Conscious Partners Program

When I began to develop the Conscious Partners coaching program I had one married couple in my mind. These two people have asked that I hold them powerfully to account for the intentions and goals they set for themselves INDIVIDUALLY within their INDIVIDUAL coaching programs. These two passionate people know the return on investment of having a coach to guide them into the life they have visualized. They both come to each session energized, engaged and anticipating a breakthrough that will cause them to live each day more extraordinary than the last.

With that said, the focus has been on their individual goal achievement yet they are partners who want to live powerfully together with their two children. They also want to leave their children with the legacy of “You can achieve anything if you’re willing to take consistent and persistent physical actions to do so, and it’s critical to take those actions when they feel least like taking them.” I dedicate the Conscious Partners coaching program to David and Laura.

I get a great deal of insight from nature and inspirational films, or as my friend Shana Rassner calls them, “Transformational Movies.” As I began to create Conscious Partners; a coaching program for clients to achieve their individual goals and their partnership goals simultaneously, I remembered the commitment displayed in the film The March of the Penguins. The movie is an inspirational account of innate determination and devotion found in the natural world. The brief, yet deeply committed partnership of the Emperor Penguins is one to be marveled and emulated.

There are so many metaphors in the plight of the Emperor Penguin that can help us strengthen our human partnerships. I’ll take you through some of the prominent metaphors as well as draw out a few subtle messages we could use to empower ourselves.

The Emperor Penguin chick that has no concept of what his parents went through so that s/he would have life. The chick is about nine months old when it first goes into the ocean where it spends its days until it reaches its fifth year. At that point a natural instinct calls them to get out of the water and march.

The young Emperor Penguin will walk approximately 60 miles to return to the artic breeding ground where it was born to find a mate. Once they have chosen their mate they enter into a committed partnership that will have them to balance their small egg on their feet for weeks while standing in 100-mile per hour winds in temperatures as low as 180-degrees below zero. They will overcome starvation and undertake long treks back and forth to the ocean to feed. (In caparison, don’t you find it interesting that some partners will complain about going to store late at night to get an ingredient needed for the morning meal.) The natural instinct to demonstrate even this level of commitment is in each one of us, yet through the evolution of our culture we have somehow forgotten what we are truly capable of. Fear is another emotion that we allow to get in our way to powerfully engage in the deepest concept of commitment.

After several weeks the egg hatches and reveals a glorious reward for the devotion and dedication displayed by the parents. As a partner your reward might not be a newborn child or proudly watching your child graduate from college with the powerful attributes you gave them to ensure their success in life. Your offspring might be a successful business, achieving for a higher level of success in your career, writing a book, or maybe it’s purchasing your first home or your dream home. Your reward might be to achieve financial freedom by becoming debt-free. In any case, there is a glorious reward for the devotion and dedication you displayed.

This program is for those of you who want to fully commit to your partnership. The Conscious Partners coaching program is available to all types of partnerships whether married or romantic, business partnerships or executives and their assistants. Being on the same page of the same book while working toward the fulfillment of any goal is imperative to the success of any partnership no matter the composition.