Coaching & Mentoring with Susan Beekman
You see a vague outline of the life you’re seeking, but your goals always seem to be just out of reach.
Susan Grace Beekman can help you to:- Move from confusion to clarity
- Find your own inner direction
- Create your life from a peaceful mind
Susan is a Master Coach and Instructor for Dr. Martha Beck, a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, and a certified Spiritual Director skilled in contemplative listening and spiritual mentoring.
On the Horizon
February 7, 2012
The Work 101 for Coaches
An eight-week teleclass
Discover a kinder world for yourself and at the same time develop skills in facilitating The Work of Byron Katie with clients. We’ll learn by starting where we are, in the world of our own thinking.
Designed to enable you to experience the subtlety of The Work while you practice facilitation skills. Each class will include supervision and discussion of effectively incorporating The Work in your coaching practice. Focused sessions with a partner designed to deepen your own practice.
- Limited to ten coaches.
- Eight Weeks in February and March 2012
- Begins Feb. 7th 10:00 am PT (11 MT, 12 CT, 1:00 ET)
- Sessions include: Judging Your Neighbor As Yourself, A Guide to Clean Facilitation, Finding Traction, Developing Listening Ears, Using Sub-Questions, Turn-Around Power, Living The Turn-Around (for coach & client).
- $349 Early, $399 after Feb. 1st.
Sign up now. This is the last offering of this popular class until fall and limited number of slots are available. See Full Event Listing
February 22, 2012
Unsinging Your Theme Song
A six-week teleclass to identify and question your personal hit parade
Wednesdays at 2:00 PT. Six weeks beginning Feb. 22nd
Price: $149. By February 14th. $199 after.
Theme songs run through our minds somewhat like our own personal musical sound tracks. They may seem snugly familiar, but in fact they often keep us snugly stuck.
Track 1: I’m not good enough. (Or “There’s not enough.”)
Track 2: There’s something wrong with me
Track 3: They know and I don’t.
Track 4: It’s my fault
Track 5: I have to try harder.
Track 6: I’m attracting bad juju (reprise of track 2 and 4)
Each of us has our own mash-up, and each theme song is mixed a little differently, but we tend to dance through life to the same basic tunes. We might try to record over the earlier tracks, but nothing seems to take…until we see them for what they are and “unsing” them.
Let Track 7 be a newer, truer sound track that supports your authentic way in the world.
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April 3, 2012
Deepening In Inquiry and Living the Turnarounds
A six-week Spring teleclass
A 6-week Inquiry Group for Everyone.
- Drink deeply from your own pool of wisdom and share in an oasis of safety.
- Focus on juicy questioning, deep listening, and living Turn Arounds.
- Turn your life around by discovering what’s truer (and kinder) for you.
- Partner work to support you in finding and living in a kinder universe.
- Limited enrollment. Register early to save your spot.
- $195 before March 15th, $299 later.
- Begins April 3rd at 9:30 am PST.
June 27, 2012
Finding the Hidden Gift in Any Relationship: The Work of Byron Katie
A four-day inquiry retreat at beautiful Breitenbush Hot Springs in Oregon
What relationships create stress, anger, despair, sadness, grief, or guilt in your life?
A relationship with a person who is no longer in your life? Someone close to you?
Or is it your relationship with your own body?
Every relationship in our lives in has the power to cause us to suffer or to bring us peace. By dropping deeply into inquiry through The Work of Byron Katie, we’ll investigate the beliefs we hold when we’re not being “spiritual” or enlightened and discover the wisdom we each have at our own core.
We’ll learn from the beliefs we have about an important person in our past or present, and we’ll also explore painful beliefs we hold about our own bodies. All challenging relationships are welcomed as a doorway to our own awakening.
Candidates in the Certification program for the Work can earn credits for this workshop.
Susan Grace Beekman and Grace Bell are Certified Facilitators of The Work of Byron Katie. They use The Work in their coaching practices and lead workshops in The Work with participants from around the world.
- June 27th to July 1st, 2012.
- Breitenbush Hot Springs
- $350 plus lodging. $295 before April 1st. $325 before June 1st.
- Questions? 541-760-7921.
Breitenbush Hot Springs and Retreat Center is an owner-owned cooperative and intentional community on 154 acres of wildlife sanctuary in the Willamette National Forest of the Oregon Cascades.
Register at Breitenbush Hot Springs.
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From the Blog
“Aha’s” on Epiphany
Jan. 5th (or 6th) is my favorite holiday. For years I thought I had it all to myself. Having already failed at whatever New Year’s Resolutions I had thrown at the dartboard, I would try again to envision my next year after the decorations were put away and the rich holiday foods were consumed or thrown away.
When I was raising a family, this would hit after the kids were back in school and we were once again held by familiar routines. I discovered that arranging some time for myself and myself alone on this day was the last and best day of the holiday. It was like my own personal clean-up, my revisioning time.
Later I was giddy to learn that there was a date on the liturgical calendar called “Epiphany,” and that it coincided with my private holiday.
Read More...Dipping Deeply Into the New Year
It’s pretty darned hard to miss the flashing ads and headlines that remind me, and all of us, that this is the time for resolve, discipline, will power. My own natural desire to get more in touch with my healthy body through diet and exercise at this time of year always finds plenty of support from the culture around me. I don’t mind riding that wave. But anybody at my gym will tell you that the new spurt of activity lasts about six weeks.
What makes it stick is when I dip deeply to discover what’s been in the way of change. I’ve discovered for myself that any resolutions for the new year just don’t take unless I spend some time thinking about where I’ve been, getting my bearings for what’s ahead.
Because the unquestioned past seems to have a way of becoming in the future.
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Kind, warm, funny, and smart, Susan will adeptly help you solve the puzzles and unlock the closed doors that have kept you from feeling satisfied with your life.
Susan brings, sensitivity, humor and consciousness to each session. I am transitioning into a new plateau in my life and I couldn’t have done it without her.
A wise soul with contagious laughter, Susan delves deep into the heart of the matter with compassion and kindness. My world has opened to more clarity, joy, and gratitude by working with her.
I am ever-grateful to Susan for her skill, her kindness, and her love during our sessions. As a mentor and a coach, she is unparallelled. If you want a masterful coach to help you unwind the beliefs that hold you back, call on Susan.
