About Terri

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Terri Connellan is a certified life coach, author and accredited psychological type practitioner. She has a Master of Arts in Language and Literacy, two teaching qualifications and a successful 30-year career as a teacher and a leader in adult vocational education. Her coaching and writing focus on creativity, personality and self-leadership—especially for women in transition to a life with deeper purpose. Terri works with women globally through her creative business, Quiet Writing, encouraging deeper self-understanding of body of work, creativity and psychological type for more wholehearted and fulfilling lives. Terri supports women in writing and publishing their wholehearted stories. Her book Wholehearted: Self-leadership for women in transition and the Wholehearted Companion Workbook were published in 2021 by the kind press. She lives and writes in a village on the outskirts of Sydney surrounded by beach and bush.

You can connect with Terri at QuietWriting.com and on social media as @writingquietly on Instagram Facebook and Twitter.

Book your Self-leadership Discovery Call with Terri here.

What I bring to life coaching

I’m a Certified Beautiful You Life Coach and a certified coach with the Global Success Academy. I focus on transition, creativity, self-leadership and personality in my coaching.

I bring to that extensive experience in teaching, adult and vocational education, certification in personality type and a passion for creativity, writing and books that drives everything I do.

Plus personal experience of transition – I’ve been through a major transition journey myself over three years from a more corporate, organisationally based role of 30 years to a self-sustaining creative life. What I have always wanted. I’d love to share some of my learned wisdom from this transition experience with you every step of the way.

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Qualifications and experience

• Internationally Certified and Award-nominated Life Coach via the Beautiful You Coaching Academy, certified by the International Coaching Federation as an Approved Education Provider.
• Certified Coach via the Coaching Mastery Program with Master Coach of 35 years, Paul Blackburn.
• 30+ years’ experience in adult vocational education in TAFE NSW including 16 years as a teacher of adult literacy and communications.
• Deep teaching experience with an ability to choose, structure and adapt content to meet both individual and group needs.
• Author of two books, Wholehearted: Self-leadership for women in transition and the Wholehearted Companion Workbook published by the kind press in 2021.
• Personality + psychological type expertise in Jungian frameworks via certification in the Majors Personality Type Inventory™ and the Majors PT-Elements™. President of AusAPT, the Australian Association of Psychological Type, I have a wide global network of psychological type connections.
• Qualifications including a Master of Arts in Language and Literacy, Bachelor of Arts with Honours, Diploma of Education and Graduate Diploma of Adult Education.
• 20 years’ leadership experience as a senior leader in adult vocational education, creating vision for some of Australia’s largest, most dynamic training organisations and leading staff groups of up to 3000 people successfully through times of change. I’ve also been an adviser to the state Minister for Education and Director of Strategic Policy for TAFE NSW.
• A passion for creativity and innovation – through my writing and leading others to be more creative in their work.
• A love of literature, language and reading: as a published poet with qualifications to Masters’ level in language and literature, teaching and adult education, I have a passionate interest in books and the reading and writing process. Words and the creative influence of reading are at the heart of Quiet Writing and my work.
• Strong intuitive skills backed up by practical techniques, including a deep knowledge of tarot and oracle cards which I integrate into my writing and coaching offerings.

I have INTJ personality type preference and my interests include a deep love of reading, swimming in the sea, walking by the beach and in the bush, and the intuitive art of tarot.

You can find out more about my body of work over time including my qualifications, work experience and published writing here:

 About Quiet Writing

Quiet Writing is the summary of my passions and Core Desired Feelings of:

creative, intuitive, flowing, poetic and connected

To explain, I love the words of Monicka Clio Sakki, creator of the Sakki Sakki tarot deck:

“The Artist is still an Artist even behind the closed curtains. Being an Artist is a process, not a state.”

Quiet Writing is about the strength that comes from working quietly in writing and other spheres to create, coalesce, influence and connect. It provides an opportunity to muse and reflect on core values of creativity, intuition, resilience and strength, and the interplay between them.  In this, I draw on and connect my various experiences and interests as well as connecting with others who share them.

I gain great heart from reading about the journeys of those who seek and enjoy things like creativity, the gifts of introversion, authenticity and celebrating a reading and writing life, and especially hope to celebrate the lyricism of this in my own journey and in connecting with others on similar journeys.

I’m very influenced by my surroundings and I choose to live by the sea in a quiet place that is my sanctuary and sacred creative space.

I love engaging online through e-courses and e-communities and enjoy learning via podcasts. And I love Instagram and my creative kindred souls in that space. I have a keen interest in family history and historical fiction. I have a great passion for the intuitive arts like astrology, tarot, oracle cards and symbolism and am a huge fan of Carl Jung. As an Introverted Intuitive, I love the depth of these exquisite adventures each day.

Key creative influences

I love to share my learning and influences with you to inspire your own transition and journey. I am especially skilled at finding just the right resource at the right time for the people I work with.

Here are some of the influences, connections and reading, writing and personal development projects that have made a huge difference in my life path:

• Susannah Conway’s e-courses such as Blogging from the Heart, Journal your Life and The Inside Story‘ and her inspiring journeys on building a heart filled business and life.
• Danielle LaPorte’s everything and especially The Desire Map, her energy, passion and constant encouragement in creativity.
• Joanna Penn’s The Creative Penn, a generous and informative website of resources and podcasts and the model of her business and writing life
• Susan Cain’s book, Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking and The Quiet Revolution which helped me make sense of so much
• Sage Cohen, writing mentor and author whose books including Writing the Life Poetic and Fierce on the Page are always close to hand.
• Victoria Smith, my creative buddy and life coach, who inspires me always with her mojo, wise words and magic.

Join up to my email list for more insights and resources. Receive access to free ebooks including the Reading Wisdom Guide for Creatives, Coaches and Writers as well as the Beach Notes newsletter monthly.

Connect on social media with me too. I am a bit of a technology geek and love social media. I’m especially active on Instagram and Facebook, but also love Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

I look forward to connecting with you and learning from you and I encourage you to connect with me as we quietly write our unique voices into the world.

Terri x