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First Ever In-Person Training – February 21-22, 2024, in Toronto, ON!
It is finally time to let you all know the amazing, exciting, stupendous news: we get to do a LIVE TRAINING for VBIP at my very own Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto in FEBRUARY through the Centre for Religion and its Context!! Emmanuel College is one of just 12 truly interfaith seminaries in Continue reading
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Fear and Love
There is a concept in psychology called ‘primary emotions’. These are seen as the emotions out of which all other emotions flow. Theorists, however, disagree wildly on what these different primary emotions might be. The following chart summarizes a wide range of these theories: Theorist Basic Emotions Plutchik Acceptance, anger, anticipation, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, Continue reading
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Grounded Not Bounded
One of the realities of developing a condition that involves a significant amount of fatigue is that you end up hearing an awful lot about the need to set boundaries. And as a parent of kids with autism, and a wife to a husband with autism – as a person who wants and even needs Continue reading
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Tools in Your Toolbox – Know Your Zones
It’s hard to make changes if you don’t understand where you are now, or where you want to go. Many people out there are pretty clear on their emotions – what they feel, why, and what strategies work best for them to help resolve challenges that may come up along the way. But some of Continue reading
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Tools in your Toolbox – What Makes You Come Alive?
One of the first questions that we need to ask with our compassionate curiosity is what makes you come alive? The reason is simple – all of us are exposed to lots of different voices, from lots of different directions. Everyone wants to tell us how to live, how to think, how to make decisions, what Continue reading
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Towards Wholeness
What if each one of us was created to be a unique, integrated person – with our heart, soul, mind and strength working together to help us to do the things we were created to do and be the person we were made to be? What if each one of us experienced brokenness – over Continue reading
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Tools in your Toolbox – Compassionate Curiosity
One of the most powerful tools in the journey towards wholeness is compassionate curiosity. That’s because many of us go about our days doing things and reacting and interacting with other people without ever stopping and thinking about why we do what we do. But what if there was always a reason for the things that we did? Continue reading
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New Coaching Training Dates – August 10-11, 2023
Coaches Trainings continue to be a huge success! The feedback we got from our coaches and therapists continues to encourage and inspire the work we are doing. Here’s what some of them had to say: “This is an actually effective method to identify through narrative, deconstruct through simple analysis, and rename/reconstruct messages that works to Continue reading
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‘What Would Love Do?’
Last week’s post ended with this question – ‘What would love do?’ So today I want to explore that a little bit more. And to do that, I need to take you back a few years in my life to winter of 2015, when I decided to try giving up fear for lent. It might seem an Continue reading
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Unmasking
There is a concept within the Autistic Community called ‘masking’, but it applies to many people across many different diversity axes. That’s because masking is basically the work we do to try to blend in with those around us – to try to pretend that we are someone that we are not – less autistic,… Continue reading
About the program
In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.
Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!
After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.
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