About Integral Life Mentoring

"After three decades of work in various aspects of natural health care I found my relationships with my patients and students naturally evolving into one of integral life mentoring. I always preferred the role of teacher to that of doctor. I feel most effective when teaching people how best to take care of themselves rather than prescribing things to make them better without their fully understanding the process. I call my initial visit with a new person an advanced graduate level course called 'All About You 101'.

After decades of studying Ken Wilber’s integral approach to our lives and evolution I use his brilliant map of the territory in which we live to help people understand, not only where they are now, but also where they are going, and how to consciously keep going in the right direction.

I have always been a good listener and since I was in junior high school people have been asking me for advice and help. I began studying homeopathic and naturopathic health care over 30 years ago and bring that very special knowledge to the mentoring process. Concerned not only with thoughts and feelings, but also with the physical body, I have found it nearly impossible to change the way one feels and thinks without making the body healthier first. Drugs can change how we feel by masking the feelings, but a real change from unhealthy to healthy thinking begins with making the physical body healthier first.

The mentoring relationship is one of intimacy and trust and my aim is to support you in identifying your goals – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually – Once identified we work together to achieved your desired results. I am a naturally empathetic person and have developed my 'listening energy' (ting jing) through decades of taiji practice and teaching. I find it important to mirror back to you how you are 'getting in your own' and how to get out of unhelpful patterns that inevitably make us our own worst enemy.

And using the four quadrants multiple level – line – state - stage approach I help you expand to your next potential. Everyone is a remarkable unique being and using this multi-perspective approach I have found people can become healthier, happier, calmer, more energized and more successful.

It is alright to start with one area or if you have achieved your goals in parts of your life, then we just need to work to catch the other parts up to your highest level. And the higher you go on one line of development you will find that all other lines also go up higher.

We explore beliefs that you hold (consciously and subconsciously) and find which ones are still true for you and which ones you want to discard and replace given your newer understanding of yourself and your world. By reviewing ideas of good/bad, right/wrong, we can let go of blanket condemnation and with a clearer observational eye find new and better ways of bringing ourselves into balance. The shift will change your life.

My goal is to provide information, insight, motivation and support to facilitate change as necessary to achieve your goals. And I bring decades of education and life experience and a huge sense of humor to this fascinating work." - Nina Deerfield