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Multidimensional Coaching

 Featured Pathway:  The Akashic and Shamanic Approaches to Destiny. Leaders: Wayne Caskey, Jen Eramith, Heidi McBratney. Wayne shares his vision of multidimensional coaching and how he approaches tapping into his client’s passions.

 

Multidimensionality is both personal and collective. It’s connected to personal vibrancy of energy and also group vibrancy of energy. This energy is such that it’s almost tangible. It’s the sort of thing that makes people seem alive and lights them up. Personally that energy expresses my uniqueness of being, why I’m here and the uniqueness of my doing that which naturally emerges from the uniqueness of my being.

From a group perspective, that energy is an access point. It’s the connection to destiny, referred to in books like Synchronicity, Presence, and Good to Great. That energy results in continuing relevance, reinvention and vibrancy. That’s what multidimensionality is for me.

There’s both a direct route to multidimensionality and there’s an indirect route. The direct route is to have the client in an almost meditational state, imagine themselves big and then bigger—bigger than their house or office building, bigger than the city, bigger than the Earth, bigger than the galaxy, and then ask them to go beyond the universe and imagine themselves there. And from beyond the universe who as the client am I and who do I need to be? And from there, what’s next for me? Once I’ve intuited what’s there for me, how do I manifest that? My clients who get there have perspective-altering views of whatever it is that they’re confronting in their lives or in their business.

There is also an indirect route that I find works for clients who have trouble imagining themselves as big as the Earth or beyond. I ask them to identify their passion. Most clients can identify what they’re passionate about immediately and once they’re there, I challenge them to increase the vibrancy across their entire lives. Once they get to that point they sense their multidimensionality and then I ask them, “Well, what do things look like here?”

When my clients get to this place they experience peace and clarity. The items which loom so large in their daily lives shrink and they’re able to conceive themselves as movers on a world stage as opposed to ants on an anthill. This is a transformative experience for them. It’s one that stays with them. And when they go back into their daily lives and the anthill, they have this vision which helps them create really marvelous things.

This is an excerpt from an article which first appeared in the International Journal of Coaching in Organizations, 2007, 5(4), 72-79. It can only be reprinted and distributed with prior written permission from Professional Coaching Publications, Inc. (PCPI). Email John Lazar at john@ijco.info for such permission.
© Copyright 2007 PCPI. All rights reserved worldwide.

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