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Captain Compass Ship (CCS) is an emerging global wellness community rooted in fundamental human equality, natural intelligence, and prosocial, holistic values. We envision a world where respectful human connection, personal accountability, and human compassion result in improved personal and collective wellbeing.

Our coaching partnerships focus on developing clients’ awareness of their own wisdom centers* to meet their needs, honor their life, claim their desires, grow and heal, and operationalize their dreams. CCS conversations are respectful, direct, and honest. The success of the coaching engagement depends upon trust, accountability, client commitment and openness to the process, timing, and coach-client fit.

*body, mind, senses, dreams, symbols, intuition, meaning, experience, knowledge, imagination, etc.

The CCS business model is rooted in realism, organic growth, and sustainability. We strive for broad client accessibility via diverse product pathways and pricing structures. As an organization, we orient to wellbeing and work-life balance. We aim to use solar and hybrid power, public transit, and purchase carbon-offsets for air travel when feasible. We are a human-run business and operate on human time frames including time off for rest, illness, personal and family needs, and holidays.

CCS Founder, Shannon M. Collier, has 25+ years of professional experience across the ecological, health, wellness, personal growth, end-of-life, and spiritual care communities. She has supported people across the life span: from birth, through the growth and transformation that occur in every season, and in crisis, death, and grief. She unites shared principles from these and other diverse fields of study in her coaching style, and celebrates her clients’ self-expertise, special interests, and personal cultures. She holds a Master of Science in Patient Counseling, Master of Arts in Spiritual Care, is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and Certified Fellow in the American Academy of Grief Counseling.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

✦  Anticipatory Grief
✦  Body Composition Balancing
✦  Boundary Setting
✦  Career Change and Retirement
✦  Communication
✦  Compassion
✦  Death and Dying
✦  Death Notification
✦  Death with Dignity
✦  Endurance Event Training
✦  Equality Awareness
✦  Estrangement
✦  Fitness Goals
✦  Grief Processing
✦  Health Marker Improvement
✦  Hospice Care
✦  Identity Clarification & Changes
✦  Life Transitions

✦  Mental Health

✦  Mindfulness Practices
✦  Mindset Ownership
✦  Muscle Gain
✦  Near-Death Experiences
✦  Needs Identification
✦  Non-Death Losses
✦  Institutional Obstacles & Strengths
✦  Palliative Care
✦  Personal Growth & Development
✦  Philosophical Exploration & Practices
✦  Positive Self-Talk
✦  Productive Conflict
✦  Spiritual Exploration & Practices
✦  Spiritually Transformative Experiences
✦  Stress Awareness & Reduction
✦  Sudden Loss
✦  Values Clarification & Alignment

✦  Anticipatory Grief
✦  Body Composition Balancing
✦  Boundary Setting
✦  Career Change and Retirement
✦  Communication
✦  Compassion
✦  Death and Dying
✦  Death with Dignity
✦  Endurance Event Training
✦  Equality Awareness
✦  Estrangement
✦  Fitness Goals
✦  Grief Processing
✦  Health Marker Improvement
✦  Identity Clarification & Changes
✦  Life Transitions

✦  Mindfulness Practices
✦  Mindset Ownership
✦  Muscle Gain
✦  Near-Death Experiences
✦  Needs Identification
✦  Non-Death Losses
✦  Institutional Obstacles & Strengths
✦  Personal Growth & Development
✦  Philosophical Exploration & Practices
✦  Positive Self-Talk
✦  Spiritual Exploration & Practices
✦  Spiritually Transformative Experiences
✦  Stress Awareness & Reduction
✦  Sudden Loss
✦  Values Clarification & Alignment

COACHING COMMITMENT

  • Honor each person as an individual with a wholly unique inner and outer life.
  • Maintain curiosity about client experiences.
  • Provide full presence during sessions.
  • Refer promptly in the event referrals are appropriate.
  • Be open to feedback on coaching and business practices and policies.

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FOUNDER MINDSET

  • All humans are imperfect and equal in innate, inherent value.
  • Everyone lives with unique gifts and challenges.
  • Ease and effort, security and insecurity, come with being alive.
  • Growth and change are natural and developmental. No change, no growth.

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COACHING COMMITMENT

  • Honor each person as an individual with a wholly unique inner and outer life.
  • Maintain curiosity about client experiences.
  • Provide full presence during sessions.
  • Refer promptly in the event referrals are appropriate.
  • Be open to feedback on coaching and business practices and policies.
  • Engage in self-care, boundary management, needs and desires fulfillment, and maintain health and wellness principles of balance, moderation, accountability, and compassion.
  • Partake in continuing education opportunities and events for personal and professional growth
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FOUNDER MINDSET

  • All humans are imperfect and equal in innate, inherent value
  • Everyone lives with unique gifts and challenges.
  • Ease and effort, security and insecurity, come with being alive.
  • Growth and change are natural and developmental. No change, no growth.
  • Human are endowed with diverse, innate wisdom centers that enable us to translate sensation and experience to knowledge, awareness and growth.
  • Self-reflection and self-honesty aid our growth.
  • Emotions, thoughts, feelings are information from us, to us, through us.
  • Perception and response are unique to a person's holistic circumstances.
  • Our identity, meaning, and purpose impact how we see ourselves and others.
  • Our natural world provides all we need to live and thrive on this planet.
  • Nature provides insight and wisdom for human health and wellbeing via its patterns, gifts, and lessons.
  • Humans seek transcendence via love, art, music, food, prayer, meditation, movement, solitude, ecstasy, nature, science, asceticism, pleasure, and pain.
  • Humans experience descendance via love, joy, pain, pleasure, birth, death, betrayal, isolation, aging, failure, challenge, and success.
  • Most of lived experience is unseen, non-material, and intangible.
  • When people and groups feel secure, they extend respect and care to themselves and others.
  • When people and groups feel insecure, they tend to harm and disrespect themselves and others.
  • Life exists on a spectrum that connects to wholeness. Viewed in snapshots, the apparent pieces of the whole often appear as paradoxes.
  • Even when we feel alone, we are not.
  • Solitude can be a gift and silence can be soothing.
  • Every moment and every day is a new opportunity learn, grow, and realign.
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