Donald Hall
In June’s high light she stood at the sink
With a glass of wine,
And listened for the bobolink,
And crushed garlic in late sunshine.
I watched her cooking, from my chair.
She pressed her lips
Together, reached for kitchenware,
And tasted sauce from her fingertips.
“It’s ready now. Come on,” she said.
“You light the candle.”
We ate, and talked, and went to bed,
And slept. It was a miracle.
Adapted from “A Christmas Letter”
by Fra Giovanni
Life is so full of meaning and purpose,
so full of beauty beneath its covering
that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.
Courage then to claim it; that is all!
But courage you have, and the knowledge
that we are pilgrims together,
wending through unknown territory home.
And so, at this time, I greet you,
not quite as the world sends greetings,
but with profound esteem
and with the prayer that for you,
now and forever,
the day breaks and shadows flee away.
To Come Home To Yourself
By John O’donohue
May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.
May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquillities.
May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into a future,
Graced with love.