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Jenn Shallvey helps people in transition from old to new ways of living and working. She is a skilled business catalyst who works with leaders and business owners to help them consciously make more of a positive difference in the world.

Jenn draws from 25 years of experience in a range of professional capacities including accounting, business, human resources, leadership development, consulting and coaching. Jenn currently offers services as a coach and facilitator specialising in leadership, career and transition. Jenn’s focus is reflective action and applied intuition.

Jenn believes that to create conscious change in the world you need to start with your self.  Jenn loves being with her family, enjoying a good chai latte, writing or hanging out anywhere near an ocean - preferably with a camera. Meet Jenn.

 

 

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Please enjoy the RAW UNEDITED working start to the book seechange

 

The Start

In each person’s life there comes a time when you begin to question why you are here.  It is not about whether you face this question but a matter of when.  Since you are reading this book right now then perhaps it is your time.  Only you know.  No one else can tell you. The search, the desire, the craving and seeking all come from within.  

Perhaps, you notice the creeping in of dissatisfaction with your work, the occasional drop in motivation, your mind wandering at the same old dinner parties you once found entertaining. You may find your curiosity arising as you discover or read about people in the world changing the world for the common good.

What could be the direction for you?  

Is it possible for you to help give back on such a scale?

Then you step back, fall into a pool of self doubt, logically and self critically stopping your self in your own tracks.  You are questioning the very foundation of your learning, knowing, education and experience.  You think to yourself “Is everything that I have done this far in my life going to be thrown out as I choose a different path?”  

As you struggle internally with this question you still continue to present yourself to others as that same person they know. You keep up appearances as they say. Only your appearances are gradually and quickly wearing thin.  Cracks are emerging. You are showing to people that there is more to you than what they see.  Could it be possible that inside that tough, good time personal exterior is actually a compassionate, philanthropic change agent for global transformation?

Again, only you know what is on the inside waiting to come out. Only you know when the time is right.  Yet somehow the forces that surround you are beginning to create pressure.

This book is the start of a conversation

Reading this book you will begin to notice an inner dialogue. This inner dialogue is the start of our conversation. Of course I would like to be with you in this conversation in person. However for now we will work remotely through the words and your reading.  

I invite you to open your mind as your turn each page, soak up the words and start to dig deep. Ask yourself questions.  Check in with your reactions. Notice what is happening inside you as you go through this book.

Before we start, a few questions

So before we start let me ask you something. Actually I should forewarn you that I do ask a lot of questions.  I want you to go deep and really come from a place of truth for you.  I am not at any point expecting you to share or tell anyone what is happening. When you are ready for sharing you will know that time. No instead I am asking you to at least start to consider where you are right now.

Of course the title of this book gave you some insight into the topic.  Then it spoke to you at another level.  It is this deeper level that I am interested in.  I would like to know what attracted you to this book.  If I were sitting with you right now I might ask “So why did you pick this book up?  What interested you in the title, the book?  What were you feeling just before you picked up this book?”

I might also ask now that you are still reading “what is keeping you here?”

Let’s suppose it is curiosity.  This is one possible reason.

Let’s suppose it is dissatisfaction with your current work and life.

Let’s suppose it’s both and even more than the two together.  If you are like most people I meet in this situation you are in a personal internal tug of war. Yes, an internal struggle between what you THINK is the right thing to do and FEEL is what you really want to do.  Beyond the thinking and feeling, there is an inner knowing that the world you orbit no longer sustains you and you want change now.

But you don’t have the answers you say

Perhaps you are not accessing your in-sight at the moment (and you can and will eventually).  Instead you may simply be getting the messages in another way.  

Maybe your body is telling you it’s time to change.  You keep having health problems, you don’t feel yourself, you are not quite right.  You especially notice this in your moments of connecting to the work and the way you used to be before you started on the transition you are in now.

Perhaps people in your life respond differently to you.  Relationships are askew, intimacy is absent, friendships fragile.  

Maybe you are filling your days with activity only to remain unsatisfied, still yearning for an external answer to satisfy your desires.

An invitation

So I now invite you to join me on a journey. This journey will be one of ideas, thoughts and insights.  I welcome you to read this book in a manner that suits you.  There is no prescription.  Whether you are a scanner or a diligent reader of each word, the words will speak to you at the level right for you.

This book is the start of a conversation.  As you read through you will see many opportunities to continue the dialogue in other forms.  There is no obligation, simply an open invitation to see how far you can go to be your true self.

Where appropriate it is your choice whether you engage further.  My gift to you is the words in this book. I sincerely intend for them to reach you and connect with you in a positive and engaging way.

A proviso about this book
 
You will quickly notice that this book is not an academic tome, nor a reference list of quotes from a range of experts.  I write from my place as a life long student, learner and experienced coach and facilitator.  I love what I do and hesitate to even call it work.  At the end of the book you may find more information about my background and how to connect further.  

For now please enjoy the words shared in this book as a representation of one person who is here to help you.  My mission is to help you open up to what it is you can do with your life.  What I offer you through this writing and any ensuing further connection are the following:

1.    Commitment to you.
2.    Non judgemental acceptance of you where you are at right now in your life.
3.    Authentic listening.
4.    Holding of your space for you.
5.    Deeping and challenging questioning.
6.    Shared insight.

Whilst I am one person in your journey of discovery, I am also a connector.  So however possible I intend to help you find the resources, support and opportunities to grow and step into the change you seek.