About the Book
What would you like to change? This book is for you to gain fresh perspectives, re-frame your thinking processes, and take action steps toward your goals with creativity and fun.Most books are just to be read; some are quick-glance guides; others are just to color. But not this one. This book cries out for you to look through it, read again, think and ponder, color or draw, add notes, quotes, and more. We are inviting you into a fun and easy collaboration...so you can explore different areas of your life and move beyond your usual way of thinking and knowing. By adding your own changes, you will have begun the change process - a process that can then be applied outside the book.Inside are 37 illustrations divided into four sections (Source, Intuitive, Mythical, and Mental, based on philosopher Jean Gebser's structures of consciousness). The thought-provoking and introspective artwork is accompanied by powerful coaching questions, encouraging you to reflect and add your thoughts, drawings and creative expressions to the pages to see how everything comes together to form the Integral. Experimenting with the artwork can change something inside you...perhaps help you see something in a different, better light. Your new insights and actions can affect those around you, and may help build a better world and a more sustainable way of living together.How to use this book:1. Find a picture and matching words that grab your attention or pique your curiosity about something you would like to explore and/or change.2.We suggest that you delve into the words and artwork for possibilities. Become involved with them. Look for ways they might relate to you personally, or how they "speak" to you. Have fun and explore new ways to personalize the pages...modify, enhance, add, create. Make copies of pages and practice on them first if you want. This is your own unique, personal book.The "What Would you Like to CHANGE?" activity book complements the award winning Wisdom of the Whole textbook "Wisdom of the Whole: Coaching for Joy, Health, and Success" by Dr. Linda Bark, the "Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Toolcards for Joy, Health, and Success" by Dr. Linda Bark, as well as the Wisdom of the Whole Coaching Academy's coach training courses.
About the Author: Linda Bark: Linda Bark, PhD, RN, MCC, NC-BC, NBC-HWC has created new professional pathways in coaching and healthcare. In 1970 she was a pioneer in starting a nursing private practice and brought holistic nursing to hospitals in the 1980s. During the next decade, she led medical tours to China, lived in China to discover how to help Westerners create a context for Eastern healing, and consulted for organizations nationwide to start integral/holistic healing centers. Using her coaching model principles, she still works with organizations to build healthy cultures. She continues to teach her Wisdom of the Whole(R) coaching model internationally at such institutions as Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and KPMG in India. She also works in her private practice as a life/health/ business/executive/mentor coach. She has an award-winning coaching textbook and has been instrumental in creating national board certifications for both the Nurse Coach and the Health and Wellness Coach. Her formal education includes two nursing degrees, a master's degree in Life Transition Counseling, a certificate in Integral Health Studies, a PhD in Philosophy, and post-graduate studies in Indian Spirituality. Robert Boisson: Throughout his life, Robert Boisson has been a passionate observer, researcher, and creator, particularly within the fields of photography, illustration, and fine art. Added to these pursuits, are a love of nature, a study of psychology, concerns for the human condition, and an acute appreciation for humor in its many strange manifestations. Bob has exhibited art and photography in numerous gallery and museum shows in California, Nevada, and Arizona. He was invited to curate exhibits for the University of Nevada and what would become the Nevada Museum of Art. He continues to exhibit with photos recently included in a New York City gallery of world-wide photographers and drawings included in a Nevada show entitled, "Identity," in the fall of 2017. His professional career in advertising, marketing, and media has included positions of creative director and vice president with ad agencies, director of promotion for the nation's newspaper, USA Today, and marketing development director for various newspapers within the Gannett company. He has collaborated with Dr. Linda Bark as an artist, writer, and marketing consultant since the 1970s, sharing a desire to help others discover their inner strengths and maximize their abilities to achieve their own unique goals.
