What’s Your Top-of-Mind Challenging Situation?
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In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or disconnected from what really matters—your values, direction, and deeper sense of purpose.
CoreSelf Positioning: Getting on the Same Page, Literally introduces a powerful, practical framework to help you pause, reflect, and navigate both personal and professional challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re a leader seeking stronger collaboration, an entrepreneur facing high-stakes decisions, or simply someone ready to break old patterns and move forward with intention, this book offers the tools to help you realign from the inside out.
You’ll learn how to:
- Activate your Internal Observer to access fresh insights and navigate complex situations
- Use the CoreSelf Map to clearly see where you are, where you want to be, and how to bridge the gap
- Strengthen communication and collaboration by understanding your position and others’ perspectives
- Make values-aligned decisions that lead to sustainable progress and authentic success
Filled with visual frameworks, reflective exercises, and real-world case studies, CoreSelf Positioning is a must-read for anyone ready to stop reacting—and start responding—with purpose.
Get on the same page with yourself and others. Your best next step forward starts here.
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Meet the Authors
JONATHAN THOMAS
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 organizational leadership, coaching, mediation, and healthcare.
TIM PRESTON
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.
