What’s most important for you to know about us

• We believe how you teach is how you do everything.
• We know teaching is a profoundly powerful path for inner and outer transformation.
• We believe teaching is vitally needed to love the world into wholeness.
• We know you can teach in a way that is more fun, more sustainable, and more healing for yourself and  your students.
• We believe that selling a get rich quick dream or hype is very bad ju-ju as is creating a course people will never use. So Teach Now is not that.

What Else Have We Done?

I (Jen) started teaching at 28 when my first book The Woman’s Comfort Book became a word-of-mouth best seller. The success of that book, and my love of writing and learning, lead me to write five more books on well-being with almost a million copies in print in 9 languages. I’ve lead retreats, workshops, and given keynotes  in places as diverse as Omega, the Canadian wilderness, and Saks Fifth Avenue. I’ve spoken to groups of 2 and groups of 3500. (Yes, speaking is teaching. So are books, blog posts, videos and lot of what you do.)

Somewhere in there I went to coaching school, and did a bunch of other trainings with a focus on mediation, yoga, and writing.

I’ve taught for almost 20 years, but I only recently started to call myself a teacher. I now see it as one of the most creative things I do and I use everything from Teach Now to help me love it, and myself, more.

I’ve grossed six figures every year since my early 30′s. I mention that not to promote a dream of big bucks as a teacher but to point out I have learned ways to take care of myself financially, as that is a big part of teaching effectively.

I (Michele) became a professional coach and speaker at age 23.  I’ve led retreats and seminars in Mexico, the United States, and the UK. I’ve taught coaching skills, yoga, meditation, and feminine power, as well as business-building with a spiritual foundation.

I co-created the year-long programs Balance Builder and Success Made Fun, and co-wrote Succeeding Without Side Effects: Burnout-Proof Your Leadership and Life and White Space Time: The Only Productivity Tool You Need.

My executive coaching takes me into Fortune 500 companies to help senior managers and executives integrate masculine and feminine power as they lead.  In their hands, commerce is a force for good.

I adore my husband Kurt and our son Cooper, who’s 3.  In 2011 I’ve begun a scintillating new teaching adventure:  offering private instruction in Orgasmic Meditation, a sensuality practice that has been transformative in her life. Uh huh.  In February 2012, Kurt and I will release our latest collaborative endeavor: another wee Christensen person.

Why Did We Create Teach Now?

We (Jen and Michele) both started teaching in our twenties with no experience, no curriculum,  no pedagogy – in other words, totally by the seat of our very young pants. What ensued was a whole lot of learning that could have been done – shall we say – with a tad more ease and a whole lot more support.

But we were young and stubborn, and Jen had a best-selling book (The Woman’s Comfort Book) and requests flying in to speak and teach, and Michele was, at 23, the protégé of one of the most influential coaches in the world (CoachU founder Thomas Leonard), so we each soldiered on.

Looking back, we realize three things: 

a) neither of us ever thought to learn how to teach, so focused were we on content  (content is important but so is your inner awareness and experience)

b) there wasn’t any help available for non-traditional teachers

c) we were naturally good at teaching (most of the time) but we often didn’t enjoy the process because we didn’t know the inner skills of teaching and therefore frequently zapped our own energy and fun.

We both almost quit a whole bunch of times.  

We want better for you. A whole lot better.

We created Teach Now for the young women we were, and we created Teach Now because of a pivotal conversation with one of our spiritual teachers who was not fully claiming his seat as a teacher in his community. He was hiding from his mandate to teach. We thought, “Holy smokes, this teaching thing is hard! Hard.  HARD!  We want to help!”

And with this course, we totally have.

We welcome your questions.

For technical support with any aspect of The Teachers’ Path or our programs:
Deb Buxton: deb <at> theteacherspath <dot> com

For interviews, guest posts, or media inquiries:
Jennifer Louden: jen <at> theteacherspath <dot> com
Michele Christensen: michele <at> theteacherspath <dot> com

Mailing address:
PO Box 10065
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
USA