About The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair Model
The Adult Chair® is a manual for your life. It’s a tool that helps you feel empowered, confident, and equipped with a clear roadmap to your healthiest, most authentic self. Through The Adult Chair®, you will understand how your life experiences have shaped you, give a voice to the different parts of who you are, gain greater self-awareness, and respond to life in a healthy way.
The Child Chair
Your inner child forms between ages zero and seven, and it is the foundation of your true feelings and needs. The inner child is deeply vulnerable, which makes it the source of deep, connected relationships. It is also where early wounding can occur, which shapes our view of the world as we grow up. When seated in the Child Chair, we find creativity, passion, spontaneity, trust, and intimacy.
The Adolescent Chair
In adolescence, you begin to develop your own identity and realize that you are separate and unique from the world around you. As the ego forms, so does the desire to protect yourself, whether the daggers are real or imagined. When seated in the Adolescent Chair, we become perfectionist, judgmental, and controlling, and we develop a mask to hide our authentic selves from a world that seems cold and rejecting. Most of us live from this place until we awake and decide we are ready to change.
The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair represents your highest self: living in the present moment, dealing with facts and truth over stories and assumptions, and being able to set boundaries from a place of patience and compassion. While seated in the Adult Chair, we can deeply connect with our inner child’s needs and feelings and objectively observe our adolescent’s behaviors. It is here, and only here, that we can become aware of—and overcome—the emotional triggers and negative patterns that hold us back.
What The Adult Chair Means to Me
With a focus on growing my career, I found ways to improve my technical knowledge and to use my experiences to strengthen my skill set. But how do you level up your being (who you are)? Your confidence? Your presence? Your voice? Your ability to influence and achieve?
I was in search of deeper answers when I discovered The Adult Chair. I quickly learned how my life experiences shaped me and how conscious and unconscious limiting beliefs impacted my work performance and my personal experiences. I immediately saw how this model (or manual for your life), could empower not only me personally and professionally, but the people I mentored and coached.
I clearly saw how integrating The Adult Chair model with my diversity, equity and inclusion work would not only empower women and people that are othered from internalized issues due to inequities around race, gender, sexuality, abilities and more. This work will strengthen relationships and collaboration throughout any company.
The Adult Chair will bring something new and impactful to your efforts.
Companies can broaden, deepen and reimagine their understanding of equity and inclusion by releasing limiting beliefs of those that are different. The most competitive organizations focus on harmonizing EQ & IQ, which accelerates trust, team, cohesion, and results. The Adult Chair will bring something new and impactful to your efforts.
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