Greetings!

Welcome to … ej’s essential extras!

This name pronounced over me by my mother when I was a child declared a boutique would one day emerge from my hand, holding essential extras.

While the boutique is still a dream to be realized inside an inn — the first of the “ej’s essential extras” has now emerged as … the Be.come Consulting inn. And, it IS the foundational heart of ej’s essential extras, offering wisdom in the detailed work of interior design and wardrobe garments often mended, marred, frayed, and torn in organizations.

I hold a Master’s in Applied Behavioral Science from Bastyr University, Seattle, via the Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) that is used in managing and consulting in the field of Organization Development.

To be honest, I never saw a boutique and organization development being paired … but now, I can’t unsee them being paired — much like my name.

Purchased from the local Bible bookstore and hung in my childhood bedroom, a piece of parchment with my name — “Erin” — and underneath — “peacemaker” — stuck shellacked onto a brown, wooden plaque declaring my character and professing my vision my whole life. It holds fast still today inside of me … even evidencing its own wear in the journey.

I am compassionate to those weary and searching … for rest in their organizations, particularly the ones of home and church. Sometimes our own need for development is obvious … and yet other times we often think of those in need as … “they,” and sometimes we even see them right in front of us as “you.”

But when this shifts into … “me,” I am … at a loss … then begins the opening into the realm of entering rest.

This work is likened unto describing swimming in water or riding a bicycle … I do try to explain much …. but until you enter the function and jump in and encounter e.motion … it only remains a description, not the encounter, and certainly not the governing of such.

I could not have imagined such a website & technology to connect you and I years ago: Indeed my purpose has “be.come” more than I ever thought possible!

How exciting NOW IS the time!

Thank you to all who have had a hand in helping me Be.come! And, I am grateful to the many who have tilled the soil to prepare your heart to receive.

My hope is you will find our inn here a home in which to retreat and grow … to train up — yourself and those whom you serve…

— a sanctuary to Be.come!

I say “our” because this work would not be possible without the support of my husband and family.

So much of what I’m offering comes from what I needed on my own journey. I hope you receive encouragement, exhortation, and innjoyment.

This consulting inn is unique because it works in the space BETWEEN … inn the relationships… catching “live” THE MOMENT in which you need a steadying hand … a ground wire. And, for that, we need a pure language.

This takes more than a class, a book, a retreat or a seminar imposing more information to digest, to figure out how “to do” … or more-so … how “to be.” I believe we are full up on information in this hour — it is high time to just plain ‘ole roll up the sleeves … come alongside and help you … in what you may not even know you need help … or you do … and you are seeking ... one — One, who will go...

My answer out of Isaiah 6 is “Here am I. Send me!” I am willing to take the hand of the one placing it in mine … as I so desired to have such in my life.

Indeed, I think it also akin to travel. I find travel so much easier when someone takes me by the hand, just showing me the way. Soon, I easily navigate on my own … and take another.

May these be refreshing, living waters that you travel in here, rebuilding the ancient ruins.

I especially have a heart — for many reasons — for those taking on the extraordinary and blessed task of home-schooling their children in their vineyard. You begin too because the time becomes … ripe. Ready or not. And in rightly doing — the need for so many needed adjustments become profoundly apparent for a fine finish.

My heart is to especially help with that journey.

As with many of our journeys — we just do it … untrained, unmentored, unloved … we begin …

My question was always … who can really understands the depths in all this? Who will work this promised land with me? Or, to term it another way — as I grew up with my father’s love of drafting and my mother’s finesse for home INnTERIOR design — who will help me move this wall? or furniture?… and ….in home-schooling … this mountain? lol.

This really is the overall purpose of this consulting inn: To see deeply into the vision of your organization. And, sometimes that takes finishing something to begin something …

. . . finishing to begin tm . . .

You can begin externally or internally here … both will lead you innto the depths of His Shalom.

With great joy for the harvest at your table to be bountiful … more than you can think … or imagine … shaken down, pressed together and overflowing … I invite you here to this table: to your own finishing to begin ...

~ erin