He's a Life Coach.
He completed his professional coach training as a Co-Active Coach at CTI, The Coaches Training Institute. They've been around for more than a decade and they train coaches worldwide. He loved the in-person, experiential way they taught coaching.
Pete wants to assist people in getting the most out of their lives. Coaching is his preferred delivery system for this.
Coaching changed Pete's life. He knows it works and is extremely powerful.
Coaching is Pete's career path as an expression of his life purpose.
He makes a powerful, practical difference in people's lives through coaching. He really enjoys it, it's extremely fulfilling. Pete gets more energy at the end of the call than he had at the start.
Pete wants to assist other people like himself with Attention Deficit Disorder and this is the best path for him to do so.
He's also a toxic job liberation agent. He's suffered, and knows there are others out there still suffering, so he wants to assist in their liberation.
Pete's a coach who wants to break up the self-limitations you have allowed to accumulate and reduce the free movement of your mind, heart and soul.
What got him to this place?
Pete's from Edmonton, Alberta. He's lived in Ottawa, Montreal, Kamloops, and Sapporo, Japan. He currently lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
He loves traveling; he's been to 11 European countries, the US, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong.
He graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Political Science, minor History, concentrating in International Affairs. Made the dean's honours list. Worked in the Asia Pacific sections of two international divisions of the Alberta Government.
Taught ESL, listening, public speaking and cross cultural communication for 3 years in Sapporo, Japan on the northern island of Hokkaido, while learning Japanese and how the Japanese people achieved the success that they did.
Later spent 2 years teaching ESL in Vancouver. Teaching ESL was great training for coaching because you really have to develop your listening skills, especially listening for the
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After being set free from his toxic job (loved the product, loved the customers, but did not love the toxic job environment), Pete got coached and took an Awakening workshop at Clearmind in Langley, BC based on A Course in Miracles. It changed his life.
Wanted to find out what his life purpose was and what career path would express it, so he took some more workshops, attended lectures, talked to a lot of people, and did a lot of reading and reflection. Also worked with 2 coaches, Jean-Pierre LeBlanc and Bruce Skipper, and did a 10 page Radical Clarity questionnaire (wrote 50 pages). His experience with coaching was phenomenal! He's always believed in the power of an objective outside observer to see things about ourselves that we can't notice, even before he knew what coaching was.
Pete was so impressed with the powerful effect that coaching had on his life that he decided to become one. He goes to 2 or 3 coach educational/networking events a month and is continuing to learn every thing about coaching that he can because it resonates with him at the bone marrow level.
Memberships:
The International Coaches Federation
Vancouver chapter of the Co-Active Coaches
CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) Vancouver Adult subgroup organizer
He likes doing Yoga, Qi Gong, and various types of meditation, and is very interested in alternative medicine.
Martial Arts Pete's enjoyed learning.
Did a 10 day Vipasanna retreat (Buddhist silent retreat) last January near Merritt BC. It was amazing. He highly recommends it to anyone. He went in with a bad back and went out with a better back at the end! If you want incredible clarity of mind (not too mention peace of mind), give it a try, you don't have to be a buddhist.
He highly values personal and spiritual development, and has spent a fair amount of his time money and energy to develop both.
Brain, Heart and Soul food.
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
You are what you think about all day long.
Dr. Robert Schuller
The most influential person who will talk to you all day is you, so you should be very careful about what you say to you!
Zig Ziglar
Roadblocks aren't barriers-they open your eyes to other routes.
Joyce Restaino
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus
When I was five years old, the first skating lesson I learned was: how to fall. My instructor was wise. He knew that until I learned how to fall, I couldn’t learn how not to fall. You see? Your mistakes will be your best friends if you let them teach you.
Michelle Kwan
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping-stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
