How we we will work together
I work mainly with people who are neurodivergent, and especially those who are Autistic ADHDers and climate / nature activists. I am also an ally for those in the LGBTQ+ community.
You can read more about me and why I’ve chosen to do this here.
When I work with you in one-to-one coaching, or in group coaching, I help you to connect with what matters, to all the possibilities available to you, to what you can and want to do, and to anchor that to make it happen.
I help you to build your resourcefulness.
Some of that will be learning to lean into your strengths and address your challenges.
The difference between our strengths and our challenges can be particularly pronounced in spiky neurodivergent profiles.
You might not be aware of your strengths, or think they are not particularly unusual. But the truth is they are. They, and your challenges, are what make you unique. They are your brilliance!
When we feel resourceful, we are better able to identify and make decisions in relation to:
- What matters to us
- All the possibilities available to us
- What we want and can do
- And how we can sustain that whilst looking after our wellbeing
And then we can play whatever part in life we have chosen to play.
Through our work together, I will connect you with what matters and can be possible and sustainable for you. This can be any aspect of work and everyday life: for yourself, and for your relationships. Or it can be playing an active role as part of all living life: for the climate and for nature. Understanding your Neurodiversity will be part of that.
I look forward to exploring one or more of these aspects with you.
Elisabeth Goodman-Spain (she/her)
We are each unique. Our genetics, the experiences and people in our lives, what we’ve learnt and what we choose to do, all make us so.
Our strengths accentuate our inner brilliance. What we tell ourselves, and the situations that we find ourselves in might limit it.
My work as a coach is about helping you to re-discover your inner brilliance, enhance your strengths and address those limiting factors.
I do this through one-to-one coaching, and through group-coaching on topics such as assertiveness, communication and influencing and presentation skills.
We all have a combination of strengths in some cognitive capabilities, and challenges in others.
People who are neurodivergent tend to have what are known as “spiky” profiles: a more marked difference between the strengths and the challenges.
My one-to-one coaching and seminars on Neurodiversity will help you to be more aware of your own and others’ strengths and how to make better use of those strengths.
I can help you to identify and develop strategies and resources around such areas as communication, working styles and work place design to be more inclusive and adaptive in addressing your own and others’ challenges.
What we are experiencing in our environment, with climate change and diminishing biodiversity can feel overwhelming at times. It can provoke feelings such as anger, guilt and grief.
Exploring these emotions, what else we could do, and how we can look after our wellbeing whilst doing so, are topics that one-to-one and group-coaching can support you with.
Coaching provides a safe and open space that can help you to acknowledge, normalise and process your emotions, and access your resourcefulness, your choices and power, your hope and resolve.
We may not be able to reverse all of the impact that humanity has had on our environment and on our planet, but change is possible, and nature is beautifully designed to change and evolve too.