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 influences and informs who we each are, what we create, how we see, the actions we take, and the results we attain. Recognizing this ‘intelligence of quintessence’ came spontaneously and surprisingly. I had no idea what was occurring in the early days of this development, First appearing as a physical experience during a conversation, what unfolded turned out to be the elements of our common human existence. ‘How’ this occurred remains a mystery. I only know that it emerged and developed through living and observing my own life. I have come to believe that this is possible for every willing human being. Collaborating with the opportunities anc challenges of my own life and living, I downloaded how to articulate questions that often non -sensibly demanded my trust and simple recording. Going with it, this practice resulted in the design of a holographic representation of our collective humanity. As a lifelong student of design who never formally studied its principles, this form just kept expanding and maturing. The more I leaned in, the more it generated. As the Blueprint developed, so too did a suite of facilitated IntentionalConversations © that use inquiry, exploration, and discovery to progressively build each individual Blueprint. As I stayed present and played through scribbling, doodling, drawing and writing, I tested the ideas that were coming with friends and family. It turned out that my play was forming access to each one’s most subtle Self – QuintessentialYou.

My willing participants laughed, cried, expressed awe in the alignment of their experience of life and their results. 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. I discovered that I am vehicle for the best of my own life. This is the work of QuintessentialYou Design-access to one’s best life through the practice of presence versus the effort of practice, I have learned through the inevitable ups and downs of living life, if we are willing participants, we gain 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, to the integrity of our individual journey, to access to our potential, our unique contribution, and the experience of fulfillment that we all want and that in reality, is already the life we are each living. 

This is the journey of QuintessentialYou Design. This is the process, practice, discipline, and Blueprint sourced from the field, created outside this world’s concept of plan, objectives, or strategy. This is your invitation to embrace design, journey, and surrender to life and the Quintessential force that has its own structure, listening, and practice designed for ‘accessing opportunity realizing potential’. When this is ‘heard’, there is no more to be said, no more seeking … only the full living of this life and what it is offering now.