CoreSelf Positioning to Get on the Same Page, Literally: 8 Steps That Refine Our Current Position and Identify Our Best Action Plan

by Tim Preston, Jonathan Thomas

Overview

Your story. Your narratives. Your experiences. All of them can provide insight and direction that you never knew existed by activating your Internal Observer. Without it, we are doomed to repeat the same patterns of behavior that reinforce tired preconceptions.

ARE YOU READY TO SURPRISE YOURSELF?

In this genre-bending new book, readers will be introduced to a new road map for positive self-discovery. Using visual geometry, questions and exercises culled from real-life stories, and an 8-step guide that anyone can follow, readers will be empowered to leverage their own narratives and to navigate difficult situations.

Whether for the professional or personal, individual or team, the CoreSelf Framework can teach anyone to access where they are, acknowledge where they want to be, and determine how to best get there.This journey of self-exploration allows us to position ourselves in difficult situations, use our values to provide perspective, and determine the best next steps to literally Get on the Same Page with ourselves and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798891382862
Publisher:	Amplify Publishing
Publication date:	06/03/2025
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim has spent the majority of his life learning, overcoming adversity, and creating from blank pieces of paper: self, spaces, teams, and businesses.

During his first ten years in the architectural industry, he learned that if you listen to building spaces, they will tell you what they want to be. It does not matter if you’re renovating an existing space or creating a complementary new space. Observing and asking those who experience these spaces can provide important insight and direction.

The next twenty years, he built and grew a number of companies—some successful and others not so much. Creating a building or business from a blank piece of paper can be incredibly exciting; consequently, learning and growing at different stages of a building or company’s growth can be challenging.

Since co-founding Simple. Not Easy., LLC in 2017 with Jonathan, Tim’s passion for creating and working with businesses has evolved CSM into CoreSelf Positioning (CSP) and Same Page Partnership (SPP) for organizations, their vendors, and clients. CSP allows companies to grow and leverage their most important asset: their people. A unique benefit of the CoreSelf approach is that professional team members can utilize the same tool in their personal lives for growth and clarity.

Tim learned that if you help people listen to themselves, professionally or personally, they possess the ability to identify their best next steps and real questions. Practicing getting on the same page with oneself and others is an exciting game changer.

Because he was born into a family of teachers and craftspeople, it is not surprising that Jonathan began his adult life working with clay and teaching children and adults how to make functional and beautiful objects on a potter’s wheel. He spent ten years after college perfecting those two skills. Moving into an administrative role, he became the founding director of a large and successful regional community art center in Northeastern Ohio.

Out of these experiences, a new direction emerged. The challenge of coaching individuals and teams to higher levels of accomplishment became Jonathan’s focus. A master’s degree in Social Work at Columbia University in New York provided opportunities to develop expertise as a teacher and trainer of communication skills.

Coaching individuals and teams in the medical field occupied the next phase of his journey. In addition to directing an outpatient hospital team for twenty years, he developed a private counseling practice. Clipboard sketches created in the process of studying successful partnerships became the foundation of CoreSelf Mapping. The visual perspective learned during his earlier career opened up pathways to creative communication strategies for work with patients and colleagues. Empowering others to create their own mapping solutions as individuals and in teams became his central mission.

The Simple. Not Easy., LLC partnership was formed to share the CoreSelf framework. CoreSelf Mapping continues to evolve into a means of achieving breakthrough insights in response to challenges in many fields, including executive coaching, legal mediation, wealth management, and fitness training.