What I do with people is in many ways in the space beyond therapy and coaching. We talk about past difficulties as well as goals and aspirations for the future. Both are an important part of knowing yourself. But both are "just" a means to knowing the truth about yourself and your life.
The difference between the past, the future and the truth is that the truth is happening now, it can be known through knowing our own emotions, thoughts, what our body and heart are telling us. The past, on the other hand, is a story that no longer really exists, a memory that often weighs down and hinders the way forward. The future is a thought that does not exist any more in reality. What decides the future is what you feel and think in the present moment.
It's very easy to start creating with me - we will arrange a meeting in person or online, ideally 2 hours of time that will go by like water. In the beginning I offer this donated meeting or and often more than this one. The point is to get to know where you are in life, what you really, really want and if we would be a good fit for each other. In the first meeting, by principle, we address nothing but your life, no agenda of mine, no offers, just the pure flow of two seeking souls.
We will talk, we will immerse ourselves in an authentic experience of self, we will try, explore, create, in a safe environment where there are no judgments and evaluations, no good/bad judgments. There is only the truth, the clear expression of self, the knowing of self at a very deep level.
This knowing is then the basis for further work together, for which we use a wide variety of different means, which I have myself experienced and recognized as the most effective on my long journey of self-development. But I have no set process, because each person is unique and together we seek what is unique and functional for you. Therefore, I am just glimpsing a selection of what I work with:
The Journey of Brandon Bays - I went through a full training between 2018 and 2020, it is deep work with emotions and the body
E-motion - a comprehensive method of working with the body, mind and emotions, developed by German psychotherapist Dorothe Trassl
Coaching Conversation - I ask, you talk, I listen and together we find what has been hidden and create what you desire. I have been learning and practicing coaching since 2020. I learn from the masters of their field, the best coaches I have discovered in the world, including Steve Hardison, Rich Litvin, JP Morgan Jr, Gary Mahler. I know many of them personally and have worked or will work with them. Because the personal journey to freedom, love and personal power is never ending
Breath work - the breath is actually a forgotten art and an essential part of our daily experience
Meditation, contemplation - without the art of being present to oneself, any inner work is very difficult, this is the real foundation that must be worked towards sooner or later
Enneagram - the ancient teachings of how the very foundation of our identity works, what is a person and their self-consciousness anyway. I don't teach the Enneagram, I leave that to the more vocational, but I do use its principles extensively in our work.
I add many other techniques, teachings and testing methodologies to the mix as needs arise.
A fundamental pillar of my offering is understanding and working with the basic principles of how the human being, the human mind and the connection to the body and heart works at all. Because as long as you address the more superficial layers of problems without addressing the roots and even the soil in which the roots are embedded, the problem will always come back in some form eventually.