Do you dream of having a fully meaningful life? Do you want to grow and reach your full potential? Would you like to get out of a personal or professional rut? Do you ever think you could have better interpersonal relations?
If there is a gap between the life you lead and the life you want, I can help you to bridge it. In one-to-one sessions we’ll look at your current situation, explore your strengths and resources, set goals, and define the steps needed to achieve that change.
I offer coaching in English, Spanish, Catalan and German.
Coaching is a model of psychological intervention that supports people through change. When we find ourselves in a personal or professional situation that is making us uneasy, that we want to change but feel stuck in and don’t know how to move forward, coaching can make us aware of our situation, shed more light on our goals, and allow us to take the steps we need to bring about the changes we’re looking for. It’s important to note that coaching is not about giving advice and coaches do not presume to know how to solve client’s problems. You are the expert in your life and coaching empowers you to take the reins.
The teleological coaching methodology focuses especially on putting your goal in the context of a life project, on the ultimate aim, the reason behind the change and on the question who am I now and who do I want to become? Knowing where we are going and what is truly important to us gives us the framework for a life in which we are and we do what really interests us. Teleological coaching aims for awareness, which ultimately leads to changes through very concrete actions.
Teleological coaches use solid methodology and the skills and resources needed to resolve emotional blockages and work on beliefs that stop us from setting certain goals and achieving them. Through teleological conversation, profound empathetic listening, powerful questions, differing types of feedback and other techniques, coaches support their clients as they explore the issue, clarify their goals, examine their personal resources, assess the different options, and finally come up with an action plan. In the teleological coaching method, the focus is on a paradigm shift– the way we see, understand and interpret the world – because this necessarily implies very concrete behavioural changes.
Unlike psychotherapy, coaching does not reopen past wounds with a view to healing them. The coaching process focuses on the here and now and aims for the client to take action and decide freely the steps they want to take going forward. Although the client may be going through a difficult time, in coaching they are seen as being perfectly able to lead their own life and to have the creativity and resources needed to set and reach their goals. To do so they have the coach’s support. But it is the client who leads the process, which means they must be committed to it and accept their own responsibility in making it a successful process.
In the first session the coach and client get to know each other, assess the possibility of working together, ask and answer any queries, and lay the foundations for their joint work. Once the process has got underway, it is up to the client to decide how often they want to meet and when they think the process can be brought to a close. The sessions take place with trust and confidentiality and usually last between an hour and an hour and a half. The support needed to achieve a goal on a specific issue may take eight to twelve sessions, depending on the case. Coaching can be given to individuals, groups and teams.
I am currently giving sessions at Mo_Arts i Teràpies, C/Marià Cubí, 69 local in Barcelona.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any other information and prices.
My motivation as a coach is a genuine desire to help people to get out of a rut or overcome dissatisfaction or a loss of direction, either in their professional or personal life.
Sometimes, our true nature becomes buried beneath layers of beliefs, ideas, interpretations of reality and so on that cause suffering and prevent us from enjoying life to the full and fully shining from within. As a coach I support my clients in this exploration process to enable them to gain awareness of their true self with a view to empowering them to embark on the action needed to change.
People who know me say I convey calm, clarity and peace, and I am also very good at listening and stimulating thought.
I have a degree in Romance Philology and History from the University of Vienna (Austria) and I have lived in France, the US and in Barcelona since 1992. Having amassed years of experience as a teacher of adults and head of studies both in private universities (ESADE, EIM) and the public sector (EOI), I studied coaching on the Master’s in Personal Development and Leadership, the Mayeutic Coachingprogramme (Borja Vilaseca Institute) and on the Master’s in Personal Leadership and Teleological Coaching (Institut Gomà).
I believe that solid training in coaching, a deep interest in personal development and lifelong learning about human nature are the pillars of professional coaching.
As well as a coach, I am also a partner, father, and lover of the piano, good books, nature…
What are you looking for in your life? How can you bring about the changes you want? What can you do to improve the quality of your interpersonal relations?
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