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A Warm Welcome to all Parts of You...
I sometimes say, "Our parts are wholes that just don’t know it yet." Similar to our forgetting that we're embraced in loving Spirit, our shadow and trauma parts don't yet recognize they're already embraced within Us. Wisdom reaches for higher wholes while compassion embraces lower ones. Both awakening and healing are already occuring naturally. We just need practice to remember.

​​A few ways you might engage this site deeper: If you'd like an example of how I work, try a Guided Integration. There are also some short "Pithy Pontifications" on YouTube (I'm a priest after all!) Or if you prefer to read, blogs are here.​​ Otherwise scroll down for more!
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I look forward to meeting you soon,

Fellow Travellers...​
Chad​​
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​​Engaging the truth of the present moment
Allowing space, curiosity and compassion for the hard stuff
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Enjoying the person you are while aspiring to the greater good
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Nourishing the senses, tracking what you expose yourself to
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Collaborating and communicating clearly, knowing impact​
​Playing in the unexpected, letting go with a sense of humor
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Approaches in a nutshell:
*Former Psychotherapist 13 years- Gestalt, Transpersonal, Somatic Experiencing, Three Pillars (Ideal Parents Protocol), Parts Work, Mindfulness-Based, Integrally Informed.
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*Zen Priesthood- 100+ weeks of retreat in Therevada, Vajrayana and Zen Buddhist schools. Assistant Dharma Teacher.
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*Teaching- Naropa University Adjunct Professor, Meditation Instructor, Integral Zen Denver Community Leader, co-founder Inward Journey/Outward Bound wilderness meditation program.
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*Coaching- Conscious Death Coach, Immunity to Change Facilitator, Colorado Outward Bound Instructor Trainer.​​
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*Streams of Practice influence- Integral Theory, Diamond Approach,Vertical Development Academy, Robert Kegan, Reichian Character & Breathwork, Holotropic Breathwork, Buddha Wisdom Energies, Enneagram, Jin Shin Jitsu, Intuitive and subtle energy healing​
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"Chad makes sense of the world around him with spiritual discipline and a loving heart. While dialogue with him can be quite frank, you get the impression that he is working from a strong frame of meaning that allows for deep appreciation of complexity and loving openness."

1-to-1 Work...
Healthy spiritual integration embraces our transcendent “waking up” and imminent “growing up” dimensions in tandem.
While many practitioners are experts in one domain- e.g.head, heart, or body- I intuit big pictures and stretch your skills of pliancy, touching on the various “schools of intelligence” already within you.
Sessions are typically one hour and begin with a few minutes of meditation. We practice to recognize positive states of wholeness. These are essential qualities such as curiosity, friendliness, care, presence, clarity and intelligence.
Parts are wholes that don't know it yet. How does it change things if we view our unique "contractions, parts, shadows, traumas or attachment strategies" as intelligent grumblings for greater loving inclusion? Wholeness is always the larger integrator, always available, always already including.
Its recognition is just a skill.
I actively guide and teach as part of our collaboration. I find it’s helpful to communicate to your leading edge of development to highlight how you may be making meaning now and going forward. I also teach practices and a "bag of tricks" so you can fuel your own self-healing and awakening journey.
And yes, we can talk about plant medicine if this interests you.

"Our Holes reveal Wholes"
"Chad made it clear the goal was to not need him anymore. We did more than cleaning up my inner life. We spent time in the deepest practices and he taught me to be my own therapist”
"He is like a gentle laser"
Facilitator & Coach

"We cannot solve problems with the same [level of] thinking we used when creating them"
-Albert Einstein
I promise I will tell you directly what I believe your problem is. Here is why the Immunity to Change process is so powerful. The first step in the process impels you to find your kingpin issue and invites you to articulate the "One Big Thing" it is that would change everything. Second, it is simultaneously a research based tool to "Grow Up" your level of development while also "Clean Up" powerful shadows, the drivers of your behavior and psychology which you don't see. Finally, it is thorough. When your map is completed and you take home the insights, you'll have a path of where you can continue to uncover and grow, plus you'll have plenty of direction and motivation to make sustained changes that stick.
In a course of Life Coaching together, we assess your own level of development and leverage the edges of any limiting beliefs to discover your new potentials. I'm a certified Immunity to Change Facilitator and coach. Developed at Harvard University, ITC is one of the most rigorous, comprehensive and research based systems for making big and sustained developmental changes. I also have training in Career Counseling which I've taught in the Naropa University Graduate School of Psychology.


Upcoming...
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WHN cohort is CLOSED. Wednesdays April 24th-Jul 2nd, 10-12noon MDT. More here...​
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Keeping Quiet: Day long meditation retreat June 28th, 7am-3pm MDT. More here...​
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Tweaking the Breath: First four Sundays in June 10-11:30am MDT More here...

"I brought a very challenging psychedelic experience to Chad for integration. His precise and exquisite experiential invitations, as well as his wisdom about the medicine and the nature of altered states, allowed me to embody the learning from the trip"


Group Work...
What's Happening Now? (WHN)
"Tweaking the Breath Class"
​​​​I've done several kinds of breath work over the years and have discovered a safe way to help you learn it at your own pace and practice it on your own.
​In this workshop, we begin with the Wim Hoff method which is a mainstream approach. As the course progresses, I'll add tweaks from other approaches which will make it much more powerful! I'll teach a step, then you'll practice until we meet again the following week.
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Several cohorts of WHN have run since 2023. ​They are traditionally "ungroupy" as groups go and they provide opportunities for personal inquiry and for me to teach how I think about healing, development and awakening.
Therapists, coaches and practitioners say they're especially fond of WHN. Link to video introduction here:
"Keeping Quiet: Meditation Training
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I offer individual and group trainings using various meditations from the Buddhist tradition...
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Scroll down just below for more...
Questions about groups? Please reach out.

Keeping Quiet: Meditation Training
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​​​​​​ The practice at the center of Deliberately Developmental Psychology is meditation, a journey which typically unfolds in a progression of state and world view shifts. The meditation path to greater stages of awakening usually unfolds much more smoothly when three areas are developed in tandem:
1) Metacognition- the ability to step back, know what you are experiencing and know what meaning you make.
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2) Emotional Regulation- the development of equanimity plus a skillset to increase emotional intelligence and regulate your nervous system.
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3) Positive States training- the ability to literally "change your mind" toward kindness, compassion and other more life-and-spirit affirming states.
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I encourage time to be set aside for silence and guidance in meditation during 1-to-1 sessions and my group offerings.​
I was ordained as a Zen priest in 2018 and I continue to train in and instruct meditation under the guidance of the Rinzai Zen lineage.
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