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Four week class in Santa Monica with Caitriona starting May 15

Complimentary Strategy-Focus Call with Caitriona or Michele

The Buddhist system of practice—let’s call it a curriculum for living an integrated life—may be one of the ultimate Personal Development vehicles of all time, an infinitely adaptable road map for personal congruity, freedom, creative expression, and social responsibility.

Michele and I have spent most of our adult lives, until very recently, immersed in Buddhist training, study, and teaching. The challenge, as with any discipline that is truly effective, is to stay unconditionally open, to not confuse values with beliefs, to not get stuck in the vehicle when it is no longer moving in the direction you need to go.

The great thing about the two-and-a-half millennia history of the “Buddha-Dharma” tradition is that it has reinvented itself countless times to address the ever-changing circumstances in which it has found itself.

The question for anyone using a dynamic system for personal transformation—especially when it is time-honored, and steeped in tradition—is how can you learn to utilize it to continue thinking ‘outside the box’ ever more effectively? How can you use it so that it makes a real difference in how you live your life, and how you make a positive difference in the lives of others.

The answer, as it has always been for a chameleon-like system like Buddhism, that has thrived for centuries in numerous cultures outside its place of origin on the Indian subcontinent, is to absorb, assimilate, adapt, and adopt elements from its new cultural environments.

What does that look like in 21st century North America? For Michele and myself it always meant continuing to explore ideas and tools drawn from progressive systems—neuro-science, radical politics, psychology, deep-ecology, and the arts—to keep testing, questioning, finding what works best for ourselves, our clients, and our students. These days that mostly shows up in our using our skills as NLP and Hypnosis Master trainers and practitioners to help create the kinds of transformation that our clients are asking for.

When I first met my teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, twenty five years ago, we joked together about ‘graduating from Buddhism’, meaning that it’s important to keep on moving, testing, questioning, going deeper. It’s not that we drop anything, we assimilate and move forward into deeper integration, deeper understanding.

Sometimes Michele and I say that we’re post-Buddhist; but how can you be post something that doesn’t really let you stand in a singular identification with it?

Where we stand now is in how we describe what we do—”Mentoring Conscious Entrepreneurs and Individuals for Effective Leadership Skills, Authentic Personal Power, and Dynamic Success.” ..  Mindset + Action → Results