It’s time to listen deeply.

You work as a socially conscious organizational leader, holistic practitioner, or eco-social entrepreneur.  Or maybe you're an emerging thought leader, activist, spiritual leader, community organizer, or creative educator.  Or you might even be in the in-between-place of transition, sensing a readiness to step more deeply into your calling and unique expression of leadership, and you relate to at least one of the following: 

• You're On The Personal Growth Roller Coaster:
  You are having "deep dive" transformative experiences on the weekends, in ceremony or workshops, and then its back to work during the week. You are realizing you need help to integrate what you're learning into your daily life.

• You'd Like To Feel More Impactful As A Role Model and Leader:
  You're doing good work, but you want to activate something deeper that inspires others more thoroughly.

• You're Often Anxious:
  You feel low-level anxiety or even exhaustion underneath an active life of going through the motions, showing up and presenting yourself as "put together." You are realizing that you're needing to create more rest and ease in your life.

• You Get Tempted By Distractions:
  Emails, facebook, other conversations that you overhear in a crowded room pull you away from what you're doing. You're not fully rooted, centered or embodied in the path you're walking. You're realizing that being more grounded and present would help.

• Sometimes You Wear A Mask:
  You want to feel more like yourself in how you show up in your relationships, roles & responsibilities.

• You Are Overwhelmed:
  You feel overwhelmed with a whole lot on your plate, and you can't see how to slow down, inhabit your moments, and consciously attend to your needs, while continuing to show up for your responsibilities. You know that a change of pace would help.

• You're in an in-between place right now:
  You just left something secure - a job, relationship, community, and you are embarking into the unknown.

• You Feel Alone:
  While you know how to handle the tasks in your life, the visionary YOU needs the space and time to listen to the inner voice that is whispering..."take a risk, try something new, and stretch into your growing edge."

“Lev led me on a journey…I remembered why I chose to incarnate. I have no words to express my gratitude and appreciation for this vision. Lev’s gentle guidance helped me ease into this experience and receive such a powerful revelation that is already shifting something deeply within me.”

— Uma girish, spiritual mentor & author

“Lev integrates earth and nature based wisdom with very practical, real-world skills. I needed a spiritual approach to support the practical work.
The deep scholarship and personal dedication to his path brings forth such clear, humble and wise teaching - he offers a framework to understand leadership that is so powerful for me.

— Meg Hiesinger Handler, Ph.D. / Founder of The Human Nature Center, ecological designer, educator, artist

"The space that Lev created with his presence, intuition, and flexible responsiveness allowed me to turn my attention inward and carve out a larger, freer space to navigate. I recommend Lev to anyone who is available to change, and ready to inhabit presence more fully."

— Jason Stern, Publisher / Founder of Luminary Publishing & Chronogram Magazine

How can you create more of what you want
and less of what you don't want?

It’s most likely a good time to take a step back and create the spaciousness to look at things clearly and with a quiet mind.  From here, you can see the "whole system" of your life, so you can identify the leverage points clearly and integrate them into your daily practices.

But, going-it-alone is probably what got you here in the first place.

That's why its so powerful to have the guidance, reliability and facilitation of a time-tested process that you can trust.

I call it Taking a Medicine Walk in Nature to locate the Key Leverage Points in Your Leadership. 

Its a simple four-week program that gently invites you to look at the core questions in your life, which allows for possibilities that invite emergent solutions into your life.

 I took a medicine walk because I had questions about the next steps in my business. 
Lev mirrored back the need for deeper listening to develop our organizational vision and strategy. The process naturally brought forth clear answers and next steps as I evolve our mission.

-Fabiola Gaerlan, FOUNDER / CEO of Honeydew Drop Day Care & CHILD-IN-MIND

"When I started working with Lev, I was feeling not quite enough, scared to put myself out there and to own my gift. Now I am feeling more confident than ever. My purpose is clearer and more deeply ingrained in my being. Lev helped me…to fully claim my adulthood, as a business owner and husband - he honors all aspects of me and welcomes them into the coaching, so I don’t need to leave any of me behind. He meets me where I am at, and uses that experience as building blocks to where I want to go. I always end up feeling more empowered, more centered, and clearer. Lev allows the Earth to speak through him. He feels a deep sacredness and reverence for all life that is palpable. I highly recommend working with Lev. He will help you be clearer about how to live a fulfilling, meaningful life where you are giving your true gifts to our world."

— Jeremy Kalan, MA, LMHC, CPCC, Ceo & co-Founder of the Center for healing & transformation

Medicine walks allow you to see the leverage points.

"This idea of leverage points is...embedded in legend: the silver bullet...the miracle cure; the secret passage; the magic password; the single hero who turns the tide of history; the nearly effortless way to cut through or leap over huge obstacles. We not only want to believe that there are leverage points, we want to know where they are and how to get our hands on them. Leverage points are points of power."
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

"This work with Lev has opened a new dimension of my business - it has become a spiritual process as opposed to a mundane thing that needs to be done. Leadership coaching is for anyone who is ready to have your life & business transformed in a huge way."

-Dr. Terra Christoff | Business Coach for women

3-step process

Step One:
Before we meet, you prepare for our conversation by journaling and sharing on Voxer Voice Memo App about why you are committed to this 3-step process; what core challenges you are facing; what you sense is possible through this process; and what the essential question is that you will bring on your medicine walk.  Then, you schedule a time to go on your walk.

Step Two:
You go on your Medicine Walk. When you return, you share the story of your Walk with me, and I mirror back to you what I sense that Nature is telling you, in response to the question you asked.  This profound and powerful process connects you deeply to the core leverage points in the whole system that is your life.

Step Three:
As the “medicine” from your walk begins to integrate into your perspective on life, we bring focus to translating the multi-dimensional symbols, meanings, and insights from the walk into practical ways to redesign and restructure your life and work.

We do this by designing a holistic action plan that weaves the deeper awareness that you cultivated during your Walk into your constellation of relationships, roles and responsibilities.  We use (1) Mind-Mapping, (2) Timelines, and (3) Support & Accountability Planning to create clear goals, next steps and milestones along the way.

Working with your flow:
Its important to keep the dialogue alive, fresh and fluid and tuned to your natural rhythms, so that subtle insights can deepen and permeate your day-to-day life more fully.  Therefore, we combine phone or video chat sessions with the easy-to-use Voxer Voice Memo App to communicate back and forth during this process. I find it a beautiful way to create the spaciousness that generates clear insight and new, embodied thinking.

I was struggling with committing to a path…[and] finding the inner strength…The medicine walk enabled me to observe and let go of many of the preconceptions and judgments I carry. It enabled me to discard notions that were no longer useful and see with the clarity of insight.

-Tom Murtha, retired institutional equity portfolio manager and currently a senior adviser for non-profit Preventable Surprises.     

Moving forward after your medicine walk

Too often, I see people engaging in peak experiences and heightened states of awareness without doing the follow-up integration work that is essential for significant stage-change development.  So at the conclusion of your Medicine Walk journey, the holistic action plan includes getting clear about support and accountability relationships and structures in your life, so you continue to deepen your connection with the insights from your Walk through core routines and practices. 

If we both feel a resonance to continue working together, we will map out a customized plan to do so.  I tend to work with coaching clients for at least 6-12 months for lasting results.  If it doesn't feel like a fit to continue with one-on-one coaching, you may want to join one of my small group Resonant Leadership Circles.  And, if those options don't resonate, I will do my best to refer you to resources, communities, groups and practitioners in my network who might support you on your journey. 

I had been struggling to cultivate a particular quality that felt elusive. The walk helped to ground me and gave me the space and focus to see things I'd been overlooking…just not in the way I'd been expecting it to appear. The Medicine Walk showed me that being authentic is the way forward into a deeper expression of my work in the world.

— Pastor Katherine Cartwright Knodel, St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church

"The more efficient a force is, the more silent and subtle it is."   

- Gandhi

What you can expect from me as your coach & guide 

This is the role that I am confident, excited and committed to playing in your life:

• Be a solid anchor for you to remember your vocation, which comes from the latin voca, which means your calling.

• Support you to develop a consistent daily practice of centering, intention-setting and gratitude

• Open a conversation with you about what's so, what's possible and how you are committed to showing up.

• Help you to clarify and discern your core commitments and to hold you accountable to maintain your focus on that which you care about most.

• Challenge and inspire you to identify and live on your growing edge, more and more each day.

• Facilitate guided visualization and shamanic journeying practices with sound healing, so that you can deepen your capacity for creative imagination as a means to expanding your life & work vision.

• Translate your vision into practice - to see it and embody it - holistic life planning, which means balancing the whole system of meaningful work, financial goals, relationships, self-care, and spiritual development.

• Cultivate awareness and greater skill for you to engage in natural rhythm time management & energy management, so you feel healthier, more alive, vibrant and in-tune with the cycles of the day, week, month and seasons.

• Hold you accountable to have integrity with your values, commitments and beliefs - i.e. walking your talk.

• Coaching you on relationship dynamics at work, home and in your leadership, personal growth and spiritual development.

• I have a background in addiction treatment, and have offered my clients refreshing perspectives of persistent habits and addictions that are holding you back from mobilizing your energy towards your conscious commitments.

• I am also looking for more opportunities to bring this work to groups, organizational teams and boards. For example, we could plan a daylong Medicine Walk experience for your whole team.

What you can not expect from me

• I am not here to troubleshoot and micromanage your problems. I am here to help you to see clearly and develop the confidence to engage the principles and practices that will allow you to handle problems on your own.

• I am not here to motivate you to feel more committed in your life. I am not here to coax commitment out of you. I work best with people who already feel a foundational level of commitment. I will facilitate a conversation where you locate the deep reservoir of commitment and courage within you.

• I am also not going to coax you to engage in the coaching process. If you are not willing to take this work seriously and sincerely, to show up to sessions ready to be honest, transparent, and open to the process, than we won't be a good fit.

• Lastly, while I am excited to coach and consult with you about vision creation, strategic planning, workplace culture, and team-building, I am not a traditional executive coach, organizational consultant, or marketing and branding specialist, and, therefore, I don't offer "conventional expertise" in these arenas. That being said, I invite you to bring these topics into our coaching conversations, and think of me as an organizational Feng Shui & Tai Chi Master - meaning I will help you identify the internal leverage points in the energetic structure in your life, business or organization, and help you see the necessary high impact shifts.

What I expect from you in our work together

• I expect you to do your best and engage fully - both during sessions and with practices in between sessions.

• Arrive on time to our scheduled sessions, so we can start right on time.

• If you need to cancel or reschedule a session, I ask that you give me 48 hours notice. Otherwise, you will be responsible for payment for our session.

• Be in a quiet place where you can focus and participate fully during our sessions. You are welcome to go on a walk/hike during our sessions, if that helps you to focus, but make sure that your cell phone signal is strong where you are hiking.

• Have a journal with you, to take notes during our sessions.

• Show your respect for this work by paying on-time.