In this blog we reflect on areas of our lives that might be calling for healing. With the help of systemic constellations we can gain a compassionate and broader perspective on ourselves and the wider systems that influence our life’s path.
Kolimbri Kollective Profile – Jeremy Hinks
Jeremy is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) level with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He thinks of his coaching role as being thought provocation, feelings elicitation, and curiosity wrangling. He confesses to enjoying language and also being an ‘accomplished unfinisher’.
Jeremy (pictured on the left in the photo, next to Marco) has about 40 years of professional experience which he draws on in his coaching practice in which his sense of activism is connected to bringing the benefits of coaching and coach training into groups who do have not had access to it. His own small part in this has been doing most of his coaching in the third and public sectors with as diverse a range of clients as he is able to collect together. He describes his coaching niche simply as being ‘I am able to coach anyone who is open to being coached by me’.
We invited Jeremy to introduce himself to you in a more personal way…
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In this blog, Marcos’s GP client shares her experience and benefits from three coaching sessions in Nature.
In constellations, everyone and everything has a right to belong. We don’t seek blame but aim to understand why things are the way they are. Recognising patterns can be an essential part of the releasing process. Constellations offer us the opportunity to free ourselves from limiting possibilities and even rewrite what’s possible.
A warm welcome to Axel joining the YoungIMPULS project!
What makes Axel, Axel?
I feel I’m a late bloomer. I don’t know why, but the nice thing about late bloomers is they tend to flower for a longer time than those that come earlier in the year. I like to choose things for myself; sometimes that can lead to a struggle and you lose people along the way, but it also means that I feel good about myself. I’m a reflective person, I self-reflect all day, in fact my kids do the same. I like being that way, it means I connect with others, making conscious choices about how I show up.
I’m a father of two sons, born 2006 and 2005. I was relatively older becoming a father at 46 years old.
Me and my work
Before becoming a parent, I traveled the world. I love to do so by bicycle, taking cycling vacations to Thailand, New Zealand the United States spending a few weeks at a time in each country. In France, I became known as the ‘bike repair man’ by US cyclists who for some reason didn’t know how to fix their bikes. I was always the one with the greasy hands.
I love adventure and I find myself sometimes wanting to do too much, so I rein myself in by saying: “ do what you need to do and don’t get distracted ” – the problem is there is always so much life beyond the front door !
I play the bass, what I love about that is that as a bassist in the band you’re the one responsible for the ‘dance,’ blending harmony with rhythm – this reflects something about how I am in life.
My company, Fat Elephant
I work intuitively and creatively giving people lots of room to be themselves and discover their own qualities. I also bring trust and I reckon most of the time you wouldn’t even notice me; it’s a bit like the bass in music, without it ’the dance’ just wouldn’t happen. In spite of my corporate work being mostly about sales, I’m not the kind of person that buys into the ‘push, push, push!’ sales rhetoric. As with KOLIMBRI, I work in a way that is relational, even if it’s about sales, my belief is the relationship-building is fundamental.
Axel and YoungIMPULS
I love to help people to connect with Dutch community, especially working with refugees to help them find their own way; it’s not about changing themselves, rather it’s about how we can collectively find ways to live together in such a way that the Netherlands becomes our shared home. Making these connections to one another through using culture and art feels exciting.
My favorite Curiously Connected Cards
When I first saw the Cards, I felt drawn to the Butterfly – it represents something about what’s possible when chaos is allowed to be there. It’s also colourful, always light and you can’t blow it away. The butterfly folds its wings when it’s windy and stormy, then opens them up again to flutter about – so resilient for such a small being. Elephant is my second choice: you can see from my company’s name fat elephant, that I’m connected to them. They’re very social creatures. Something also about that old adage the ‘elephant in the room’ is important. Huge-bodied as they are, elephant has the capacity to break everything, yet it also reminds us that we can’t really progress unless we talk about the things that really matter, and sometimes it’s the fat elephant staring right at us.
Me and the Collective
I feel there is some direction that I can give to the Kollective around creating and bringing together creative minds. My first step though is to get to know people better, so that the Kollective feels like our mutual home. What would nourish me? Tickle my brains! I love the bandwidth of ages and perspectives that the YoungIMPULS project is already bringing me.
What helps me Thrive?
Put simply, it’s being myself and making space for one another; listening with honesty.
Esmee Russell, The Change Makers’ Coach.
I help people understand and develop who they are, how they relate to others, and how that ripples into the world.
To do this, I draw upon Transactional Analysis and use this as a foundation for 1-2-1 coaching & team coaching. I also lead and facilitate conversations with public sector companies, B-corps, and charities to increase psychological safety at work and promote a beneficial corporate culture.
We have been reflecting on our work in Kolimbri’s coaching, and we often find ourselves pondering the question with our coaching clients: ” Who’s driving your bus ?” It’s a metaphor for how people navigate their lives, make choices, and evolve.
Meeting the energy of the bull elephant.
Kolimbri worked with a small non-profit organization campaigning to transform the way the media portrays climate change, using systemic approaches to understand dynamics at play.
