About Irene Kendig, M.A.

Irene honed her presentation and group facilitation skills as senior corporate trainer for an international management-consulting firm. Over the span of a decade, Irene delivered customer satisfaction, team-building, and problem-solving programs to a vast array of companies, including AAA, Avis, American Express, Lufthansa, Marriott, Oracle, and Tumi—with satisfaction ratings consistently over ninety-five percent. Irene also provided extensive coaching to middle managers in Corporate America though Train the Trainer Programs, designed to provide in-house trainers with outstanding presentation skills.  

As a certified instructor for Parent Effectiveness Training (PET), Irene has also taught communication and conflict resolution courses to parents in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, in both English and Spanish.

Irene’s soul-centered coaching begins with the premise that we don’t have souls; we are souls. We are souls who have bodies. We are divine and eternal souls having a temporary human experience, with the ability to live moment-by-moment from a place of unconditional love, joy, peace and compassion, which is our true essence. She facilitates clients from around the world in becoming aware of themselves as divine souls, not as a theory, but as a moment-by-moment reality. The result: the ability to live heaven on earth now.

Dedicated to living and sharing the gifts of Spiritual Psychology, Irene is part of a team of graduate volunteers from the University of Santa Monica who have been bringing these principles and experiential practices to women inmates at one of the largest maximum-security women’s prisons in the world, Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW). The program has been nominated for a national award that recognizes excellence in prison reform programs. “Freedom to Choose,” a moving, 22-minute documentary that conveys the power of this work, was a winner in the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. You can watch the film here.

One of Irene's favorite quotes comes from Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate in his best-selling book, Man's Search for Meaning, in which he describes how he found meaning and a reason for living in the most challenging of circumstances: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

She is a contributing writer for www.opentohope.com, and www.more.com.

The proud mother of two adult sons, David and Josh, Irene currently resides in northern Virginia with her husband Charles and their dog Scooter.

Victor Frankl quote reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston, From Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl © 1959, 1962, 1984, 1992 by Viktor E. Frankl

I was talking with a man recently who’d been caring for his dying father. "I left him to take care of some personal business,” he said. "I knew I shouldn’t have gone because something inside told me not to go. But I didn’t listen. My father died while I was gone."

Regret. The word originates from Old French, regreter, ‘bewail (the dead),' feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, esp. a loss or missed opportunity) "If only I’d been a been...
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