Vision Ignition 1:1 Coaching Masterclass
For individuals at a threshold moment who need clarity, calibration and direction including decisive next steps.
Are you navigating a period of stagnation? Is your future feeling fuzzy?
Clarify and activate your vision in this 3-hour deep dive with Gwendolen
This is not surface-level goal setting.
This is about articulating a vision that captures the essence of what it is, in your future, that you don’t have right now, that your soul is calling you to create.
In this session we will
- Clarify the future you are being called towards
- Articulate what your heart is really yearning for
- Identify internal and external blocks
- Define aligned, intelligent next action steps.
You will leave with
- Deep inner knowing about what is true for you at this time
- A distilled and sensory-based vision
- Strategic and existential clarity about the cost of not achieving your vision
- Powerful skills to access your intuition
- A clear growth pathway forward.
Available online or in person
Available online or in person (if Cape Town based).
Comprehensive coaching notes included.
Investment
R2,800 for three-hour deep dive.
Let Gwendolen be your guide.
Get the ball rolling by booking your Complimentary Coaching Call with Gwendolen. By applying, you will be guided to complete an Onboarding Questionnaire and then to Gwendolen’s calendar.
Stop with the stop-starting, self-doubting, wishful thinking, time-wasting, wheel-spinning, self-sabotaging.
It’s exhausting. Re-calibrate.
Come back to your centre. Find freedom, focus and flow.
GWENDOLEN
Here’s what makes Gwendolen the real deal
Gwendolen brings a rare combination of lived experience, psychological depth, spiritual intelligence, and strategic clarity to her work. She guides her clients into identity-level metamorphosis.
With her background in law, teaching, coaching, leadership development and personal mastery, she is known for creating safe and transformative growth containers to hold space for capable, mercurial, high-functioning young men and women to access profound breakthroughs, dismantle limiting patterns, expand their inner authority, power and presence and take decisive, aligned action. The individuals who come into her container leave embodying news ways of being that allow them to do and be what they came here to be and do.
What others have said about Gwendolen’s coaching
Clients consistently describe her work as deeply rigorous, grounded and uncannily intuitive. Gwendolen holds spaces for nervous systems to settle, blind spots to become visible, identity-level shifts to become embodied and powerful results to cascade into all areas of life.
This is not surface level change; it’s mature, embodied transformation guided by someone who has done the work herself and knows how to hold others as they do the same.
Working with Gwendolen changed my life in an incredibly profound way. Infact, this coaching has been one of the most beneficial things that have happened for me in the last two years.
Today I am living with a sense of excitement about my future and a sense of satisfaction that I am no longer fighting myself and doing something because others, or society dictates that I should do it. I have come to a place of peace. Not only do I feel empowered about the choices that I have made, everyday is an day of learning and meaning.
Bevan Reynolds
Frequently Asked Questions
What is YOUR Role as Coach and Guide?
My role as coach and guide is to
- Create a confidential, non-judgmental, safe space or growth container and to continue to build trust and rapport with you
- Be prepared for our sessions and fully present during them
- Engage in deep listening
- As your “thinking partner” to ask incisive and powerful questions that result in you identifying new ways of thinking, feeling, doing and being
- Facilitate your learning and help you integrate your learning and develop your awareness, mastery and inner leadership
- Champion and challenge you
- Communicate openly, sharing and reflecting back observations
- Be honest and strive to work with integrity; to maintain the highest professional standards
- Give us both permission to be real and vulnerable, brilliant and imperfect
- To own or be responsible for both time and process
- Hold you accountable for your goals and actions
- Make explicit any observations or issues that are more appropriately explored by a counsellor or therapist and to refer you where necessary
- Be available to you for contracted periods of time between sessions.
What is MY Role as your Client?
Your role as my client is to
- Engage in a contracting process both prior to and during our coaching
- Understand that the coaching relationship is a co-partnership
- Give yourself permission to be brilliant and imperfect
- Arrive to our sessions on time and avoid last minute cancellations
- Come prepared for our sessions and to ensure there are minimal distractions during sessions
- Commit fully to the process making this one of the best investments you have made for yourself
- Be committed to spend time in reflection
- Develop calibrated practices that enhance awareness of self, others and your environment
- Build on the momentum that coaching will bring, moving into consistent action and showing up fully
- Appreciate that adult learning is a process and involves change; resistance is par for the course
- Provide feedback and communicate where or how you wish to do things differently
- Be accountable to self and for the decisions taken during the coaching process
- Consider what you wish to get out of each session and communicate what you are taking away at the end of each session
- To send a testimonial and / or feedback to Gwendolen at the end of your sessions.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful, collaborative, future-focused co-partnership in which the coach supports and empowers the client in moving from an existing state or reality to a desired state or reality.
Coaching can happen one-on-one (face to face or via Zoom), or in a group or as a team. There are numerous coaching “niches” with coaches specializing in Business, Leadership, Executive Coaching, Health Coaching, Wealth Coaching, Life Coaching, and Transformational, Transpersonal or Spiritual Coaching.
The coach facilitates a process enabling the client to do, accomplish and become more than they would have done on their own by identifying limiting assumptions, shining a light on new and fresh perspectives, mirroring back, amplifying, sponsoring and challenging the client where necessary and holding the client accountable. This is done in a confidential and non-judgmental, powerful “growth container” which creates the opportunity for the client
* to extend awareness, explore, be curious and act on his/her own unique insights
* to learn to respond rather than react and make more empowered choices
* to think, observe, reflect, focus attention and make meaning
* to develop new, calibrated practices, set up action plans and check in with goals
* to learn to shift thinking patterns, mindsets, limiting self-beliefs and ways of being
* to check in with feelings, thoughts and practice greater mindfulness
* to foster greater resilience, brilliance and presence.
Ultimately, coaching is a “thinking partnership”. As an individual, leader or team begins to challenge and change their thinking, or shift their mindset, so they begin to change and influence the various systems around them. This is very exciting and deeply empowering.
Coaching is not mentoring, training, teaching, fixing, consulting, advising, being the expert, counselling or therapy.
The definition of the International Coach Federation (IFC)
“Professional coaching is an on-going relationship that helps people (and teams) produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their relationships and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and the application of the coaching process.”
What is the difference between Coaching and Therapy?
According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), the difference can be described as follows: “Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.”
What is the difference between Coaching and Mentoring?
In a mentoring relationship, the mentor plays far more of an advisory role. Often the mentor has had substantial experience in the business or field in which they are now mentoring. Based on their experience they are able to nurture the growth, development and expertise of the client in that particular field.
The coach, on the other hand, is there to support the client to find answers for themselves, whilst fully believing that the client is creative, resourceful and whole and able to find the solutions that work for them, as only they are the experts in their own lives. Coaches, as such, are catalysts; they are process facilitators of new learning and awareness, inspiring individuals to think and to stretch.
What results do you guarantee?
Re-calibration. A fresh take on reality. A new way of being. A sense of freedom. In short: transformation.
What makes you eligible to coach me?
I distill the answer to this question on the About Gwendolen page by summarizing the SIX main advantages that make me the real deal. Check it out.
Why do I need Spiritual Coaching?
Ultimately I can’t really answer this question for you. But, that you are asking this question points to a curiosity and openness to the spiritual, right? In these crazy times, there are impulses, without doubt, reaching “down” or “in” to us, from different or higher, invisible realms, impulses that we can learn to attune to. Many of us are hungry for something more substantial. The purely material no longer satisfies. Many of us are no longer settling for the status quo. We are are shifting, asking questions and awaking. We are looking at life through a different lens. This is not always easy. If this sounds like you, it is likely you are already on a spiritual path. Coaching can be an incredible support on this journey. I am deeply called to contribute, to take up my OWN spiritual leadership, grow my OWN spiritual maturity and therefore I am ready to be your coach if this is what you think you need.
If you really want the answer to this question feel free to book a Complimentary Clarity Call with me.
What is Spiritual Intelligence?
There is an Eastern parable that says LOVE is a bird with two wings. One wing is wisdom and the other wing is compassion. If either wing is broken the bird cannot fly. Cindy Wigglesworth, a leading expert in the field of spiritual intelligence, uses this in her definition, saying that “Spiritual Intelligence is the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion (which is love) while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation”. Over the years, I have asked this question to many, many people and have collated their responses. What I can tell you is that Spiritual Intelligence is intimately interconnected with other “lines” of intelligence. I truly believe cultivating this intelligence is one of the most valuable things we can do in these times. I believe, too, that it is the next frontier in leadership.
What is Spiritual Maturity, Soul Growth and Self-Leadership?
For now, think of this as personal development on a quantum level together with a steady growth of wisdom and understanding, self-awareness, inner strength and stability, plus healthy self-concepts. Look, its a big question and maybe not such a frequently asked question, come to think of it. If you are curious, why not come along to Alive Wire Wisdom Circle and hang out with us for a bit.
Do you have a personal / professional Code of Ethics?
Yes I do. My personal code of ethics is based on the high priority I place on integrity, humility and confidentiality together with my view of my client as whole, creative, resourceful, not flawed or needing to be fixed. I have access to Supervision and value this resource.
Learn more about Alive Wire
Alive Wire is an academy and a community; a learning portal and online growth container for mercurial young men and women (and the young at heart), who look like they’re rocking on the outside but feel jaded, disillusioned, inadequate and alone on the inside. Each program offered is designed to help these individuals know themselves, trust themselves and express themselves, equipping them with powerful skills to attend to their soul growth and to create success, significance and inner stability in times of change and uncertainty.
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Alive Wire Wisdom Circle meets on the last Sunday of each month at 6pm CAT.
We are
- an online community dedicated to sense-making, being with difference and the growth of wisdom
- a community which learns from each other and grows in wisdom with each other
- a place where, together, we can meet the challenges and opportunities of our times with greater awareness, sovereignty and lightness of being
- PLUS numerous ad hoc trainings during the month with other teachers and wisdom keepers regularly given a spot light.
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