INTEGRAL LIFE COACHING
WHAT I DO
I support individuals and organizations learn superior communication and relationship skills, tools for developing high-level clarity and focus, and methods for achieving optimal physical wellness. These approaches can have profoundly positive effects in bringing forth peak performance, vitality, calmness, and wellbeing. I do this work in classes and seminars.
WHY IT WORKS
It works because it helps people find the hidden levers of change, many of which are either yet A) unlearned or B) obscured in the unconscious mind. Once they are learned and implemented, profound change can occur. These levers include certain relationship and communication skills that are not widely known.
One of the premises of my work is that there’s great potential for wellbeing and happiness that is usually left untapped. By supporting you in evoking this potential, big changes can occur.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
Breakthrough insights into the nature of conflict can help you reduce tension and conflicts in all your relationships. Understanding how to improve your brain chemistry can help you be better focused, concentrated, perceptive, and peaceful. Being at your peak in all these areas can help you feel alive and fulfilled.
A vast amount of what we need to know about creating a life that works is hidden. It’s either stuck in the unconscious or not yet learned. The work I do almost always requires the learning of new and different ways of understanding ourselves, others, and the nature of relationships.
Underpinning all this work is the premise that it is possible for people to feel fantastic: physically and emotionally. Does it take work on your part? Yes, a lot. Does it take time? Yes, usually a lot. But it is highly possible. Sometimes it’s just around the corner.
MY QUALIFICATIONS
I have provided coaching and counseling over 44,000 times since 1983 to people of all walks of life and of all ages, including mid-level and senior-level executives, physicians, psychotherapists, attorneys, priests, and professors. Through a lifetime of listening to the stories of pain and happiness, failure and success, illness and wellness, I have learned exactly how to make ourselves miserable and sick, and how to make ourselves happy, healthy, and successful. Contentment, serenity, and aliveness that seem so elusive to most people are, in fact, very possible.
I was an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, co-teaching two two-week courses using my book, A Beautiful Medicine, as the text book. One was The Art and Science of Happiness, and the other Medicine: An Integrative Approach.
My education includes
MS in organization development from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, including a Certificate in Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Certificate in Transpersonal Psychology from renowned psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, M.D.
M.Ac. (master’s degree) in acupuncture from the Maryland University of Integrative Health
BS in psychology from James Madison University.
900 hours in self-awareness and performance excellence seminars with Landmark Education Corporation
From 1975 to 1977, I was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka trying to concentrate
HOW DO YOU BEGIN?
We start with a free preliminary fifteen-minute phone or video conference conversation to make sure your needs and my services are a fit. Call me at 410.924.3831 or email at david@davidgmercier.com to set an appointment.