Kia ora, and welcome.

Ngā mihi maioha, warmest greetings to you.

We continue to face new and challenging circumstances globally and in our own neighbourhoods.  Here, in Aotearoa New Zealand, many of us  have had to take a deep breath – for our mental, intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical health and fortitude.

It has meant considering our life and life’s work from a different perspective, or making important and relevant changes, drawing on our past experience and creating a honed response to the present moment.

You will have heard about how other thought leaders, managers, business owners, colleagues, and friends have had a Coach to help them navigate complex challenges, and devise smart solutions.  You also know that you can get there faster with someone – your Coach – at your side.

It is a complete myth to think that you have to do things alone.  And so, right now, standing at that fork in the road, we can do this together.  As a professional and experienced Coach, I can meet you at this transition point; work with you to explore your progress through the personal and professional challenges you are encountering.  Let’s start now.

Coaching lights up your path – “Te Ara” – ahead, so you can create the change you want to see in your world, and face the future with confidence.  I am looking forward to working with you.

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  • When the student is ready, the master appears.
    Buddhist Proverb

  • He kai kei aku ringa – there is food at the end of my hands. This proverb refers to one’s ability to use the skills and resources they have to create success. It’s about being responsible for the resources and capabilities one needs to grow and develop.
    Māori Whakatauki/proverb

  • He aha te huarahi?  I runga i te tika, te pono me te aroha: What is the pathway?  It is doing what is right, with integrity and compassion.

  • And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
    Confucius (551 – 479 BCE)

  • Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
    Dalai Lama

  • The universe is transformation. Our life is what our thoughts make it.
    Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE)

  • The nature of life is change. We need simply to be aware of the changes and move creatively with them.
    Johansen and Kurtz

  • Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
    Albert Einstein

  • I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
    Maya Angelou

  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King

  • The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
    Lao Tzu

  • Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.
    Mark Twain

  • Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
    The Summer Day, Mary Oliver

  • Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage.
    Chief White Eagle of the Pona

  • Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817- 1862)

  • All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
    Indian proverb

  • There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
    Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

  • Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
    Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

  • Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
    William Shakespeare

  • Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are just princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest sense something helpless that wants help from us.
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
    Carl Rogers

  • Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
    Anthony Robbins

  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

  • The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
    Marcel Proust

  • Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
    Howard Thurman

  • Out beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there’s a field: I’ll meet you there.
    Jalal Ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

  • There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
    Rusty Berkus

  • All know the way. Few actually walk it.
    Bodhidharma (early 5th century)

  • To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
    Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1955)

  • There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

  • The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
    Joseph Campbell

  • When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving inside you, a joy. When action comes from elsewhere, this feeling vanishes.
    Jalal Ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

  • The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
    Buddha

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