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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
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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.
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I have become a marriage celebrant and have been offering this locally since 2019.
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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.
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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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