We often hear it said that tv and movie watching is a form of escape from reality, or dissociation from our selves and our lives. I once worked with a coach who gave me “permission” to watch tv at night by calling it “regenerative dissociation.” She suggested that my desire to “escape into” an hour [...]

What is the value of an integral approach to coaching? And why might it be fun and/or exciting?

A friend of mine asked me recently “What is the value of an ‘integral approach’ to coaching?” She actually drew “air quotes” in the air when she used the term ‘integral approach.’ Her air-quotage got me thinking [...]

Comedy as tool for transformation in relation to the Jungian shadow….

There is a famous joke. Well, there are many famous jokes. But one of them goes like this:

A man goes into a doctor’s office, weeping and screaming and very distressed. He cries out to his doctor, “Doc, when I do this (raising his [...]