Offerings

1/2 Hour Discovery Call

1/2 hour complimentary dialogue with Paul to establish the connection necessary to proceed to work together, or not. I need you to arrive to this conversation with a clear intention and/or focus for why you want to work with me.  Come with your questions.  What do you need to know from that call in order to make a decision to proceed? This conversation can take place in person, by phone, or on a Zoom call.

I work in a number of different capacities in community. Please be specific about what kind of service you are looking for.

1:1 Coaching

1:1 Professional Executive Coaching

• I partner with leaders in a thought-provoking, creative, and confidential process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
• I generate an honest and trustworthy, professional learning relationship with leaders to specifically address the cares and concerns that are on their minds.
• These conversations take place in the realm of achievement. Leaders come to these conversations with an intention or goal in mind.
• I’m interested in supporting leaders to develop themselves in the areas they are already aware they need support, and encouraging them to be open-minded enough to discover those areas they have not yet realized they could use some support. Feedback loops are an important input when learning. I honestly provide feedback to leaders when necessary.
• We will begin with a 3 or 6 month initial commitment, meeting twice per month.
• I provide a non-directive, curious, and non-judgmental space for exploration of possibility in service of the leaders’ goals for their own development.
• These conversations may take place by phone, video, or in person. 

Revitalizing Our Hearths: An Integration Circle

With each 1st Quarter Moon, I hold an Integration Fire out of the city. I announce the exact date and time in each previous month’s newsletter. The fire is lit with the intention of creating a courageous place for up to 10 people to gather and spend a few hours together. I lead a process that usually includes four rounds of sharing on different themes or topics.

• Integration is about a movement toward wholeness.  How do we include our experiences with the sacred in our daily lives and relationships?  After a mystical experience, how do we return to the laundry, dishes, and taxes? Some folks are arriving to the fire to integrate the birth of their first grandchild. Some are figuring out their next steps after losing a job or experiencing divorce. Some are creating new artistic works for community. Still others have been through an initiatory experience of some kind and are seeking a place to work through that in community.
• This Integration Circle is a consciously established Courageous Space. I cannot say that I know what determines safety for each individual, so I invite courage, respect, honesty, confidentiality, and integrity as a few of the values that set the foundation for participant’s conduct.
• Circle begins with a grounding, centering practice where individuals are invited to settle themselves in the present moment. This is normally with smudge and prayer. Participation in smudging and prayer is always optional.
• Introductions are shared as well as individual intentions for participating in the circle. I place a strong focus on the value of self-knowledge. It’s important that participants are willing to playfully explore notions of ‘who they are.’ By intentions, I mean, “what are you doing here?” What brings you to this particular circle. What’s your purpose in participating. What do you hope to take away from the experience.
• Participants are then invited to contribute to the circle one at a time, taking uninterrupted turns moving in a clockwise direction. When it is your turn, you have at least 5 options available. Pass. Silence. Prayer. Sing. Share.
• Participants are encouraged to speak from a humble and honest place within themselves. Think of this as a heart-centred practice, deepening into cardio-coherence.
• It is important for each person to recognize and respect those who are listening by expressing ourselves succinctly. 
• Some may choose to offer prayer or a song as a way of expressing themselves. 
• People always have the option to not speak or ‘pass’ when it is their turn. Silence can often be a profound and supportive presence in circle.
• There is no obligation to share.

1:1 Somatic Experiencing® Session

Some Key Concepts in the SE Model for Healing Trauma (***section under construction***)

• SE™ understands that trauma is a natural and normal part of life, not a mistake, a disease, or an aberration.
• SE™ holds the attitude that the body-mind is designed to heal intense and extreme experiences, in contrast with the common belief that the effects of trauma are permanent.
• The therapeutic approach of SE™focuses on empowerment, mastery, expansion of choice, self-direction, and self-determination.
• SE™ works within a client’s range of resiliency to facilitate the most efficient recovery, instead of pushing through ‘resistance,’ or promoting emotional catharsis or painful physical discomfort.
• Content of a story is used to track activation in the client’s nervous system, rather than to search for memories.
• Symptoms represent bound activation; they show exactly where to deactivate excess charge left over from the traumatic event. Symptoms are not a disease state, although they may be associated with an actual disease. The key is not to over- or underemphasize pathology.
• SE™ works predominantly with the ‘felt sense,’ accessing physical sensations, imagery and motor patterns, with less emphasis on cognitive and emotional processes.
• SE™ helps clients to recognize and expand the internal, external, and missing resources to aid in the healing of the trauma.
• SE™ stabilizes the client in a safe, ‘grounded,’ resourced state before working with any traumatic material.
• SE™ helps facilitate the re-regulation of the Autonomic Nervous System by restoring gentle cycles of sympathetic and parasympathetic interplay.
• Work with ‘just enough’ activation to allow discharge, integration, and/or completion within a person’s current range of resiliency.
• SE™ works peripherally with the activation. This means we may begin our work away from the area of greatest injury, or we may examine the traumatic event from what occurred before and after the primary core of that event. This allows us to reduce some of the bound charge, and build enough stability to tolerate the strong sensations and emotions contained in the apex of the event.
• SE™ works in the hear and now and focuses on the sensations and body memories and resources occurring in the present.
• Expanding a person’s tolerance of their bodily sensations helps them to trust in the innate wisdom of the body, and begins to uncouple, or separate out, the fear and terror experienced during the event.
• Some psycho-somatic education is a regular part of nearly all SE™ sessions, as we build a common language and way of understanding this body-based healing system together.

1:1 Integration Guidance

1:1 Integration Guidance is an opportunity for individuals to dialogue directly with me as they prepare for and integrate from extraordinary experiences with ceremonial immersion.  Whether it was an Ayahuasca retreat in the jungle, a Peyote pilgrimage in the desert, or a four-day Fast in the mountains, how are you metabolizing and translating that experience into your daily life? That is the essence of integration. How do we ensure these peak experiences are useful?

• 1:1 Integration Guidance is built upon a foundation of agreements negotiated with each unique client. 
• This Integration Guidance involves both mentorship and coaching. 
•  Individuals looking for more than what they receive in attending group integration circles will be interested in taking this structured approach to exploring consciousness and the practices that support our return to the Here & Now. 
• A minimum of 3 months’ commitment is required to begin this kind of support. 
• The client brings forward the topic for each conversation. 
• I provide a non-directive, curious, and non-judgmental space for mutual exploration in service of the client’s goals for their own development.
• These conversations may take place by phone, video, or in person. 
• Clients will negotiate the frequency of these connections at the outset, with weekly sessions being the most I will agree to.