WHO AM I?
Robyn
I firmly believe in the values of compassion and loving kindness. To live is to learn. We can choose to allow our growing and learning to be guided by self compassion and motivated by the human desire to contribute to life. This requires the courage to be vulnerable, the courage to feel all our feelings and the courage to understand and communicate our needs.
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I wish to help people become more of who they are here to be now. To understand who we are within an accepting and loving framework. To understand how we operate, how we show up for ourselves and others. To understand our relationship to the planet and how we experience it. To befriend our shadow selves and critical self concepts. To facilitate reconnection with our emotional, physical and spiritual needs.
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I wish to help people get clearer about what matters to them and others and how to act on that from a place of joy, creativity and play. Not shame and guilt.
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I am particularly interested in supporting people to navigate transitions, loss, uncertainty and conflict with compassion and courage.
Qualifications
Trainee coach | Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching (ICF Level 2, EMCC Global Practitioner, Coaching Association), Animas Centre for Coaching, UK.
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NVC Level 1 Foundation Training | with Cath Burke Certified Trainer with the Centre for Non Violent Communication (CNVC), UK.
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Introduction to a Person - Centred Approach to Death and Dying (End of Life Doula Foundation Course) | Living Well Dying Well Training, UK.
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Solicitor of England and Wales | with over 11 years' experience in international firms as an international construction and arbitration lawyer, UK and the UAE.
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MA Islamic Law | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
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BA (hons) Arabic and Islamic Studies | University of Exeter, UK.
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Some of my life experiences
HSP | I am a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) / have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS).
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Wanderlust and dépaysement | I was born a foreign resident of West Africa and spent some of my childhood in France. I have spent around 15 years living, studying and working as in immigrant in the Middle East.
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Grief and loss | Navigating the death of close family members as an adolescent, pet loss, complex grief, disenfranchised loss. I volunteer on the wards of a St Barnabas Hospice and am a trainee Pet Loss Support Volunteer with the Blue Cross.
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Perimenopause | I started my perimenopause in my late 30s / early 40s.
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Mental health | I have suffered from anxiety and depression in the past and recently had a Psycho - spiritual crisis and dark night of the soul.
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Divorce | As a teenager and as a divorcee.
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ME | I have been living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) since the age of 13.
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