The heart of a human being
is no different than the
soul of heaven and earth.
Your soul is full of fertile seeds
waiting to sprout.
O Sensei, Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969),
Founder of Aikido
Because each person's Process is unique, there is no cookie-cutter template for what emerges in one-on-one sessions. Sessions are different for each individual and tailored to the specific goals and themes stirring at any given time.
While no two sessions are identical, there is a general flow, pattern, or framework within which this exploration occurs.
INITIAL MEET-UP: Attunement / Co-Discovery
ORIENTEERING: Cultivating a Process-Map for Future Work
CO-WALKING: Journeying Through the Gates of Arising Themes
As we journey together, different themes arise. Like any journey, as new themes arise, our mapping and tracking shifts. At times, we also revisit some of the terrain we have covered because the practice of retrospection offers its own insights and perspectives.
Flow of Exploration
Commitment to Soulfaring
All fellow travelers a.k.a. "clients" interested in engaging in the work of Soulfaring will be asked to make a commitment of time to the process. This is not a commitment to me; it is a commitment to yourself and your path.
Much like the discipline of faithfully recording dreams in a dream journal, which produces increased fluency and activation of the powers of the personal unconscious (a.k.a. "The Dream Maker"), when we actively make a commitment to the path of Soulfaring, it aligns our focus to the task and harnesses beneficial energies for the journey.
Making a commitment to the work of Soulfaring is two-fold:
1) Meeting bi-weekly or monthly over Zoom or Signal
and
2) Being willing to engage in at-home innerwork and assignments in between sessions including journaling, recording dreams, and making note of energetic shifts
My Commitment to You
After each session, I weave our dialogue -- and anything that has stirred and surfaced from the experiential processes that have taken place -- into my core practices: forest wandering and quiet-sitting. I "sit with you" and/or "take you for a walk," meditate upon our dialogue, and "journey" myself about next steps. I attune myself again to your personal Process, the sacred questions stirring, and the archetypal themes and energies that have revealed themselves. Further questions, insights, connections, commentary, resources to explore further, and/or suggestions arise as a result, which I then prepare for you as a session follow-up document I call a "Soul Report."
The Soul Report
(A "Field Report" of Themes)
Within a day or two of our session, you will receive what I call a "soul report" — a snapshot of themes that arose during our dialogue and innerwork, along with a dispatch containing a variety of other potential facets for you to consider.
After our initial session, the Soul Report will often be more extensive as we actively map out the working themes that we will continue to explore. As we proceed with the work, these dispatches become brief, streamlined one-pagers containing aspects that augment our work. This map becomes our prime orientation, which we continue to follow in future sessions.
Soul Reports may include:
+ questions of sacred inquiry (Quest-I-On)
+ suggested practices, visualizations
+ articles or suggested books
+ videos relevant to themes
+ journal writing exercises, commentary, and more
Any resource, experiment, practice, journal writing exercise, Quest-I-On Question, teachings for consideration, or other suggestions is intended to augment the emerging themes from sessions and is offered with the intention of supporting you in cultivating greater clarity and deepening your connection to your own soul and life-path.
These offerings -- combined with your own disciplined attention to journaling and contemplating themes between sessions -- becomes a "map." Over time, looking back, it will become obvious that the journey through the various themes will have been akin to traveling through a terrain of gateways, openings, and discoveries. "Soul Reports" enable you to go back and revisit these gates and themes at any time. At various junctures along the way, you will also be asked to review and 'tune back in' with earlier soul reports.
The Soul Report (continued)
Sacred Reciprocity
(please read carefully)
As a matter of reciprocity, in exchange for my time, energy, and focus, my sliding scale rate is $150-$180 (U.S. Dollars) per session.
I do not accept insurance.
There is no charge for the Soul Report. The Soul Report is a supplementary offering made in support of your path.
Payment for sessions is due on the day of the scheduled session unless other arrangements have been made. Soul Reports are sent within two days after payment is received.
I do not accept checks.
Note to International Clients: If you hail from a country other than the U.S., you will need to do the conversion in your own currency to U.S. dollars. Historically, I have worked with Fellow Travelers from Australia, Canada, England, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.
