About the Logo

The symbol at the center of the Inner Coaching logo is rooted in the I-Ching — one of the oldest texts in the world, a Chinese system of divination and philosophical inquiry that has guided thinkers, leaders, and seekers for thousands of years.

I was first introduced to the I-Ching as a teenager, during a period when I was studying eastern philosophy and martial arts. It made an impression, and then life moved on.

More than thirty years later, after I reinvested seriously in my own spiritual practice, it came back to me. This time I found Hexagram 61: Inner Truth.

The hexagram is composed of two trigrams — Wind above, Lake below. The image is of wind moving across the surface of water: a gentle, invisible force that stirs something vast. Most of us live in the wind — the turbulence of demands, decisions, and competing identities. What coaching offers is a path to the lake: the stillness and depth that was always there underneath, waiting to be accessed.

At the structural center of the hexagram is what scholars call the “empty center” — representing openness, receptivity, and freedom from prejudice. It is the quality that allows truth to move through you rather than get filtered by ego. In my practice, that emptiness is what I try to bring to every conversation: openness, detachment, genuine presence, and authentic dialogue.

The hexagram's deeper teaching is both simple and radical: the truth you are looking for is already known within you. The work is not to find it but to access it — to descend from the noise of the ego, through the heart, into the quieter knowing that has been there all along in the intuition.