It is a sobering thought that the finest act
of love you can perform is not an act of
service but an act of contemplation,
of seeing.

When you serve people you help, support,
comfort, alleviate pain.

When you see them in their inner beauty
and goodness you transform and create.

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~ Anthony de Mello

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​Radical listening

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What is your dream? 

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What kind of support do you need to create this dream in reality? 

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Where are you stuck?  

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What do I want to change?

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Here's what I do:  Just circle words that come up in a journal page and then see if you can link them after you have written words that symbolize the dream and the obstacles to the dream. Reflections that rise up out of questions like these is a way into the art of living.

 

Spell it out on paper so you can pull your thoughts out of the circular firing squad of our mind and simply observe what shows up on the paper.  

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Life is difficult, so take a bow that you are here working on figuring out a meaningful life. 

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I'm listening to people rolling through midlife changes, revolutions in perception that can lead to expanded empathy to people caught in the class war,  plants and animals. 

 

How to make changes stick?  I create rituals to celebrate being born on this beautiful ocean planet.  What do you do? 

 

I love helping people creating start ups committed to a greener more just world. 

 

Do you want to radically change the world? 

 

Slow down, put your hands in the soil and work with other people to restore biodiversity.  

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That is the antidote to despair.  We are not separate from Mother Earth.   We are nature. 

 

I love Francis Weller's The Wild Edge of Sorrow, too. He teaches people to learn to be an apprentice to your grief instead of  resisting it, ignoring it, compartmentalizing. 

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Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh,   Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Merlin Sheldrake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, James Baldwin are all on the path with me. 

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"Live so far as you can in opposition. You’ve got to live and love. You’ve got to find the answers in your heart."

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Wendell Berry

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$150 per session.  Schedule 90 minutes

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I also facilitate leadership meetings for boards, community gatherings, campaigns on the left side of the dial @  $400 an hour.  

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See Good Nature Notes Coaching blog on this website for my latest thoughts on taking action to change your life. ​

 

How can I help? Call 206 271 3490 Write me here.  

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​You will walk away from our first meeting seeing the world with more skills to make changes you want, repair damage done and also have some fun learning to recruit your imagination and magic to solve problems. 

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Testimonials

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Thank you for the work that you have done with Environmental Work. It has truly been transformative and important work. Your insights and guidance have helped get us unstuck around a number of issues and provided a path for us to work together more productively.

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Roger Tucker, Executive Director (retired)

Environmental Works

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Timothy Colman was born to do this work. With a great breadth and depth of psychological, spiritual, and intellectual knowledge; animated by a dynamic curiosity and passion for life, Tim facilitates non-judgmental, eye-opening dialogue and reflection, midwifing new possibilities and personal growth with insight, wisdom, and compassion. You will be enriched, nourished, and enlarged through your interactions.

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Alexandra Halsey, writer, editor & tech guru

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In just a few months Timothy Colman helped me turn my losses into opportunities and my skills into a career that feeds my soul.

 

His insight, experience, and ability to go deep into areas that were keeping me stuck, shifted the way I see my future and catapulted my confidence, (plus I lost 15 lbs and got in shape along the way). This is what life coaching is all about!

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Blair deLaubenfels, international public speaker

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“If I could talk and teach, I might be a sage, but I am only a ferryman, and my task is to ferry people across this river. I have ferried many across, thousands, and for all of them my river has been nothing but a hindrance in their travels. They traveled for money and business, to weddings and on pilgrimages, and the river was in their way, and the ferryman was there to get them swiftly across that hindrance. But for a few among the thousands, a very few, four or five, the river was no hindrance, They heard its voice, they listened to it, and the river became sacred for them, as it is for me. Let us now retire for the night, Siddhartha.”

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― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha