CoreSelf Positioning to Get on the Same Page, Literally: 8 Steps That Refine Our Current Position and Identify Our Best Action Plan - Hardcover

Jonathan Thomas; Tim Preston

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798891382862

Publisher: Amplify Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

Orient from the Inside.
Collaborate with the Outside.
Optimize with Intention.

What if the real issue isn't your thinking--it's your orientation?
 
CoreSelf Positioning introduces a narrative-based navigation framework that helps individuals and teams move forward with clarity, agency, and integrity--even in uncertainty.

Your experiences, decisions, and patterns already contain the information you need. This book shows you how to access them--by activating your Internal Observer, a concious part of your brain that holds your experiences, values, and potential--and can generate actionable Best Next Steps you can actually follow.

At the center are two questions:
 

1. Where am I?
2. Where do I want to be?

It starts with "I." It scales to "We."

Through a practical 8-step process, the CoreSelf Framework helps you:
 

• orient yourself in complex or high-pressure situations
• refocus emotional energy before it drains you
• clarify direction based on what is real and sustainable
• align your actions with internal values and balance external expectations
• collaborate differently with others and multiply your outcomes

When indviduals can orient themselves, teams can answer the same questions--turning misalignment into coordinated movement.

This is not about changing who you are.

It's about learning how to navigate what you aleady know--so your next steps are clear, actionable, and your own.

If you're ready to stop reacting and start navigating, this book provides the structure to do it.

About this title

About 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 executive coaching, legal mediation, wealth management, and fitness training.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amplify Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798891382862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312