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My goal is to work alongside you,
within a protected, confidential and trusting environment
creating a space
where reflection, awareness, and creativity
can grow
Services
Open Energy combines a passion for Mindfulness and Professional Supervision or Coaching to offer proactive, individual or group sessions; workshops
and self care skills.
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Professional Supervision, Coaching & Workshops
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Individual Professional Supervision and Coaching
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Group Supervision and tailored workshops for communication and interpersonal skills
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Mindfulness
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Pause Breathe Smile trained facilitator.
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Community mindfulness practice
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Mindfulness workshops tailored to meet the needs of group or individual
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Youth Development
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Individual Child and Youth counselling
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Youth Development experience
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Rock and Water facilitator
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Pause Breathe Smile facilitator
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Marriage Celebrant
Independent Marriage Celebrant
About
I like to keep things alive and fresh in my working life and have a passion and interest in Professional Supervision and Coaching that is both stimulating and rewarding.
I have been primarily focused in this way since completing a Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Supervision from NMIT in 2016.
Feeling equally comfortable working in social services or corporate fields, my inter-professional skills and the external nature of my business encourages quality relationships and a deep exploration of the work brought forward by my clients
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Other skills and experience:
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Boards of Trustees The Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre for 2 years and The West Coast Youth Workers Collective for 8 years
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Mindfulness and Selfcare
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A member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) and am accountable to this Code of Ethics.
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Recognising the importance of a balanced life and living accordingly
After 30 years of Youthwork, not seeing teenagers on a regular basis was something I missed, and am very pleased to fill this void with some child and youth counselling through the Homebuilders West Coast Trust's family counselling service.
I have become a marriage celebrant and have been offering this locally since 2019.
I am a parent, a grandmother, and live with my husband and dog on a rural property, growing as much of my fruit and veges as I can.
Philosophy
For me, David Whyte sums this up perfectly.....
“We want to work smarter rather than harder’ yet all of us are familiar with frantic busyness as a state that continually precludes us from opening to the quiet and contemplation it takes to be smart.
The fast-moving mind rebels against slowing the pace because it intuits that it will not only have to reassess it's identity but also take time to recover and re-create, and of course when we are in buzzing- worker-bee mode, that would be a loss of momentum difficult to justify.
We do not even have time to find out if our momentum is taking us over the nearest cliff”.
“If we are serious about the soul at work, and the creativity that sustains a soulful work life, all of us must confront the question of quiet and contemplation in the workplace.
But silence means many things to many people”..........
From David Whyte, (2002) The Heart Aroused - Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, Crown Publishers.