Craig Mollins — Integral Coach & Mindfulness Teacher
Inhabit Your Life with Presence, Clarity,
and Centred Strength
Inner resources for the complexities of success
Accessing the Resources That Are Always Available
Outward success doesn’t guarantee inner ease. Life’s conditioning and difficulties can obscure our essential self, the way clouds hide the sun. When that happens, we lose our compass and we’re more likely to get pulled away from what we know to be important and true.
Below the level of our struggles is a natural base of wisdom and presence — the ability to meet life experiences consciously. Even though we lose touch with it, this capacity never abandons us, even for an instant. Coming back home is a matter of recognition and practice.
Are any of these familiar?
Distraction and mental restlessness
The world today presents ever-increasing numbers of options and distractions. As life accelerates, remaining present to our center feels nearly impossible. Yet this centered strength is our underlying nature, and is far more accessible than an overstimulated mind assumes.
Old repeating patterns
We all struggle with harmful habits that are difficult to change. The momentum of past conditioning combines with the ongoing challenges of life to keep our habitual loops cycling. However, as we begin to embody our inner strengths again, the balance starts to shift.
Overwhelm and anxiety
Intrinsic wholeness
Many of us feel broken, or that something is missing. My life’s journey has brought me to a different perspective. I have a deep conviction that nothing in us is broken, and nothing is missing. What is true, though, is that parts of us have become buried, and so we don’t feel like ourselves, we don’t feel whole.
The path back to wholeness then is to uncover the wealth of goodness that we are. As we do, our natural wisdom and strengths come forward and begin to guide our lives.
Craig is a natural. His coaching encouraged my process in such a way that some of my biggest fears went from unconquerable, to non-existent.
Analuz Sanchez
Fashion Designer — New York City
Meet Craig
This work is personal for me.
After a near-drowning incident as a young boy I became very tense and hyperactive. Our family physician didn’t have any suggestions so I decided to figure it out on my own. I would come home after school and lie on my back for some deep breathing to calm the storm in my mind and body. Those sessions were my first steps on a lifelong journey of learning and personal growth.
At 18 I became a student of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, which has been my heart path ever since. In the beginning there was so much chaos in my body and mind that sitting was tremendously difficult. But I persevered, and gradually things began to settle. Now as a student of over 45 years I maintain a daily meditation practice, engage in ongoing study, and attend retreats on a regular basis.
Since 1995 I’ve practiced Structural Integration, helping people with physical and energetic-emotional balance. This work, along with coaching training, continues to take me into ongoing studies in body, mind, heart, and spirit.
I know what it is to live at a distance from yourself — and I know what it’s like to come home. That knowing is what I bring into every session.
How I work
My coaching formula
Powerful Conversation+Genuine Self-Reflection+Life Integration
Powerful Conversation
My approach is to honour your personhood and truth, to insist that you are worthy, and to challenge you when I think you’re not being honest with yourself. I trust that if given the opportunity to be genuine, you will find the best way forward. This style is the most effective I know of, because when the wisdom comes from you rather than suggestions from me, it resonates at a deeper level. And it lasts.
Genuine Self-Reflection
Life Integration
Some of the presence and insight you’ve uncovered during the coaching sessions will automatically translate to your life. But to more fully integrate the learning, the coaching process helps you engage directly with the things you want to change. We help you bring more presence and therefore more agency and effectiveness to the short- and long-term challenges and goals you may be working with.
- Meet the pressures of success with centred strength
- Replace overwhelm with space and care
- Bring deeper meaning to life
- Replace self-doubt with self-confidence
- Reconnect with who you are beneath life’s roles
- Be more honest and authentic in relationships
Coaching sessions with Craig helped me be more genuine with myself.
Donald Eckler
Mindfulness Educator and Retired School Teacher
Toronto, Canada
Formal training
Traditions and teachers
My educational journey has taken me across a wide range of approaches. Here are some of the highlights.
Coaching
- Integral Coaching Canada (Certified Coach)
- Wellness Inventory (Certified Wellness Coach)
- Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Maté year-long professional training)
- Conflict Resolution
- Peace Circle Keeper
- MIT U-lab
Mindfulness & meditation
- Buddhist Meditation Practitioner (45+ years)
- Buddhist Meditation Teacher (25+ years)
- Engaged Mindfulness Institute Certified Secular Mindfulness Teacher
- David Treleaven Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Body-mind-spirit
- Rolf Structural Integration Practitioner (31 years)
- Yoga (34+ years including one month in India)
- Zen Archery / Kyudo (12 years with Kanjuro Shibata Sensei)
- Tai Chi and Qigong – combined 30 years practice
Sessions
Working together
There are two ways to work with me. Which is better depends on your circumstances and personal style. If you don’t know at the outset of the first session, it will become clear within the first 2 or 3 sessions.
Coaching program
A fixed duration and number of sessions. More focused and intense.
Session by session
Coaching as needed, one session at a time. More spacious.
Rather than self-improvement,
this is a homecoming.
Reach out to schedule a complimentary 30-minute call.