Conscious solutions for the challenges of people in business.

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Be more conscious... be more successful.

When we decide to take a more conscious approach to the challenges we face in the workplace or at home... solutions and possibilities open up to us that we may have not seen before.

Are you, your team or the people around you feeling frustrated with your relationships or what seems like a lack of leadership in the workplace or at home?

Feeling frustrated with conflict in relationships? Conflict in the workplace can seriously erode productivity or in a family relationshp it can lead to a build up of damaging resentment. Would you find it useful to have a simple and very effective way of communicating with the people that are important in your workplace or your life?

Feeling a sense that you could do better with leadership of others or yourself? Your team members are not as motivated or committed as you are? You are anxious about stepping into the leader that you know you can be? Or you would like to be more effective in the way you are leading your own life?

Feeling a sense of overwhelm with the pressures of life? Are business or personal pressures becoming too great for you and eroding your effectiveness? Life is moving at such a pace we all need strategies to help deal with the sense of overwhelm and stress that comes with trying to keep up.

These issues may be in the context of your business, your workplace, in your family relationships or personal situation.

My speciality is to show you how you can easily bring a conscious perspective to the issues and challenges you face and the understanding, the methodology and the processes I use, offer positive, helpful solutions to all of them.

My goal is to hold the space for you and allow you to connect with what is true for you, to open up your own powerful strategies that serve you and support you. The assumption that I make is that you already have everything to need to resolve these issues. All I do is invite you to take a more conscious direction in your search for a solution.

Sitting quietly with a supportive and empathic listener can be a transformative experience, and can create very positive outcomes virtually immediately. And sometimes it can take some patience to dissolve the long held patterns that hold us back from being the best we can be.

Hi. I'm Alistair McKinnon, owner of Conscious Directions.

I help people and businesses who are frustrated with their relationships, effectiveness and/or leadership and are looking for some simple solutions.

I know this work can make a difference in your business and/or your life. But don't just take my word for it. Check out the testimonials page. This is an intensely practical approach that can achieve amazing results.

There is no downside to doing this work. Whatever work you do to meet the challenges of life in this way, will reward you.

Many people report that apart from enabling a greater effectiveness and enjoyment of life, it re-opens up their creativity, and passion. Business owners report that business performance improves with a direct impact on their bottom line.

Interested?

To learn more about who we work with, or how we work with people and businesses, or to contact us immediately, click on the links directly below.

Who I work with
Who I work with? People looking for more clarity around the challenges they are facing

How I work
how I work with businesses and individuals

Services to clients
Services include group programs, one on one coaching and mediation.

Testimonials
Testimonials written by clients indicate what you might expect

Contact us
Contact us to learn more about how we can help with communication and mediation solutions

Who am I?
Who am I? Once a professional accountant and now a coach, facilitator and counsellor.

Conscious direction
To turn in a conscious direction is to bring a deeper awareness to the decisions we make

The Conscious Blog
The Conscious Blog will keep you up to date with changes to the ConsciousDirections.com website. Subscribe here.

Management of change
The management of change in our lives can be difficult and painful. Here are some solutions...

Conflict resolution
Conflict resolution is a critical process to ensure relationships stay productive

Clear communication
Clear communication makes a profound difference to relationships but often we don't do it well

The power of presence
The power of Presence is available to everyone, if only we can relax and open up to it.

True leadership
True Leadership is a rare commodity but is accessible to everyone

Language of life
A progam called "Language of Life" is an offering to support you in enriching your life and your relationships.

Essential Relating
Essential Relating is a program to inspire, encourage and develop empowering relationships

Team Cohesion
How do you maintain team cohesion when things get tough?

Testimonials

"What I have learned about leadership has greatly benefited our total business approach and directly assisted in improving our business results.

Your approach to this challenging task has been very refreshing and direct and your ability to assist me in raising the level of my management skill has been very rewarding". (Senior partner of CPA firm)

"I enjoyed and felt completely comfortable in your facilitation. I wanted to try Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with you because I know you have a complete commitment to truth and would not try to push ideas or views onto anyone. I also found that you were completely confident and fluent in the application of NVC and I found your input really valuable in the exercises we did." (Legal secretary)