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Coaching is my career path as an expression of my life purpose. Coaching makes a powerful, practical difference in people's lives. I really enjoy it, it's extremely fulfilling. I get more energy at the end of the call than I had at the start, and I don't come to the call asleep. A mission of mine is to assist other people like me with Attention Deficit Disorder and this is the best path for me to do so. Through the adult ADHD coaching process, I can help you better understand how ADHD affects you, and collaboratively work with you so you can more effectively manage the negative aspects of Adult ADHD at work and home, so you can focus more on the positives of ADHD. If you're ready for coaching now, Contact Pete for a free sample session of ADD Coaching
My 5 Signature Strengths
From Dr. Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness
Photo of me at Freelance Camp Vancouver leading a session called Shock and Awe - How to recognize, manage and reduce being overloaded and overwhelmed at work. Photo by the talented Jeremy Lim
Where I'm From
Taught ESL, listening, public speaking and cross cultural communication for 3 years in Sapporo, Japan on the northern island of Hokkaido, while learning Japanese and how the Japanese people achieve success. Later I spent 2 years teaching ESL in Vancouver. Teaching ESL was great training for coaching because you really have to develop your listening skills, especially listening for non verbal communication. Sold Apple computers in the Vancouver area for the past 7 years. Sold to a lot of people in the creative industries, many of them exhibited the symptoms of ADHD (ADHD is often a competitive advantage in that sector). A large part of that job was being able to discover the clients need's through asking the right questions and listening carefully to the answers.
Life Change
After being set free from my toxic job (loved the product, loved the customers, but did not love the toxic job environment), I got coached and took an Awakening workshop at Clearmind in Langley, BC based on A Course in Miracles. The change in my life was dramatic. I wanted to find out what my life purpose was and what career path would express it, so took some workshops, attended lectures, talked to a lot of people, and did a lot of reading and reflection. Also worked with 2 coaches, Jean-Pierre LeBlanc and Bruce Skipper, and did a 10 page Radical Clarity questionnaire (wrote 50 pages). My experience with coaching was phenomenal! I've always believed in the power of an objective outside observer to see things about ourselves that we can't notice, even before I knew what coaching was, but was really impressed with the results and insights I got from being coached. I was so impressed with the powerful effect that coaching had on my life that I decided to become one. I go to 2 or 3 coach educational events a month as well as 2 ADD support group meetings a month and I'm continuing to learn everything about coaching that I can because it resonates with me at the bone marrow level.
Martial Arts I've enjoyed learning.
Spiritual Explorer
Some of my clients are spiritual, some are religous, some are both, some are neither. I don't force my beliefs on them and they don't force theirs on me. Different things work for different people. Otherwise we'd all be clones and that would be boring. I
like doing Yoga, Qi
Gong, and various types of meditation, and am very interested
in practical personal growth and spirituality (I prefer it
to religion, some like one or the other, some like both and
some prefer neither, each to his own) and alternative medicine.
I love learning. I've
met with people who I would consider to be very spiritually
advanced from different spiritual traditions and notice that
they often have more in common with each other than they do
with people who are at the lower ends of the spiritual spectrum
in their own traditions. There are many different paths up
the mountain, at the base there are a lot of differences but
as you go higher up there are less differences and more similarities. If you want incredible clarity of mind, not to mention peace of mind, give it a try, you don't have to be a Buddhist. Your mind gets extremely clear and sharp after 10 days of silent meditation, and your sense of awareness becomes phenomenal. It's great for ADDers, because focusing on the breath and scanning the body gives the very active ADHD mind something to occupy itself with so we can begin to gradually quiet the mind. I've enjoyed the benefits of a wide variety of types of meditation for many years. I've studied different spiritual traditions including Esoteric Christianity, Vedanta and Tibetan Buddhism. Currently I'm enjoying exploring Advaita Vedanta. Personal and spiritual development have been long-standing commitments in my life and I've devoted a large amount of time, energy, awareness and money to these commitments. I was featured on CITY TV on the topic of Adult ADHD. They found my website and asked to interview me. The video of the interview is here. Here are my other media mentions. Contact Pete to try a free sample 30 minute session of ADHD coaching. |
