Life coaching is a guided exploration of your current life with an eye for improvement, enhancement, advancement, and change, all for the purpose of increasing satisfaction, contentment and passion for living.
It is an opportunity to freely discuss life choices, life styles, patterns of living, relationship dynamics, and employment concerns in a non-judging, non biased, insightful environment. Predominant is the notion: “we learn who we are, as we hear ourselves speak”. Life coaching brings into awareness what is sometimes hidden in each individual under the layers of cultural conditioning, role expectations and historical beliefs.
Mentorship
It is interesting to me that in the process of Mentorship, the teacher teaches the student and the student teaches the teacher.
The imparting of knowledge is reciprocal, if the parties are open and willing.
The dynamic of the relation is a push pull, in which each party is stretched to encompass the other through the opening of the heart. The commitment to the relation pushes the evolution of growth, if the bond is maintained and honored.
It is a win-win engagement if love holds true and stays the course. It is not an easy process to allow to unfold but richly rewarding for both the teacher and student.
Lori Ellis-McKinney BSW, RSW
Clinical Mindfulness Expert
Court Declared Child Welfare Expert
Founder-Owner-Operator
Ellis McKinney & Affiliates
River Valley Wellness Centre &
Oak Valley Retreat Institute
Lower Woodstock, New Brunswick