How I Work

Inherent in my commitment to the coaching process are several personally important values:

• Self-awareness and self-victory: using every situation as an opportunity to see within, to make the unconscious conscious – to bring our shadow (hidden motivations) into the light of awareness.
• Deep Listening and Presence: honoring and accepting the various dimensions of the client and inherently valuing their inner wisdom and intuition as the basis for understanding and initiative. 
• Dynamic action: taking a now-moment oriented stance towards action and personal transformation based on the insight of self-awareness so that you can embody your ideals and realize your dreams. 
• Warmth, Sincerety and Respect: seeking to uplift and support the client so that they feel empowered to acknowledge their abilities and follow their bliss. 
• Honesty and Integrity: communicating clearly, mirroring back objectively and inquiring deeply so that the client clearly integrates their behavior with their values.
• Lightness and humor: the appropriate use of humor to maintain perspective when needed and keep things moving in the direction of progress.
• An Integral perspective and Integral practice: explore matter, body, mind, soul and spirit each as an “integral part” of personal growth and a balanced life.

What is an Integral Approach?

Self Victory Life Coaching utilizes an Integral approach.  This involves coaching for one’s whole life in all its various dimensions: Spiritual (“I”), Psychological/Interpersonal (“We”), and Physical/Material (“It”) or simply, Body, Mind, and Spirit, each as an “Integral part” of the greater reality that is your life experience.  Coaching homework can include a practice, action or learning assignment in each domain – one often supporting or interacting with the others for maximum efficiency.  The idea is that like a yin-yang symbol, each part of life is contained within and is essential to the others.  This allows us to shed light upon and integrate areas of unconsciousness, bring balance to our lives as well as bring fresh meaning back into areas may be adequately developed already.  The Integral approach accounts for the complexity of life: various personality types (e.g. The Enneagram), lines of growth (multiple intelligences), levels of development, and both inner and outer dimensions of experience – a balanced framework that is as spiritual as it is practical, allowing us to become clear on what it is we specifically need in order to live a more whole, balanced, fulfilling or otherwise Integral life.

About the Coach:

Nathanael Chawkin is a full time executive coach for the Stagen Leadership Institute, a management consulting firm and leadership academy based on integral theory, Conscious Capitalism, elite athletics and martial arts that helps midmarket companies scale.  Nathanael integrates 20 years of meditation and spiritual study with 15 years of teaching and training martial arts. With the development of self awareness and a calm, assertive leadership presence, clients discover new insights that present new choices and inform new, more intentional actions. He has coached executives at Xerox and Stored IQ, facilitated classes on embodied leadership, Integral Life Practice, and self-defense & personal empowerment. He also served for two years as the director of a traditional live-in apprenticeship program in Aikido. He earned his BA (classical piano) from Maharishi University of Management and is certified as a coach through JFKU where he also completed his MA in Integral Psychology. He is a 2nd degree black belt in Aikido, and a purple belt, medal winning competitor in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Nathanael lives and practices in Austin, Texas.