Life At Work Associates
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Elizabeth English, BA Hons, MPhil, DPhil (Oxon) Founder and Director of Life at Work Elizabeth founded Life at Work in 2004 in response to a growing demand for expertise in communication, in both professional and personal contexts. Since then, she has worked widely in healthcare, with the police, in universities, and businesses. Fascinated by communication in all its forms, she looks in depth at the personal journey we all take as we look at what motivates us more deeply below the surface. Elizabeth also brings in over 25 years of Mindfulness meditation practice. She is at present the only person to be internationally certified in both Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) and Focusing. Her unique combination of these approaches gives her a distinctive approach to her work at all levels whether with leaders, team-members, or individuals. Equally at home running courses, mediating, or coaching, she helps people to increase their awareness, build inner resources and develop understanding of ourselves and others: everything that contributes to making people more able to interact and connect with one another and their world. |
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Annie Rankin, MA Specialisms: Nonviolent Communication Annie has worked in communications for 20 years, initially as a journalist and writer for 10 years in the UK national press; then as Director of Communications for an international charity. Now a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication™, she leads professional trainings in communication, conflict resolution, team-building and stress reduction for organisations such as the NHS, schools and charities. She also runs communication courses for personal development, as well as working throughout the UK as a coach and mentor. She lives in Somerset with her partner, where she also writes, teaches meditation & leads retreats. |
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Simon McKibbin, BA Specialisms: Nonviolent Communication, NLP Simon's business experience lies in management and sales. In the 1980s and 1990s he contributed to one of the UK's fastest growing import-export businesses, Windhorse Trading (appearing in the Price Waterhouse Top 100 private companies list). As founder of Life at Work's sister company, Evolution, he has provided development training and consultancy to an extensive and varied group of clients, also acting as visiting university lecturer. A certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication™, he also specialises in coaching and stress reduction using NLP, Focusing and meditation techniques practised personally over twenty-five years. Simon is a keen-edged and approachable communicator, with an unusual ability for creating positive communities. |
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Gina Lawrie, BA Psychology, CQSW Specialisms: Nonviolent Communication, Open Space Technology, Gestalt Gina is an organisation development consultant with over 20 years experience in all sectors with individuals, teams and whole organisations. Gina's current focus is helping people bring their whole selves; mental, emotional and spiritual, to their work and contribution to collaborative partnerships, creativity and great performance. She brings a background in psychology, social work and management development and draws on a range of approaches including Nonviolent Communication™, Gestalt, complexity theory and Open Space Technology. Gina works with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication in training and assessing new trainers. She works internationally with leading private and public sector organisations. Her co-developed, innovative learning materials are now translated into 7 languages. |
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Rüdiger Jansen, MA Specialisms: Metaplan, NLP, Myers Briggs Type Indicator Following a career in music and university lecturing, Rüdiger became a management trainer and consultant in 1979. He worked first as an independent partner (Impuls - Analyse. Beratung. Training), and later as founder and director of his own Management Training company (Do Evolution Seminare und Verlag GmbH). His experiences encompass a range of high performance German companies and multi-national multi-utility providers (including Allianz, Hypobank, VGH, and RWE group). He also works voluntarily for various non-government organisations in India, and mainland China. His qualifications include Metaplan (group facilitation), NLP (Master Practitioner), and the licence for application of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI Step 1). |
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Tara Vandana, Bsc, SRD, Dip Ad Diet Practice Specialisms: Myers Briggs Type Indicator Tara is a skilled and experienced coach, trainer and facilitator who has worked in the NHS for twenty seven years as a Clinician (AHP), Senior Manager and Workforce Development Lead. She has worked effectively with Individuals, Teams and Multi-Professional Networks at all levels in Acute, Primary Care, Mental and Public Health as well as within an SHA. She is passionate about enabling people to develop personally and professionally, so that services truly benefit patients and their carers. Her qualifications include VRQ Coaching, Cert Counselling, Cert Mentoring, MBTI Assessor, ACMS (Salford). |
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Michael Chaskalson, MA Specialisms: Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Michael’s experience of business began in 1980 when he founded Windhorse Trading, a highly-successful, innovative fair-trade company. He now specialises in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, holding a Master's degree with distinction in mindfulness-based clinical interventions. He designs and runs Mindfulness for Coaches for psychologists and mental health workers in the NHS, and for university postgraduate counsellors, and also works as a personal coach at senior executive level. His published works include ‘Mindfulness and Money’, and he lectures on the London Business School's Senior Executive Programme. |