Guide's Sojourn....a sketch

  Richard Kiefer's 35 year career in human services includes professional involvements in the fields of juvenile justice, gerentology, chemical dependency treatment, pastoral counseling, educational consulting and life coaching.

  For over a decade and a half one to one client interactions have been and are the mainstay of Richard's private practice. See the tesimonials page for a sampling of comments chosen from a myriad of successful client relationships.

  A primary corporate consulting relationship spanning a fifteen year period saw Richard serve as a member of the senior training staff for 'Falling Awake', an entity of Breakthrough Enterprises that innovated and conducts a 15 month Life Coaches' School curriculum for professionals aspiring to become certified life coaches.

  A primary institutional coaching relationship in concert with 'Falling Awake' began in 1993 when the Brande Foundation hired Richard as a pioneering member of a core team of life coaches retained to provide life coaching services to Executive Directors and CEO's of non-profit agencies. The overwhelmingly popular response among leaders who have received the Foundation's offerings over the ensuing years has earned this philanthropic project landmark recognition, intersecting a cadre of internationally based non-profits.

  Sojourner's Guide is a composition that is both a designation and a process evolving from Richard's having served in the capacities of spiritual advisor, mentor, counselor, teacher, coach, minister, and consultant spanning nearly four decades.