The COACH Here the relevant steps of my professional path.

Here is an insight-perspective of how and why changes and diversity have become the trademarks of my path:

Beginning 1981, just in few months and thanks to a curious turn in my thesis work, I found myself shot from the ‘boring’ life of a working student into the ‘exciting’ one of a development consultant, stepping for the first time into the colourful world of the international cooperation.
I was young, had a flashy title and a curiosity – actually a passion – for humans and their diversity that naturally led me to want to ‘see and change the world’. Convinced as I was to be ‘ready’, nobody and nothing could stop me. So, I went for it.
A while later, though, I realized that I was not that ready and started to learn what the day after day dealing with diversity means, and how this impacts our structure, thinking, behaviour and life.
The ‘mysteries of my family’, however, caught up with me few times and led me to some back and forth changes, up to the greatest ever, just a few years ago. Almost everything I have believed in, and worked for, fell piece by piece until the picture of my own good self was hard to recognize.

From the Far East we heard the word ‘tsunami’ and saw its devastating force. It was the only word I could think of matching my situation. Accordingly, to stand up again and rebuild has been the major effort I have ever made.
Through this experience, though, I had to learn to manage personal and cultural conflicts very differently than any time before. It meant to understand why that ‘tsunami’ came, to accept that I let it come, to look for the lesson behind and, eventually, get ready for another change.

I stepped at first on the well structured ground of the systemic thinking and coaching. After a while, though, I have naturally extended my fields of interest and kept adding more elements to my ‘new building’. Some of them offered me the ‘glue’ I needed to hold all my pieces together, others lots of inspirations on how to do it, differently than in the past. I like to mention the literature from/about the Dalai Lama, Highly Sensitive People, Non-Violent Communication, Cognitive Therapy, NLP, Yoga, Positive Thinking, Zen, Jin-Shin-Jyutsu, Numerology, Astrology and Chi-Gong.
This is also why, a few years ago, I chose the ancient “flower of life” as logo for my flier and now for this page: because it encompasses in a perfect design the variety and the harmony of life. Each circle can stand very well alone and from the colours is entirely different from the next one, in whichever direction. In each circle six elements are unique, 6 others are in common with neighbouring circles and 6 areas are free. I call the free areas: respect, integrity, freedom, awareness, consciousness and empathy.

So, the difference between the professional choice I made almost 30 years ago and the most recent one is just in the ‘perspective’ I have won through my life experience. The essence has not changed.

Truly yours
Ornella Carnevali