Discover your own hero's journey and how to encourage others on their paths to self-understanding. In Depth Coaching, author Pat Adson explores the skills and attitudes needed to assist people in developing their full potential. As a detailed guide for therapists, life coaches and any one interested in helping others on the journey, this book provides the tools for an intense study of personal developmental issues. Based on the work of Carol Pearson, co-developer of the Pearson-Marr Archetype IndicatorÂ® instrument, Depth Coaching emphasizes the practice of positive psychology based on development rather than disease. Each section of the journey contains a workbook. Initially resisting the call to become a life coach, author and psychologist Pat Adson discovered the rewarding benefits of helping others explore paths to meaning and balance. She notes, however, that this is a vocation undertaken only after one has fulfilled his or her own journey. Inspired by Carol Pearson's work with self-development through archetypes, Adson set out to explore her own "hero's journey." The result of her exploration is this step-by-step guide created for all who wish to take the journey or to coach others on their paths. "Coaching as a discipline," Adson tells readers, "is a client-centered way of working with individuals to help them achieve their goals, balance their lives, and attain fulfillment. Coaching focuses on clients' lifelong development rather than the remediation of past wounds. The coach and client collaborate as partners or peers in a relationship that is symmetric rather than paternalistic. Therapists, educators, and spiritual leaders will find Adson's methods useful in developing their own strengths as well as encouraging clients toward embarking on their personal journeys. Individuals and anyone who wishes to support themselves or others through growth and development will also find this work enlightening and helpful.

Depth Coaching: Discovering Archetypes For Empowerment, Growth, And Balance

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Patricia R. Adson

Psychology & Counseling

Myers & Briggs Foundation, Inc.

A Princess and Her Garden is a fable that reflects the stories of many women-and some men-who learn to put other people's needs before their own, until one day they come to realize they feel lost or unhappy because they have forgotten, or perhaps never learned, how to care for themselves. The telling of this story is more about the awakening and arrival of you, the reader, than it is about the journey of the Princess. The authors have wisely used their years of counseling and coaching experience to create a guided journal (The Queen of Yourself) that prompts you to reflect and answer thought provoking questions about your childhood, and what you learned about taking care of yourself and others. This unique journaling experience helps you cultivate a new life story in which you love both yourself and those closest to you. Beautiful color illustrations enhance this new edition-a beautiful allegory for reflecting on any stage in life. The included book club discussion qu

A Princess and Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening and Arrival; Includes a Guided Journal: Becoming the Queen of Yourself

Jennifer E. Van Homer

Children's Books

Center for Applications of Psychological Type, Inc.

The garden is a powerful metaphor for how we live our lives providing food for thought. 
 A Princess and Her Garden is a beautifully illustrated fable about a young girl s search for self-understanding and meaning. Author Pat Adson guides the reader through the life defining question: Can we truly serve others and ultimately fulfill ourselves without nurturing our own needs? 
 The young girl is transformed into a woman as she embarks on the path of self-discovery: The Princess of Other People defines herself by how others see her. The self-sacrificing wife works harder and harder to satisfy an increasingly distant Prince. The vengeful Princess learns that anger and retribution offer only fleeting satisfaction. The mother figure teaches both her child and herself the value of self-reliance. The Queen of Herself finds a mature balance of wisdom and openness. 
 A Princess and Her Garden is a perfect allegory for any stage in life, an ideal gift for the young graduate, the new parent, or the just-divorced...as well as a self-empowering present for you.

A Princess & Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening & Arrival

Literature & Fiction

Lone Oak Press

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