As a facilitator, David is very adept at dancing with your shadows and opening the path for you to find your own way out of the confusion, all the while holding your agenda for what you want to achieve. David brings huge compassion for your struggles and whatever you are experiencing; he passionately stands in the fire with you so that you get what you came for. I am honored to call this man colleague and friend.
Archives: Testimonials
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Consummate Skill
David brings consummate skill to his coaching, including insight that comes from years of experience and training. He has the level of understanding that is required to really “get” what’s going on for the client and guide him/her to a place of understanding and healing. David gracefully and lovingly facilitates people to find their way out of their own confusion about why they are stuck or struggling, so that they get what they said they wanted to achieve. David’s style melds the challenging elements—such as accountability and integrity with the client’s stated values—with huge compassion for the client’s struggle and current experience of reality. David will unhesitatingly stand in the fire with you so that you can get what you came for.
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A Loyal Friend and Teacher
Over the years, David has proven to be a loyal friend and teacher. I know him to be a compassionate, loving man who brings creativity and authenticity to his daily interactions. He is fiercely committed to his own personal growth, as well as to the raising of consciousness of men and women in the world. David has boundless energy and enthusiasm for this work. More importantly, he walks the talk. He understands that life is more about the journey than the destination. As David travels along his path, he continues to learn and grow. He challenges me and others to do the same.
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Way Better than Therapy!
David is highly skilled in the process of assisting (simultaneously guiding and following) a client to step into his/her past, where the wounds of the past are limiting them in the present. He does not need to know in advance what or where the issue is, because he uses questions and invitations to help the person doing the work to explore that in real time. At each turn, David asks questions, and his next question is based on the previous answer—it is like a guided meditation, only better because the guide is seeing the road with me, and as I discover new data, we jointly decide where to go next. It truly is a journey—into my own self and my own past—to safely find where the patterns of today originated, and then decide what I want to do about them once they are found. Way better than therapy!
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Passion for Personal Healing
David is a skilled, heartful, fearless facilitator of self-discovery and healing. I have personally witnessed his passion for personal healing and support of others. Even as he has manifested great skill, he consistently seeks opportunities to deepen his understanding and sharpen his abilities. Keenly aware that the potential for healing work grows with the safety of the healing circle, David brings a patience and uncompromising support for each participant, encouraging the formation of a supportive and reverent healing space. Unhurried and fiercely compassionate, David has led me and hundreds of others through fears and confusion, and into relief, understanding, and delight that we might never have found on our own.
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A Rare Gem
David is a rare gem… a truly gifted AND compassionate facilitator and teacher, with a passion for helping others to become their most authentic and empowered selves. I have stood by and watched David time and time again, when he has skillfully and intuitively helped others, including myself, within just a few minutes, navigate the deepest waters of the issues that are blocking us from living our truth and our highest nature. It is like magic watching him work, as he gives himself totally to the experience of helping another find the truth and power within themselves. It is worthy of anyone to aspire to have the courage, insight and intuitive wisdom that David seems to effortlessly manifest, in encouraging others to become truly whole and magnificent. I have always felt I was in safe and skillful hands, even as a woman, when going to the painful places in my soul with David as my guide, and have always come out the other side feeling more empowered and more whole.
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Careful Guidance
Each time I work with David, his questioning leads me to the heart of my struggle. With careful guidance, he walks with me into the area of pain, helps me see it with clear, fresh eyes, and guides me out the other side where the picture of my radiant self is luminous and welcoming. The godliness and beauty of my essential self is there for me to see and embrace, even if only for a moment. Each experience of this perfect self offers me the courage, insight, and vulnerability to take the next step on my journey. I honor and respect David’s skills as a facilitator.
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Modeling Authenticity
David has helped me increase my self-awareness and self-acceptance. With his help I’ve gained greater access to my own power and feelings, and this has led to a much better relationship with my wife. David models authenticity, strength and vulnerability. He brings important challenges with love, insight, and compassion, and at the same time, he encourages me to find the answers from within myself.
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Very Loving Coach
David is a very loving coach who always makes it safe enough for me to go as deeply as I need to go. He has helped me to get in touch with deep shadows that have held me back in a lot of ways in my life, and what I learned was that these shadows were actually trying to protect me and keep me safe. Thanks to the work I’ve done with David, these shadows have definitely released their grip on me, and I now find myself much more able to speak and live my truth on a day-to-day basis.
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Exceptional Gift
David McLeod has wonderful facilitation skills in which he has mastered a dance with the participants. When David has facilitated my own work, he was always able to join with me in the process, giving me support and coming from a neutral stance to allow my own self-discovery. During my deep process work, David has shown an exceptional gift with respect to timing: he always seems to know how to ask the right questions at just the right time to help me discover my deeper truth. David has also given me the wonderful gift of seeing how my past stories and labels have shaped who I have become today and how I can choose to change the way I view myself going forward. And this really helps me to realize my own magnificence and no longer be at the mercy of the negative images of my past stories. As a result of this deep process work, I have been able to join with my significant other in sharing my deeper truth, my insecurities, my fears and how the labels from the past have impacted me. And through this communication and sharing, my relationship has moved to a deeper level and my significant other is able to see and appreciate all of me (and vice versa). Thank you, David, for helping me to show up in the world as a loving, authentic, powerful woman!