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Going to Wisdom 2.0 in San Francisco next week?

We have a special offer for you: A free, 30-minute coaching session from New Ventures West.

Use your complimentary session to explore how Integral Coaching can help you unlock clarity around challenging areas of your life.

Sessions fill up fast at this conference, so it’s best if you register in advance by visiting www.newventureswest.com/free-coaching

Visit our booth at the conference or visit our website to learn more about our free and paid classes.

We look forward to seeing you and to meeting old friends and making new ones at Wisdom 2.0.

How do you handle your inner critic?

We all have one. What does yours say?

By freeing ourselves from the inner critic allows us to be resourceful, alive, courageous, imaginative, and whole.

Below is a practice you can do by stopping two to three times a day. If you feel emotionally equipped to do so, ask yourself the following questions:

—In which specific ways did I question what is true about me without self-criticism and self-doubt?
—How did I handle misconceptions of myself and others? How would you describe how this affected or led me to feel?
—In what ways did I specifically join in the views, actions, and conclusions about others with little or no questioning?
—How will I take what I’ve learned in this exercise into my life to help prevent future self-deception?

We’d love you to share how this practice went for you or your own methods of handling your inner critic.

One of the many facets of Integral Coaching is how to handle the inner critic and help others move past negative inner dialogue.

Are you passionate about helping others gain clarity they may not gather themselves?

Learn about Integral Coaching at our upcoming Meet the Leader and hear from our faculty how its methodology can help unlock your and others' potential.

Joining us on your lifelong development journey.

https://newventureswest.com/program/meet-the-leader/

Quick, jot down some words you’d use to describe the qualities of a leader.

Next, jot down words you would use to describe an introvert.

Did any of the words you used overlap?

People often use some of the same words for leaders and extroverts, but Author Terrance Lee, MBA's Quiet Voice, Fearless Leader, lays out the evidence of why some of the best leaders are introverts.

Lee sat down with New Ventures West’s Book Study Group to dispel myths about leadership, give hope and promise to introverts on their journey to become leaders and help extroverts understand the beautiful qualities introverts possess.

“My goal in writing this book was to shed light onto the positives of introverts and their growth as leaders,” Lee informed our group.

“Leadership is about emotional intelligence, listening, knowing your team, having empathy, and intangibles that people don’t normally see,” said Lee.

Lee explained his book to our group as a combination of stories and actionable steps for introverts to become leaders.

“I definitely believe leaders can be made,” Lee told New Ventures West.

“Through learning, practice, and having mentors, anyone can become a leader.”

Whether you’re a leadership coach, an introvert, or an extrovert looking to understand the strengths of an introvert, pick up Quiet Voice Fearless Leader at your favorite independent bookseller.

Working with your and others' inner critics is merely a small facet of what Integral Coaching is all about.

Want to discover how Integral Coaching can help you reach your professional and personal goals?

Join us for an upcoming informal, free Meet the Leader or other upcoming free event where you can ask questions and learn more about our school.

Visit our bio's Linktr.ee or the New Ventures West website to unlock your potential.

There’s no experience necessary in coaching, just a curiosity and passion for being of service to others and getting the most out of life.

What is your inner voice telling you, right now?

Is it saying positive things? Negative things?

All of us have an inner critic, but many of us let it dictate how we see ourselves.

If that’s you, we invite you to read today’s Why Coaching featuring guest writer Nicole Kleemann.

https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/why-coaching-7094259793657282560/

Discover how you can develop a better relationship with your inner critic, resulting in greater personal and professional growth.

That feeling, one of sensing your energy must be needed elsewhere, can be draining.

Have you ever found this sense of putting others first, true for yourself or others?

If so, and you feel emotionally equipped to do so, try the following practice.

For the next 30 days, stop three times a day and journal on paper or record yourself asking the questions below between each period.

Note: Some of these questions overlap so you can have a deep, multifaceted view of your motivation.

—Are you operating out of your own motivations or relying on the motivations of others?
—When did I act, speak, or plan from my own clear purpose and intent?
—When did I act upon my own fears or avoidance of discomfort?
—When did I remember and act from my own values and commitments?
—When was I acting to please others? Was I doing so out of habit and familiarity?
—What can I learn from this reflection, what will I take up, and what will I put down?

Every day, note what you discovered about your own motivations, behaviors, and decision-making patterns based on your answers

By becoming engaged in a thoughtful process of self-examination, you can make better decisions where to place your energy and when you may need to step back and practice self-care.

Wish to gain further wisdom into your own growth, personal development, and coaching in a warm, welcoming environment?

Join us tomorrow for our free Free Integral Learning Lab, Living With Purpose.

Participants will learn to listen deeply to their inner voice while lovingly crafting their responses using practices and intentions that will breathe life into what makes us most alive.

Led by Cynthia Luna, faculty and managing partner at New Ventures West, Living With Purpose is a free introductory event and a glimpse into Integral Coaching.

We look forward to joining you on your development journey.

https://www.newventureswest.com/program/learning-lab/

What if we could learn practices and exercises to help heal the racial divide so that all of us might live in a more peaceful world?

Author Rhonda V. Magee visited New Ventures West's Book Study Group to share hard-won insights from research and illuminate practices from The Inner Work of Racial Justice.

“It’s interesting,” Magee told NVW, “nobody says we’re gender blind, yet people have been told to be color blind for years.”

“We need to find a way to connect and heal through having courageous conversations to meet in a more authentic way, with more healing and trust,” Magee told us on a video call.

“It’s about opening up our ways of seeing ourselves and each other, through courage, so that we can connect and heal through conversation, with healing, and trust building,” said Magee.

Magee asked us to deepen our inquiry about the very meaning of race.
How might we deepen our capacity to ask the tough questions about what whiteness is and where did it come from? What were black people before they became part of Western culture? And what was gained or lost.

Per Magee, we must reveal the things we’ve been trained not to see for healing.
“It’s all in service of knowledge and consciousness on a broader level and sharing our lived-in experience across cultures.”

Full of wisdom, exercises on self-compassion, and practices to bring embodied mindfulness to our everyday lives in order to heal communities.

We strongly recommend picking up The Inner Work of Racial Justice at your favorite independent bookseller.

Want to learn more about healing through developing our ability to truly see one another?

Join a conversation with New Ventures West's founder James Flaherty, MCC, and the Enneagram Prison Project's Susan Olesek and Alex Senegal in a deeply moving conversation recorded for the Enneagram Global Summit.

https://newventureswest.com/epp/

Whatever your life's path, we look forward to joining you on your development journey.

How do you practice offering unconditional acceptance?

We wanted to give followers a practice tying into Monday's Why Coaching article.

Read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-can-learned-from-unconditional-acceptance-new-ventures-west-mos9e/

This practice is best suited for coaches; however those working with others may be able to engage in the following activity, but do so only if you feel comfortable and resourced to step into it.

Do the following when dealing with a person experiencing continual upset, emotional pain, or distress.

—For the first two weeks:

Notice your response to others, that’s all.

What are you moved to do? Did you get angry? Were you dismissive? What narrative did you use about them? Did you say everything was going to be okay, that there was no need to be upset? What did you notice your body do?

For each of the above, journal or record what you did after each meeting, noting how you responded to this person.

—For the following two weeks:

Try something new in your approach where safe and prudent.

Explore a range of possible responses. If you habitually move in to soothe, what happens if you step back and make room? If you usually argue with someone who has come to you with distress, what if you empathize? If you notice a regular scattering of energy in your body, what happens if you gather it? If you usually contract, try to expand your energy outward gently.

Again, journal or record your new approaches, how they felt to you, and how the person responded.

—Ongoing

Having explored what you habitually do and experimenting with what’s possible, start to look for that center point.

Can you be in the presence of this person’s distress? What does it take to do so?

More patience? Reframing how you’ve thought about the other person or yourself?

What new actions, methods, and approaches can you offer others unconditional acceptance?

What did you notice about the other person when you were able to offer unconditional acceptance? Simply noticing subtleties and nuances goes a long way toward change.

The intention of this practice is to be more gentle with others, and gentler with yourself.

In what ways do you practice unconditional acceptance? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Please share this practice with someone who would benefit from offering unconditional acceptance.

Wish to gain further your growth and personal development in a warm, welcoming environment?

Join us for our next Free Integral Learning Lab, Living With Purpose.

Participants will learn to listen deeply to their inner voice while lovingly crafting their responses using practices and intentions that will breathe life into what makes us most alive.

Led by Cynthia Luna, faculty and managing partner at New Ventures West, Living With Purpose is a free introductory event and a glimpse into Integral Coaching.

https://www.newventureswest.com/program/learning-lab/