Hello Freak Friends!!!

We’ve got another episode of Freak Flag for your ears today. Last April (yes, 2023!), I got to chat with brilliant coach Chela Davison about her path to coaching and her process working with people.

I worked with Chela as my coach for most of 2022, and I can personaly say she is a brilliant, effective, and quite *magical* coach. She REALLY really helped me at a moment when I needed someone to hold me and point out some of my blind spots.

here’s a bit about Chela: Chela Davison is an Integral Master Coach and Master Certified Coach who works with socially conscious entrepreneurs, creatives, and practitioners to help them align their soul’s purpose with their work in the world. To support clients in doing the necessary inner work to break old patterns and create enlivening new opportunities, she offers coaching, courses and education including Lead your Self, a program and community that helps members to realize their Calling. She is the former President and Lead Teacher of the Integral Coaching Certification Program at Integral Coaching Canada, where she trained and certified hundreds of coaches worldwide. Chela is a writer, speaker and host of the What is Leadership? Podcast. She lives on the unceded territories of the Squamish Nation in British Columbia Canada with her husband, two sons, two dogs and six hilarious chickens.

We got super nitty-gritty about her coaching process and the conscious, structured, titrated process of how Chela works with people in her coaching containers.

abbreviated show notes below:

* the privilege of Chela’s upbringing in a family system that had a teaching of “do what you love, and the money will follow”

* gravity as unconditional love

* Integral Theory and Integral Coaching and its lineage

* working with people’s unconscious patterns so that they have choice in transformation

* some of my experience working with Chela and how transformative it was

* resistance as a normal part of the change process, and finding ways to relate to it as a “challenging but welcome friend”

* the way she works with clients and deals with the delicate and nuanced space of context: things like systemic influence, cultural influence, inherited influence, as well as someone’s personal operating system, their resistance & ways of dealing, limitations they have or perceive that might not be so written in stone

* Chela’s beef with mindset language.

* “if you can see your limiting beliefs, those are not your limiting beliefs.”

* Chela’s ability to to see things in others they can’t, and using that to help them choose their path based on what they love to do and are passionate about.

GET IN CHELA’S WORLD!- her website- her newest offering, The Generosity Experiment - her podcast “What Is Leadership” on iTunes- her Substack “A Little Bit Much” (free with an option to pay)

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