Healthy Collectives / Enlightened Organizations

Whether working in a collective organizing community, a formal organization or multinational corporation, the moment two or more humans begin working together complex personal and interpersonal systems come into play. Getting groups of people aligned and moving purposely in one direction over a sustained length of time in a healthy and productive manner is a remarkably sophisticated endeavor.

Values > Principles > Practices 

• What are the foundational values, principles and practices that seed healthy culture and systems throughout this collective?
• What is your purpose in this larger system and how do you define your personal brand and focus every day?
• What actions and behaviors are essential for you to serve this purpose, while still adding value to the whole?
• How do we design and grow healthy cultures and high functioning systems that allow people to bring their whole selves into work every day?
• How to succeed at the most important role in any collective - helping everyone else grow and learn and bring their best self to the work at hand?

The focus of our work together is not traditional management or business practices, but how you and your inspired personal dharma show up and move steadily towards your purpose and mission.

Testimonial

"We often evolve due to challenging lessons that ask us to reevaluate our goals and aspirations and strive for a healthier, more purposeful life.  If you're very fortunate when this happens, you'll meet someone like David Stember. David is an advocate for your wisdom and heart who skillfully draws out powers that have always been available to you, but haven't yet found full expression. With patience and insight, and a friendship rooted in his own life journey, David helps you to awaken and reinforce the most essential elements of your greater Self."

Ron Herman, CEO, TeamFound.com

Advancing Your Purpose and Mission

Advancing your purpose and mission is the most creative and important work you will ever do. Learning to move through this terrain with a sense of clarity and joy, and being able to sustain yourself through the ups and downs ahead is the proving ground for all the work you’ve done to get this far.

Understanding and activating your life purpose and mission and then learning how to craft a compelling vision and plan to achieve it is a source of tremendous personal power. Learning to do the level of self-reflection required for this is a potent life skill with many useful applications.

The world is filled with hard working people who’ve never learned how to align their efforts with their hearts and dreams or how to focus their energies for true success and fulfillment.

Mastering this art requires learning to calibrate our consciousness, attune our hearts, and direct our energies at will. And, because everything we do in life intimately connects to others, the ability to achieve our purpose and vision demands clear moral intelligence and interpersonal mastery. If you do this well your work in the world will nurture you and uplift the world for the rest of your life.

Reflection > Deep Listening > Co-creation

• The art of self reflection and tapping the power of questions
• Learning to listen for your answers with body, mind and spirit
• Crafting and working your change plan - both inner and outer
• Tapping the power of magnetism to attract all resources
• Building your network of co-creators
• Self-care excellence  - moving from burnout to resilience
• Knowing when it’s time to recalibrate or reboot your plan

While much of the foundational work is now done, the journey has just begun.

Interpersonal Transformation

As humans our ability to share love and feel connection, to be in community with a sense of ease and to collaborate well with others--all stem from our innate sense of self in relation to others. Wherever we are in our personal transformation is perfectly mirrored in the quality of our relations with others. 

As this awareness grows we repeatedly realize that the only thing that needs to change to radically alter any relationship is our own state of mind and how we show up in any given moment. 

Understanding > Communication > Intimacy

Seeing this connection more clearly, mastering the art of shifting our state of being and learning new interpersonal behaviors is the rich terrain of this arena of transformation.

• Understanding personality archetypes - ours and others
• Decoding and managing the energy of our emotions
• Making friends with Fear
• Empathetic communication - heart centered listening, compassionate speech
• Valuing and managing conflicts to harvest mutual understanding
• Creating healthy connection and healing intimacy

Moving through this terrain we increasingly see interpersonal tensions as a call to inner action. As we gain new skills we feel a new sense of power and learn to move through the world with grace and integrity, while being true to our ourself and engaging our highest aspirations.

Personal Transformation

Transformation is not a pumping in of information. It unfolds through unblocking and naturally expressing innate intelligence, understanding and soul qualities which our being intuitively knows because we’ve been unconsciously preparing to take the next step in our unfoldment.  

Making the changes we want still requires focus and effort because no matter what we are inspired to be, our habitual physical, mental and emotional behaviors are the only instruments we've known. We may have great inspiration and true potential but until we can access and use it consistently in the battle din of activity, it’s not doing us or anyone else any good.

Awareness > Management > Mastery

Personal transformation is about systematically accessing and channeling our enlightened inspirations and intuitive understanding of who we are into more reliable ways of behaving. It’s a step by step process that moves us gradually from awareness, visualization, and practice to experiencing confidence and mastery.

• Introspection: is an intuitive process using a series of tools to help us inventory and form a visceral awareness of all the ways we’ve been limiting our success for decades.  

• Vision and Intention: As we get more clear on who we are we naturally form a vision and powerful new intentions that propel us towards new goals and achievements.

• Visualization: As this work progresses we begin visualizing new ways of operating and engaging the world that unleash a greater sense of power, inspiration and momentum.

• Affirmations: are a powerful way to retool the mental and emotional patterns that fuel new behaviors.

• Practice: We intentionally design ways to progressively practice new behaviors in the real world to steadily grow new skills and build confidence and greater expertise.

• Mastery: We gradually discover a sense of confidence around new ways of being and behaving that have been incorporated into our new normal.

Our coaching relationship is a collaborative conversation that helps you to design, engage and energize your transformation in ever expanding spheres of expertise and performance.

Foundational Meditation and Mindfulness Practices

We will never realize the enlightened state of the world we seek unless our efforts to change it are grounded in the power and wisdom of our highest consciousness. 

Meditation in the true sense is concentration on the universal intelligence that permeates all life. As we learn to practice meditation more deeply we begin to see the transformative impact these ancient practices have in shaping positive conditions in every aspect of our lives. 

Each individual has a unique path to realization. Honoring this I support all genuine mindfulness practices. Regardless of what lineage you follow, the fundamental methods for calibrating consciousness through meditation are universal.

Having practiced scientific meditation as taught by Paramahansa Yogananda for over 45 years, I've seen that the most valuable methods for enhancing meditation are often overlooked or not readily understood for many years.

As a dharma coach my focus is not teaching new meditation techniques in the manner of a meditation teacher. Instead I employ coaching tools to enhance your own reflective learning process so you more quickly discover the attitudes and practices that will maximize your contemplative results and benefits.

Our work together will help you learn how to:

• Create a powerful daily meditation practice and routine
• Use meditation to access your deepest learning and self-reflection
• Cultivate deeper presence and calmness throughout the day
• Deepen and expand empathy, compassion and self-awareness
• Enhance creative capacity through visualization and affirmation

From this foundation everything you’re striving for gradually unfolds.