Quiet Writing Coaching
Journeying deep into wholehearted stories
Choosing to journey deep into your wholehearted story?
Read on. Here are a few questions for you:
- Are you wanting to change something in your life – your career or pathway? Perhaps wanting to get back to something you left behind or amp up that passion you are trying to ignite in the margins of your life?
- Are you wanting to work the margins so that they can become the main game and not the margins, what you do in leftover time – if you can ever find it?
- Do you have a creative project or projects that you are burning to work on more fully as a pathway to other life options and transitions?
- Are you not feeling so wholehearted where you are now? Does your heart sink as you walk through the door because you’ve left so much of yourself at the door when you walk in?
- Are you trying to navigate a major life transition to a more fulfilling career and creative life and finding it’s really tough going?
- Are you feeling a bit bruised and battered from current life and work and needing to find another way (please)?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, I can help you to find your way through this time of transition to a more fulfilling career and creativity. I can be your guide to choosing to journey deep into your wholehearted story.
I’ve been there
I can support you in a very real way because I’ve been there. I’ve made a major life transition after 30 years in government employment. I loved my job but as time went on, both the organisation and I changed and the gap between us widened. So I set out on a journey to get back to the creative work of my heart.
Even with so much knowledge and experience under my belt, that change of identity and direction was so testing, it occasionally threw me into a space where I felt like I knew nothing, like I was too old and it was all too late.
And to be honest, that still happens occasionally. We need all the help and camaraderie we can get! I want to share my knowledge, skills and experience with you to make that passage easier and more productive for you.
Critically, I want to help you engage with your body of work over time to identify the threads that tie them together. I can help you with self-knowledge to understand your personality and its strengths and weaknesses, to learn from the shadow side and build on your strengths. I can help you identify your core desired feelings, what lights your fire and what fills you with passion.
My coaching offerings
The offerings and tools I use for helping you work on creativity, self-leadership, psychological type and deeper wholeheartedness are:
Free Self-leadership Call
If you are considering a life coaching series or combination of options, the best place to start is a free 30-minute Self-leadership Call on where you are and where you want to go. This helps to see if we are a good fit and to begin to identify key goals and possible actions.
You can go book a time for your free Self-leadership Call chat via Zoom now. You will be asked to fill in a pre-chat questionnaire also so I can learn more about you and your needs in advance. Or you can just turn up and have a cuppa and conversation about what might assist you at this time.
Create your Deeper Story 1:1 Coaching Series
Create Your Deeper Story is a six-session coaching series over three months to help you identify where you want to be and how to get there in very practical goal and action-oriented steps, one step at a time with wholehearted and grounded support.
The investment in your future for this life-changing series is $330AU per month (around $230US) for 3 months. Payable one month in advance for each month, you can stage your investment during the time. Start with a free Self-leadership Call.
Pathfinding One-off Coaching
A Pathfinding Coaching Package helps you work your way through specific options such as study, courses, becoming a coach or blending your passions into a new business.
It includes:
- a brief pre-coaching questionnaire
- a 90-minute coaching session via videoconference to explore potential path options and where I can share my experiences with you.
- email access to me for 2 weeks after our coaching session
- customised book recommendations and resources to guide your path
With an investment of only $250 AUD, this can be a critical step in a new path and life. Book a free Discovery Call to kick off your path-finding experience.
What do I bring to this?
I am a certified life coach, certified and skilled personality type practitioner, and a teacher and leader with 30 plus years’ experience backed by formal qualifications to Masters’ level. You can find out more about me and what I bring to coaching over on my About page.
Coaching has helped me manage a transition time positively and also work on my creativity, business skills, self-care and wellbeing as I moved through big change. I am now so much healthier and stronger, swimming in the ocean a few times a week. Thanks to my commitment to change and thanks to my wonderful coaches. I’m keen to share these experiences with you.
COLLEEN REAGON – A passionate life
As a result of my coaching sessions with Terri, I achieved my goals — a foundation for a new way of working and a strong vision to work toward. I feel confident that I will be able to accomplish the tasks required to bring it to fruition. Focus and discipline have returned and I am showing up more, not just on the page but in other creative ways. I’m becoming more wholehearted! My coaching experience with Terri was supportive, energising and productive. And I accomplished so much more than I thought I would!
What is life coaching?
As you can see, life coaching can be an incredible support as we move through times of change and make a path to those goals that are in our heart. Especially those long-term goals we have held very close.
Life coaching provides a structured and goal-oriented framework to help you achieve what you want in life. It draws from a variety of disciplines including psychology, sociology, personal development and social development. Life coaching helps you move from where you are to where you want to be through supported and guided goal-setting and action. Importantly, it’s not the same as therapy or counselling; it’s more future-focused and action-focused.
People who choose to work with life coaches come from a range of backgrounds and work on goals as diverse as:
- making a positive career transition to a more fulfilling job or way of working
- driving creative projects such as writing a book, starting a blog
- starting a creative business
- becoming healthier, fitter and stronger
- having positive and meaningful relationships
- improving self-confidence and self-belief
- creating energising and nourishing self-care routines
- living an inspired and balanced life.
Life coaching can take place in person or via technology such as over the phone or via Skype or Zoom. It can take place with individuals, in groups or in workplaces.
What people have said
If you’d like to know a little more about what people have said about working with me, you can visit here. Here’s a snapshot from a few wonderful women I have had the pleasure of working with:
JEANETTE BUCHANAN – Life Coach – Life Coach for Me
With tools that I’ve learned along the way, one of the most valuable for me is living in the moment. I wish that everyone could have a chance to have a coaching experience as it just opens up a whole other world. Terri is such a great support, she guides you gently and is really an inspiration. My coaching experience with Terri was enriching, satisfying & resulted in deep inner learning. Terri is an incredible coach and anyone that gets to work with her is incredibly lucky.
CLAIRE HARNETT MANN – On Instagram
As a result of our coaching series, I now see myself as somebody who knows what she wants and can achieve the goals she sets. I am now applying for university level jobs, offering my writing for publication again and enrolled in a Masters course for Creative Writing. What these strands have in common is that I feel confident enough to aim high and I don’t have to feel apologetic for being who I am and what I want. Terri is a wonderful listener and a gentle, intuitive soul who has helped me to realise that the alchemy of my writing, teaching and spiritual life is not only possible but necessary.
NICOLE THOMAS – Nicole Ford Thomas
Schedules and structure are important to me, as an INTJ, so having the freedom to “go with the flow” and listen to my intuition for guidance has helped move my writing process along without hesitation or doubt in myself. Terri is very thorough and I left the sessions knowing we had covered every possible angle to ensure we had found the proper fit for my situation. My coaching experience with Terri was very beneficial, loving and supportive. I call Terri my ‘Terri Godmother’ – and I will forever be thankful for her guidance and support.
SYLVIA BARNOWSKI – On Instagram
I am definitively in a totally different place than I was three months ago and I love where I am right now. My personal creative practice took off in a direction I always wanted it to go but for some reason hesitated. I discovered an amazing personal process that allowed me to dive really deep, and that felt nourishing and enjoyable…I finally found an exercise class that my body loved. It was challenging but it felt really good…As for my professional practice, after taking time to explore my vision I decided to enrol in a coaching program that felt in a perfect alignment with my heart.
CLAIRE SAUER – There is a room
My goals were mainly around my role in the local church and local community. I’m now on course to be relicensed as a Reader (lay minister), and I’m on the parish leadership duty roster for the rest of the year. There’s so much encouragement and support from the village and the clergy, and the diary for next year is already being filled in. The coaching experience with Terri was wonderful – insightful and helpful. It was always such a good check-in, and a gentle accountability. Terri has found her calling and helped me to find my own.
REBEKAH IRELAND – Spacious and wild
As a result of coaching, I’m clearer about my boundaries and less timid about asserting them. I’m less apologetic because I have a more secure sense of the validity of my strengths. I value myself more…My coaching experience with Terri was interesting, soul-oriented and nurturing. I have more faith in my ability to succeed. I think my strong, independent side has been allowed to breathe and see the light of day whereas before I kept her hidden. I feel like through the work we’ve done, who I really am is shining through.
Where I focus – wholehearted self-leadership
With my experience in leadership and creativity, I am interested in how coaching can be a form of self-leadership to find our deeper story.
Just as we can lead others and take the lead in situations, the most important form of orchestrating leadership is how we take ourselves forward and bring the pieces of our lives together.
My introvert qualities help me work from writing as a strength and I believe everyone can shine in their own way. We just need to find the threads that pull our unique story together. That’s what I do with my coaching and writing work at Quiet Writing – support people to find the threads of their story and shine.
I’ve studied and worked and read and I’m keen to bring all these pieces together and find the gold threads to help you find your deeper story and make a more creatively based lifestyle. All of the offerings I am creating are woven around this thread provide options for you to create your story.
Are you also wanting to choose to journey deeper into your wholehearted story?
So how about you?
So if any of these thoughts and experiences about creativity and career, about self-leadership and feeling more whole-hearted, about doing the work, are resonating with you, I’d love to work with you.
I work with women who:
- want to be more wholehearted about the work they do; feeling more whole – like all of your important and valued parts are in play and activated, not left at the door or buried somewhere;
- are trying to find their unique voice and space in their career and creative world;
- have skills and experience they wish to take as a foundation and recast into a new vision and path;
- are going through a time of major transition, self-initiated or because of something happening to them;
- want to create a book, blog, ecourse, new business or other creatively focused activity;
- want to take the steps to create the life they want and to shine.
I’d love to have a chat with you if you’d like to feel more satisfied with your life and make more informed choices about how to be creative and make a living. Or if you’re keen on getting your creative projects moving and are trying to work out how to combine creativity and career more effectively. These are areas I care so much about and can support you in.
So contact me for a free 30-minute no-obligation Discovery Call. We will see if we are a good fit and you can begin to identify your path and goals. We’ll work out the dates and schedule for our coaching sessions to suit you to make them a priority once an hour each fortnight.
In practical terms, I’m in Australia but you can be anywhere in the world. We would work face to face via technology-based services like Zoom or Skype for our sessions.
Where to contact me:
So if you have any questions, you can pop them in here now and I will get back to you within a 2-3 days maximum.
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