Services

 Open Energy combines a  passion for Mindfulness and Professional Supervision to offer people  proactive, individual or group supervision; workshops; 

and  self care skills.

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Professional  Supervision, Coaching & Workshops 

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• Individual Professional Supervision and Coaching

• Mediation 

• Group Supervision and tailored workshops for communication and interpersonal skills

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Youth Development

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• Individual support and counselling

• Group work: program development and workshops EG: Empathy through Social Media

• Youth Worker training and assessment

• Rock and Water facilitator

• Pause Breathe Smile facilitator

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Mindfulness 

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•  Pause Breathe Smile trained facilitator.

• Community mindfulness practice

• Mindfulness workshops tailored to meet the needs of group or individual

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Marriage Celebrant

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In collaboration with West Coast Weddings  to celebrate your wedding vows

About

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I have worked with youth for over 30 years, developing and facilitating group youth development programs, projects  and events, as well as working individually in a counselling role.

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 A past chairperson of the West Coast Youth Workers Collective for 8 years, growing and supporting Youth Workers to network for training, increasing professionalism, and creating positive opportunities and outcomes for youth. This has evolved into professional supervision and coaching.

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Alongside this passion of working with people, I am a student of meditation, exploring methods to live with increased awareness and compassion.  A development of this has been the sharing of mindfulness education with children and adults.

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I am a parent of  three adult children, with a husband, living on a rural property on the West Coast, growing as much of my fruit and veges as I can.

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Today, I am aligned to a growing number of people who place ‘time’ as a most  valuable and precious commodity for a fulfilling life. I am inspired by the GISIT principles:

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• Ground- Importance of where it is in your life, connection, belonging on the planet.

• Input- Food, books, people, movies etc.

• Stimulation- How to expand and challenge the mind.

• Integration- Time for weaving the above to make sense of them.

• Transcendence- With the previous 4 in place, everyday there is opportunity to notice transcending wisdom in small pieces as they occur.

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In my professional capacity, I am a member of the Aotearoa  New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) and am accountable to this Code of Ethics.

I hold a Grad.Dip Adolescent Health and Welfare, and a Post Grad Cert Professional Supervision.

 I currently offer a range of individual and group workshops and programs, in the areas of mindfulness, youth development, mediation, professional supervision and coaching, and most recently, services as a marriage celebrant.

Philosophy

 For me, David Whyte sums this up   perfectly.....

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“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.

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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”.

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“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.

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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.

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