To see the world anew, to change old responses, to disentangle from singular points of view. To let rigidity turn to flexibility. To breathe. To rely on kindness . . .
What I learned when I was first studying gestalt and hypnotherapy twenty years ago was that the client tells you everything you need to know.
Now I extend that to mean: let the world tell you what you need to know. Everything is a sign, both of itself, and of something beyond itself. So, as a coach, as a teacher, as a human being, my task is to learn to read the magic of the world. Magic, because it is not visible at first. Then, as each layer peels away, it’s hard to imagine that what is underneath was ever invisible.
I don't want to assign any special power to myself. What I am describing is available to anyone who takes the trouble to look.
Now as a coach and hypnotherapist, and as a teacher and workshop leader, my basic work is to turn this process into a collaboration, and to transmit as fully as I can the understanding that change is absolutely possible, and that entirely new ways of being, thinking, and feeling are actually available. All you need is enough commitment to begin the process.
The work has become so effective that clients have sometimes forgotten why they came to it in the first place. In a few short weeks they have transformed their life, and now wonder why they ever had the notion that they needed help<
I have to remind them why they came, then tell them how truly capable they are, and how brilliant they are at solving problems!
