Hello, I'm Penny and I'm a professional Co-Active Coach and an experienced Group Facilitator, which simply means I can change your world by changing how you think! I'm fascinated by the inner journey we all take in this great personal growth workshop called life and I'm passionate about coaching and its effectiveness. I'm also passionate about your inner world too.
Based in Northern Ireland, I work with people from all over the UK and Ireland, as well as from all around the English-speaking world. This keeps me grounded as well as expansive and forward thinking in my outlook. My three grown up children continue to circle the globe also keeping me travelling both literally and, you know, metaphorically.
It's taken me nearly six decades of my own internal journey of discovery and a professional career spanning thirty years in the personal development field to get where I am now with a life I love to live. It hasn't always been that way. My journey has taught me some hard lessons about life and yet I'm still inspired by how a simple and kind intervention can be life changing.
Coaching works, and it all begins with you.
What would you like to talk about? I recognise the pain of second guessing yourself, or of feeling you haven't been seen or heard, of the difficulty in articulating your worth and how feelings of shame, guilt, anger and fear can manifest into a way of being in the world that is counter productive. How that stops you from getting what you really want and from having a life you love to live. I know these things aren't easy to admit to and that you keep confidence issues secretive and hidden and I also know how they show up loudly when you go to do something new.
My particular way of working is to find the best way to help you feel better right now, get moving on that goal or business dream you have or to find what your purpose in this life really is. For some you like to meet in person for others we go for a walk somewhere scenic. For yet more we speak together via Skype, Zoom or telephone, time zone permitting. I won't be your friend, your mother or your mentor - I'll be your coach which means I'll really listen and reflect back what I hear and champion you to make the changes you seek. Think of me like a Diamond - I'll dig deep, cut through the layers of crap to find your gems and then reflect them back to you so you too can shine.
I am a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) having trained in London with CTI - the longest established and most respected coach training school in the world. They have trained over 55,000 coaches, consultants and managers worldwide. CTI's certification programme is the most rigorous and respected in the industry.
I am a registered member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ICF is the highest regarded coaching standards body in the world. ICF preserves the integrity of coaching through internationally accepted professional standards. Today ICF is specifically recognised among coaching professionals worldwide as the gold standard.
BSSC Psychology 2(1) Hons. Graduated from Queen's University, Belfast 1984
NLP Practitioner Trained and Certified through NLP School, London 2012
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