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Easing the Crisis of Meaning: The Role of Spirituality in Coaching

About 10 years ago, I noticed a pattern in my coaching practice: Clients arrived at sessions more drained, exhausted, fragmented, and increasingly distracted. As I inquired about this, I uncovered how our seduction with technology had enabled a series of issues such as cognitive load, sensory overload, decision fatigue, hyper-consumption, and navigating through misinformation.

I’ve explored some underlying causes of our confused state in a few blogs (here, here, and here) as we DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2026-06-03T14:35:21-04:00August 26th, 2024|Blog, classic blog, Spirituality|0 Comments

The Experience of Being in 12 Practices, part 2

NOTE – We have updated our 12 Practices. Please visit our main 12 Practices page to view latest practices.

What is the experience of being? I explored this inquiry in a two-part blog. In part one, I explored an interdependent understanding of being. In this blog, part two, I will introduce the 12 practices that support this new understanding of being.

This new dimension of being views humans as co-creators of our world. However, most psychological models relating to the self and human functioning imply that the self exists as a discrete, separate, and DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2024-08-14T15:49:32-04:00February 24th, 2020|Blog, Practice|0 Comments

The Experience of Being in 12 Practices – Part 1

Have you ever attended a seminar that offered prescriptive behaviors to adopt, processes to implement and content to remember? I recently had this experience.

What’s missing from this scenario depends somewhat on our expectations of learning and, more importantly, our view of being human. Do we react to, manage, or adopt change? Or are we co-creators of change?

To accept the former view implies an understanding of being human as fixed, separate selves, independent of our circumstances that respond to change.

If we accept the latter view, as co-creators, we shift:

From doling out prescriptive behaviors, adopting “norms” to conform
To discovering DOWNLOAD PDF

By Tony Zampella|2024-08-14T15:49:24-04:00February 10th, 2020|Blog, Practice|0 Comments