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About Kip Flock, MSW
Apex Resource Center was created to support people and organizations in change. In this era of escalating human flux, we must continuously heighten our effectiveness in managing the challenge of intensified contemporary demands on our emotional and interactive lives. ARC Services for Human Effectiveness aim to replenish the gap between the distress of what no longer works and the hope of what might be - what we must release and what we aspire to create. Kip Flock has created the Apex Resource Center in the spirit of an ongoing culmination of the most effective strategies for emotional competence and competent influence in the dawning of this new age of life long learning.
VIRTUAL GROUPS
I'll be announcing the opportunities for free teleconference groups starting in the spring. These groups will take place on the phone with interesting and novel themes. You will have a chance to talk with me and with people from around the world.
These are exciting and informative chances to make connections with each other and raise the level of authenticity between us. Please keep your eye out for dates, times and topics that will be announced in upcoming newsletters.
LIFE COACHING & UPCOMING EVENTS
A coach has the questions. You have the answers. As your coach, I'll help you discover how to deepen the learning and forward the action in your life, please call me for a complimentary telecoach session. Tel. 570- 743-1055.
I will be facilitating Sierra Tucson's Clinical Training In Experiential Therapy at Miraval Spa, Tucson, Arizona (Nov. 3- Nov. 7, 2003) Phone: 800-842-4487 for information, also found at my website. News- My newsletter archive is now available. Go to my website home page and click on the newsletter menu button. You can check out any previous newsletter that you may have missed. Kip Flock, LCSW, BCD Psychotherapist, Personal and Professional Life Coach - (570-743-1055) - P.O. Box 384, Hummels Wharf, PA 17831-0384 -
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Dear Friends!
We all want to be known and recognized. I am inviting you to free life enhancing experiences. I'm hoping that you will make yourselves known to me as I make my Life Coaching skills available to you.
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MY STRUGGLE WITH AUTHENTICITY
As I share my wish to talk with you in a free initial coaching session, I am aware of a long standing conflict inside me. On one hand, I want to be open and accessible to you. On the other hand, I experience the pull towards invisibility to remain safe in hiding, unnoticed. I'm drawn to create new relationships as a positive influence with others, yet I tend towards shrinking away to remain in the peace that solitude seems to offer. These internal opposing forces come in many forms within all of us. I first became aware of the quest towards the "reparation of the opposites" as I studied the Pre-Socratic philosophers, such as Zeno and Hericlitus, long ago. I've since gone to countless workshops, seminars and other personal growth activities to calm the inner conflicts, with some success, I'm grateful to say. Yet I know that I'm not yet finished with my journey. I recently remarked to my Life Coach that I am beginning to see my quest for harmony as a mosaic or quilt, where the opposing energies inside me are held in complimentary relationship to each other- a dynamic balance of motion and emotion. On some level of awareness, contact with others and inner peace can co-exist. I have faith now that taking up the war of the inner opposites in full consciousness can result in authenticity- the vulnerability of truth and calmness of self acceptance.
More recently, I've rediscovered this vision of internal integration in the works of Satchidananda, such as the "Living Gita" and in spiritual practices like Yoga. A welcome outcome is less obsession and push toward addictiveness, a clear deviation from the path of authenticity-the trap of food compulsions, workaholism, and codependency. |
MY COACHING CHALLENGE
For the new year I'd like to give away 20 free initial coaching sessions by the beginning of February. I'm bridging my opposite inner voices by giving gifts with reasonable limits. I can make myself accessible to you, without letting an all or nothing fusion or isolation dichotomy become the picture of life as I know it.
There was a time when this unmediated inner conflict almost did me in, such as being the life of the party or attempting to make everyone happy on one side versus cutting myself off from family and friends on the other side. Now I choose to be in the world in a more authentic way. Let me know a good time when we can both focus on the most important values, experiences, and goals in your life. I promise to cherish your confidence, limits and visions as much as I do my own. I will honor your uniqueness as authentically as I possibly can so that your life calling will be clearly reflected out of our contact. I appreciate all of you who have taken me up on your complimentary coaching sessions. I continue to discover my own authenticity in yours. I've had great fun catching up with old friends while opening the door to new and exciting relationships. I also value your emails commenting on these news letters. I will respond to some of your responses in future newsletters. Please, let me know if you have any preferences for issues or topics for my newsletter. I want to stay with your energy. So, let me know about what interests you or concerns you the most.
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