LifeSpark Training Institute
The LifeSpark Training Institute is for anyone who wants to develop themselves and lead others. It’s for individuals, corporate leaders, team members, parents, and coaches.
The LifeSpark Training Institute is for anyone who wants to develop themselves and lead others. It’s for individuals, corporate leaders, team members, parents, and coaches.
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Executed as a series of workshops covering a range of interesting and relevant topics, the goal is to help you grow as you lead and interact with others. With practical life application so that the lessons you learn actually stick and transform your life, you’ll examine your story, your biases, your ego structure and the lens through which you view the world. Understanding and unentangling from the selves we’ve constructed allows us to become the best version of who we are – uniquely – as we show up in our personal and professional worlds.
Expanding your own level of awareness will do wonders for your ability to relate to others more effectively and with compassion. Let’s face it, we’re humans and our own personal stuff gets in the way at times – without us even recognizing it! The workshops are designed to spark a deep awareness and healing, igniting real inner growth so you can lead greatly.
The Enneagram offers so many incredible possibilities for team development. I offer corporate team development workshops that can be tailored to your team’s specific priorities and challenges.
As a former attorney and leader in the non-profit sphere, I have seen firsthand the power of emotionally intelligent leaders to drive a transformed culture and a thriving workplace. I can work with you to customize a growth path most helpful for maximizing your team’s growth and potential.
Become aware of how your Enneagram Type impacts how you parent. Experiential exercises and activities will improve parenting styles for better communication and conflictual areas of concern. Develop empathy and compassion for the differences you have with your partner and children.
Elevate your consciousness by understanding what you bring to all your relationships and how to improve them. With this mindful approach, you become aware that the people you have relationships with often have a different lens, motivated by different desires and needs. You are guided in communicating this to each other as you take responsibility for communicating what you need. You grow in understanding, which leads to empathy. Instead of being triggered and reactive at one another’s quirks, you can respond in love. Your deeper relational skills will lead to greater connection.
Build your team’s emotional intelligence as they discover the different communication styles of each member. They’ll also build self-awareness by exploring the strengths and blindspots of their own style. Utilizing the Enneagram as a mindfulness tool, team members will learn how to more effectively communicate with each other to increase effective collaboration and conflict resolution.
Understanding how each Enneagram Type makes decisions provides a roadmap for harnessing the strengths of your team. So whether you focus most on responsibly doing the right thing (1), how people will be impacted and what they need (2), the most efficient option for success (3), staying true to their values (4), thoroughly analyzing all relevant facts (5), taking the least amount of risk (6), visualizing possibilities and creating options (7), being in charge and taking action (8), or unifying different perspectives into a harmonious decision (9), learning to lean into the discomfort of your team’s differences and approach with curiosity is key in creating a culture of courageous leadership.
Each Enneagram Type handles conflict differently and learning the differences can help team members lean into discomfort to deal with differences. You will be trained to mindfully resolve conflict healthier, from a place of empathy and openness. Conflict can be embraced to spark innovative thinking when you have an open stance where you can together ponder how to creatively solve your problems, utilizing the strengths that come from having different perspectives. It’s a powerful shift resulting in more cohesion in your team, accelerating performance.
This workshop explores those things that keep you stuck and keep you from moving forward in life. It will explore your fears, hidden limiting beliefs, and unconscious resistances that keep you from growing. It will empower you to befriend your fear as your guide so you can mindfully, bravely move through it.
Do you get frustrated by colleagues not being forthright about how they feel? Or anxious by ones who express it with great force? Most people are very uncomfortable with anger and don’t know how to use this human emotion in a healthy manner. This workshop grows emotional intelligence and helps participants explore their fears around anger, get in touch with how it shows up in their bodies, and see the benefits of mindfully expressing their anger. Participants learn how to utilize their anger to fuel change, and spark creativity and innovation.
Everyone knows we need to grieve when someone dies, but we also need to feel the many losses that frequently come into our lives, even small losses that come with change (including those you label as good). This workshop takes you through the grieving process so you can understand it’s impact on your life, learn how to mindfully grieve and embrace vulnerability to regain your strength.
Blending the best practices of psychology, spiritual direction, coaching, Enneagram training and neuroscience, the LifeSpark Online Wisdom Training Program will help you become the wise and aware wounded healer you long to be. It gives you the unique opportunity to experience deep, inner growth so that you can guide others from a place of authenticity and realness.
But LifeSpark’s approach doesn’t stop with self-awareness.
This workshop explores the Victim Consciousness Triangle, what each aspect looks life, how it shows up and impacts your life, and how to live from a place of higher consciousness.
This unique, private workshop leads members to open themselves to inner guidance and listen to that guidance to obtain clarity in their life. You will be guided through a journaling process aimed at helping you become aware of your inner stirrings.
This workshop will help you enjoy the holidays more by teaching you how to mindfully maneuver within your family. By becoming aware of your expectations, letting go of your judgmental mind and learning what you bring to the situation, you will be able to let go, relax and be more present so you can accept what is.
Experiential exercises and activities designed to open and awaken to Presence using the Enneagram as a mindfulness tool, as well as art, meditation, silence, nature, and poetry.
Experiential exercises and activities designed to release the wonder and teachings we can learn from winter. Using the Enneagram tool, meditation, silence, stillness, nature, poetry, and art, your sense of wonder and curiosity will grow and open.
Experiential exercises and activities designed to release the wonder and learnings that Spring brings to us as it unfolds in nature. Using the Enneagram tool, meditation, silence, nature, poetry, and art, your sense of wonder and curiosity will grow and bloom.
This is for couples who want to learn how to love each other more beautifully. You learn relational skills for personal transformation and deeper connection with your partner. Focusing on communication, conflict, and decision-making styles, the time will be spent helping each partner understand the differences of your Enneagram styles and discover how those differences impact the relationship. It’s a mindful approach where you are guided to both take responsibility for communicating what you need in your relationship. You discover how to resolve conflict healthier, from a place of compassion and openness. You will better understand and grow in empathy for the one you love. It’s a powerful, heart-expanding shift.
The LifeSpark Training Institute is for coaches, spiritual directors, and anyone who wants to lead either themselves or others. .
Certified iEQ9 Practitioner & Enneagram Coach
Clients appreciate the data-driven approach available through the iEQ9 test. This online Enneagram personality test developed by Integrative Enneagram Solutions is an adaptive, live-algorithm questionnaire that integrates the art and science of self-discovery.
Ditch your self-defeating narratives that keep you small and afraid. The key to a life filled with purpose is the one we create with intention and awareness, mindfully making decisions on how to spend our time, who to be in relationship with, and what to care about.
With a background in law, an entrepreneur, and many years leading in the non-profit sector, I bring a wide-angled perspective to my clients. I am a trained spiritual director as well as an iEQ9 Enneagram practitioner certified for both individuals and teams.
LifeSpark is about helping you unleash your unique personhood. Self-improvement can get rather rote and bland, unless you’ve met me! Inherent in LifeSpark is a drive to bring color and joy to each client’s experience.
What a pleasure to take one of life’s most sacred and joyful adventures with you. The journey of self-discovery and shedding those boxes into which we’ve climbed requires a sense of adventure. That’s why a supportive coach who understands the process is so important.
I love working with corporate teams, CEOs, couples and individuals. The iEQ9 Enneagram tool that I use provides strategic insights and concrete pathways for teams and individuals, which is why it’s so powerful.
LifeSpark family coaching will help your family relax into how each of you is made so that you can enjoy one another more.
I am taking the LifeSpark Wisdom training course. I’m recruiting and onboarding a new team during the pandemic and opening a new office at work. The course has helped me bring my sense of humor to work with me, a fundamental change in my “standard operating procedure”. I’m learning to let my inner leader lead rather than adding tasks to an already heavy schedule.
Janet Pasco, Market President Oakland County, Horizon Bank
I recommend LifeSpark’s Online Higher Conscious Training Program to anyone who feels like they’re getting in their own way. Learning more about my ego and shadow self has helped me endure less self-abuse and conflict in my life. It’s a relief to learn how to harness your strengths rather than squander them. The level of self-love, awareness and peace I’ve gained is astonishing.
Megan C Mayes, Producer
The Training Institute has been such a blessing in my life. I am learning to become more of whom I am meant to be, and the training is giving me the tools to grow as a person. It has been worth every penny of my money, and every minute of my time
Kim Bickersteth, former attorney and full-time homemaker
I can say my life has been completely changed by going through the Online Wisdom Training School. As a young professional, on the path of getting clarity to who I truly am, the process in the training school has uncovered truths about myself I don’t know if I would otherwise ever have seen. I am healing and finding freedom in my most authentic self because of this program.
Taylor Mae Kanigowski, Marketing Consultant
Thanks to the work I’ve done with Kristie and LifeSpark, I’m building the kind of personal and work relationships of which I’ve only ever dreamed. The healthier I am within myself, the healthier are my interactions with others. Nothing I’ve ever done has had as much of a positive impact on my life as this training program. It’s 100% worth the investment in myself.
Katharine Smith, LCSW