Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the sacred flame in your soul.
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eco-conscious leadership
Re-forming leadership in times of turbulence
Intake
We have a Zoom call with each other for introductions and to understand your goals and the context of your request. I am highly respectful of your starting point and we can explore the extent to which you are currently open to certain perspectives. Our relationship can take many forms depending on where you are with your journey, what you most need support with and how much time you can invest.
Philosophy
For the last fifteen years I have been guiding leaders and individuals towards developing a deeper relationship with themselves. We work on both the relationship with yourself and with the Other, including nature. I integrate embodied practices, eco spiritual wisdom, and a variety of other perspectives to support you in your leadership development.
Approach
I do not use specific models, but rather a relational, dialogical approach based on principles of empowerment, equality, and respect. Depending on your needs I will offer contemplative practices, reading, and will act as a sounding board for current situations in which you would like to integrate a new way of being, leading, and co-creating with others.
wisdom of birth differences
Exploring the significance of your birth defect
Intake
We have a Zoom call with each other for introductions and to understand your goals and the context of your request. We look to where you are struggling with or what you would like to know about your birth defect (or a family member's). I use the intake to orient to you and your birth difference, as well as to understand how you have lived it, and how it is unfolding in your life right now, in a variety of contexts.
Philosophy
Being born myself with Bladder Exstrophy Epispadias complex, a rare congenital disorder, I have a deep understanding of a birth defects effects on all areas of your life, and how it is an integral part of your identity. My own research and understanding of birth differences, as I call them, has led me to design an eco-spiritual vision of how they manifest and the importance of working with them as an energetic-emotional-psychological system.
Approach
If you decide to continue, I will conduct some desk research on your birth 'defect' and our next session will begin our relationship towards a shared understanding of what it might mean for you, your journey, and life purpose. I also work with families, with babies who are born with birth defects, helping to strengthen their bonds, and to place the experience within a broader spiritual context.
spiritual partnerships
Deepening your connection and bond
Intake
As there are many types of partnerships, including friendships, work related, romantic, business venture, we will first orient towards the type of partnership you are interested in strengthening. Both partners should be on the intake call.
Philosophy
When we come together to accomplish something together, either spiritual growth, birthing a child and growing a family, or consciously connect to co-create a business, it is helpful to understand each other at the deepest level possible. This enables the partnership to grow, even in turbulent times.
Approach
I help you develop important skills for listening, showing respect, and connecting to each other from an authentic place. I don't use models, but rather allow our relationship to organically unfold and offer you from myself what I think you need to help strengthen the relationship. The work is always a combination of self-development, and practicing new ways of being with each other.
sacred parenting
Planning your journey together as parents
Intake
We will have an orienting Zoom session in which we look at where you are right now and what your wishes are for the future. We will decide together what you would like to focus on, including any educational aspects which you might find important, areas of your relationship which might need highlighting, and your worldview orientation.
Philosophy
Parenting begins with the first thought of having a baby and creating a family together. What each parent brings into the dynamic, including their own masculine and feminine energy balance, has an impact on the baby which will form and grow in the womb. The approach is based on changing the world one family at a time, where I support you to grow your self-understanding, your bond together, and to already begin bonding with your baby.
Approach
I integrate a variety of approaches which use the prenatal and perinatal psychology paradigm. This paradigm emphasises the consciousness of the baby before conception, and the importance of welcoming the baby into a safe, secure, and loving environment. This means that parents must be able to communicate and connect on an emotional level, as the baby feels this in the relational field.
THE WISDOM OF BIRTH DIFFERENCES
Discover the hidden layers of your 'birth defect' to connect with your soul's purpose
Birth defects are not accidents. They are a highly intelligent, and beautifully coordinated dialogue between the soul realm of the universe and the manifest. They are the ultimate way of making the invisible visible, the unconscious, conscious. Even though there is a lot of pain and suffering which comes from the experience of living with a birth defect, and a series of crises which the whole family is initiated into from the moment of birth, they each have something to teach us, if we are willing to listen. For this reason, I propose a new language to talk about these: birth differences. It is already with the change from defects to differences that we create space for seeing them from another perspective. Defect means 'an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function or utility, a shortcoming or a flaw.'
The big reason that I see birth differences as the biggest universal gift is because in no other life situation, other than illness or disease, are we offered an opportunity to work through the unconscious parts of ourselves and become whole. Even if this is part of ancestral history or preconception experiences. As you will discover on your journey with me, we live our birth difference everyday, it is a metaphor for a layers upon layers of experience.
Medical researchers, including geneticists, and doctors invest endless financial resources and energy in attempting to explain something which, is frankly, unexplainable from the current scientific paradigm. Birth differences are both personal and universal at the same time, past as well as future. They are telling us where we have been, and also at the same time, where we need to go to heal. This healing is not only personal, but vibrates through an infinite field of consciousness connecting family, community, and society.
While some birth differences are visible, others are invisible, but each provides a glimpse into hidden realms within ourselves. Birth differences are not what they appear, and are opportunities to enter into a contemplative conversation with our soul.
The big reason that I see birth differences as the biggest universal gift is because in no other life situation, other than illness or disease, are we offered an opportunity to work through the unconscious parts of ourselves and become whole. Even if this is part of ancestral history or preconception experiences. As you will discover on your journey with me, we live our birth difference everyday, it is a metaphor for a layers upon layers of experience.
Medical researchers, including geneticists, and doctors invest endless financial resources and energy in attempting to explain something which, is frankly, unexplainable from the current scientific paradigm. Birth differences are both personal and universal at the same time, past as well as future. They are telling us where we have been, and also at the same time, where we need to go to heal. This healing is not only personal, but vibrates through an infinite field of consciousness connecting family, community, and society.
While some birth differences are visible, others are invisible, but each provides a glimpse into hidden realms within ourselves. Birth differences are not what they appear, and are opportunities to enter into a contemplative conversation with our soul.
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Unfold the sacred within yourself and your family
One of the biggest questions you might have a someone born with a birth difference or a parent or family member, is 'why?' And you or your parents may have done everything right during pregnancy but still have (a child with) a birth difference. So what does this mean? Well, if we look at things only through a rational lens, it makes no sense. It might even seem like a random mishap of sorts where you feel punished for something you don't understand.
In fact it is not uncommon for family members and the person born with a birth difference to feel spiritually abandoned. This is when for many people, they might lose hope or faith. Birth differences can be grouped together with other 'seemingly random' events or circumstances in which 'bad things happen to good people.'
Personally, I think this also has largely to do with how we view birth differences, and use the word 'defect' and 'disorder.' With these words, of course we are going to consider them negative. It's a genetic mutation, there's something wrong with my genes! We might even generalise this further to say, "there's something wrong with me."
As someone who has lived with a rare birth difference, I am here to tell you that your (or your child's) birth difference has so much wisdom and love to share with you, that it is awe-inspiring. The suffering is not random and it is not meaningless.
I offer private, online sessions, self-paced learning, and group sessions to help you repair 'birth defects' trauma, as an individual or as a family, and reignite your sacred spark of vitality, so that your true magnificence begins to shine through.
In fact it is not uncommon for family members and the person born with a birth difference to feel spiritually abandoned. This is when for many people, they might lose hope or faith. Birth differences can be grouped together with other 'seemingly random' events or circumstances in which 'bad things happen to good people.'
Personally, I think this also has largely to do with how we view birth differences, and use the word 'defect' and 'disorder.' With these words, of course we are going to consider them negative. It's a genetic mutation, there's something wrong with my genes! We might even generalise this further to say, "there's something wrong with me."
As someone who has lived with a rare birth difference, I am here to tell you that your (or your child's) birth difference has so much wisdom and love to share with you, that it is awe-inspiring. The suffering is not random and it is not meaningless.
I offer private, online sessions, self-paced learning, and group sessions to help you repair 'birth defects' trauma, as an individual or as a family, and reignite your sacred spark of vitality, so that your true magnificence begins to shine through.
Angel S. Buster, MA, MSc
I am the co-founder of the Eden Foundation, an education based research centre with two interrelated goals 1) shaping and re-forming today's leadership to create a more eco-spiritual approach to our global challenges 2) offering future parents an educational, work and community based residency at an eco-village sanctuary for the crucial '1000 days.'
I was born with Bladder Exstrophy Epispadias Complex, a rare congenital disorder (1 in 50,000) and it is my intimate understanding of both its scientific and spiritual perspectives which has allowed me to understand the real causes of birth defects. My background as a leadership author, speaker, and consultant, a creative entrepreneur, therapist, and prenatal and perinatal psychology educator, has allowed me to weave together a variety of perspectives and to develop an integral vision for societal change.
I was born with Bladder Exstrophy Epispadias Complex, a rare congenital disorder (1 in 50,000) and it is my intimate understanding of both its scientific and spiritual perspectives which has allowed me to understand the real causes of birth defects. My background as a leadership author, speaker, and consultant, a creative entrepreneur, therapist, and prenatal and perinatal psychology educator, has allowed me to weave together a variety of perspectives and to develop an integral vision for societal change.
I am a somatically trained psychotherapist, existential psychologist, PCC credentialed coach through the International Coach Federation, an Imago Therapist, Integrative Baby Therapist (in training), former Deloitte Human Capital leadership consultant, and author of numerous articles and book chapters, with an upcoming book titled, The Wisdom of Birth Differences.
Birth defects are collective memories and symbols manifested into physical form. They remind us what we have tried to ignore or have forgotten. They are opportunities to bring the unconscious to light.
angel buster
Schedule a 1-1 or family Guidance session
If you are curious to learn more about your or your child's birth difference from my scientific and spiritually fused perspective, click below to be taken to my calendar.
If you would like to meet me before scheduling your first session, you may select an Introductory meeting.
If you would like to meet me before scheduling your first session, you may select an Introductory meeting.
All birth differences welcome
Although I was born with Bladder Exstrophy Epispadias Complex, the framework I have developed applies to ALL birth defects/differences. Whether you or a family member has a rare congenital defect, or one of the more common, like cleft lip, hypospadias, or Down syndrome, I can guide you into a deeper understanding of why you (or family member) may have this particular birth defect.
How do the online sessions work?
I offer a free 30-minute introductory session, just to make sure that there is a match, and agreement to go forward, and in which frequency. After commitment to six sessions, you will then receive an intake form, which requires reflection and possible participation of family members.
After I receive the intake form returned I begin my own research, to really try to understand your 'birth defect', and its symbolic manifestation. This process usually takes 1-2 weeks, depending on whether it is a 'birth defect' I am familiar with or not. The sessions are highly dialogical, and can be emotional. I never take the perspective of 'knower' - you, as person who has lived with this, are the most knowledgeable. We embark on the journey together, and it is through my questioning (through the framework's lens) that we will begin to unravel its mystery.
With each birth defect there is an energetic/ spiritual resolution which will help facilitate its healing. Sometimes this can be done within the context of the sessions, while it is also possible that some extra work will need to be done with someone in your area, who is part of our network.
After I receive the intake form returned I begin my own research, to really try to understand your 'birth defect', and its symbolic manifestation. This process usually takes 1-2 weeks, depending on whether it is a 'birth defect' I am familiar with or not. The sessions are highly dialogical, and can be emotional. I never take the perspective of 'knower' - you, as person who has lived with this, are the most knowledgeable. We embark on the journey together, and it is through my questioning (through the framework's lens) that we will begin to unravel its mystery.
With each birth defect there is an energetic/ spiritual resolution which will help facilitate its healing. Sometimes this can be done within the context of the sessions, while it is also possible that some extra work will need to be done with someone in your area, who is part of our network.
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Wisdom of Birth Differences Program
Download the Wisdom of Birth Differences program overview
Why should you join the Wisdom of Birth Differences program?
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Become fully empowered to start living a more meaningful life
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Learn to listen to what your birth defect is trying to teach you and fully receive its gifts
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Discover your unique purpose and how this is intertwined with your birth defect.
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Gain significant insights into your 'birth defect' story and learn to use it as a resource for power and love
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