 |
|
| Fall 2010 Newsletter Living as a Life Artist Tele-classes | Awakening the Whole IQ Classes New! 2011 Soul’s Dream Team Tours | Introducing the Soul’s Dream Apprentice Guides Professional Acknowledgments |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Soul’s Dream Mandala Travelers—past, present, and future, I hope this finds you and your loved ones well, and that you’ve found the deeper meaning and gifts in whatever growth opportunities you’ve encountered this year. One of my greatest growth opportunities this year has been around my Dad, who is in the later stages of Alzheimer’s and living in a facility. While I watched my father’s life decline, I’ve had the gift of becoming dear friends with a wife of another patient living there. On a recent visit, we cried over the loss of one of the other residents, but we also found ourselves laughing over the many special moments we’ve shared as we’ve cared for our loved ones over the last few years. We felt so much gratitude for our friendship and the blessings of compassion and support through our trials. In letting go of my attachment to how many things were supposed to be this year, I've opened up to new possibilities for love, joy, truth, and peace to grow in my life. My passion and calling is to foster new possibilities for love, joy, truth, and peace in many people’s lives by liberating them from their Con Artist, that part of each of us that reinforces our fears and limitations, and supporting them to become a Life Artist, a person who is awake, intentional, fully expressed, and creating from the power of their potential. In developing the Soul’s Dream work over the past four years, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing many people transform what’s blocking them by waking up to the vitality of their Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, or their Whole IQ. Each intelligence holds pertinent information related to your well being, happiness, and effectiveness. There are now three different pathways to awaken your Whole IQ and connect with your Soul’s Dream. The introductory path is the “Living as a Life Artist” tele-class; the intermediate path is the “Awakening the Whole IQ” tele-class and two-part in-person class; and the most advanced and deepest path is the Soul’s Dream Mandala Tour. I hope you’ll take the time to browse through the various offerings below to see if there’s any one pathway that calls to you, or that might be helpful to someone you know. There are two Life Artist classes starting next week! Since this is the season of counting our blessings, I’d like to extend my deepest gratitude to the people who have professionally supported me to grow the vision of the Soul’s Dream in the Acknowledgment section of this newsletter, as well as, introduce the powerhouse Soul’s Dream Apprentice Guides. Take a look at the brilliance and beauty of these four remarkable women who, as Apprentice Guides and “soul sisters” over this last year-and-a-half, have championed me and demonstrated an unwavering commitment and passion for this work. In closing, go GIANTS! Talk about magic...this is what’s possible when we show up to our gifts, swing hard, and stay true to ourselves amidst the noise. May your eyes be lit with many new possibilities for love, joy, truth, and peace.
|
|
|
|
|
Living as a Life Artist Tele-classes In this 4-week tele-class, we’ll explore the distinctions between living as a Life Artist (the part of us committed to creating our lives with the most authentic and vibrant expression of ourselves), rather than being at the mercy of our Con Artist (that aspect of ourselves that dims our light and holds us back). We’ll explore Michele McHall’s Life Artist Color Palette that consists of 9 colors (or contexts): Willingness, Courage, Curiosity, Inspiration, Vulnerability, Learning, Dreaming, Gratitude, and Remembering. Each color is an access point that supports you to tap into the natural resources of your Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligences, or your Whole IQ. Through engaging the Life Artist Color Palette you’ll find simple and sustainable ways to break free from the resistance generated by your Con Artist and become a more inspired Life Artist who is committed to living in the natural flow of your creative potential. Cost: $95.00 Tuesdays: November 9th, 16th, 30th & 7th, 2010 from 5–6:15pm PST Thursdays: November 11th, 18th, December 2nd, & 9th from 5:00-6:15 PST Class size is limited for more personal connection, so register early! If you can’t make all four calls, the calls will be recorded so for playback purposes. |
|
|
|
|
Awakening the Whole IQ Classes Awakening the Whole IQ—2-Part in person class January 16th 1:00-6:00 and January 30th 1:00-6:00 Cost: $395.00 before January 2011 |
|
|
|
|
Awakening the Whole IQ Tele-class Starting Wednesday at 5:00 PST January 19th-March 9th 2011 Cost: $250.00 Class size is limited for more personal connection, so register early! If you can’t make all four calls, the calls will be recorded so for playback purposes. |
|
|
|
|
|
New! 2011 Soul’s Dream Team Tours The Soul’s Dream Mandala Tour is the most advanced level of discovery in the Soul’s Dream offerings. The Mandala Tour is a profound experience of Intentional Transformation TM. You must be prepared to engage with a contemplative practice that attunes and awakens your Whole IQ, and to face your Con Artist in order to live in greater harmony, divine connection, and balance. The tour consists of fourteen sessions to awaken the eight unique qualities of your Whole IQ. There are no two Whole IQ’s that are alike. When you emerge from this journey, you will have a clear understanding of your gifts in Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Body intelligence, and an increased ability to make decisions and pursue your passion with greater calm, confidence, and creativity. Once you’ve completed the tour, you will also have a wealth of resources to stay in tune with your Soul’s Dream. Below you’ll find the dates and rate for the group tours. All Mandala tours meet on a tele-conference line at the same time and day every other week for fourteen calls (excluding holiday weeks). All calls will be recorded, password protected, and archived for easy playback if you miss a call. If you are on a group or buddy tour (two Travelers), you have the option of meeting with others in your group or your buddy on the off week. January Group Tours 9:00 PST January 18th –July 19th Fees: $1500.00 for a group of eight If you’d prefer to take a Solo or Buddy tour, we are currently taking reservations for the 2011 Soul’s Dream Mandala Tour with Michele. This space is very limited. Please contact Michele@wholeiq.com or Natalie@wholeiq.com for more information on solo and buddy tour schedules available. You can purchase both books for the Soul’s Dream Mandala tour at www.amazon.com. *If you make your reservation and deposit for one of the 2011 tours before December 31st 2010, you’ll receive a 10% discount on the tour! |
|
|
|
|
Introducing the Soul’s Dream Apprentice Guides Meet the brilliant Lauren, Rhona, Emily, and Mary! They’ve each traveled through Mandala Tour twice, and after watching Michele guide a tour, they are now guiding their first supervised tours! They will be co-teaching with Michele throughout various locations in the United States and co-guiding the group Mandala tours in 2011. Talk about a Soul’s Dream team! | |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Somewhere in June 2010, after intense editorial labor, “The Soul’s Dream: A Journey of Intentional Transformation Parts 1 and 2” were born! I would never have made it without my AMAZING editor, Brooke Warner. Because of the nature of these books, Brooke really edited something that was more like a feature length, foreign film! Hopefully, the “bestseller” will be a lot easier! Please visit www.threeintentions.com for more information on the community that Brooke is building. This brings me to Tabitha Lahr who designed the books. She so graciously took the intricate nature of the Soul’s Dream to heart despite not knowing what a Star Arm or Labyrinth was and brought it into living color! As for social networking...well let’s just say I have resistance! I’m not sure if it’s a Con Artist or I’m just not built for the nature of “tweeting.” I will say that my ease in communicating my message is because of Janeen Jang my website, worksheet, and newsletter designer, and Rachel Resnick my email marketing designer (Rachel@trulygifteddesigns.com). They have been my GO TO GALS! They have supported me in such an elegant and timely way. My need for assistance in this growth period has been off the charts and Natalie Vartanian has given me great calm as she easily and effortlessly has started to handle certain tasks and supported me to keep doing what I do best. She’s also a great coach! As the pathways to the Soul’s Dream and Apprentice programs are growing, Anne Grete Mazziotta has offered significant support in helping me see the forest through the trees, and create a sustainable vision for the future of the Soul’s Dream. Our conversations always leave me lingering with laughter, awakenings and hope. As I developed this body of work, I did not have an official Soul’s Dream guide but I did have the wonderfully, soulful Laura Elliott who has offered me such deep and compassionate understanding, counsel, and care through so many life transitions. I’m forever indebted to her generous, sensitive, and wise heart. Of course I won’t be able to name them, however, there are no words to describe the gratitude I feel for all the brave “Travelers” who have followed a calling to take the Soul’s Dream Mandala Tour over the last two years. I’ve learned so much about this instrument through each and every one of your journeys. To guide you all to see the unique bounty and spectrum of your Whole IQ has been a deep honor. Seeing your Soul’s potential is my passion however, YOU are the ones who chose to show up, do the practices, and transform into the bright light that you are. Your Life Artistry and Soul’s Dream make a big difference in our world. Keep tuning in...and watching for Winks! |
|
|
Michele McHall holds a M.A. in Depth Psychology and is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach and Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She served on the faculty for the Coaches Training Institute since 200, and is now devoting her full attention to developing her cutting edge work in transformation and creativity. Michele is author of The Soul’s Dream: A Journey of Intentional Transformation Parts 1 and 2.
Lauren Elliott is an Artist, Soul's Dream Guide, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach with a degree in Humanities from UC Berkeley. She is a lifelong advocate of human potential development, innate knowing and creativity.
Rhona Berens, PhD, CPCC, is an individual & relationship coach who specializes in working with “creatives,” parents, and life explorers. Her wondrous experience working with Michele McHall inspired Rhona to become a Soul’s Dream Guide. Learn more about Rhona at 
Emily Bermes holds a Bachelor's Degree in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication from Purdue University, a Masters Degree in Business and Professional Communication from Purdue University. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a Souls Dream Guide. In addition to spending 12 years as Resident Faculty member and administrator at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, she established Solstice Coaching & Consulting, an International Executive Coaching Firm in 2000. To read Emily's full bio visit 
Mary McElroy-Smith is a former Social Worker, currently working on creative projects while living in Nashville, North Carolina and California. She believes in listening deeply and following your intuition, even when you have no idea where it's taking you -- which is exactly how she came to be entranced by The Soul's Dream Mandala work and study to become a Soul's Dream guide.