My 90-year old uncle is the first to arrive at my Zoom-birthday party. Then my team leader from my work in mental health facilities. Third, my former buddy from my Dutch improv theatre group and her family.
And my beloved dorm friend, childhood friend, business buddy, brothers, sister+boyfriend, the American exchange student who lived with us when I was 16. The aunt and uncle I was a bridesmaid of at age five. Of course my hubby.
And halfway through the introductions, my parents join with party hats and plastic flower strings wrapped around their necks and sing a birthday song. 16 Screens throw their arms in the air and holler “Hieperdepiep, hoera! Hieperdepiep, hoera! Hieperdepiep, hoera!”
Three times because Dutch people like to party, even if only on Zoom.
And as much as I love all of it, I do miss in-person parties. Nothing can replace a hug, moving around from one group to another, looking into real eyes.
And the normalcy of silent moments, of quiet reflection before speaking.
This last year I have done all my coaching and mediation on Zoom.
It works, surprisingly, very well.
And I am ready for coaching in person.
More specifically, coaching while walking, so we can take our masks off and be safe. (But you can leave yours on, of course)
You might be ready for in-person coaching too and let the natural pauses in the conversation help you reflect on your goals and aspirations.
You might want some outdoor time after being stuck at home behind a computer while trying to homeschool your first grader for a year. Or sixth-grader. Or highschooler.
And even though you are proficient at participating in meetings on Zoom, even running them yourself, you might like to move your feet instead of navigating the software.
Enjoy the fresh air and the beauty of Texas spring after wearing a mask at work all day.
And let the environment inspire you to look at your situation from a fresh perspective.
You choose how long we meet, as long as it is more than 1 hour. You simply pay $175 per hour, prorated.
Since this is a new offer, I will pay for the time I spent biking or driving to our meeting place, as long as it is within 11.2 miles of my home (which will get us to McKinney Falls State Park, yeah!).
This is what Maureen van den Akker, Senior Copywriter at Food Cabinet, said about working with me:
“What I really liked was that you just listen very well. And even though I sometimes found your questions difficult, I could somehow find out more about myself. And maybe start to appreciate myself more in the sense that I am a nicer person than I think I am. I got more out of it than I thought before we started. Those few conversations really took me a step further.
“The main result of working with you is seeing that I am not looking for something that is somewhere far on the horizon, the woman I want to be: confident and comfortable to be herself, who has the courage to be vulnerable. That she is not somewhere far away, but that it is somewhere in me and that it depends more on the circumstances whether she comes out.
“And that I can influence those circumstances. And maybe I can train it too, by taking a step every now and then. Looking for a situation where I feel vulnerable and then noticing that nothing bad happens after all. Maybe that’s how the self-confident me can come up more often.”
Since many of my clients are early morning people, I will meet you as early as 7:00 am.
Do you want to talk about how this might work?
- Email me
- Or call me at 512-589-0482
- No strings attached, pinky promise: I always like talking to you even if you don’t want to take me up on this offer