“I highly recommend The Thirty Pressing Questions. This series is for anyone who is committed to truly living their life ‘on purpose’. Here you will find a range of tools to bring full integration into your life, work, and creativity. As a facilitator of individual and organizational change I cannot imagine living without the core teachings that The Thirty Pressing Questions so elegantly expresses and teaches.” Clare Mann. Clare Mann Associates Australia Pty Ltd
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Hi This is Caitríona Reed and I’m so glad that you have come to this page
Welcome to THE THIRTY PRESSING QUESTIONS
On this page you will find information about the year-long on-line coaching series that I know will help you to make permanent and effective changes in your life, and which will also give you tools for making an even greater positive contribution and impact in the world.
Do you every feel burned out, exhausted, overwhelmed? Do you ever feel that there’s no end in sight to the constant challenges and struggles that come your way?
Do you long for a change in your lifestyle, your career, your friendships, your level of health and well being? Do you hunger for more passion and spontaneity in all your relationships?
“The best jump start on a wider life I’ve run across in six decades, and I’m only on the Fourth Module!” Susa Sulvermarie. Milwaukee
Wouldn’t you like to -
You’ve come to the right place!
There was a time, not so long ago, when I felt trapped by old habits and attitudes that no longer expressed who I really was.
My business was stagnant, I didn’t really know where I was going, my relationships were suffering, and I knew that I could accomplish and contribute so much more. But I simply couldn’t see how it would happen. Drawing on all I have learned in my work as a Personal Life Coach, a Clinical Hypnotherapist and as an NLP practitioner and trainer, as an activist, a Buddhist teacher, and now as an International Consultant
I have developed an approach that has transformed my life as I believe it can transform yours.
The 30 Pressing Questions consists of a complete curriculum based on traditional, as well as cutting-edge tools and perspectives that will help you bring focus and purpose to your life
On YOUR own terms. In YOUR own way.
These are tools that are infinitely adaptable:
Meditation and Mindfulness, Personal Development Tools, Inductive Processes drawn from various disciplines, a mindset of social responsibility, frames of reference drawn from General Semantics, Neurolinguistics Gestalt and Buddhist Psychology.
That may sound complex but these modules are presented in a way that makes some of the most powerful mind-skills available to you in a way that you can easily apply, practice and adapt to your needs.
“In my 23 years of personal and professional development work, I have been extremely fortunate to have seen some of the greatest motivational speakers of our time. I can honestly say that Caitriona is by far one of the most captivating, entertaining, engaging and inspiring speakers and storytellers on the circuit today. She has an amazing knack for blending the breadth of her experience with the depth of her knowledge in a relaxed, easy-to-understand delivery. She’s hip, funny, dynamic and has her finger on the pulse of today’s current trends. Her work is not only inspiring but life-changing. I personally experienced a fundamental shift in my thinking in just minutes! ” Liora Mendeloff.CEO and Founder Lele Associates Inc
A Story
Let me tell you a story. It’s about a father and daughter team of acrobats who started their act when the daughter was quite young. As she grew older their act became more daring. One day her father said, “Because what we are doing is so much more dangerous now, let’s agree to take care of each other when we’re doing our act. I’ll look out for you, and you can look out for me.”
The daughter who was already wise beyond her years said, “No, let’s do this. I’ll take care of me, and you’ll take care of you. If I know that you are really taking care of yourself, then I’ll know that I’m safe.”
There are those who focus exclusively on taking care of others, protecting the environment, working towards social justice, and educating others to improve their lives.
Then there are those whose focus is entirely on how they can benefit themselves: spiritually or materially.
Experience shows that we benefit ourselves through working for the benefit of others, and that we benefit others by truly taking care of ourselves. The two are completely interwoven.
It’s for Cultural Creatives, Conscious Leaders.
it’s a unique system for people looking for a genuine integration of five crucial elements:
- personal development skills that really work
- spiritual practices that open your heart
- a driving hunger for social and environmental justice
- the leverage to implement real-world expertise and upgrade your income
- the natural creativity that lets you put it all together in your own unique way
With these five elements you can put your values into action.
and become a catalyst for change with a win-win attitude and the skills to make a real difference in the world.

“The 30 pressing questions is a constant ally in the challenging work of keeping my mental life awake, fresh, and engaged in the world of business and law. ” Allen Korenstein,CEO, Earthlite ILS Los Angeles
- The Thirty Pressing Questions are about focus with the understanding that both how you focus and what you focus on are important.
- They’re about leadership with the understanding that a leader needs to lead themselves first, to become a master of their own mind and emotions.
- They’re about action with the understanding that all action begins with thought, and the clearer your thinking the more effective your actions will be.
- They’re about creativity with the understanding that whatever you may produce, your true masterpiece is your own life.
- Above all they’re about the most basic human qualities – kindness, gratitude, focus, generosity, creativity, celebration, integrity, authenticity.

Some of my students who’ve worked through parts of this material already have told me that it has helped them to implement principles they had known about for years but were simply unable to put into action.
Others who were completely new to much of this material have expressed surprise at how easy it is to create real change in their lives, learn to meditate, and to develop clarity and focus, re-vision their work and career, and transform their relationship with the people in their lives.
Each module will come to you in the form of a link to a page somewhat similar to this sample of page of selections from Module Click here.
Each module consists of short audio recordings, sometimes with full-length guided meditations, assignments, tools for goal-setting, for deepening your capacity to focus even in the middle of a busy life, guided relaxations and hypnotic inductions stories, and some crucial tools for reflecting on the central question around which each module is based,
… and a whole lot more.
You can also join me on the teleseminar series that I will be running to complement these classes.
Register now by taking your mouse, or with your keyboard, scroll down to the bottom of this page
and click on the green button
Caitriona Reed, is a Consultant, Workshop Leader and Facilitator of Personal and Organizational Change. She facilitates workshops worldwide. She is co-Founder and co-director of Manzanita Village Retreat Center, and Five Changes Foundation in California.
She is senior adviser to The Path of Conscious Leadership Foundation, an Australasian platform for global collaboration. Her expertise is in developing and facilitating systems that bridge the worlds of Personal Development, Corporate Responsibility, Environmental Change and Cultural Awareness.
She is a hypnotherapist, master NLP practitioner and trainer, and a recognized Buddhist teacher and meditation facilitator of more than twenty-five years standing.
Receive state of the art content and training-material twice a month for one year. The Thirty Pressing Questions comes to you in a format that you can really use, paced over an entire year. And you will also have ongoing access to all the modules.


