Hi, I'm Michael.
For the past 15 years, I've felt myself stretched between two worlds.
One is business, strategy, organizational storytelling, and leadership coaching. This world operates in linear ways. People have a need, I do my best to meet that need. Clients don't have a strategy, we work together, then they do.
The other is energy, spirit, and vibration. I've been facilitating transformational breathwork, energy medicine, and sound journeys for individuals and groups since 2013. And I've been on my own journey — wilderness fasts, walking on hot coals, shamanic practices. I have no doubt that energy and Spirit are real.
That world is much less linear.
The two sometimes overlap, but even when they have I've struggled to find language that holds the depth of the experience, language that communicates this energetic work is strategic and leadership work, not just a wellbeing practice.
The challenge has never been about what's 'appropriate' in professional settings. The people I work with tend to lean in when these practices are introduced accessibly. They're often relieved. The challenge has been vocabulary.
Vibrational Intelligence offers a bridge.
VQ joins a conversation that's been unfolding for decades. First IQ, for better or worse, sought to measure the intelligence of the mind. In the 1990s, EQ brought the body and emotional awareness into the discussion. VQ invites us to go a layer deeper into the intelligence of the field.
Each one opens conversations the previous one couldn't hold.
VQ gives us language for the ever-present dynamics and energies that exist in the space between us — in every relationship, every decision, every action. The discernment to know what's yours and what isn't, signal from noise, what's wanting to emerge versus what's being imposed. As more of us develop this capacity, the conversations our communities can have expand. What we can build together expands with them.
I see my role here as that of a steward for VQ.
I believe that VQ is itself a consciousness, a thought form that has most likely been tapping a lot of people for a while now. I'm one of the ones who started listening.
Now you are, too.
There's much more information and connection available than we've been taught is possible. We can reclaim our capacity to access it.