Mission
I strive to make a positive contribution to the educational lives of individuals and families. As a dedicated and committed professional, I provide educational coaching based on self-understanding and compassionate communication. The values underlying all interactions with my clients are respect and honor for each person's individuality, strengths, talents, and passions.
My philosophy is based on the idea that with the proper knowledge about the world and yourself, plus tools uniquely suited for your way of thinking, you can create an environment for personal change to happen. I nurture personal change by facilitating self-discovery, progressive thinking and creative solutions.
Personal change requires applying a creative solutions to areas of your life in need of improvement. Personal change begins by honestly acknowledging the need for improvement. This is followed by recognizing the necessity of understanding the problem and yourself in a compassionate manner; and also by surrounding yourself with people who support and care for you deeply. Sometimes, you need to throw out old habits and embrace new ones. You need to find tools that fit and complement how you approach life. If the tools match your way of thinking about life, you will more fully embrace the tools. If you embrace the tools, the likelihood of putting them to good use increases. The tools you choose to improve yourself must work for you.
I believe each life is a succession of millions of learning experiences, both positive and negative. We learn from all of them. How and what we learn early in our childhood from our parents and teachers affects our learning down the road of life. However, our culture has defined education to occur only within a traditional school setting. We have become accustomed to focus on the time we spend in school as being the single most important factor influencing how well we do in the future. Yet, millions of important, memorable learning experiences occur outside of this narrow and artificial learning environment. And many times, that is when true learning occurs.
All learning experiences require that certain needs be met before true understanding and learning can take place. This requires knowledge of yourself and the world, and creative thinking. My goal is to empower my clients with the knowledge, tools, and ability to produce an environment for themselves, loved ones, or students that foster educational change directed towards achieving a fulfilling and harmonious learning experience throughout a lifetime. Since life is a succession of millions of learning experiences, then learning success leads to true lifelong success.
Vision
I envision the creation of a larger community, either online or on the ground comprising of professionals from diverse backgrounds whose missions and philosophies align or are compatible with the LearningSuccess coaching principles. If you are a physician, psychologist, educator, or therapist, and you share a similar vision, you are most welcome to contact me.
1. Encourage everyone to get on the student’s team. Along with the student, both parents and teacher whenever possible,should be part of the team by agreeing to follow the C.A.R.E.S.TM principles:
Celebrate each student’s uniqueness!
Accept role as a coach!
Respond rather than react!
Expand views of how and where learning takes place!
Stop applying bell-curve definitions of intelligence to
children and adults!
2. Encourage everyone to identify his/her own learning styles. Not only should a child discover how he/she learns best, but so should parents and teachers. This is done by looking at each person’s talents, interests, environment, modality, and dispositions. When the learning style of all team members are revealed, understanding and communication increases. Understanding how someone approaches learning opens up the door to deeper conversation and creative solutions.
3. Encourage everyone, the child, student, parent, or teacher, to “Coach for Success” and to remember the most important role of a coach is to stay F.I.T.T.T.TM:
Focus on solutions!
Identify the child’s goals!
Take the pressure off when needed!
Track successes rather than failures!
Teach to the child’s learning style!
I am someone who C.A.R.E.S.
I Celebrate the child I have!
I Accept my role as my child’s coach!
I Respond to my child rather than react!
I Expand my views of how and where learning takes place!
I Stop supporting bell-curve definitions of intelligence!
I stay F.I.T.T.T.
I Focus on solutions!
I Identify my child’s goals!
I Take the pressure off when needed!
I Track successes rather than failures!
I Teach to my child’s learning style!
