Work-Life Sessions: Guide, Mentor, Teacher

 "We seem to need mentors - wise and faithful guides, advisors, or teachers - the wisdom keepers of an entire family, a sprawling corporation, or a community. Much more, we need the mentor's spirit: an unseen, affirming influence and positive energy...The mentor's spirit animates our life. it moves us toward wholeness and authenticity." (Marsha Sinetar) 

We provide mentoring and coaching for all work-life related purposes. These sessions are both soul-centered and solution-focused. They enable the active exploration of situations and experiences to bring empathy, insight and 'new ground' within your Self. Mentoring is generally for improving the quality of your experience of your work-life. This may include issues affecting fulfilment in work, life factors affecting work, career aspirations and challenges associated with work-life changes. It often involves gaining new information, perspectives or skills to enable you to be more genuinely empowered. 

To say that these work related sessions are soul-centered is not a common claim. Yet work itself can have a certain soulfulness if engaged in a way that is whole for us. To work with soul is perhaps something of a lost art. It is seldom taught or conveyed in the modern workplace. This loss of the work soul leads us to lose our connection with who we really are and with the nourishing aspects of what we might otherwise be experiencing as we engage in our work activities and relationships. By being soul-centered our mentoring and coaching helps a return to soul in the workplace and your work life. 

Our work-life sessions are also solution-focused. People come to mentoring and coaching with a purpose or certain kind of experience they want to attend to or address for some reason. The solution-focused aspect of these sessions is actually a very skilful zen and crazy wisdom way of enabling an unfolding of what you have brought along with you. As a skilful art this leads to an unexpected yet real shift in the way you see and experience it. It frees you from where you were. It opens up a fresh moment and opportunity. Now there is a real soul solution!

Part of the Institute's background has been experience in the provision of two year coaching and counselling trainings. Paul draws on an extensive background in career, educational and work-life mentoring and was the founder and head of faculty for these programs.