Towards a Qualitatively Better Quality of Life

     “The rapid growth of the coaching field over the past ten years reflects a hunger and yearning for new ways to address deep, perplexing issues inherent in human life. How can we respond with kindness and skill to the constant, rapidly changing flux of circumstances in our lives? How can we reduce rather than contribute to harm and suffering? How can we live in ways that are not just productive and efficient, but are also meaningful and fulfilling? 
     Our hunger can never be satisfied by better, faster, increasingly efficient ways of doing more of what we’ve been doing all along. It can only be fed by addressing its source: the deep human longing to be fully who we are.
     In order to develop ... we need to move beyond horizontal accommodation toward vertical transformation.”            Pamela Weiss   http://www.appropriateresponse.com/


     “Everyone has the ability to cultivate a certain kind of intimacy with what’s deepest and best in ourselves. And you can’t do that if you’re rushing through your moments to get to better moments.
     Mindfulness is a practice – as a concept, it’s only the doorway.”           Jon Kabat-Zinn

Anne Bastedo   http://www.serenityimages.ca