3 topics you could bring to Executive Coaching. ✨(There are many, but here I´m just going to mention three very common ones from my coaching sessions):✅ Make an important business decision:The coaching usually has an unhurried start: we explore patterns, and go on an inner journey to discover a world of new perspectives. Then the coaching becomes vibrant and challenging, and we reach new heights. One of my favorites!✅ Develop self-believe and confidence:This coaching is slow, it´s about looking at the person’s own inner dialogue and unlocking the interferences that are blocking their full potential. Identifying the interferences is hard work, but once done, their performance skyrockets.✅ Obtain closure around some unfinished business at work:We don´t see almost 50% of what happens in a team, and very often it's in this space where emotions hide. Relationships in the workplace can be difficult. Hating someone, for example, is one if the biggest stressors in life. Finding a new perspective to approach the issue is incredibly liberating.I can surely help you:✔️ If your topic fits in any of these categories✔️ If you have a different topic✔️ If you don’t have a topic but are craving coaching (we’ll find you one 😉)Have a great day!

I‘m finally getting there! ✨Nothing worked last week, and yesterday I felt guilty for not having enough energy for my family, and for a very unproductive week.I was sad and frustrated and decided to try a mindfulness strategy (STOP) I had just learned in my Positive Psychology Master´s course✅ S (Stop): I focused my attention on my thoughts, feelings and emotions at that moment.✅ T (Take a break): I closed my eyes and concentrated on my breathing, which helped me reach a calmer state.✅ O (Observe): My attention moved from my breathing to the rest of my body. Then to all my senses, the noises around me…✅ P (Possibilities): Thr last step is to move on to the world around you, with curiosity and openness to respond naturally to whatever comes next.In theory once calmer, you should choose a positive experience that contrasts with the stress you were experiencing before the exercise, like feeling the breeze on your face…So I went for a run!And gained my energy back,generated positive thoughts,and creativity: I had the best idea of the year. . . I´m fixing my beautiful scooter. 10 years in the garage: 3 pregnancies, and 3 babies. It didn´t make sense to fix it… until yesterday! And I´m taking it to the repair shop today.It was not only the endorphins. After years of trying to meditate, I finally see some improvements.And instead of incense and yogi pants, mindfulness brought me a scooter.How cool is that?Tell me a positive effect that sports or meditation had on you!And have a great day! 😊

I coached a team of 25 professionals on-site yesterday. ✨The last two years I´ve been fully dedicated to coaching individuals 1-2-1, mainly virtually, so I was really curious and a bit nervous about this event.Turns out I´ve grown and learned, and it felt very different to my training times in the HR world in corporate.During this time I´ve acquired coaching superpowers that also work with teams:✅ To empower individuals✅ Create self-awareness✅ Unlock their potential✅ Maximize performanceThere are more group dynamics and the group learning process is more complex, but in the end we achieve the same goals aligned with the organization.And we reach the same powerful energy!I also have a different approach towards meeting preparation: I prioritize running and yoga over anything else.So I´m not sure what has really worked here, but I feel like celebrating! 🥂

Have I asked the easy question or the difficult question? ✨The issue is not easy to resolve, otherwise we wouldn’t be talking.When a client comes to coaching we work on difficult areas of personal development: they cannot deal with the topic themselves.The easy conversation happens in the zone of comfortable debate, it’s light and superficial. But to deal with the problem sometimes we need to go to an uncomfortable zone where there is tension. 😳Here is where we can hold up a mirror so the person sees something they do not want to see, but that will help them resolve their difficulty.We can only change what we know!So in this beautiful dance we move from the zone of comfortable debate to the heart of the matter, in and out. The conversation moves around the core of the issue, the elephant in the room.And here the key is to be direct and not directive. Sometimes the coach leads the dance, and sometimes the client leads the dance.The music stops when we reach our common purpose and unlock a breakthrough. 😍(Inspired by John Blakey and Ian Day and their book ‘Challenging Coaching’)Do you usually stay on the surface in your conversations or do you enjoy going deeper?

I’m flying abroad for a company on-site visit for the first time since I went independent. ✨And I’m very excited.For many years, taking a morning flight was the norm. At first I loved it, but when the kids came it was tough to leave them.Now the traveling will be occasional, and it’s a lot easier with older children.I’m very curious and ready to use my coaching powers in organizations.A company is a complex network of relationships; by coaching the whole team we improve their collective value and have a greater impact.Have a great day and wish me luck! 🍀

The more public the commitment, the stronger the effect! ✨A year ago I challenged myself to practice yoga every day until my Bday (45 days).I continued after that, and it’s been a year since yoga has been part of my everyday routine.It’s not about making an effort or analyzing its benefits anymore.It’s about all the things I don’t get if I don’t do it. I don´t need reasons to practice, I´d need a tornado to not practice. 😎If you want to add something to your routine, first make a public commitment (LinkedIn worked for me 😉) and start today.Step by step you will get there!

Only when you experience something do you fully understand it. ✨I´ve tried to understand and master mindfulness several times during the last two years. I´ve started two courses and learned the theory, but I never finished them.I´m very aware of how much the practice can help me, but it didn´t click and I felt maybe I´m just not spiritual enough.Then last week an amazing Mindfulness teacher at the Positive Psychology Masters I´m studying explained that the best place to practice is within your own life.Because mindfulness only means that:✔ We pay attention to a specific thing (breathing, body...)✔ With an intention✔ With an attitude of kindness, without judging the experience.If you know the theory you can practice mindfulness anywhere: while walking your dog, cooking . . . or just having a conversation 😍, and you´ll get the same benefits. You don´t need to wear yoga pants and burn incense in a quiet room. You can train your brain to be fully present anywhere!And that´s what I´ve been intensely doing these past two years.In each coaching session:✔ I pay full attention to a specific thing: my clients´ stories✔ With a clear intention: to structure the conversation and create the space to think✔ With an attitude of kindness without judging the experience: always!So my Masters includes a third meditation course, but this time I´m going to nail it. It took me two years of unintentional practice but I finally got it.In which activities are you fully present? Where are you in your meditation journey?(Thank you Cristian Coco, Mindfulness teacher at MAPPA UJI).

Meet Thais! ✨She is a COVID 19 survivor. On her third day in Intensive Care I was having my first (and last) MRI.I sent her an apocalyptic video from the hospital telling her that we were both going to be fine and that we´d soon swim the Abra Bay in our hometown with a fine dinner afterwards.But deep inside I felt the risk was high for both, and that at least one of us would die. I was scared and got a bit dramatic.We met at University. I was impressed by her cool look, long legs, short skirt and amazing brain. She was always the first to finish the exams and the one getting the highest scores.We knew every single nightclub in Madrid in the 90's.We met our husbands, and when my first son was born, I asked her to be his godmother.Then we worked together at the same company and had a big fight. We stopped talking to each other for over 6 years. First we hated each other, then missed the other hugely.I don't know when we became friends again, it just happened.This summer we watched the dramatic video and laughed remembering how fragile life is.Today I celebrate friendship, one of the biggest meals in the life feast! ❤️

You can´t give what you don´t have. ✨If you want to give affection and support to those around you, you need to be well yourself. Forcing yourself to care for others when you are not in a good state is not sustainable.It´s like asking your bank for a loan to give money to others when you don´t have a penny yourself. In the end the system will collapse.The desire to support others with their well-being arises spontaneously when we experience positive emotions ourselves.Taking care of yourself is a generous act of kindness. 🌹Invest in yourself, my friend!