| "Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. " Marianne Williamson | ||
Individual Workshops & Coaching Programs
Shared Paths programs are multi-dimensional educational programs, addressing the mind, body and spirit. They teach life skills that allow people to become happier and take better care of themselves. These educational programs can be used for self-help, personal growth, stress management, increased creativity and productivity, and living a healthier, happier life.
Who benefits most from SHARED PATHS Programs?
People who say "YES" to any of the following statements:
- I want to identify and live my life mission;
- I feel enjoyment has vanished from my everyday life;
- I have a health condition that is worsened by stress;
- I have difficulty relaxing and maintaining balance;
- I feel stuck in my job, relationship or other situation;
- I have not succeeded with previous healthy lifestyle efforts,
and want to do it smarter this time; - I want to supplement my current course of health care
with unique educational programs and spiritual approaches.
Dr. Koenig is available for the following coaching programs and personalized workshops:
- Compass Coaching™ learn more
Compass Coaching™ is a 10 session program focused on career re-design and professional development. It utilizes many of the same concepts and activities as the True North ™ program, concentrating on work life and career goals, including values clarification activities, Myers Briggs personality type, creative imagery, stress management techniques, and goal setting exercises. - The Secret Tool Chest ™ learn more
The Secret Tool Chest ™ is a day-long workshop designed to help people leverage the Law of Attraction to create positive, uplifting outcomes in their lives. People raised in dysfunctional homes sometimes forget what joy and gratitude feels like, and may have automatic thoughts that argue back with their conscious efforts to be genuinely grateful for what they have. These tools can help you shift into a new, positive reality by helping you stay focused on what you want to attract instead of what you want to avoid or leave behind.
| "There appears to be a positive correlation between an atmosphere of 'human playfulness' in the workplace and the improvement of 'innovative activity and creativity'." "Observer Business Section", 18 April 1999 | ||
- Relaxation learn more
- Relax & Unwind ™
This private workshop helps people effectively identify key stressors in their lives, and practice new skills to effectively magage them. The tools used in Relax & Unwind can help you shift into a healthy way of moving through the world, and include cognitive restructuring, guided imagery and activites from Dr. Koenig's Ice Cream for the Soul book.

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Medicate or Meditate?™
Does the word "meditation" elicit images of sitting crunched like a pretzel on a huge pillow, the smell of burning incense, twanging Asian music and chanting strange syllables? Relax -- there are countless ways to "meditate". According to Harvard Medical School's Mind-Body Medicine Program, eliciting the relaxation response (commonly referred to as "meditation") can be as powerful as many medications on the market. Learn about the physiology of relaxation, and the many different ways to harness your body's own biochemistry. - Guided Imagery
Creative Visualization (guided imagery) is a structured form of meditation. Rather than focusing on a single word, phrase or sound, the participant focuses on the words of the instructor and the soft, relaxing background music.
- Relax & Unwind ™
- Myers Briggs Personality Type learn more
- Spell Check™: Uncovering Your "Best Fit" Type
According to the MBTI© training handbook, the MBTI© can mistype up to 50% of people who take it.1 If you are one of the many people who have taken the MBTI© in a group setting, via the Internet, or using a short questionnaire in a book, consider signing up for this program.
When people take the MBTI© in a group setting, especially a workplace setting, they often don't have access to the one-on-one counseling process that is almost always required to separate learned or acquired behavior from inborn, natural behavior. Invest some time in yourself and your employees to check the spelling of your Myers Briggs "word". - Type-ing Your Way to Better Health ™
Learn how to apply Myers Briggs personality type to maintaining or improving your health. This three hour program teaches you how to create a healthier lifestyle based on the needs of your specific personality type. - Type-ing Your Way to a Healthier Weight ™
This is a three hour program focusing on type-specific solutions for fitness, diet and stress management to enhance your weight reduction efforts. - Type-ing Your Way to Fitness ™
Most health educators and personal trainers are "SJ", and take an "SJ" approach to teaching people fitness strategies. This program introduces flexible, creative ways to become more physically fit, in addition to the tried and true "SJ" approaches. - Type-ing at Home ™ learn more
A variety of programs to help you create and keep peace within your home, including creating an indoor and outdoor sanctuary. - Type-ing Your Way Through Stress ™
Each Myers Briggs personality type responds uniquely and predictably to life's stressors. Learn how your type typically responds to stress, and design type-specific solutions to manage your stress.

- Spell Check™: Uncovering Your "Best Fit" Type
- Cognitive Restructuring learn more
- Changing Your Mind
Thought preceeds action and emotions. Until you first learn how to change your mind, you won't make any lasting changes in how you move through the world. Basically, you have to think differently in order to act differently. Most of our thoughts are automatic, and many are subconscious. Learn how to change your automatic thoughts to move in healthier new directions. - Everyday Joy™
Are you someone who typically sees what's wrong with yourself, your life or other people, rather than what's right? Joy is an everyday choice, and this program will teach you techniques to become more optimistic, and more easily see and focus on the joy that is present in each and every day.
In the words of the M. Scott Peck, "Life is difficult." Living with chronic or life-threatening disease, or growing up in a dysfunctional home, can sometimes create unconscious automatic thoughts that result in our going through life chronically tired and sad, as if we have blinders on to the good things that happen each and every day. Some of us our natural optimists, and others of us have to learn how to be optimistic. This program centers on Dr. Martin Seligman's "learned optimism" and resiliency training concepts, and is augmented by guided imagery, playful meditation exercises, journaling, and cognitive restructuring. Learn how to turn your "I can't" into "I can!
- Changing Your Mind
- Journaling learn more
- The Write Way to Health & Wellness ™
Medical researchers have documented the physiologic link between writing about events that have strong emotional value to us and our immune system function, academic and work performance3. Participate in this program to learn the difference between keeping a diary and writing in a way that can improve health. Pennebaker is the leading researcher on using writing as a way to improve your health, school and work performance and. Together with endocrinology researchers at Ohio State University College of Medicine, he has documented positive physiologic changes in immune system function, including increased T cells, through specific types of journaling. In this program you will learn how to maximize the health benefits of writing. - The Write Way to Refresh Your Spirit ™
Journaling can be used to bring you in closer connection with your spirit and higher power. This half-day program introduces the learner to several different methods of spiritual journaling.
- The Write Way to Health & Wellness ™
- True North™ learn more
True North™ is a week-long one-on-one intensive designed for people who feel stuck in their current life circumstances. The program combines guided imagery, hands-on intuitive sessions, automatic and structured writing, mild to moderate physical exercise (walking, hiking, lap swimming, exercise bicycle, or jogging), Myers Briggs© personality type "best fit" determination, and selected activities from Dr. Koenig's book "Ice Cream for the Soul".
Shared Paths Programs can also be designed to encompass several different techniques, and center around a specific concern such as increasing creativity or staying in recovery from addiction. In addition, she is available for individual guidance and intuitive sessions in Denver. Contact her (see below) for more information.
Dr. Koenig is located in Denver, Colorado. Coaching / Private Workshop fee is $95 / hour and must be prepaid monthly (coaching) or paid on the day of services (private workshops). Please contact her availability.
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