My planned group Quests and workshops are listed at the Planned Nature Connection Adventures page - click for more information.
Soul & Spiritual Coaching
Soul or spiritual coaching guides you through a process of opening yourself up to not only healing but also self-realization. Spiritual or Soul Coaching goes beyond the boundaries of ordinary life coaching that focuses on the attainment of goals.
Catriona’s coaching sessions help to guide you to your spiritual source and help you find meaning and purpose in your everyday life. This allows you to take an honest look at yourself and your life; face fear, release old negative patterns, get motivated, and step boldly and joyfully into your future.
Once you commit to this program, life seems to unfold in a remarkable, almost magical way. This innovative program is traditionally a mix of outdoor and in-door sessions, although you may choose all indoor or outdoor sessions.
The greatest component to life or spiritual coaching, though, is your personal commitment to the pathway to understanding your authentic self. While a coach assist you on your journey – you must commit to applying practices and techniques to help you on your way.
Contact Catriona to develop a coaching program that suits your needs.
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Executive Coaching
"Catriona enables people and organizations to make the connections; actualize the concepts; create and implement the strategies that take them to (or beyond) their visions."
R.D.J. Canada
Since Catriona has many years of experience as a CEO and in leadership positions in international and national organizations she understands the challenges and opportunities that face executives.
Catriona offers one on one executive coaching to help with specific issues that an executive faces. There are a myriad of benefits that result from one on one executive coaching.
Executive coaching is becoming much more widely used in supporting top leaders. In a 2004 survey by Right Management Consultants (Philadelphia), 86 percent of companies surveyed said they relied on executive coaching to sharpen the skills of individuals who have been identified as leaders.
Many executives choose coaching simply to benefit from receiving authentic feedback free from "political" motives. For example, even 360-degree reviews can be "tainted" by the expectations and beliefs of others. Catriona can provide you with authentic and unbiased feedback about your strengths and challenges. Better yet – Catriona can offer you ways to improve as a leader and a manager that are practical and doable.
One on one executive coaching can make you a better leader because it ultimately makes you a better person. In addition, since Catriona has served in leadership positions she fully understands the dynamics that come with the position.
Executive Coaching Benefits
In addition, while Catriona can be an insightful sounding board, and provide knowledgeable advice – because of her coaching background and on the job experience - she can go further than most executive coaches in helping you towards living your true life path. By understanding your true purpose you become a positive force in the lives of your employees and in the larger world through your work. This is why Catriona’s work is effective at both the personal and professional levels.
Contact Catriona for a Executive Coaching Package.
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Organizational Consultant
Catriona MacGregor also offers consulting on an organizational and company level. Imagine what you can do with your entire organization energized and moving towards positive achievement! Catriona is trained in a strengths based approach known as Appreciative Inquiry.
Appreciative Inquiry is the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them. It involves systematic discover of what gives a system ‘life’ when it is most effective and capable in economic, ecological, and human terms. AI involves the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to heighten positive potential. Unlike The traditional approach to change - to look for the problem, do a diagnosis, and find a solution. The primary focus is on what is wrong or broken; since we look for problems, we find them. By paying attention to problems, we emphasize and amplify them. …Appreciative Inquiry suggests that we look for what works in an organization. The tangible result of the inquiry process is a series of statements that describe where the organization wants to be, based on the high moments of where they have been. Because the statements are grounded in real experience and history, people know how to repeat their success."
AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential.
This method has been proven to significantly grow organizations and the people that work within them. You can learn more about Catriona’s organizational and company is detailed in greater depth at www.awengrove.org. Contact Catriona and her team of experts for a free quote on how to bring out the best in your company or organization at info@awengrove.org.
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Vision Quests for Individuals & Groups
"A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely." ~Denise Linn
Do you ever wish that the world would slow down so you could re-collect yourself and tap into a deep inner well spring of your being?
If you are ready and willing to open yourself to an experience that can be life changing and that may bring you greater self-knowledge embark on a Vision Quest.
A Vision Quest is an ideal way to:
- Discover who you really are and get "on purpose"
- Find inner peace
- Find answers from the heart
- Connect deeply with nature and other living things
- Face your fears and step into courage
- Deepen your meditation practice or learn to meditate
- Communicate with animal totems and spirit helpers
- Be at one with god/the creator/the universe, yourself.
About Vision Quests
Vision Quests are powerful practices that have helped many people and many cultures on the Earth to tap into a deep wisdom that can provide profound guidance and insight.
Many people & cultures around the world and many people of different religious beliefs and cultural upbringing have benefited from immersing themselves in nature and spending time alone in the wilderness to seek wisdom, truth and beauty. This is because the Earth speaks to us all if we care to listen.
Catriona's Vision Quest draws from ancient Celtic spirituality along with many other spiritual practices but also incorporates modern day methods. Some of the Quest practices follow the teachings of Denise Linn, of Cherokee descendant and one of my greatest teachers.
It is no accident that Buddha became enlightened under a Bodhi Tree, or that Moses sought God alone on a mountain and connected with God in the presence of a "burning" bush. Since time immemorial nature has been a key "partner" in helping humankind get in touch with a deeper wisdom.
Today we have some scientific evidence for understanding why this is so. Healthy places in the Earth resonate at the same megahertz level that a human brain resonates at when meditating. Nature is truly an empowering place for peak experiences.
There are also healing and energetically powerful places in the land where people can be supported, healed and strengthened.
What Makes Catriona's Vision Quests Unique
I work with nature, spirit and energy from animals, plants and the Earth. When I was twelve, I had a spiritual awakening in the forests near our home. Throughout my life I have seen energy (auras) around people and other living things, and in the land. I have experienced "spiritual/shamanistic visions" and have received guidance from many animal totems and guides.
I have worked for many years in helping individuals gain a deeper connection with the natural world. I am trained in ecology and natural sciences. I am adept at building upon the strengths of individuals, helping them to identify and overcome limiting beliefs. I am a meditation teacher, an experienced vision quest leader, nature guide, and certified coach.
I view the Vision Quest experience as an on-going process of unfolding and discovery. I schedule pre-quest sessions with each participant to help him or her clarify his or her intent for the Quest.
I provide each Quest participant with powerful clearing practices based on the four primary elements found in nature: Earth, Air, Fire & Water. It is recommended that you complete these practices prior to the Quest – 28 days is ideal – one week of clearing practice is required prior to the Quest.
These clearing practices take into consideration our modern day lives of spending many hours in front of computers, in cars, and absorbing a lot of information and collecting a lot of objects and material possessions.
The clearing practices are "designed for anyone seeking phenomenal spiritual cleansing, renewal and transformation. They help to align ones inner spiritual life with their outer life. It is a system that helps to clear away mental, emotional and physical clutter." ~Denise Linn. These practices are taken in part from Denise Linn's soul coaching methodology and practices.
Physical Cleansing, Fasting & Weight Loss
In addition, my Vision Quests also incorporate a physical cleansing and supported fast if so desired. Some people choose to also conduct a powerful body cleanse and lose weight as part of the vision quest process. If you are interested in this aspect of the Quest please contact me for more information. Please click here to learn more ___(click to service page down at Phi)
Contact Catriona for a free consultation and a customized Vision Quest proposal.
Contact Catriona at 415-785-3887 or
Catriona.macgregor@comcast.net for a free consultation.
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Guided Nature Quests
Catriona also offers guided nature quests for people who want more group contact and/or more one on one instruction from Catriona. A guided nature quest provides peaceful time alone in nature with group and one on one training and sharing of experiences.
A Nature Quest is for you if you are seeking solitude in nature with the comfort and structure of a group learning experience. Nature Quests benefit participants by providing them with free time to be alone and enjoy nature, and a balance of group and one on one beneficial practices and learning.
The "Nature Quest" is one day shorter than the Vision Quest and includes time in solitude in beautiful inspiring places in nature, and time spent with the group and Quest leader learning and practicing beneficial techniques and practices.
For more information about this unique and wonderful experience – contact Catriona.
Answers to Common Vision Quest Questions
Who Is An Ideal Vision Quest Participant?
Everyone between the ages of 14-80 should participate in a vision quest at least once in his or her lifetime. Some people conduct multiple quests throughout their lives. Vision Quest participants can range in outdoor experiences from experienced campers and backpackers to people who have never spent a single night outdoors.
People of all beliefs and backgrounds are welcome to experience a Vision Quest. Whether you are seeking connection to a god, creator, the universe or simply tapping into your own deep well of inner peace. Catriona does work with totem animals and energies found in nature to help guide the Vision Quest experience.
Vision Quest participants with special needs can be accommodated. Participants with diabetes and physical handicaps have conducted quests safely. However, people with serious illnesses or conditions that could be aggravated by quest activities cannot be included.
Do You Fast During a Quest?
Everyone is required to drink water and stay fully hydrated during the Vision Quest (especially in desert locations). Some people may choose to fast and some may choose to eat lightly. Either way is fine. If participants wish to eat — they are asked to eat only healthy whole foods. An exceptional whole food product that is highly nutritious, good tasting, and lightweight can be purchased for the Quest. Phi Plus is a synergistic combination of all natural whole food ingredients including nuts, seeds, grains, fruits, vegetables, berries, herbs, oils, & spices. (This food also provides excellent weight loss support via the Triathlon diet, which you may wish to do prior to the Quest as part of your cleansing program.)
Where Are Vision Quests Held?
Vision Quests are conducted at places on the land that are energetically supportive of people and that offer ecologically healthy, beautiful environments filled with diverse species of plants and wild animals or beautifully austere and clarifying environments.
Vision Quests primarily take place in California (Primarily in the Spring & Fall) but can also be conducted at other locations in the United States and internationally like Hawaii, Scotland (Summer) and New Zealand (Winter).
What Do You Do During a Vision Quest?
You will be prepared for the Vision Quest and supported in creating a powerful intent for the Quest itself.
You will learn how to apply the Medicine Wheel (as developed by Denise Linn of Native American Ancestry - Cherokee), gain understanding about the five stages of energy, practice meditation techniques and techniques that open you to your intuitive guidance, and learn methods for connecting with your totem animal(s).
You will develop an individual mantra (a powerful grouping of words that assist you in fulfilling your life’s purpose) and be given insights into your greatest strengths as well as limiting beliefs that you may no longer need.
Each Quest participant is provided with powerful clearing practices based on the four primary elements found in nature: Earth, Air, Fire & Water. It is recommended that you complete these practices prior to the Quest – 28 days is ideal – one week of clearing practice is required prior to the Quest.
Each group is different so no two Quest experiences are completely the same. Quest participants co-create the experience and add their own insights and energy.
After spending a day and night with the group at the Quest location, Quest participants create their sacred circles and stay on their own for three days and nights.
At the end of the individual Quest — participants gather for a nutritious breakfast and share their experiences and insights.
Six months after the Quest, Catriona follows up with Quest participants with a post quest coaching session.
Can I Do An Individual Quest or A Special Group Quest?
You can work with Catriona to develop an individual Quest experience just for you. You can also request a specially designed Vision Quest for a group that you are with (a family, organization, group of friends or colleagues).
However, not all groups are suitable for a Vision Quest experience. Contact Catriona to discuss.
Vision Quest Groups are kept small in order to enhance your quest experience. Confirm your plans early to save a place.
Contact Catriona at 415-785-3887 or Catriona.macgregor@comcast.net for a free consultation and Quest proposal for a solo or group quest.
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Power Animal/Totem Discovery & Training
Traditional cultures all over the world knew the power and wisdom of animal spirits (totems). By identifying your personal totem, you could discover a powerful ally, guardian and teacher. Finding your power animals is an important an invaluable resource for anyone seeking a more balanced, wise and spiritual life path.
Most cultures recognized the importance of animals and their traits including the Egyptians, Native Americans, Hindus and other cultures too numerous to mention here. There are also current relationships of importance between animals and people today. Our western culture tends to trivialize animals (wild and domestic) but current scientific research as well as existing knowledge and experience points to animals as having greater abilities and powers than generally acknowledged.
You can learn how to connect with and understand your totem animal(s) in order to bring greater meaning, balance, creativity and purpose to your life. Totem animals can be powerful allies in providing guidance and insight about matters both profound and day-to-day.
Everyone has at least one totem or power animal that is there to help him or her in his or her lives. Catriona draws provide guidance for those seeking to identify and understand the animal spirit or spirits that guide and protect them.
Totems, or spirit guides, can act as teachers and guardians. They can help guide us towards our true purpose. Finding your totem is important in fulfilling one’s life path. Catriona can guide you in this important process to discover the totems or power animals surrounding you. Catriona offers totem animal journeys and she also provides totem animal training during her vision quests.
Discovering One's Totem Animal
Traditionally discovering one's totem was an important rite of passage and in many societies it was tied to entering adulthood (and in some cases still is even in today's hectic, modern world). There were many ways for a seeker to find their totem ranging from interpretation of signs by a spiritual leader to a personal vision quest. No matter what the method was, the uncovering of a personal animal spirit guide or guardian was almost always a voyage of self-discovery. Unfortunately, the importance of finding your totem has been all but lost to modern society. However, Catriona can help you to connect with your totem animal through a series of practices and techniques that she has developed. Totem animals also choose the person – not the other way around – this is why it is critical to use "spiritual" and intuitive methods for discovering your totem.
Catriona offers one on one Totem Animal Journeys and she also offers a special group workshop.
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Handwriting Analysis and Peak Performance Writing
People benefit from insight gathered from Catriona’s handwriting analysis. According to author Vimala Rodgers in Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life, Handwriting is " a map of our attitude toward life, a labyrinthine pathway to long-forgotten places inside, a diagram of our unconscious mind. In simple terms, our handwriting is a clear indication of how we feel about ourselves."
"Handwriting is unique to an individual, similar to the way fingerprints are unique. Unlike fingerprints, though, one creates their own personal writing style. While on the surface it communicates a message with the words you write it at the same time it communicates your mental map of the world. Your handwriting reflects your inner self. It can reveal your attitude, aptitude, level of self-esteem and confidence. "
Through peak performance handwriting analysis and advice, Catriona can help you use handwriting to reflect and encourage healthier stronger patterns and habits. By decoding the powerful messages hidden in your handwriting you can gain real insights into your strengths, weaknesses and self-perception. This can be incredibly useful when combined with a professional life-coaching program. These revelations are a shortcut to your unconscious mind and an authentic assessment of your perceptions and attitudes about the world. From this platform, professional life coaching can guide you through breaking down the negative habits and perceptions and moving towards your true purpose and greater self-awareness.
Catriona offers a focus handwriting-coaching program for people who wish to make dramatic positive and powerful committing to change their handwriting. It can be done! Often in forty days…changes can begin to take shape and manifest not only in your writing but also in helping you live your best life.
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Nature Outings and Natural History Tours: Northern California
"A wonderful experience involving three generations. We laughed, shared stories and had an extra appreciation for each other and our environment. "
B. K. - Mill Valley, CA
Here’s a way for individuals, families and groups to learn through inspirational outings in nature. You’ll find out about Northern California, as well as the animals that live there and the ecological processes that shaped the area. These natural history tours can be two hours to five hours long, and are suitable for people of all ages. Let Catriona plan an inspiring outing for your family, friends and colleagues, one that will take you to a place of beauty, and fit your time constraints.
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