 Have you ever heard of journey mapping? it's a way to Evolve your personal and professional life in a way that's fun and intuitive yet effective and skillful and I have invited the founder of journey mapping to an interview today And she's actually going to give us a little bit of an experience Now before I bring her on let me read you her bio. So you have some Context for for her background. Her name is Nariah Stein She's a creative journey mapping. She has 30 years of experience as a life coach and professional facilitator She is a strategic planner a massage and Hakomi therapist and A Kripalu yoga teacher and she specializes in working with women Nariah, thank you so much for doing this interview George, it's wonderful to be here. Thank you for having me. Yeah, so I understand that you have Some slides to kind of walk us through journey mapping. So I'll let you take over and I may come in with a question here or there Yeah, I would love that. Please at any point feel free I'm gonna go right into a screen share great so I want to tell you a little about journey mapping and this truly For me is bringing together different parts of my life and my experience Having lived at a spiritual community yoga community for 10 years I have a very strong foundation in yoga practice and yogic lifestyle But also a really strong appreciation for We'll talk about like this the strategic planning part So this is a woman's approach to visioning and strategic planning It's about skillfully yet organically creatively spiritually evolving your personal and professional life I did Collage this picture together for myself because to me the path is so symbolic of the path of life the path of our career or life direction our spiritual path and the That colorful kind of aura is really about listening to the invisible parts that help to guide us So it relates to our energy our heart our body You know even nature and what's around us, but it's listening not just through our minds But through all these different signals that guide our lives so directly Just going further on this I think this is very much a woman's approach because I think And it's not just women, but it's the feminine side of men So I think that I have Worked with male clients. I think the more a guy is developed in his intuitive Feeling Perceptual sides that are not just his intellect the more he will resonate with journey mapping I have when I've done courses I've sometimes had it up to a third of the men there and I think that the men are craving this too So journey mapping very much draws upon your spiritual and emotional Intelligence and your longings So I really encourage people to bring to the plate those deeper Feelings even the emotions even if they're sloppy or intense or coming out because there are what I call gold nuggets underneath that and so there's so There's deep inner knowing underneath all of that But I'm also a huge fan of bringing that masculine part to the plate Which is strategy and the intellectual knowledge best practices In fact, I'm one of these people who can get a little triggered if somebody is just following their heart or wanting to Just do things based from the inside because I feel like there's a balance of working with our inner flow we more Emotional realm with also connecting to the world around us and all the wisdom that has been here that people have found from trotting the path, so we work with both and I As a yogi, I've had a practice for over 30 years and to me yoga is a lifestyle It's not just my yoga practice But if I were to narrow that down in some ways, it's about Kind of what lifts the energy? How do we build energy in our lives and What drains it and journey mapping and this is as a coach I'm very much tracking the things that shut you down the things that open you up Because our lives are complex. They're full. There's just there's a lot of levels to it, but When we do the bigger journey mapping assessment, we're wanting to look at what are those things that might be Draining you in their life in your life. It might be Relationships it might be belief systems. It might be what you're doing or Relationships at work, but those are a significant factor that zap your energy Because if we just focus on Uplifting things you can't replace the energy that's going down the drain So that's something we look at and journey mapping also works with which I love which are these more mindfulness practices. So presence Synchronicities Intuition these are the things that happen in the moment But if you're not present to the moment if you just on your strategy or you're just in your practice or caught up in an emotional Thing you're not going to be present to what crosses your path or those inspirations that bubble up and They're very important part of the process I sometimes call journey mapping a synthesis work because it I'm going to show you the next slide It's bringing together these different aspects and we use it both for creating an assessment as well as the path forward, but I also feel it's synthesis because Literally as women as human beings We are a body-mind spirit. How do we use all of our perceptual faculties? in our everyday lives as we show up in the world and Related to that is it's not uncommon that some of the clients I've worked with have been on Some kind of path for a number of years. So I find that people are pretty ripe and fresh to bring together to make a connection between these Aspects of how we function. So it's not all that we can fluidly flow between the emotional intelligence the Intellectual knowledge that those kind of synapses start to connect And I'll just go through this really quickly before I give you an experience So her name a journey mapping is partly I call a holistic approach to strategic planning and Strategic planning might sound very technical or dry to you, but it's actually having worked in organizations It's a beautiful beautiful process that steps back and looks at the big picture of any situation So as you're you know, I'm also a client of Georgia's many of us are evolving our businesses online We have to step back and look at the big picture. What are the elements? What are the pieces we need to work on what makes sense to work on first? so there's different levels of it and with journey mapping um With clients I'll work on anything from strictly Say supporting somebody with a lifestyle holistic lifestyle pieces But more common than not there is a real bridging of work for instance, I'm working with somebody right now who Has her own private practice is wanting to do more teaching But she gets really nervous and so we're starting to work with that in a bigger perspective Because that's an element that holds her back from giving her gifts as a teacher So we'll say more but this of who I work with but This can apply to work to personal to spiritual and all together So starting with strategy and actions which really is our more masculine aspect and as solopreneurs, we really need to engage both our intuitive our you know Relational feminine side with our masculine side that's willing to show up that's willing to cut through that's willing to deal with online systems So strategy and actions is about having clear vision and mission clear to do is direction showing up following through It's it's the showing up in the world Then it's a beautiful beautiful thing and at this stage in my life for me My spiritual path is very connected to showing up in the world the right of this wellness side of Your the holistic strategic plan is speaking more to the feminine aspects body mind spirit Emotions our relationships our self-care sometimes I've even called this not just wealth wellness, but Kind of about your light how bright you shine or Is what your energy how high your energy field is Because when your energy is up, that's when you're a magnet for things. That's when sparks start to happen So if we push ourselves a lot with the to-do's in life, but our wellness is not balanced It's really hard to pull on our other perceptual gifts that honestly are what especially as holistic practitioners give us the edge on the market, but also in Truly sharing and channeling the gifts were here to do so we have to walk our talk Truly as holistic practitioners to live it and to be the channels that we're about and Presence is as I said before mindfulness synchronicity Intuition I speak a lot about this life's guiding signals. I truly feel life is constantly here to guide us I don't think it gives us one signal I think life tells us again and again and again if we're alert to listen so you won't miss it But they're somatic body level signals emotional signals, you know friends and peoples in our world There's all kind of signals coming to us if we're able to stay present and use and digest those So this kind of gives you a sense of the levels we work always when I You know homework and after a session with somebody they'll be clear strategies and actions a wellness of vibrate you know lifting the vibration piece and and presence aspects and What I can say this is something you might want to digest a little or pause But is when these three aspects come together it creates what I call So it invites clear direction, which is a necessity. I honestly having been someone who's just followed my heart I couldn't invite you enough to Actually do this to having that clear strategy that involves in terms of things like Doing some market assessment learning about your ideal clients like starting to look at those concrete things rather than just Trusting your internal intuition. I won't go off on a rift now, but it's really important so clear strategy, but then we have a recipe for quantum shift which is through a combination of the wellness and presence and What I mean by that is when our vibration is high when feeling good that's when You the presence piece kind of taps in and we say, you know what? I think I need to stop at the store today Like this happened to me the other day and I was after work I was tired I was an ugly clothes and I bumped into somebody who it was a very important Synchronicity that we're gonna link up so where it's when we're connected to That high vibration that we listen to our intuition that we jump in that we take risks So and those are the things that lead our path off of a direct Step-by-step strategy because then something comes in That's kind of a little out of the box and then we're able to go over here because somebody invites us to do a talk or somebody says I know somebody else you should connect with and that person inspires me or gives me a little more of how I should present myself so it's So I love that kind of layering So any comments George before I jump into our experiential exercise? No, this is great. I really I really like it I like that you are integrating both the because a masculine maybe or the Or the left brain and you're integrating the right brain and maybe the more feminine And then you're also integrating the the grounding of it all right the the sort of the spiritual Grounding so I like this this integration here. Thank you Thank you and to me it's what speaks to me like when I relate to my purpose as a Human being is when I'm start using all these things and living all these things Then it becomes alive in my work and my daily life And I don't think my feel like my spirituality is something compartmentalized to my practice in the morning so next we're going to go to a mapping exercise and Just to say I have an assessment process that I call orientation mapping it's orienting to where getting a big picture sense of where you are in your life and The idea is to make it really fun and once again to draw upon Different aspects of your knowing so it's not all coming from your mind But when I do coaching and we do assessment mapping might be part of it, but we do so many other levels so mapping is just one aspect, but it's an incredible tool and I am going to invite you all the listeners into an experiential Exercise that's really simple. It's going to be a four-minute exercise I really want to invite you to not have to get it perfect So when I do journey maps, we actually Overlap we have a number of maps to tease out the information through different lenses And we're looking for overlaps, but the idea is to just what's the first thing that comes to mind and to trust that So if you don't have a piece of paper get a piece of paper you might want to get some crayons or just a pen and We're just going to do two segments of a two-minute exercise So the first thing you're going to do is draw a big Heart that's going to fill up your paper kind of like you see on this slide and The next step is it's an intuitive process of how full is your heart and I want you you know how we go the glasses half full half empty That's what this is about. So I want you to just draw in a line and this isn't just based on today Like today might be a bummer of a day or it might be a good day But kind of in general in the last month or two in your life How full is your heart feeling? So you're just gonna Make that line don't judge it at all. This is teasing out information and Then the next step is that you're going to start with the things that are That give you energy in your life So here are some of the things for me my yoga and meditation practice friends and family The mountains here in Santa Fe where I live Nice, I have a really sweet home. I like to hike and dance I'm having some new spiritual teachings in my life and going through a huge growth spurt and I'm doing art So these are all things that really give me energy in my life and I'm going to give you two minutes to fill in what those things are for you I'm going to give you a 30-second notice when it's time to finish up again. Don't worry about making it perfect So you can begin and take another 30 seconds and You can time Tie up that part and now we're going to go to the top half of the map which is to Feel into the pathways that your heart is feeling empty right now and again without Judgment just let just let it flow or human. We're always changing You know something that worked before might feel a little lonely now or empty So just be honest and really this is just like a journaling exercise So some of the things for me. Well, I wouldn't be working with George if I didn't want more coaching clients or I want a life partner. That's a biggie for me more time off to adventure I go through I'm not enough feelings and it's I really invite you if there are some key kind of gremlin voices in the head that are Themes in your life that is something to put there because it gets in the way. It's like a rose or not so fun colored lens that we look through life through and For me. I'm wanting more collaboration with in my coaching business. I I Have so much more fun when I'm bouncing off of people and when I'm more isolated I find it not as interesting So take two minutes to write whatever it is. That's feeling Gives your heart some feelings of emptiness whether it's work or personal and take another 30 seconds and We're gonna stop here and There's one more thing to do and you're gonna do this quickly and intuitively Which is in the top half of the chart. You're gonna circle what jumps out at you on Just intuitively this is not logically what could use some attention for you And this is what came out for me is that there's something about this So I'm wanting you to tune into your body not your mind What jumps out and this is the other one that jumped out for me like life is short and I there's a way I push and I work hard, but this one is jumping out summer's coming So I want you one to three items in the top of the chart. Just circle them great So I'm gonna invite you on your own to go back to those three items Because that in coaching we'd start to work with that and to literally just be with each of those items and Feel because again, it's not which one's the best one to work with but they're different Some will hit different centers of your body You know that I'm not enough for me hits a very different place than I want to adventure place But it's starting to feel into the shockers the emotional intelligence the You know where feelings come up to start to say well, which one of these wants my attention in my life and It's sometimes very non-linear on what moves us forward So that's just an example of a journey mapping exercise Wonderful, thank you so much Nariah for sharing that with us And I hope those who are watching this you've that you've done the exercise yourself and Yeah, maybe it's got some insider or maybe in the breakthrough about What what you're wanting to work on in your life? So Nariah, maybe you could share with us how people can work with you It's if someone watching this is like well gosh I want to I want some facilitation in doing this work And I know this is just we've only touched the surface on journey mapping. There's a lot more you've given us a very small Experience, but yeah, how how did folks work with you? Thank you George. So there my website is journey mapping net Just so you know I've been working on getting content online So I'm starting to vlog and blog so you can check there. I have some Recent new input some of it really Targeted towards women, but not all some like holistic decision-making some working with emotions So you can find content there I also offer free consultations and if you get the hit that we might be a good match Please feel free to sign up. I have a little bit of an inquiry form But sign up and let's explore if we might be a good match And the other thing is is if you like the mapping work, I do have this Mapping process that looks at every part from work relationships lifestyle And that's one more thing I'm working with my coaching on trying to get my business online because I've done live workshops with this And I did one online mapping course but if you're interested in that let me know because that might encourage me to Make that a priority to get the mapping course online Wonderful and one more time tell us the website again. It's journey mapping net journey mapping net. Yes All right. Well, thank you so much and arrive for Sharing this with us. I look forward to seeing if any what any of you thought about this You know, feel free to comment below if you want to add a public comment or a question for Nariah or you can contact her of course through Her website. Okay. Thank you Nariah for your work. Thank you George. 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