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    Sara Longmuir

    NLP Coach, ACA, PDCHyp, Dip Psych Couns, BA (Hons), BSc (Hons)
    Certified Trainer of NLP, Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy®
    Archetypal Coach and Consultant

It was an experience in 1991 that informs my approach to coaching. On an Outward Bound course in the Lake District, I had climbed a ladder 60 feet up into a tree and was standing on a small platform around the tree trunk being attached to a safety harness. The instructor finished his checks. He lifted the wooden bar round the platform and said "Whenever you're ready, just step off".

Just step off. It sounded so easy. I hesitated. Out of breath from the climb, breathing fast, looking down the path of the zip wire that ran from my tree to one down the valley, I was feeling the fear. It seemed such a big thing to step into air, trusting the harness and wire.

I had to summon my courage to make the leap. My stomach hit my mouth as I dropped. Then all I noticed was the exhilaration. The air moving fast. No, me moving fast through the air. I was laughing with the joy of it. An amazing experience.

The thrill of the zip wire is a good metaphor for coaching too; for the experience of stepping out of a comfort zone, into something new, initially a challenge, but once there is commitment and action, exhilarating.

I became a coach after a career as a Chartered Accountant, financial trouble-shooter and Finance Director. From the OB experience it was an awakening into new ways of experiencing life. That for me is what coaching is all about.

Sara

• Psychology and Economics degrees
• Chartered Accountant (Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW))
• NLP Coach Training accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Diploma in Coaching accredited by OCR
• Diploma in Psychological Counselling from Roehampton Institute
• Certified Archetypal Coach and Consultant
• Certified Trainer of NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy®, Practitioner Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis.

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