Hi there!

Well, this is my very first experience becoming a blogger. I know blogging is already "old" in terms of new media and communications, but admittingly it took me a while to warm up to the idea to share my views and ideas in such an open manner. But now I even think, this can become a therapeutic experience since I do enjoy writing :)

The reason I have created this blog is because I am in the process of establishing my own Holistic Coaching Practice called Flow & Balance (hence the same title of this blog). Holistic Coaching means that I will integrate Coaching & Healing Techniques to empower people to change their lives for the better. It is my personal mission to help people to help themselves and create new positive internal realities for themselves, so that their external experiences will change as well.

I spent the last 6 years in Singapore, working at our practice-based management Consulting company AC (www.antonyconsulting.com) which is focused on Change Management, integrating practice areas such as Strategy, Leadership Development and Human Performance Management. Coaching has become important for us to anchor desired changes in the leadership capability as well as organisational culture of the organisation.

Yet, I did find that the cognitive approach to coaching was not enough since I came across people with unresolved emotional issues that have had a direct impact on their managerial and leadership effectiveness. Therefore I started to learn about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique - www.emofree.com) which I use to release negative emotions and change limiting beliefs as part of the coaching process. I am currently doing a Masters in NLP, Hypnotherapy and Timelinetherapy and will further integrate this into the coaching process.

My larger Vision is to create a Centre for Holistic Well-being (Flow & Balance is the 1st step towards it) which essentially becomes an Integrated Healing Centre where Coaching is part of the Client Engagement process. The vision of the Centre is: Becoming a living Resource Center and Incubator of self-actualization, greater goodness and humanity in action to contribute to the evolution of collective consciousness around the world. A tall order, but I have already found wonderful partners who are willing to contribute and make this Vision a reality.

My intention with this blog is really to share more about myself, my thinking and the work I want to pursue with others to make the world a better place to live in. We are approaching the "end of time" as the Mayan calendar has predicted, completing the 5th cycle of 5,125 years on 21st Dec 2012. While there are several dooms day scenarios out there, I believe we have the opportunity to choose our future and create a new epoch of peace, cooperation, and healing. This is what I would like to be part of, contribute my talents & abilities and build a community based on our humanity and beyond the Ego.

"We live in an illusion and the 'appearance' of things.There is a reality...We are that reality. When you understand this.You can see that you are no-thing. And being no-thing. You are everything. That is all"

--Kalu Rinpoche

Have a great day and I will be back...

Yours,

Vanessa