Constructive Life Guidance
About your coach

My coaching style
Through work, life experience, the generous help of others, and my own optimistic bent, I have developed a solid dedication to the inherently constructive nature of life. My goal as a coach is always to transmit a constructive growth process whereby each person discovers their own inner strength and engages their dedication and creativity to fit their unique situation. I have coached in many diverse situations as in organizing a new business venture, learning new skills, improving athletic or artistic performance, healing emotional wounds, managing chronic pain or stress, overcoming health challenges, negotiating a peaceful end of life, reorienting a life direction, adapting to a new culture or implementing basic lifestyle changes.

My personal journey
My own path of self-development led me to cross cultures and continents, from Switzerland to the US where I lived, studied and worked and where I met my husband of 27 years. I have always had a particular interest in the creative process. This initially led me to study art and architecture history while in parallel pursuing a passion I had since childhood: creative dance and improvisation. Moving to New York City in the early eighties to study experimental modern dance, I began to study the Alexander technique. F.M. Alexander's work helped me become more aware of how set habits of being bypass the creative response and how modifying those set habits can positively influence our life and performance. This led me to become an Alexander Technique teacher (performance coaching) furthering my study and work across the US.

I have also always had a strong empathy with the ancient cultures and traditions of the Far East and their direct relationship with the natural world. This, along with my interest in movement and its guiding intention led me into Tai Chi and Qigong, motivated me to train as a Qigong therapist and eventually as a Constructive Life Guidance coach. Through my training with Qi, I discovered three things: that we truly live in a world of tremendous abundance, that this abundance is available to each person through her or his positively guided purpose, and that the means we choose to achieve our ends (what we do) most significantly determine our actual destination. (see: Staff & Feng Shui / About your practitioner).