Welcome

An Appropriate Response, founded by Pamela Weiss, is dedicated to helping people address the fundamental questions in our lives:

• What does it mean to be fully alive?
• What am I called to do with my life?
• Where can I find meaning in a fast-paced world?
• How can I cultivate compassion, equanimity and delight?
• What does it take to truly help?
• What is my unique contribution?
• Instead of drifting through life on autopilot, how can I cultivate an appropriate response to the challenges and curveballs in life?

Drawing on the depth and richness of Buddhist teachings and the efficacy and skill of Integral Coaching, An Appropriate Response focuses on the cultivation of the Bodhisattva spirit. A Bodhisattva is a person devoted to alleviating suffering - our own, others' and the world's. Walking the Bodhisattva Path means maturing our ability to respond with skill and kindness to the nitty-gritty of everyday life.

Bodhisattvas know that no one can wake up and be free until all of us wake up and are free; that joining hands to walk together, we become the healing we seek. In this spirit, An Appropriate Response offers individual coaching, leadership development, and meditation classes and retreats as opportunities to discover and create relationships where we can meet the tender places in ourselves that connect us - mind to mind and heart to heart - to everything and everyone else.