Businesses
Consulting is a sacred act.
It is an intimate experience and an act of the highest calling to be able to work with companies through shifts of transformation.
We don’t have the answers. You do. There is not one solution–there is your solution. Through our work with businesses, The Elmfield Institute listens and supports you to engage more deeply, relate more authentically, and embrace the realities which form your uniqueness. Together, we work to bring light to the shadows, make the unknown known and leverage your greatest assets to achieve your goals.
The Elmfield Institute works with businesses through a modality we call depth consulting, weaving together wisdom from depth psychology and conventional business management practices to offer a trans-disciplinary form of developmental support to strengthen the direction of your organization.
We believe consulting is a sacred act.
As part of our consulting services, we offer support through:
Analysis
We work intimately with your organization, working to gain full knowledge and comprehension about the business.
Transformation
Once we have an idea of where the business is, we work to meet you there and begin working together towards change.
Implementation
As your partner along the way, we work at your side to provide change management and implementation resources.
Buoyancy
As your organization aligns with your purpose, The Elmfield Institute works with you to keep stakeholders engaged and confident.
Imagine what you could accomplish if you could connect deeply with the source of your own story and use that knowledge to make a change.
Resources
Why Coaching Works
Recently, I was talking with a client about relationship challenges he’s been having with his housemate. After summarizing the conversation and telling me about some of the recurring conflicts, he asked, “What if I’m the problem?”
What You Notice Becomes Your Life
Poet Michael Chitwood once wrote, “What you notice becomes your life.” What we bring awareness to has a way of gifting us things we may otherwise be unaware of. Even the loving, challenging, hard and painful “gifts” are so essential to our ongoing vitality, growth, and overall fitness of heart and mind.
The Coach as Gardner
Being a coach is like being a gardener. When the client arrives they come with a goal in mind and are seeking support to achieve that goal. The work begins with establishing trust between the coach and the client. This initial process is like preparing the soil so that whatever is attempting to be grown (the goal) will have a healthy/nutrient rich environment where the growth and bloom can be full as possible.
Some Advice on Seeking Advice
In a previous post, I wrote about the importance of seeking advice from others when looking for work or navigating a career path. Outside advice can be especially useful when you’re really lost, in the wilderness so to speak, and have no idea where you are going or how to get there. It can also be useful for those who are on surer footing and have a clearer direction of their career paths.
On being in the wilderness
Looking back at the past 20 years or so of my professional life, I can see a discernable pattern. Generally, long stretches of work and productivity are followed by prolonged stretches of no work and lack of productivity, at least in the conventional sense of the word. (There’s also the school of thought that the only patterns in life are ones that you make up yourself to fit a self-narrative. But for argument’s sake, let’s just say I see a pattern.) This all began after I finished graduate school and started looking for work in the field of international relations.
The Heart and Science of Listening
Lasting change often comes from thoughtful, integrated and organized efforts. I believe it all starts with listening to ourselves and to one another. The following is my story about how the best plan is often […]
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