A Revolution of Self Agency with Milena Barton.
Milena Barton is a Personal Coach and Systems Thinker of her Center For Vertical (R)evolution
“The privilege of a lifetime is becoming who you are.”
It is her passion, mission, talent, and joy to enable others to become the most fearless, unapologetic, wild, authentic, passionate, creative, joy-, success- & impactful version of themselves. By connecting what ignites your heart with what this world now urgently needs, without burning out.
“Our world is on fire. I work with passionate & rebellious change makers and leaders/leaders-to-be, who are ready and hungry for rapid exponential inner and outer transformation & healing.”
“I love change, adventure, uncertainty, and the unknown. Life to me is an adventure, or rather: when it is an adventure, then it is alive. I struggle when life becomes predictable. I love radical thinking and get fired up by the impossible.”
“I do not believe in taking you from A to B. I am interested in assisting you in changing the alphabet and developing your own rules and grammar.”
I have been so excited and inspired by this important, frank and radical conversation with Milena. She is truly a change maker for our times. In this conversation we covered:
Coming Back to Still Ground and Rooting Within.
PTSD - sense of the brain being stuck - Who is the Observer?
EMDR/ NeuroPower Coaching - understanding the Body and Brains’s automated reactions to rewire the brain and nervous system
Living in the external world v the internal reality
Self-talk and internal movie
Individual stories and patterns that are collective programmes
Limbic Capitalism: the battle within the body, an exploitation of our limbic system. distraction and loosing agency.
Changing architecture of the brains via dopamine so we hand over our agency.
Scrolling creates new pathways in the brain.
AI and sharing of intimate secrets
Neuroplascticity changes of our brains.
The importance of nervous system awareness, self regulation and getting upstream of the brain and taking charge of our own brain.
Beauty of a Crisis and hitting rock bottom - finding solid ground
Accumulation of toxicity and a paradigm of extractive practices edge of ending over consumption.
Access to our own Inner Wisdom. Happiness on the inside - inner worthiness
Katie Byron and the illusory nature of thought.
Neuroscience revolution - we know exactly what needs to happen in the brain to unlearn outdated learning,
Creation of belief systems, Exploitation of negative self-belief and saboteur brain driven chatter.
Establishing a place within and coming back to it.
Pilgrimage - becoming less attached to comfort and easing into surrender.
The Book referred to about about Limbic Capitalism: ‘The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business’ by David T. Courtwright
Milena grew up in Germany and has since lived and travelled internationally. From two life-changing years in Kathmandu/Nepal, a remote wilderness location on the West Coast of Scotland, travelled across Tanzania in landrover and across Southern Europe in an American RV for nine months and Milena is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
“For over two decades art was my oxygen. When, some years ago, my life took a turn -and fell apart- my mind became overwhelmed by events beyond my control. For over one year, I suffered from PTSD. It was in those darkest moments that I suddenly understood on a deep level that I am not my brain and discovered inner peace -and thus liberation- as if beneath my thinking.”
“The discoveries I made during that time about the nature and true cause of suffering (ALL internal processes) and about how to transcend it, followed by the richness of my own so-called 'post-traumatic growth' I today know to be some of my greatest treasures.”
“My rich life experience informs my work as a coach; it allows me to hold the multifaceted experiences and identities of my clients and to hold open the door to their inner peace, freedom, agency, joy and power.”
I have an MA in Art and am a certified Life Coach, EMDR Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, Wingwave Coach, Integrative Change Worker/Life Coach, as well as Hypnotherapist, and am certified in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and trained in Positive Intelligence. I am a member of the International Association For Counsellors and Therapists (IACT).
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