As a Core Gift Discovery™ Master Facilitator, I am here to help you discover your unique and purposeful path in life.
What is a Core Gift?
Your Core Gift is a unique offering that you share with others. It’s a natural, essential part of you. It’s connected to — and strengthened by — your life experiences, particularly your challenges. Your Core Gift is a unique ability you have that is freely and naturally given to others.
Knowing your Core Gift means you can better share it. Your Core Gift strengthens your sense of purpose and well-being and can help to guide your decision making on your path forward.
Your Core Gift develops throughout your lifetime, touches all parts of your life, and becomes more impactful each time you face new challenges or give your Core Gift to others.
How is my Core Gift different than my strengths?
Your Core Gift is not the same as your strengths. Identifying strengths is often an organizational system requirement that doesn’t help you to be seen and valued in a meaningful way. Your Core Gift contains three elements which separates it from a strength:
- Your Core Gift is always connected to healing. Because it springs from challenges you have faced in your lifetime, each offering of that gift is healing for you. If you grew up in an abusive household and you choose to treat others with love, dignity and respect, you are weaving back together the importance of loving and respectful relationships. If you failed gym class in high school and you enlist in the military, you’re weaving back together the power of discipline, dedication, and positive visualization. Your Core Gift restores you and heals your community each time you offer it. It’s at the centre of a purpose-led life.
- Your Core Gift focuses on the state of the giver in the moment of giving. It is delivered from a place of generosity with no hidden or ulterior motives. You are not expecting anything in return.
- You keep giving and learning about your Core Gift whether you successfully present it or not. You don’t give up on your gifts.
How can discovering my Core Gift help me?
If you are a veteran or getting ready to release from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) or to retire from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and are not sure what you’re going to do after you sign your papers, completing the Core Gift Discovery™ can help you find a new purpose. After serving for many years, you might be having a hard time figuring out what to do next. Discovering your Core Gift can help you reintegrate into civilian society.
If you’re a civilian and you’re feeling dissatisfied at work or struggling to find meaning and purpose in your life, chances are, you are not in alignment with your Core Gift. In fact, you might be working in a job that is in direct opposition to your Core Gift. Remember that your Core Gift is a natural, essential part of you. It is something that flows out of you and that you easily give to others.
How can knowing my Core Gift change my life?
In each area of your life you have four opportunities:
1)Stop doing something because it does not align with your Core Gift.
2)Keep doing what you’re doing, but with stronger motivation and joy because you know you are giving your Core Gift.
3)Add your Core Gift into what you are already doing so it aligns more with your purpose and increases your motivation and joy.
4)Go in a new direction based on your Core Gift.
Is the Core Gift Discovery™ a kind of therapy?
No, it is not therapy. If you are in counselling, it can be a part of your therapy to help you gain clarity in your unique and purposeful path in life.
Is the Core Gift Discovery™ a psychological assessment?
No, it is not a psychological assessment.
How do you combine the Core Gift Discovery™ with Brainspotting?
Brainspotting can allow for a deeper understanding of your Core Gift, where it can hinder or block you, and to “set it” in your body at a deep, neural level.
Discovering our Core Gift often results in certain feelings. Being connected to our challenging life experiences, it can stir up strong emotions. If there is any aspect of your Core Gift that you have difficulty accepting or coming to terms with, I will use Brainspotting to help you process and release those emotions and allow you to embrace your Core Gift with joy and share it with others. Remember that your Core Gift is connected to and strengthened by your life experiences, particularly your challenges.
Some may not feel any difficult emotions when they discover their Core Gift. In fact, many people I have done the Core Gift Discovery™ with feel excited about, and energized by, their Core Gift! Often it confirms what they already knew but don’t have the words to describe. In these situations, they ask me how they can best share their Core Gift with others, either through finding a new job or career or how to add more purpose or meaning into their lives. Brainspotting therapy can help you access your desired outcome.
Do I have to participate in Brainspotting therapy to discover my Core Gift?
No. Brainspotting therapy is only for those who want to take their Core Gift Discovery™ to the next level.
How long does the Core Gift Discovery™ process take?
The Core Gift Discovery™ takes two hours to complete. Please note that it is only offered via videoconferencing.
What does a Core Gift look like?
Here are a couple of examples of Core Gifts:
Example #1: My core gift is helping others be willing to put effort into the world. I do this by helping them to bring a solidness that is beyond words, put all their information and viewpoints together to make the right decision, and by helping them to always arrive at the end.
Example #2: My core gift is helping others to find and become grounded in their own power. I give it by helping them to know what love is, experiencing being in control, taking risks, and experiencing the depth of emotion that music can evoke.
I’m intrigued. Where can I find more information on the Core Gift Discovery™ process?
For more information about the Core Gift Discovery™, please visit here.
How can I book a session to discover my Core Gift?
Contact me today if you’re ready to discover your Core Gift. I am a Core Gift Discovery™ Master Facilitator. I’m passionate about helping anyone who is struggling to find more purpose and meaning in their lives and/or their unique and purposeful path. I combine the Core Gift Discovery™ process with Brainspotting to help you discover your unique and purposeful path in life.
If you are a veteran or a member of the CAF or RCMP and would like to participate in the Core Gift Discovery™ process, this service may be covered by your organization. Please contact me for more information.