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Lunning Coaching & Consulting

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About The Coach:

Scarlett Lunning, LMSW

Communication and Relationship Coach, Scarlett Lunning, brings over twenty-five years of experience in the area of assisting people in communicating in the face of differences and conflict to develop healthy relationships with themselves, within families, within businesses, and cross culturally. As a mediator, facilitator, and communication coach, LCC employs the understanding of the Three Principles of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness to increase the client’s understanding of themselves as the “Thinkers,” thereby unlocking their freedom to respond to life as free agents.

Premarital Coaching is one of Scarlett's favorite coaching opportunities! Since 1998, when serving as a counselor at Lutheran Services of Iowa, she has facilitated premarital workshops and individual sessions for through a program called, Making the Covenant.

She is often consulted to intervene in workplace conflicts, and has been very successful in assisting managers and teams in building creative and positive work environments. Scarlett has also worked with families through the Family Conferencing Model and she has chaired the Youth Justice Initiative (YJI) Advisory Group for the past 15 years. She assists families in shifting patterns of behavior to new ways of interacting/thinking so they may find peaceful solutions to their conflicts.

As the trainer for the "Let's Talk" school mediation program, she continues to work with AMOS (A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy) training adult and peer mediators for the Des Moines Middle Schools. She also serves as the Chair of the Youth Justice Initiative (YJI) Advisory Group. YJI is an award-winning juvenile justice program with the West Des Moines Police Department. YJI is a restorative justice program that is based on the Three Principles.

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Who benefits?

Why do businesses, organizations, marriages, families and friendships get stuck?

We are all diverse in our way of looking at life. Everyone comes from separate realities.

On the positive side, this mix of ideas and desires is key in creating cutting edge results in business and energizing personal relationships.

On the negative side, separate realities can create environments of conflict, failure, and misery.

On the hopeful side, Lunning Coaching and Consulting (LCC), recognizes that though we see through different lenses we are all the same in how we create our lives and belief systems. Through understanding the Three Principles* of Mind (personal power), Thought (human capacity to create thoughts), and Consciousness (human gift of “feeling” thoughts), we are freed to communicate, navigate life more smoothly, and lift ourselves out of limiting beliefs

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The Issues Inviting LCC Involvement

Isn’t it just common sense that businesses/organizations, marriages, families, any family, business, organization, or community functions more effectively when the people involved are at peace with one another? What keeps us from all getting along?

Basically, most of us avoid conflict at all costs:

Businesses/organizations ignore the low mood conversations in the parking lots and around the water coolers, thinking staff/members will just bounce back into productivity. There is a sense that everyone will just get over it. After all, don’t we have work to do – what’s with all this sniveling and grouching?
We seem to be comfortable, when a situation is sticky, to make the choice to wait for peace to magically appear.
In personal relationships, such as marriages, families, and friendships many believe that the marriage or friendship conflict will magically move back to a happy state, even though we we are right and the other person is wrong.