Craig Mollins — Integral Coach & Mindfulness Teacher
Gentleness. Dignity. Courage.
Helping people uncover and live from their natural capacity for presence.
Accessing the Presence That’s Never Gone Away
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 stray from what we know to be important and true.
Beneath our struggles is a natural base of presence — the ability to meet life experiences consciously, with clarity, strength and care. 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 from being present
The world today presents ever-increasing numbers of options and distractions, and as life gets faster, living with presence feels nearly impossible. But since presence is part of our foundation, it’s much more accessible than our distracted mind can imagine.
Old negative patterns
We all struggle with harmful habits that are difficult to change. The momentum of past conditioning combines with the ongoing difficulty of life to keep our habitual loops cycling. However as we come to know our own goodness again, the balance starts to shift.
Background of fear
The changing nature of life is frightening for most of us. And after all, nobody wants to think about mortality. Yet when we get honest with the facts of life, they no longer oppress us. By living with reality we remember to meet each moment with deep appreciation, and to bring our best self forward into all we do.
Presence is foundational. We can’t get more of it, we can’t have less of it, we can’t improve on it. We simply need to uncover the presence that’s that’s already here, and make living from it a priority. When we meet life with presence then clarity increases, our relationships improve, and we have a deeper sense of meaning and trust in life.
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 ourself, 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
Our conversations emerge from a ground of trust and genuine partnership in service of your learning and goals.
Powerful Conversation+Genuine Self-Reflection+Practical Tools for Presence
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
Coaching helps you make a journey into your very own self. You re-gain access to your power bank of strength, confidence, and inspiration, and other resources you may have lost touch with. At the same time you gain clarity into how you are showing up, both the ways that are working and those that aren’t. This honest clarity with yourself helps you live from a more genuine foundation.
Practical Tools for Presence
Based on what you’re seeking and what we discover together in the coaching sessions, we develop presence practices that meet you exactly where you need support. These practices are grounded in your lived experience, and in the science and art of what actually works. As your practice develops we refine as needed.
Part of the journey of recovering presense is learning to be present with a broader and deeper scope of our experience. This includes strengths we may have lost touch with, and also buried emotional pains that we suppressed because we didn’t have the resources to process them.
As we regain access to natural presence, we reclaim our abilities to be more fully embodied with more of who we are.
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 study and 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 1st session it will become clear within the first 2-3 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.