ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Antonia Jenkins.
I have always loved working with people; it brings me a feeling of fulfilment. For 20 years, I worked in the charitable field in Asia and the Middle East, setting up and managing volunteer based projects.
On one of my visits to the UK in early 2000, I discovered and fell in love with the coaching process, its positive approach, structure, the freedom it offered to explore options. I knew this was meant to be my next step in professional development.
I have now been coaching for several years. I continue to find it extremely rewarding. I can coach in the 3 languages I speak fluently- English, French and Spanish.
On a personal level I live in London and I have 4 grown daughters who are now more like my friends than my children. I admit life was at times a challenge, being a single parent, raising teenagers, then seeing them claim their independence and adjusting to single life again. Life IS a challenge. It is full of changes, decisions, and those can be wonderful opportunities to extract and focus on its beauty and the rich experiences it brings us.
In an experiment, a number of attendees were asked to look around and try to remember how many blue items were in a room. They were then blindfolded and asked how many red things they had noticed. The great majority did not notice any of the red coloured items, only the blue ones. Their focus made them overlook the red. If we can draw the conclusion that we see what we are looking for, wouldn’t it make sense that we should focus on what makes us happy?
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