Your Questions Answered

Why Career Coaching?

Most of us spend a huge chunk of our precious life-hours in activities directly or indirectly related to work. Yet few people plan their careers or career transitions with as much care, awareness, and dedication as buying a car, painting the house, or going on holiday.

Is it any wonder that for many, work has become a burden to be borne, rather than the inspiring and energizing force it could be?

Career Coaching will allow you to explore your personal career landscape, enhancing your chances of getting work that fits your personal preferences, life-goals, ambitions, interests, values, and talents - work which engenders a sense of significance, enhances your ZEST for life, and adds to your happiness.

Why Creativity Coaching?

Humans are natural creators. We all aspire to nurture our great ideas from their infancy, through the shaky days of toddlerhood and puberty, and to finally see them living as independent and appreciated creations. Whatever else we are creating, whether in artistic, scientific, technical, or other domains, we are also as a side-effect creating meaning within our own lives and in the world. This results in an energized and inspired engagement with life which can be described as ZEST.

But most aspirant creators soon come up against internal and external obstacles which seriously limit the chances of their creations surviving or flourishing as significant entities in the world.

Creativity Coaching can help you overcome your obstacles to creation, and empower you to exceed your creative dreams.

About Gopal Ramasammy-Cook

Gopal has walked the proverbial walk, and has experienced both the joys and frustrations of work-life and career transition. He has been a high school science teacher, molecular biology researcher, software developer, lecturer, trainer, mentor, company owner, and director of a successful software development company. He is also a short story writer, storyteller, and visual artist, and has experienced the power of creativity first-hand.

After almost 20 years in the IT industry, he decided to pursue his passions in personal growth and creativity, and his deep and desire to serve the world by developing human potential and inspiring energized productivity for an empowered and effective workforce.

Gopal received teaching, training and coaching from key figures in the fields of creativity coaching and work-life joy, such as:

• Eric Maisel PhD (Originator of Creativity Coaching)
• Peter Christie (Storytelling in Organizations)
• Steve Banhegyi (Personal Narrative - Making a Life Worth Living)
• Sue Hollingsworth and Bernard Kelly (Storytelling and Transformation)
• Dorian Haarhoff (Image, Metaphor, Narrative, Music, and Koi Fish - River Journey Workshop)
• Alexander MacKenzie (Symbolic Drawings and Visualization)
• Janis Mackay (Giving Wings to Words)
• Rinah Sheleff (Voice and Movement)
• Ros and Ben Zander (The Art of Possibility)
• Diane Reardon PhD (Breakthrough Creativity Coaching)
• David Krueger M.D. (Coaching Professionals)
• Deborah Brown Volkman (Coaching Career Transitions)
• Melanie Benson Strick (Coaching Entrepreneurs)
• Jackie Black Ph.D. (Coaching Groups)
• David Herdlinger (Coaching Corporate Teams)
• A. Drayton Boylston (Coaching Executives)
• Gail McMeekin (Creative Success)
• Suzanne Falter-Barnes (How Much Joy Can You Stand)
• David Wood (Top Coaching Techniques)
• Terri Levine (Work Yourself Happy)
• Panos Lazanos (Introduction to NLP Workshop)
• Tim Tarango (NLP Practitioner Programme)
• Jamie Smart (Better Coaching Skills with NLP)
• Nancy Kline (Creating Thinking Environments)
• John Demartini (Quantum Collapse Process)
• Laura C. Alonso (Ekphrasis: Writing Inspired by Visual Art)
• Jean Knighton-Fitt (The Enneagram: A Personal Analysis and Development System)
• Ina Conradie and Paula Briffa (Mythologies, Eluesis Mysteries, Joseph Campbell)
• Anne Schuster (Writing Stories in a Flash)
• Pam Casto (Flash Fiction)

The teaching he received from these inspiring people lead him to distill the principles of creativity and work-life happiness into concrete tools and processes that can be learned and applied by anyone wishing to bring balance, insight, self-mastery, and career-creative harmony to their work and life.