Thoughts lead actions. Overcoming perceived and real life obstacles can be overwhelming, which is why many people benefit from working with life coaches.
"While I may offer advice and suggestions, my primary focus is on facilitating self-discovery and self-directed learning in my clients. We explore vital, but often overlooked, questions such as 'Who are you?' 'What are you?' 'What's in here?'" says Amy Schmidt, M.ED., local certified life coach and founder of Chrysalis Clear Coaching.
Amy says she supports others primarily by assisting with specific aspects: clarity and goal setting; accountability; motivation; personal development; career guidance; transitions; and work-life balance.
As a lifelong educator and student advocate, Amy's shift from public education to life coaching enabled her to provide adults with encouragement and enrichment, helping others focus on finding definite purpose in career transitions and personal growth. "Together, we create intentional living habits, and put in place pathways to contributing to their life, family and business," she adds.
Amy says whether someone wants to find new meaning, a new passion or a new career, she can guide them through the helpful process, one that also enables better outlooks in life.
She's also in the midst of creating a supporting network specifically of educators and associated non-educators, outside of school systems or teacher unions, who will support and speak up for the noble profession of education. "Our disillusioned, demoralized educators need the tools to align their hearts, minds and souls, to overcome and forgive, to provide room for increased self-esteem and vision for their future."
Because Amy believes many educators recently have been undermined and denied their voices as knowledgeable, well-meaning professionals, she says disheartened and disillusioned educators need to be coached back to life, confidence, understanding their personality, or recognizing other opportunities and other professional capacities.
"My approach is to lead educators through a transformative series of activities that explore strengths and personality, values, abundance mindset, emotional intelligence, happiness and forgiveness and self-authorship," she explains. "The happiness and forgiveness part is needed to help heal the emotional bruising from a very demanding work environment. Teachers have become surrogate parents, therapists, counselors and entertainers, meeting social and emotional needs that are crucial antecedents to content and skills, as more children come to schools without structure or love or safety."
Bringing teachers back into true confidence, wholly back into their lives, is a huge goal for Amy. "And I'm tailoring life coaching aspects into exactly what heart-broken educators need," she vows.
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