Offered services
Inner Growth Philosophy - A space for clarity, transformation and self-realization.
Coaching
Coaching focuses on short to mid-term support on issues you might face in your working environment and in the exercise of your profession. The aim is to harmonize your personal, subjective perspective and the objective function required by your specific professional role. Such attunement is a prerequisite for improving your motivation and to enhance both your well-being and your professional satisfaction. This type of coaching is therefore primarily aimed at all those who already know what they want to achieve and need support in optimizing their work processes while maintaining a high level of self-esteem and motivation. Typical topics that are dealt with are conflicts and issues in connection with professional tasks, support and guidance when taking on new functions, professional development, decision-making, work-life balance, time or crisis management.
A specific coaching case is that of professionals or individuals working and living in fragile, if not outright dangerous environments, like in the case of aid workers, journalists or peace forces operating in stressful humanitarian settings (e.g. refugee camps or areas struck by natural catastrophes) or in war torn areas / countries. Due to my own direct experience in such environments in the Middle East and in Africa, I am able to understand the specific needs linked to a life and a profession in uncertain terrains. If you are living in insecure environments or in crisis areas, one of the coaching goals will be the prevention and reduction of stress with the aim to reduce the impact of stressful factors on your private and professional life, to strengthen your personal resilience and to enhance your overall personal safety, security and well-being. Typical objectives of the support offered will therefore be in this case the re-establishment and the protection of a healthy work-life balance and the individuation of appropriate mechanisms to prevent and reduce personal risks.
Within the coaching setting, my role will be that of the sparring partner or of a sounding board who, precisely because of this role and independence, can also afford a honesty that, in the workplace or in the family sphere, cannot always be expected.
Counseling
In the counseling case, mid to long-term consultations will be centered on one or more issues that you are facing in your personal life.
What I offer is supervision or accompaniment on the path of your personal growth, the clarification of your personal goals, the support of decision-making processes etc. Typical topics are in this case decisions and options in the personal and relational sphere. The focus will be here on your growth, a growth that can only be achieved by understanding and managing the challenges you are facing.
Each consultation journey will therefore begin with a free first session, in which scope, purpose, and duration of the desired support are mutually defined. The process is flexible and tailored – an open path of growth, clarification, and support.
In this context, I will act as trusted counselor – walking on your side, for as long as you might need and wish, through decisions and dilemmas related to life choices, relationships, or alternatives among which you will need to decide.
On the Camino de Santiago
Walking the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, is a very special and intense experience, a fact well-known to those who already did it, and surprinsingly beautiful and engaging for all those that still have to make their frist steps on it. To put it simply: done in the right way, the pilgrimage to Santiago is a truly transformative existential experience.
For this reason, I'm particularly eager to offer a counseling option to prepare you to the emotional challenges set by the Camino.
In this case I will prepare you for the Camino with an additional and specific focus on its aftermath. In fact, the many books dedicated to the Camino de Santiago deal in great extent with the logistical and practical preparation and much less with what happen after its accomplishment, totally neglecting the emotional impact of its end and of what follows the arrival in Santiago. This, however, would deserve a book in itself, as the arrival in Santiago and the days and weeks after the completion of the Camino pose a real emotional challenge to most pilgrims and require as much preparation or attention as the Camino itself. With my assistance, I hope you will be able to succesfully and joyfully complete your journey to Santiago knowing what to expect after and so reducing the risks of feeling emotionally exhausted, void, lonely or even overwhelmed by the scope of the life-changing decisions you might have made on the Camino.
If you plan to walk the Camino de Santiago any time soon and you are interested in exploiting its potential while avoiding its emotional pitfalls, feel free to contact me to agree on a customized counseling plan.
Mind work
Mind Work refers to an even deeper form of personal support – metaphysical, existential, highly individual and often long-term. It goes beyond counseling and more into the realm of inner exploration, meaning-making, and inner and outer transformation.
This service is not for everyone, but to those who are already seeking it, looking for the door in the wall, it offers the chance of a profound process of understanding and insight
The coaching or counseling path
At the beginning of any potential coaching or counseling request, a free and non-binding initial exchange will clarify needs and wishes, but also to understand whether the necessary trust between us exists.
In case we will be both interested in pursuing the coaching or counseling process, modalities and conditions will be set out in a written agreement in which also our respective roles and expectations will be laid out. This will be followed by a phase of discussion and analysis to determine the most promising approach. The agreed path will then be followed together until the end of the planned cycle. The consultancy will then end with a final debriefing in which the achieved results, the applied methods, and the gained insights will be discussed and evaluated together.
Duration and frequency of the caoching / counseling sessions will depend on your needs, wishes and on our mutual availabilty, and will be agreed on a case-by-case basis.
Coaching and counseling are primarily and usually offered in a virtual (online) modality, so to allow for an increased efficiency and effectiveness of the sessions without the additional burdens and costs implied by any in-presence consultation form. In-person sessions or specific arrangements (like for instance in the case of a counseling on the Way of St. James), are rather the exeption, but are definitely always an option for those interested.