Kathleen Turcic

Principal, QuintessentialYou Design

CreativeArchitect: QYou Blueprint

I created QuintessentialYou Design as a result of being the source and architect of the QuintessentialYou Blueprint. The work of QuintessentialYou Design distinguishes the essence that we each are, that part of us that influences and informs what we create, how we see, the actions we take, and the results we attain.

My first visceral experience of this ‘intelligent quintessence’ came spontaneously and surprisingly while I was attending a personal development course in 2001. In literally a few split seconds, I experienced mySelf outside the body I knew as myself. I describe it today as I did in the moment: the experience of NoThing… the NoThingness in which EveryThing lives and from which AllThings come.  As you might imagine, this altered my relationship to being human and to humanity as a whole. As the days and months unfolded, I felt and found myself connecting the elements that have brought the QuintessentialYou Blueprint into form. ‘How’ this occurred remains a mystery. I only know that it emerged and developed through living and observing my own life. Through twists and turns, as I found my way to collaborating with the inevitable opportunities and challenges of life, a series of what seemed to be non-sensical inquiries demanded my trust. My response was simply to record.

Over time, this practice resulted in design of a holographic representation of our collective human design. As a lifelong student who never formally studied design principles, I was surprised by this form that kept expanding, maturing, and making sense. The more I leaned in, the more it generated. As the QuintessentialYou Blueprint developed, so too did a suite of facilitated IntentionalConversations © that use inquiry, exploration, and discovery to progressively build each individual unique version of that same Blueprint. I was called to stay present and to play through scribbling, doodling, drawing and writing, In testing the ideas that were coming with friends and family, I discovered that my play was forming a process for access to my own and each one’s most essential and subtle Self – QuintessentialYou.

My willing participants laughed, cried, expressed awe in the alignment of their life and the elements they could now name and explore. Not linear or logical, not intended or planned, this became a progressive journey through a series of conversations that does its work on its own terms in its own time. The discovery is that we are each vehicle for our individual best expression. This is the work of QuintessentialYou Design – access to one’s best life through the practice of presence over the effort of practice. Through life’s inevitable ups and downs, if we are willing participants, we are called to deeper and deeper knowing of ourSelf, our relationship to Other, and our place in the World. These are the three foundational aspects on which the QuintessentialYou Blueprint lays its foundation: You ForYou (Self), You WithOther (Relationship), You InWorld (Contribution). The alignment of these three is core to the unity of who we are, the integrity of our individual journey, the realization of our potential, our unique contribution, and the experience of fulfillment that we all want and that is available to us through the life we are each living. 

This is the journey of QuintessentialYou Design – the process, practice, discipline, and Blueprint sourced from that momentary experience of the field of NoThing organically emerging to create today’s offering. To say yes to this Quintessential force is accepting the ultimate invitation to ‘accessing opportunity realizing potential’ . With this ‘yes’, seeking gives way to presence and presence to the full living into life’s potential here and now.