We recently connected with Scott Schwenk and have shared our conversation below.

Scott , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What was it like going from idea to execution? Can you share some of the backstory and some of the major steps or milestones?

I’ve been working with consciousness in folks for over thirty years while deeply and continuously training further to refine, focus and potentize the work I facilitate in one-on-one mentoring and all of my group teaching and online course creative. There have been so many moments of choice along the way. So many opportunities to follow existing patterns of teaching or tune more directly in the creative flow that wants to move through me and stay with it all the way from idea to execution. The key for me is deep listening to sense how the energy wants to move combined with what people are able to receive and grow with at a particular time. So there’s a balance of benefitting from past experience and extensive study while simultaneously being available to the creative urge. And this creative urge is personal to me. It’s like being out in the open ocean and sensing the currents. My part is how I’ll orient with those currents. But the initial stage can be the most challenging. Looking at a blank page and organizing myself open in such a way as to recognize and partner with the muse.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’ve been interested in consciousness and what makes people and life “tick” since I was very young. I was aware that I could sense what was going on inside of people as a kid fairly often. When I was triggered, I was only sensing my own reactions. But in a moment of stillness, people’s thoughts, emotions and body tensions/openness became more obvious, like reading the words on a page of a book.

In my work, I help the willing to recognize and dissolve tension patterns while expanding capacity for perspective. I support people through meditative skills, breath and awareness to become free from the limitations of historical conditioning (which shows up as tension patterns and limiting perspectives) and become creative, adaptable, focused, grounded, and happy without requiring other people or circumstances to change first. And I help them to do this not just when alone, but to be an empowered and empowering presence in all forms of relationships.

Essentially working with me is a potent cross-training to become fully alive, fully present, and creatively adaptive.

One the key markers for how clients and students are growing is the balance of agency and compassion. Agency is the ability to be functional, skillful and adaptive in a wide variety of situations. As compassion grows, we’re able to see past our own reactions to the sources of how another is showing up in life. And rather than shut down and withdraw love, we’re able to stay open and see from wider views that lead to empowering engagements with all beings.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I’ve gotten the gift of continually unlearning limiting perspectives. To recognize that if I’m feeling any tension around an observation, I”m seeing from a limiting perspective and to immediately deepen my breath and relax my body to access more perspectives. The more perspectives I can access without tension, the more I can intuitively sense where the most aliveness is for everyone/everything involved and pursue that.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I”ve had to learn initially the hard way about social media. It’s been a tremendous amount of trial and error. What I’ve come to see is that participating with social media seems necessary, but it’s not the main source of converting people in to paying clients. I honestly don’t see any difference among most areas of work. The key ingredient, regardless of the product, is mutually beneficial relationships. We are all in the relationship business. And we all have a past with regard to relationships.

Most of us have imprints from how we did or did not learn to form secure relationships with our early caregivers that continue to play out in our current relationships. That is until we become aware that something more is possible and begin to heal what are called our “attachment patterns”.

There are five things that we all need to develop healthy attachments in relationships. Most of us didn’t get all five consistently as children and often struggle now. The five are 1) Safety and Protection. 2) Attunement (I feel you feeling me) 3) Soothing and Comfort. 4) Expressed Delight. and 5) Support and Encouragement for our best self. Many of us unwittingly try to get these needs met unconsciously when we are engaging with social media. And it cannot provide them in any sustainable way.

As we heal our attachment patterns, we become more secure and from there are able to spot the givers in life and form uplifting relationships with them that yield all types of abundant exchange. And we learn to spot and steer around the takers.

On a super practical level, cultivating an email list and building relationship there is key to converting cold market contacts into thriving clients and students who love to refer others to the work.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.scottschwenk.com
• Instagram: @thescottschwenk
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/scott-schwenk-a9560a4
• Youtube: @ScottSchwenk

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Arian Mahboubian