Welcome, You will experience person centred approaches and methodologies when you work with me. With a deep commitment to walk alongside you. I am passionate about exploring ways for you to live more fully and purposefully; to help guide you in ways that feel authentic to you, to thrive in healthy relationships to yourself, to others and to life.
As your coach and mentor I will support and guide so that together we can learn, heal and grow, to help to make a better world to be possible for yourself and those around you and your impact in world large or small. You will learn how to make wiser choices, you will develop a toolkit for living, thriving and relating that is applicable in any circumstance.
I have personally found my appraoch of focusing on creating the life you dream of rather than dwelling on problems to be highly effective and will create lasting positve change quickly and easily.
Working with you as a whole person. Life Intelligence (LQ). Unlocking Your Full Potential Through Integrated Intelligence.
Introducing Life Intelligence (LQ): In a world demanding more than just intellect, Life Intelligence (LQ) offers a higher-order framework for navigating the complexities of personal growth, relationships, and well-being. Addressing the limitations of traditional intelligence measures, LQ integrates a spectrum of human capabilities – emotional, relational, intuitive, practical, and cognitive – to tackle the root causes of stress, disconnection, and underachievement.
By fostering a deeper understanding of oneself and others through principles informed by developmental psychology and integral thinking, LQ empowers individuals to cultivate greater self-awareness, build stronger connections, make wiser choices, and ultimately lead more fulfilling and effective lives.
To fully explore this spectrum of human capabilities, we will be guided and informed by working with your mind, body, feelings, and intuitions, considering various forms of intelligence such as:
Intellectual Intelligence IQ
Emotional Intelligence EQ
Somatic (body) Intelligence BQ
Intuitive Intelligence InQ
Social Intelligence SQ
Adverstiy/ Adaptability Intelligence AQ
Nature connection Intelligence NQ
To develop psychological health, emotional awareness, meaning, purpose and problem solving. Cultivating the abilty to navigate all of life's challenges with more ease, flow and joy through a comprehensive toolkit for life.
Recognising that all lifes' challenges are multi faceted we will seek to understand yourself and the wider contexts may need to be explored including cultural, family and relational dynamics and other influences.
In this way we can move between solving immediate problems and issues and getting to the roots causes. Making sure you get the lasting effective changes you need.
Living with values and principles
As well as your specific issues we will explore what gives your life meaning, passion and purpose. Growing and exploring your sense of morals, ethics and principles which you choose to live by, as guiding stars to nagivate through life's challanges and complexities no matter what is going on. So that you can live your life through a solid set of values and principles. Learning how to apply these in reality and practice. We can also embrace having a relationship to spirtitual or higher power forces. In what ever way we understand this, though religion, nature, as an aetheist, it's about connecting to life's force and mystery.
Challenge and change posibilities
My sessions aim to co create a situation where it is safe enough for you to take some risks. To meet with and explore the edges of the trust and learnings you might have from past experiences. To help restore hope in yourself, in your life in th present and grow more faith in a better future.
Challenge, where approriate, cultivates growth which is needed for a more authentic life. You will gain insights in how to resource yourself in practical ways, to nurture resilience and to live with greater efficacy.
Nature connection is an integral part of our work together.
I have a deep curiosity about 'what is really going on here', and am often looking for the deeper meaning by sensing into the bigger picture. Exploring what is at the core underneath the surface story.
I am particularly experienced in engaging with and supporting mental health, wellbeing, working with teenagers and guidance and support to Parents and Carers of young people.
I have experience in the charity/nonprofit, self employed and in organisational sectors. My work welcomes all sex and gender identification and orientations. I do not have a fixed idea about how we define masculinity and femininity and acknowledge that these are areas for rigorous exploration and deep enquiry. I acknowledge the complexity of sex and gender and that it is and we are multi faceted and complex beings.
I have a wide spectrum of clients and organisations who I work with in a variety of ways including personal, relational, and professional reasons.
As a 64 year old, with two adult children. being committed to personal and proffessional develpement for over 40 years. I have gained a lot of personal and professionalexperience along the way and my learning/unlearning journey continues.
I live in Stroud, in Gloucestershire UK and I am both grateful and inspired by the people I have the opportunity to share this work with and those who have helped me get to here.
More about my coaching
A core part of my practice and approach is deep listening whilst holding you in and with positive regard, in an ever deepening acceptance of who you are.
This process can be a place of exploring and forming healthy relationships where we become interested in what is present in both profound and everyday ways. This inquiry becomes the practice of reviewing our past, experiencing the present and looking towards the projected future, so that we can become more conscious in the authoring of our lives.
Both mentoring and coaching can help to develop a clear and authentic orientation to how you have arrived at this specific place in your life, helping you to explore what is emergent and how best to move forward with ease and flow, love and joy, aspirations and groundedness.
Coaching and mentoring is a unique kind of relationship that can help to grow more trust, hope and faith in yourself and in others. I do this by believing in your ability to create the life you want, and also by challenging you where appropriate in a constructive way. Every client and mentee is different and so I won't be holding a fixed idea of how things 'should be' going. Each session is tailored to you, you will not be gettting an off the shelf package.
I welcome a wide range and depth of emotions which often accompany significant life challenges. I am experienced in working with people who are going through very challenging times or crisis.
Ultimately, you have to live by your choices, so while I can offer suggestions, exercises, further study and encourage self responsibility, it is not within my power to fix your life for you or to be some kind of saviour. I also acknowledge that the way I work may not be the only thing you need at this time and so I may suggest other people and organisations that can be helpful to you. I have an extensive network and knowledge of a wide variety of remarkable people, organisations and initiatives.