Mark Hoelter, M Div, CPCC
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Prime of Life Transitions Coach, Unitarian Universalist Community Minister |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | I coach people through life transitions, and I specialize in prime-of-life transitions: + making a midlife career change, + midlife relationship changes (divorce, remarriage, or marriage renewal), + laying the groundwork for a positive retirement, + strategizing a final legacy effort before retirement, structuring a creative retirement, launching a positive retirement. These transitions often leave us wondering, "Who am I now? Who do I want to be? Who are my friends? How do I spend my days? What's my life purpose now? Is there a part of me that's never been expressed? How do I live into that?" I help you find and refine your answers to those questions, tap into strengths you know you have and strengths you haven't yet realized, and be your own best, creative resource. This is not a time for dread. It's a time of excitement, and a time when people can shift from aging to sageing. The world needs that from you and me both. |
| Interests | Coaching (of course), reading heavy stuff, walking 4 miles, poetry, the "dark box" of theater, indie movies, writing, semi-public speaking, dialogue a' la Bohm, concerts from classical to blue-grass, ballroom dancing, neuro-theology, impressionism and expressionism, drawing, museum jaunts, travel, process philosophy, integral philosopy, studies in creativity |
| Favorite Movies | To Kill a Mockingbird, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, Cabaret, Indie films through Landmark Theaters |
| Favorite Music | Anything Bach, Classical Jazz, Mahler's 2nd (Resurrection), Beethoven's 9th, Diana Krall, the Morelenbaums, Pat Metheney, Yo-yo Ma, Tibetan chants, Greek/Russian Choirs, Leonard Cohen, most Beatles, most Dylan |
| Favorite Books | These authors & books have shaped me: Paul Tillich (a dozen), "Being and Time" (Heidegger), "Phenomenon of Man" (Teilhard), several by and about Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alan Watts, Fritz Perls, Thich Nhat Hanh, "My Experiments with Truth" (Gandhi), "How Does a Poem Mean" (Ciardi), "Buddhism with an Attitude (Wallace), Daisetz Susuki and Shunryu Suzuki on Buddhism, "Dynamic Judaism" (Mordecai Kaplan), Alfred North Whitehead |