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Welcome to the January 2025 Newsletter
I hope you had a regenerating break (if you had one), and a good start into the new year!
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I gave up on new year's resolutions a long time ago – I now prefer to hold intentions and hopes, and allow life to unfold instead. How about you? What are your hopes for 2025?
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📌 In this month's newsletter, I...
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- ... offer you a new-year & birthday gift (today is my birthday) 🎁,
- ... inform you about two exciting group coaching programmes that are coming up this quarter 🎉,
- ... share with you an inspirational coaching question, a poem, and a song that are all linked together 🔗,
- ... highlight a podcast re. career transitions and a CV tip💡, and finally
- ... impart a 2025 Blessing for the year 💫.
Wishing you all that is Beautiful and Good in this world!
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New Year / Birthday gift for all my subscribers
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As a thank you for your loyalty and engagement, I'd like to offer you
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10% off
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on your next individual coaching package or group coaching booking. Just mention
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in your email when you make your next booking, and it will be applied :).
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This discount is not cumulable with other special offers, and is non-transferrable.
Offer expires 31.12.2025
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Gestalt Coaching Practice Lab for Coaches:
Coaching beyond tools!
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Join me for up to 20 hours of practice and fun!
Are you a coach?
Are you ready to take your coaching practice to the next level?
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If you answered both questions with a yes, I invite you to explore and practice Gestalt Coaching principles with me – a transformative approach that integrates your intuition, creativity, and presence into the coaching process. I provide you a safe and confidential learning space, where Gestalt coaching skills can be explored, experimented with, and practiced.
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This is your chance to go beyond traditional coaching,
and witness the impact it can have on your clients and your own personal development as a coach!
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- Genuine connection: Use your thoughts, feelings, and sensations to deepen the coach-client relationship.
- Creative and intuitive way of being: To unlock new insights and breakthroughs for your clients.
- Ethical and transparent use of self: Balance personal expression with professional boundaries to create lasting transformation.
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My offer to you
10 online lab sessions in 2025 - book individually or as a package!
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- If you book by 28 February 2025, you pay for each individual lab session CHF 90.- instead of CHF 99.-.
- And if you book all 10 lab sessions in advance by 28 February 2025, you receive Lab 10 for free, and get an additional 15% discount, paying CHF 688.- instead of CHF 990.-.
- A certificate of attendance will be provided after each lab session you attend, so you can submit it for Resource Development CCE purposes (for e.g. ICF).
- I have also submitted a CPD Scheme application with the Association for Coaching to have the sessions recognised by the AC as Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Pending confirmation.
Whether you are new to Gestalt and curious about it, or are experienced in Gestalt and are looking for a refresher and a safe place to experiment with it - these labs are for you!
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Take your practice to new heights!
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Time for a career change. Now what?
Group Coaching workshop
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Find the clarity, hope, and courage
to take that next step!
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Are you in the midst of a career change?
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Maybe you feel in a rut and are looking for a new challenge?
Or maybe you see your current company’s transformation, or effective job loss, as an opportunity to do something different or what you always dreamt to do?
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Join me and fellow participants during this interactive workshop, online, for 2 half-day workshops, as we explore together your interests, strengths, hopes, and fears.
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By the end of this workshop, you will walk away with:
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- New and meaningful insights,
- Renewed sense of hope and motivation to take action,
- Clarity on your possible next steps,
- New connections with like-minded people.
With a maximum of 9 participants (and a minimum of 4 to run), this intimate, supportive setting ensures personalised attention, and the chance to collaborate and share experiences.
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3 dates available - pick the one that suits you best:
March 18 & 19; June 18 & 19; November 18 & 19
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- If you book your spot by 28 February 2025, you pay CHF 449.- instead of CHF 499.-.
- In addition, the first three people to book a spot will receive a complimentary 60 min. individual coaching session in the value of CHF 220.-.
Still have open questions? Ready to book your spot? I’m only an e-mail away!
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Inspirational Coaching Question
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Helena Clayton, a wonderful colleague and leadership development expert, drew my attention to the following Nietzsche thought experiment, and I wanted to share it with you as well.
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"this life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and every sigh and everything unutterable - small or great - in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence'.
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In other words, what if you had to re-live your current life, over, and over, and over again – your ultimate personal "Groundhog Day" for those of you who know the movie 😊 – how would you want to live your life then? What choices would you make moving forward? What doors would you want to close? What doors would you want to open? What paths would you want to carve?
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Feel free to journal or paint your response, and be sure to use a pen or brush. Our brain processes information differently when we write vs. type...
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Speaking of doors 😊, I shared the following poem with one of my coaching clients 🫶🏽 a couple of days ago, and I decided to share it with all of you as well.
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Do you sometimes get in a creative rut, or feel stuck, or feel like your wheel is spinning empty? I know I do! And when this happens, what helps me is to dust myself off, get up, and "literally" go and open the door!
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THE DOOR
by Miroslav Holub
🌻 Go and open the door.
Maybe outside there’s
a tree, or a wood,
a garden,
or a magic city.
Go and open the door.
Maybe a dog’s rummaging.
Maybe you’ll see a face,
or an eye,
or the picture
of a picture.
Go and open the door.
If there’s a fog
it will clear.
Go and open the door.
Even if there’s only
the darkness ticking,
even if there’s only
the hollow wind,
even if
nothing
is there,
go and open the door.
At least
there’ll be
a draught. 🌻
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Dina – which door have you been keeping shut that may benefit from a draught?
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OPEN THE DOOR
by Otis Redding
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Staying with the "opening doors" theme - as you listen to Otis' rendition, think about what in your life today is begging you (like Otis is) to open that door...
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Herminia Ibarra: Mastering Career Transitions
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Herminia is an authority on career development, and I recently discovered this great episode where she shares some of her perspectives and tips on how to go about career transitions. Definitely worth a listen.
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3 tips for your Professional Experience section on your CV
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I do a lot of career coaching, which typically includes reviewing my client's CV, and making suggestions for improvements.
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Your Professional Experience is one of the most critical sections on your CV – so here are 3 tips how to make it stand out.
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NB: I recently created an automated e-mail sequence for new subscribers. Within the e-mail sequence, I share the below 3 tips. But as the majority of you have subscribed to my newsletter before I created that sequence, I decided to share those tips with you in this January newsletter as well.
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Tip 1
One of the first things to pay attention to is the first word at the start of every sentence within your Professional Experience section. Many people use nouns or, what I would term, "weak verbs" - i.e. verbs that leave me, the reader, guessing what your role actually was. It is key that you start each one of those sentences with an "active" verb, that best describes what your role actually was.
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To help you do this, I've compiled a list of action verbs (below) that I share with my clients. Feel free to use it as inspiration for your next choice of verb in this critical section of your CV.
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Tip 2
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Use present tense. The action verb list is in the past tense for ease of reference, but I find that using the present tense conveys a more active and vibrant feeling vs. the past tense or nouns. So, for example, say "Moderate a research panel for top 500 Pharma executives" instead of "Moderated ....". This is not a must – more of a personal preference. So, see what works best for you, and use that. But key is to use it consistently!
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Tip 3
Don't make the recruiter guess what you mean. In most cases, this will not be in your favour. This means:
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- Do not use acronyms, unless you've spelled them out at least once.
- Avoid technical jargon. You can't assume that the recruiter is as versed in your area of expertise as you are.
- Try to re-use words used in the job description, in case the company uses an automated screening system.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY: Be Specific Specific Specific when it comes to YOUR role, what you did, and what you achieved. Generic statements like "Managed administrative tasks" or "Supported HR projects" or "etc." are not your friend... The more specific you can be, the higher your chance of peaking interest.
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How helpful did you find these tips?
What else are you curious about and would want me to include in my next newsletter?
Just respond to this e-mail and let me know!
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Bonus tip
Let's face it, AI is here to stay, and you could use it to write your CV. Personally, I would not recommend to have it write your CV from scratch... However, once you have your own draft, it can be a helpful tool for editing purposes, or to simplify your wording (if too technical). So, feel free to use it if you'd like, but be sure to review, adjust, and amend as needed. And make sure that what you put forward is "true", sounds like "you", and represents well how you'd like to present yourself to your next potential employer.
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AI has a tendency to use certain expressions or words over, and over, and over again... not just in the text they suggest to you, but to everyone else using the tool. So, just be mindful of that as you use it to write your CV, motivation letter, or social media post.
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Your CV is your business card - all it needs to do is peak enough interest for the recruiter and hiring manager to want to learn more about you, and invite you to a phone or personal interview... The real magic and charm then happens when you get to meet them.
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Not a book - but rather an Irish blessing as we start 2025...
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
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May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home
And may the hand of a friend always be near.
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May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hearts that love you.
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Wishing you a fulfilling and prosperous 2025!
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