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6 Actions to Improve Your Client Sessions Before the End of the Year

July 29, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Even though I’ve been coaching and facilitating transformation for nearly twenty years now, my answer to the question: “What is the one thing in your business that has the potential to make you cringe the most?” would be the same today as it was twenty years.

The thing in my business that has the potential to make me cringe the most is the thought that I am not supporting my clients in the most valuable and masterful ways possible.

This is more important to me than anything else – than marketing success, than visibility, that income.

For me, providing exquisite and highly skilled service, as well as transformation, is BAR NONE.

If you feel the same way I do, then I’m so happy to share this article with you! READ MORE

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4 Tips for Effective & Transformational Exercises

July 24, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

One of the things people ask me most when they come to me for support on facilitation and curriculum techniques is “How can I create more effective transformational exercises?”

I love teaching about this because knowing how to masterfully craft exercises that move your participants is KEY to co-creating results and deep learning.

Yet, too often teachers and facilitators don’t quite get it right.

And when you don’t get it right, your exercises come off as trite, too surface oriented, misplaced or just plain weird.

There are a lot of components that are necessary for an exercise to work REALLY well, and this includes a very important piece about how you set up your curriculum throughout your workshop, class or retreat.

We’ll get to Curriculum Development soon, but for now, I wanted to share a few tips on what you can do within the exercises themselves to make them more powerful, more effective, and more moving.

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Posted in: Transformation Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success

Your Positive Thinking is Harming Your Clients

July 22, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

 

I know, I know – Positive Thinking is a good thing. I admire and have learned a lot from those who naturally have a positive outlook on life. For better or worse, I did not grow up in an environment that modeled any kind of positive thinking. In fact, quite the opposite. I grew up with two immigrant parents whose own parents had survived the Holocaust. My parents trusted no one, always expected the worst, and because of their own trauma, they were perceiving a constant threat of annihilation. It was kind of like living in Catastrophic Thinking Central.

Needless to say, my proclivity towards the negative (& my neurotic quirks!) speak for themselves!

In my early 20s, I learned about the power of looking through more hopeful and happier lenses, and I’ve been dutifully working on my own positive thinking ever since. I find it powerful and very helpful.

BUT.

And this is a HUGE “But”…

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Posted in: Client Care, Coaching & Facilitation, Coaching Skills, Mindset, Negative Thinking, Positive thinking Tagged: business, business coach, business development, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, positive thinking, positive thinking tips, Success

The MOST Important Coaching and Facilitation Tool You Will Ever Need

July 20, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Want to know THE most important component of Transformational Facilitation & Coaching?

It’s not about the facilitation skills you master – of course, those are SUPER important and necessary in order to create results and deep healing for your participants.

It’s not about the really powerful experiential exercises and processes you lead to connect your audiences to their souls, though, of course, those are also super important and vital.

And it’s not about your curriculum – though, of course, that is really significant, too.

The most important component to create the deepest, most healing and transformational events is about WHO you are BEING and BECOMING. It’s so simple, yet overlooked all of the time.

You can know the best facilitation skills in the world, you can have an encyclopedic knowledge of every ritual or experiential process in the book…but if you don’t know how to SHOW UP as a transformational facilitator….if you don’t know how to come to your retreats and circles and workshops and classes in your power, in your brilliance, and by channeling ALL of your various life-force energies (not just your pretty ones or your most reliable ones)….then none of the very valuable practical skills matter. Things will fall flat.

Who you are BEING as a transformational facilitator when you lead your groups is the secret sauce and magic glue that binds all of the actual facilitation skills together.

Who you are BEING can’t be “bought” or read or observed or faked. It must be earned.

There’s no other way.

And it must be earned by doing deep inner work:

By really looking at your fears. (I mean REALLY. Not just surface stuff.)

By being willing to take risks when you lead and facilitate.

By practicing speaking your truth over and over and over again.

By committing to your authenticity.

By letting go of old family dynamics and beliefs.

By coming face-to-face with your own Shadows and your own Archetypes.

By owning all the parts of yourself (even the ones you don’t like).

By being willing to be seen.

By forgiving what needs to be forgiven.

By saying “NO” in places that feel scary and impossible to set boundaries.

By opening up to the highest and most Truthful parts of who you are.

By reclaiming your naïve, open-hearted and Maiden self.

By nurturing the parts of you that didn’t get nurtured as a young person.

By reckoning your relationship to Time and Death (deep, I know, but so necessary because these are at the root of so much anxiety and desire).

By healing your Sister Wound and any places where you have nigglies with other women.

By finding your next level of Trust.

By being willing to tolerate the absolute radiance of your own brilliance and channel it into your work. (Yes, I say “tolerate your radiance” because most people actually have an adverse reaction to how amazing they are.)

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Posted in: Business, Business Coach, Business Development, Client Care, Coaching & Facilitation, Coaching Industry, Coaching Questions, Coaching Skills, Customer Service, Empowerment, Facilitation, Fear, Goals, Mindset, Transformation, Uncategorized Tagged: coach, coaching skills, facilitation skills, spiritual coach, transformational leader

This Coaching Standard Does More Harm Than Good

July 17, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Over the summer, I had a private session with a client who had been in session with her healer the week before.

My client was telling me that her Healer had intuited that she needed to go to the beach for a week. It sounded like a good idea to my client because she trusts this healer’s intuition, yet she told him she was feeling stressed out and pressured because she just couldn’t figure out how to make a week away that month fit with her life.

 

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Posted in: Client Care, Coaching & Facilitation Tagged: business, business coach, business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, Empowerment, fear, Goals, Intuition, joanna lindenbaum, Mindset, Personal Development, positive thinking, relationship, self confidence, self love

6 Tools to Create Deeper Transformation with Your Clients

July 6, 2020 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

In my 15 years of facilitating Transformational Experiences for thousands of individuals and groups, I’ve come to learn that there are certain skills and elements you need to master as a leader and facilitator in order to be successful at creating lasting shifts, healing and real openings for your participants.

In fact, what I’ve come to see is that without these tools, things can go very, very wrong. Your workshops can fall flat or not go deep enough, or someone in the group will dominate and upset everyone else, or you will misuse your energy and feel exhausted and spent.

Here is a snapshot of some of the most valuable tools I’ve developed over hundreds and hundreds of rituals and workshops:

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Posted in: Business Coach, Business Development, Empowerment, Mindset, Personal Development, Positive thinking, Transformation, Women, Women's Empowerment Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success

Inanna’s Descent and You

November 18, 2019 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Every Autumn for the last 18 years, I’ve spent time working with the Sumerian myth of Inanna’s Descent. It’s work that becomes deeper and deeper, more and more meaningful and profound each cycle I focus on it.

The myth of Inanna is one of the oldest myths we know of. Inanna, being the Queen of Heaven & Earth, was a goddess with power and respect and clout and status.

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Posted in: Coaching Industry, Coaching Questions, Empowerment, Journaling, Mindset, Personal Development, Self-Love Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success

3 Questions to Ask Yourself That Will Upgrade Your Coaching & Client Work

November 1, 2019 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Of course, learning new skills and techniques to use with clients is important and really helps you go deeper and stronger with them. You absolutely need that. But another thing that’s really helpful is simply asking YOURSELF questions that will take you deeper into your own inner wisdom, your own self-awareness, and your own understanding of your client’s situation.

Here are 3 questions I recommend journaling on after EVERY client session you have over the next week or two. You will learn LOADS from this and upgrade your work through it. Eventually, you’ll automatically start asking yourself these questions while you’re actually in session, and be able to fine tune and strengthen your sessions right then and there.

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Posted in: Business Development, Client Care, Coaching & Facilitation Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success

What You Need to Know About How The Industry is Changing

July 26, 2019 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

Just like every industry, the coaching and transformation industries go through different cycles and stages of evolution that are critical.

Right now, we are going through MASSIVE developments that are changing EVERYTHING about the industry. The more you know and understand what these developments are, the better equipped you’ll be to grow a business with staying power.

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Posted in: Business, Business Development, Coaching Industry Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success

5 teaching modes that will revolutionize your retreats

April 26, 2019 by Joanna Lindenbaum Leave a Comment

This very important article is almost like a glossary of 5 different Teaching Modes that are each vital components of a transformational retreat or workshop.

In my nearly 20 years of experience as a facilitator, and in over 50 retreats that I’ve led and 100s upon 100s of classes I’ve taught, I’ve learned that having a healthy balance of these 5 modes creates a learning environment that nurtures true growth and transformation for participants. READ MORE

Posted in: Transformation Tagged: business development, coaching questions, coaching skills, joanna lindenbaum, Personal Development, relationships, Success, transformation
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