the alchemical coach handbook

97 Pages·2005·0.39 MB·English

by  Soleira Green

THE
ALCHEMICAL
COACH HANDBOOK
By Soleira Green

CONTENTS: Page #
FOREWORD BY SOLEIRA 3

PART 1 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL COACH…THE ALCHEMY
OF PASSION, POTENTIAL AND POWER

The past, present and future of coaching 4
What is an alchemical coach? 4
What is the alchemical dance? 6

Getting ready to dance 8
Expanding to all that you are 8
Finding your own passion and vision for coaching 9
Selecting who and how you want to coach 11
Connecting with your client 13
Connecting with the you that knows 14
Aligning your intentions 15
Sourcing the space in which you work 15

Getting your client ready for the dance 18
Completing the past 18
Moving to wholeness 21
Using passion to fuel the movement 22

Hearing the rhythms of the dance 23
Accessing potential 23
Connecting with vision 25
Seeing the bigger picture 27
Going for the bigger breakthroughs 28

Dancing the dance 29
Beyond language to the energetic dance 29
Seeing who another really is 30
Celebrating emotion 34
Bursting the bubble of thoughts and beliefs 36
Accessing a new vitality and vibrancy 38
Lighting the flame of life 40

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Beyond the dance 43
Beyond wholeness to ALL’ness 43
Partnering with LIFE 45
Working for Evolution 46
Seeding the garden of consciousness 47
Reality creation 48
Beyond transformation to creation and evolution 49

PART 2 ~ THE NEW BUSINESS ALCHEMISTS Page #
…EVOKING THE CORPORATE SOUL 57

The New Business Alchemists 57

The Alchemical Approach to Evoking the Corporate Soul 58
Head, Heart, Spirit, Soul…Integration into wholeness 60
Exploring organisational soul 62

Quantum Intelligence 65
The Evolution of Intelligence 65
Emotional Intelligence 65
Spiritual Intelligence 65
Wholistic Intelligence 66
Quantum Intelligence 67

Organisational Energetics and Consciousness 69
Organisational Energetics 69
Business and Consciousness 73

Strategic Visioning 76
From the future for the future 76

The Power of Potential 78
Organisational Change, Transformation, Creation and 78
Evolution

PART 3 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL LEADER Page #
…SOURCING TRUE, AUTHENTIC POWER 83

New leadership and power 83
New and old power 83
New and old leadership 84

Leaderfulness and you
The inner, authentic, essential you 86
The leaderful core 87
Aligning with what LIFE wants 88
Authenticity, integrity and trueness 90

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True, Authentic Power 91
Speaking / writing for what wants to be said 91

Coaching leadership and power 93
Sourcing leaderfulness in others 93
Assisting others in finding their true power 95

Evolving leadership and power 96
© Copyright 2004
FOREWORD BY SOLEIRA

Welcome to the world of alchemical coaching!
Alchemical coaching is a brand new, r-Evolutionary way of coaching. It’s something
I’ve developed over the past twenty years of my life as I studied transformation,
strategic planning, spirituality and the wonderful fields of energetics and
consciousness. I’ve coached thousands of people with incredible results. I work in
breakthrough and from that space, I find that incredible, unprecedented results can be
achieved in literally one session or two.

This work is Life-changing. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced before! And yet
at the same time, for many of those I’ve trained, they find it’s the most natural thing
they have ever done.

Alchemical coaching isn’t about remembering tips and techniques and following
frameworks and guidelines. It’s about being in the moment and dancing with the
wondrous person that you’re coaching.

Alchemical coaching is based on the premise that everything is energy…and if
everything is energy, then we can move into a dance with it and bring it graciously,
delightfully and powerfully into play. It’s also based on the alchemy of consciousness
and creation, which brings a whole new level to the coaching dance!

The best way to approach this is to set aside all that you have currently learned about
coaching and move into the dance. Be in moment. Allow yourself to look at things in
new ways…and discover the delightful freedom that alchemical coaching can bring to
you, others and our world!

Have fun reading through and playing with The Alchemical Coach Handbook!

With love,

Soleira

[email protected]
www.AlchemicalCoach.com
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THE ALCHEMICAL COACH HANDBOOK

PART 1 ~ THE ALCHEMICAL COACH
…THE ALCHEMY OF PASSION, POTENTIAL AND POWER

THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF COACHING
Coaching today is r-Evolutionising itself. For years coaching has been about balance,
life style, goals and success. It’s been about measured steps towards making life
better for us as individuals. But today, we’re taking leaps and bounds into limitless
possibilities for what coaching can mean for each and every one of us as well as for
the evolution of ourselves as a race and for the creation of a whole new world.

The alchemical r-evolution includes:

(cid:127) instantaneous transformation,
(cid:127) human evolution,
(cid:127) world-changing potential and
(cid:127) the alchemical dance of majestical wonder.

Alchemical coaches don’t come to their clients thinking ‘How can I support them in
what they’re up to?’ They come to their clients wondering what magnificent brilliance
is waiting to be uncovered in this dance. They call forth such stunning, passion-filled,
world-changing achievements from their clients that both coach and client are breath-
taken.

As alchemical coaches we recognise the greatest, deepest, profoundest potential in
every person, moment and situation. We work not just for our clients, but for the
whole of Life. Everything we do, we do for the evolution of human consciousness and
the fulfilment of LIFE. This is one of the most delight-filled expressions of Life.
Burden falls away and the alchemical dance begins.

WHAT IS AN ALCHEMICAL COACH?

An alchemical coach is a potentialist…always in a dance with potential. This isn’t just
a profession...it’s a way of life. It’s not just a job…it’s the fulfilment of everything we’re
about and for, going way beyond coaching, and even beyond transformation, to
delightfully express and evolve life everywhere.

The following are some of the key working principles of alchemical coaching that we
will be working on throughout this handbook:

1) When you truly see and recognise who a person really is, they are instantly
and forever transformed.

2) Breakthrough sources from the in-the-moment dance and movement is what
you’re aiming to create.

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3) The alchemical dance occurs in the spaces between us.

4) To dance the alchemical dance, connect profoundly with yourself and with
the person you’re dancing with.

5) To connect profoundly, be willing to be whole, to amaze yourself every
moment and to be amazed by others all the time.

6) Be willing to co-create ‘what wants to happen’ in every moment.

7) Be willing to hold for a greater outcome than others can even perceive as
possible. Allow for miracles, synergy and synchronicity.

8) Keep standing for the breakthrough without judgement of how it’s going.
Find the powerful balance between intention and judgement. The power is
in the strength of the intention AND being ok with how it’s going.

9) Set your intention clearly and strongly, but also be willing to allow your
intention to dance in the moment as a collaborative, creational unfolding.

10) Create and hold a BIG space for breakthrough to occur and be willing to
keep on expanding it bigger and bigger as you dance. See BIG, think BIG,
expand BIG, expect BIG.

11) Be willing to ‘fall in love with’ who your client is and with what they’re up to in
the world.

12) Be a partner to potential and a powerful steward for evolution.

13) Live, work and play in vibrant reality…alive with passion, possibilities,
potential and the power to do anything and everything that we ever could
dream.

14) Don’t just dream the impossible dreams. Live them.

I know that’s a lot to take in in one go, but we’ll be exploring each and every one of
these key principles throughout this book. If you’ve been in the coaching field for any
length of time, you’ll know that these principles differ radically from the traditional
coaching approach of the past. Let’s look at the movement from ‘coaching as it’s
been’ (the past) to ‘coaching as the alchemical dance’ (the powerfully present ‘new
future’ of coaching):

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OLD COACH’ISMS ALCHEMICAL COACH’ISMS____________________
Meet your clients where Connect with your clients from their dreams and potential.
they’re at. See them as they’ve never been seen before and gift them a
knowing of themselves that will profoundly alter life forever.

People need structure to Structure boxes, limits and precludes passion and potential.
grow. If you have to force yourself to do something, it’s likely that
you’ll lose all the inspiration and vision for the project and the
vision. Find ways to have your client’s passion flourish and
allow that to guide the project in every moment.

The client is always You understand that there is no right or wrong, just great
right. questions and an openness to explore and journey into
potential. You and the client are in a dance to seek new
questions and new answers and to go beyond questions.
and answers to know the very essence of who this person is
and why s/he is here.

The client always has The alchemical coach is leading people to where they’ve
the answer within. never been before, so it may be that the client doesn’t always
have the answer within. Alchemical coaches know multiple
places to look to seek a variety of perspectives, possibilities
and potentials, selecting the one that most empowers the
client, the vision and the moment.

Only by asking Be willing to speak true. Say what you feel there is to say
questions, do you get and be willing to speak that which will break everything
the answers. through.

You need to know where The alchemical dance of possibility allows for unprecedented
to go and how to movement. Allow your knowing to be rich, full, spontaneous
proceed. Make sure to and in-the-moment. Be willing to not know where to go next.
follow tried and tested In the ‘not knowing’ you’ll discover approaches no one has
techniques. ever considered before. Throw away the rules books and be
in the alchemical dance.

When you become When you move to wholeness, you move beyond need (not
needless, you become the other way around). Working on needlessness doesn’t
whole. guarantee wholeness. Alchemical coaches understand the
journey to wholeness and how to get themselves and others
there through expansion and perspective shifts, taking them
way beyond need into pure creation.
Personal development Alchemical coaches move people beyond personality /
requires a strengthening persona to a level of beingness that has very little attachment
of the personality / to or attention on persona at all. Be willing to be a steward
persona. for evolution and you quickly learn to live beyond yourself,
discovering a you you’ll love to know.

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We are becoming amazing new beings…rich with knowing, wisdom and abilities far
beyond our previous comprehension. Today we walk through life able to profoundly
partner with people and with Life itself to bring things beyond our wildest imaginings
into being. We dance in the vibrant space of living possibilities. We are the
evolutionary alchemists of a new era, a new humanity and a world of brilliance and
wonder. As alchemical coaches, we dance the alchemical dance, bringing Life to Life
everywhere we go.

Think this is too good to be true? It’s not. Read on because in these pages lie the
answers to LIFE and our own responsible and powerful creation of how we wish life to
be.

WHAT IS THE ALCHEMICAL DANCE?
The alchemical dance is a wondrous thing to be a part of. It’s very likely a new
experience, although once you’ve experienced it, you may say that it’s a very natural
thing for you. Many people express this once they’re in the experience of it.

As you enter the dance, surrender your thinking mind and all of the techniques and
tips you’ve ever learned in order to dance IN THE MOMENT, amazing yourself with
every breath.

In a traditional coaching situation there’s you and there’s the client. There you sit,
thinking and wondering what to do next. The client pondering and reflecting, being
asked all the questions and not really fully understanding where it is they can truly go.
If you’re in your mind (thinking about what to do), you’re most likely not connected with
your client and you’re definitely not in the alchemical dance.

The alchemical dance is literally exactly that…a dance. You reach out energetically to
partner with your client in movement that draws potential closer to you both and to the
world. You hear the rhythms of potential and you enter the in-the-moment, co-
creational dance to produce sparkling, breathtaking results.

In order to dance you must surrender yourself completely to the moment, the
movement and the music of the dance. You must be more committed to your client’s
potential than to anything else in that moment. You must be willing to become the
steward for the whole of human evolution right then and there. Sound ominous…a bit
of a burdensome responsibility? Well it’s not! It’s such a blast that you will want to do
it over and over again with every client you’ve got. You and your clients will feel so
fulfilled that it’s likely you won’t ever want to coach in any other way again.

Throughout this handbook you’re going to learn to dance this dance…and like learning
any new thing, at first we’re going to take it one step at a time, gaining proficiency with
each and every aspect of the dance. And then, at the right moment in time, you’ll walk
onto that dance floor with your client and you’ll perform in a way that will stun and
amaze you both.

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GETTING READY TO DANCE
EXPANDING TO ALL THAT YOU ARE

First things first…it’s time to take a deep breath and relax. Take a few deep breaths if
you’ve really had one of those days.

Expansion Exercise #1 ~ Allow yourself to expand. Visualise it like you’re the centre
point for all of you and you’re expanding the edges of your awareness further and
further out. Another way to picture it is like you’re a huge helium balloon filling up with
air, but your feet stay on the ground and the ball of energy that you are keeps getting
bigger and bigger. You’re anchored by your presence, right here, right now in this
moment. You can do this with your eyes open or closed…whatever you’re most
comfortable with.

How big are you? As big as the room? As big as your city? As big as the Earth? Or
maybe even as big as the cosmoses? Allow yourself to expand to the biggest and
vastest YOU that you can experience, all the while being centred right here and now.

This exercise is actually the foundation for everything alchemical. If you coach, work
and live from the small, constricted you, you actually won’t be able to find the
wherewithal to dance the alchemical dance. But from the expanded you, everything
you need to be and do is right there with you. You become ALL of yourself and more!

So try it again now. See if you can get it to feel more natural to you and then use this
in every day life. Expand every time you don’t know what to do. Expand when you’re
not sure what to say to your client. Continue practising expansion until it becomes
second nature for you to be living as ALL that you are and can be.

We’re not just tiny specks of matter on a little planet third from the sun. We’re actually
vast energies of consciousness and creation swirling through myriads of wondrous
delight. For any of you who have a concern about feeling ungrounded while doing this
or of not staying present in the expanded state, you’ll be glad to know that today, in
our open and whole human energy system, we can now expand as far into
consciousness as we’d like to and still walk around with our eyes open contributing to
Life in the here and now. I call this living consciousness…the more you expand, the
more present you become. Try it and see if this is true for you.

From the expanded you, comes the ability to live super-connected with the living
intelligence that both surrounds us and is within us, gifting us the abilities of knowing,
sensing, seeing and feeling beyond our current intellect or abilities. From the
expanded you, comes the dance of passion, potential and power. Expansion creates
the space in which the alchemical dance occurs. A constricted, small you just won’t
cut it! In order to dance the alchemical dance, you have to be willing to get BIG.
BIGGER AND BIGGEST! After all, what great dancer have you ever known who
shrunk before going on the dance floor? Take a deep breath and dive into the
excellence of the dance, trusting in our innate abilities to guide you perfectly into
what’s right to do!

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FINDING YOUR OWN PASSION AND VISION FOR COACHING

From this expanded state, let’s see if coaching and alchemical coaching are what you
really want to do. In order to take a look at that, you‘ll want to access the energy of
your passion and vision and see where it leads you. First, PASSION!

Passion Exercise #1 ~ Take a deep breath and dive into your heart. Be willing to go
deep inside, like Alice in Wonderland through the white rabbit hole, down, down, down
you go until you pop out the other end into what I call ‘the ocean of soul’ that’s all
around you. Don’t worry about getting this exactly right. Imagining it is just as
effective as actually doing it. So if all else fails…pretend!

There you are in that gorgeous sea green water, with the sun sparkling brilliantly upon
the dancing waves. Now just drop down a little ways and discover a small fissure in
the ocean floor where there are bubbles rising up. Stand right over those bubbles and
let them flow through you, rising up through your heart and bursting out through your
hands, heart and all of you.

Don’t try to think about it, just let the energy of these bubbles flow. When the energy’s
really there with you (your hands may be tingling and / or your body heating up a bit),
then allow the fullest energy of your passion to come right on though you to sit in front
of you. Here sits the energy of your passion in full flow. Now, imagine having a
conversation with this energy. Get a sense of what it is and how it feels. This is your
chance to get to know your passion really well.

Talk to it. Feel it. Sense it. Allow your knowing to come to you about it. What is your
passion? Write it down once you’ve got a really good sense of it.

Passion is the fuel for the fire of all endeavour. Passion brings things alive and
creates movement. Trying to launch a vision or project without passion is like trying to
send a rocket to the moon without any fuel. You can’t take on major projects without
the energy to make it happen!

How did you do on your passion exercise? Here are few more suggestions for
accessing your passion (or that of your client once you get to that stage with them) to
take it another stage further:

Passion Exercise #2 ~ Think of anything at all that you know you’re passionate about.
Chocolate, deep-sea diving, skiing, great movies…anything. Allow the feeling of that
to fill your body. How does it feel? Where does the energy move from and to? You’ll
likely discover that when passion moves, it generally comes from deep within, flowing
up and through the high heart (breastplate) area and out into life around you.

Once your high heart is open, you’re connected to what I call the vibrant reality. Feel
around you from this passionate space. How does it feel using your high heart to
experience Life? Vibrant? Passionate? Dynamic? Rich with possibilities?

Passion Exercise #3 ~ From this vibrant space, consider that the air around you is full
of white holes of possibilities. I’d like you to connect with some of those possibilities
by imagining that you’re sticking the finger of one hand into one that’s perfect for you,
and then a finger from another hand, then a toe and finally your nose. Get connected
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with the vibrancy of possibility. How does that feel? Are you zinging with energy yet?
Is your passion right there with you and are you getting more and more immersed in
the energy of it and coming more clear with your understanding of what it is and what
it’s for in the world.

Passion Exercise #4 ~ Expand to ALL that you can be. Ask, ‘What is your most
passionate passion?’ and see what you get.

People’s passions are generally not mysteries to them. In fact, most people have
probably known it in one form or another all their lives. Their passion may at times be
less available than others, perhaps because they’ve been constricting their energy
fields or maybe they’re going through a shift of passion and vision, moving to
something completely brand new. Passion can evolve over time. It usually holds to a
general theme throughout your life, but be willing to allow your passion to dance,
evolve and grow all the time.

So how about it? Is your passion related to being a coach? Does coaching light you
up and make Life sing for you? If it doesn’t, why not? Sometimes when people find
they’ve lost their passion for coaching (which we all do from time to time), it may be
not so much with coaching itself, but with the level of coaching or with the type of
client. So if you’re not passionate about coaching, or at least about offering people
the opportunities to be all they can be, then make sure to look at why that is and what
it is you’re really passionate about so that you can apply this body of work directly to
that. You can work through this material and get plenty of benefit from it without ever
applying it directly to coaching. The alchemical dance affects Life in oh so many
ways!

Ok, now that you’ve got that passion flowing, it’s on to VISION.

Vision is different from passion. Whereas passion is the fuel, vision is the map for the
journey. It’s where you want to get to, what you’re setting out to achieve. It’s potential
realised and possibility brought alive.

Visions should stir your soul when you speak them. They should call to you
completely and utterly. Way too often we take on visions that have no meaning or
energy for us, no calling to make them real. So even if you already know what your
vision is and you’re super passionate about it, play with the exercises that follow
because you never know what might pop up from it to gift you a new level of it all.

Vision Exercise #1 ~ First, take another dive into that ocean of soul. Remember that
crack in the ocean floor with the bubbles. Well this time you’re going to discover that
the crack has become an open fissure that you can dive on through. It’s safe…on the
other side is the place of pure Creation. So go right on through and see what you find.
As you stand there in this marvellous place, call to you the vision that best matches
your own passion and abilities. Call to you the energy of something that wants to
happen now through you. Feel the energy move to you and again allow it to flow on
through you, moving in front of you so that you can commune with it.

Allow the energy of the vision to show itself to you. Don’t try to think vision. You want
to feel it and experience it. Maybe you’ll see a picture or get a sense of something
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