Intellectual, Spiritual and Emotional growth challenge us to break out of self-imposed boxes where we are wedded to our old ideas. Growth is Learning. 

The Challenge involved in learning:

The process of learning is not one that merely seeks newer answers but one that encourages us to always see and ask the next question.

An answer, then, is not a destination but merely a temporary consolidation – a mental model – that becomes, in its turn, the platform from which one launches the next phase of growth.

The person commited to growth seeks always to be out beyond her/his present answers - aware that these are in the process of becoming boxes.  This person will tolerate the anxiety of not knowing long enough to come to an ever more adequate understanding.

 [For more on GROWTH, see Ohana Retreat notes on CHANGE]

Growth through Coaching

• Admitting one's frustrations with the present state of things.
• Developing and clarifying Objectives that are more worthy of the authentic, energetic and flourishing life you seek.
• Committing to making changes.
• Facing with courage and support the anxiety of breaking out of "safe" but unsatisfactory boxes.
• Staying focused on the process. 

Growth through Psychotherapy

• Recognizing self-defeating or self-limiting habits and the disappointment they bring.
• Challenging some long-held assumptions about one's self. Our actions tell more about us than does any self-description.
• Facing the (unfounded) fear that something really dark and bad lies hidden in my psyche.
• Making the commitment to uncover and discover who I am. [Our creative energy is released when we fully integrate our Shadow - Jung]