Lawyer & Master Strategist
M.S.Sc., NCC
Fluent in English, Spanish, and Mandarin
Myers Briggs: ENFP-T / Personality Type: Diplomat
Enneagram: Type 7 - Enthusiastic Visionary
Clifton Strengths:
Strategic Thinker with Individualistic Empathy and Restorative Action
Emotional Intelligence:
Empathetic and Emotionally Self-aware and Expressive
Manuel Ignacio Tefel was the Nicaraguan legal champion at PricewaterhouseCoopers straight out of law school.
He was further entrusted to head up two lines of services and was being groomed for partnership at PwC. Through it all, he felt an interior drive towards a different kind of awakening – an expansion of consciousness. This search led him to the Far East where the original plan was to study Chinese and a master's degree in strategic studies, but the exposure to the millenary culture allowed him to dive deeper in working with others. Upon his return he directed the Central American expansion for two South American companies (THT & Hicari) in the human development and transformational fields, but there was still something missing. This led to another watershed moment for him. He trained in the practice and art of Ontological Coaching directly under Julio Olalla, founder and president of Newfield Network, recognized worldwide as one of the founders and masters of coaching. This has exponentially honed his success in partnering with others that are seeking to shift their observer and learn new ways to discover and reach their full potential. He works with individuals in a one-on-one basis, as well as corporate groups in three continents, so far. (Bio from the World Happiness Summit)
He has achieved high levels of success according to the commonly held definition, and at the same time he has hit some dark and deep bottoms since a very young age. Everything came to an abrupt and painful stop when he hit yet another wall in early 2009 that forced him to turn his life 180° on a dime. He has been committed to his life-changing process and personal growth which has led him to take a proactive role in others’ development as well. He is at your service in order for him to continue on his path and grow together.
This means three things: If he creates dependency in his clients he fails them, his relationships must be mutually beneficial and he is permanently training himself and perfecting his methods to be the best at supporting you to become your best version.
How We Work
Ontology and the OAR model
Ontology and the OAR model
We take a step back,
and we broaden the scope.
You have probably heard of the following concepts: limiting beliefs, paradigms, and the stories we tell ourselves. The thing is that when we forget (notice the word when and not if) that we have created or adopted a story, then we don't have the story anymore and the story has us. Then “that’s just the way I see things” becomes “the way things are”. By creating awareness of our assessments we can start to question if they are still serving us, rather than good vs bad, and decide what situations we will use them, as well as design the new assessments that will better serve us. This is what we call taking a look at the observer, and it is one of the key ideas we use to take you to your next levels.
If you work on becoming more efficient, but don't take your development/change/growth to the next level, you will become more efficient at getting the same type of results all the while you sincerely think you are trying new things. Remember the definition of insanity? This is where we usually get stuck in a vicious cycle.
It seems we have failed at the 400-500 year experiment to only focus on the rational and only take the bottom line into account.
Sure, humanity’s focus on the rational bottom line has brought many great advances in technology and overall progress, but there is a great deal missing at the same time. It’s hard to balance mass-production, telecommunications and globalization on one side and staggering numbers in suicide and depression on the other. Forgetting about the external world and only taking into account our feelings would probably just flip the same kind of unease on its head.
My offer is to integrate both these models into our lives. Invite the body and emotions back into the conversation. There is much knowledge and wisodm that we are leaving on the table if we listen only to the head. I teach my clients to reconnect with their emotions, listen to them and make peace with them. Somatic work is the fastest and shortest route to significantly changing our current way of doing and being, as well as reaching sustainable change. Learning and practicing the four body dispositions is a powerful way to complement cognitive work and effectively shift the way you show up in the world.