Introduction: Live the life you truly want to live.
Coaching is a powerful partnership that supports you to live your most authentic and fulfilling life. Its a process that helps you clarify whats most important to you and align your intentions and actions with those values. It supports you in achieving your goals and moving past obstacles in your way. Most importantly, it helps you be well and vibrantly alive!
Coaching brings power and focus to our deepest desires. It creates a space for you to dream big and develop an action plan to achieve your dreams. Essentially, its about being empowered and the artist of your own life. Through a process of self-exploration, you will be able to do the following:
* Illuminate what you truly want
* Release fears and self-imposed limitations that stand in your way
* Open new pathways and possibilities that give you trust and confidence
Coaching moves you from where you are now to where you want to be and has you enjoying the journey along the way. As your coach, I'm a nurturing and insightful trained ally who will do the following:
* Spark your awareness and grow your ability to be present
* Guide you to try on new perspectives that give you ease and joy
* Support you in discovering your solutions and creating flow in your life
At the foundation of coaching is the belief that we are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole. As your coach, I trust that you and only you have the answers for your life. My role is to facilitate a process that helps you hear and follow your own inner guidance.
Holding the agenda you set, I will do the following:
* Challenge you to stretch your boundaries
* Champion your capability and achievements
* Hold you accountable to your commitments and reaching your full
Ultimately, coaching is about success, wellness and fulfillment; in short, its about having an extraordinary life!
As the founder of Essence Life Coaching and co-founder of Coach2Coach, Julia Lau de Guzman, CPCC, ACC supports people in living their most authentic and fulfilled life and ultimately in creating and living a life they love! She brings her positivity and passion for life to her coaching and supports people in being well, fulfilled and vibrantly alive. She creates an open and safe space for clients to clarify intentions, expand possibilities and reach new heights. She combines fierce honesty with loving compassion and her coaching sessions are known for being inspiring, energetic and transformative. She runs circle coaching groups and leads workshops throughout the Bay Area on fulfillment and living from essence. Life coaching fulfills Julias purpose: to help others become empowered in their lives, to see their own radiance and hear their own inner guidance.
In addition to her own practice, Julia is a coach and trainer with Awakened Wisdom Experiences (AWE). She coordinates and leads AWEs advanced coach training program and the AWE coaching program. She also serves as a front-of-the-room trainer and coach for Springboard Forward, a non-profit organization that supports entry-wage workers in developing and realizing their career visions. In addition, she supports social justice organizers in her work as coach with The Windcall Institute, an organization that offers rejuvenating retreats for longtime non-profit leaders.
Julia is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) with the Coaches Training Institute and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation. She is also a graduate of the Coaches Training Institutes renowned Co-Active Leadership Institute and serves on the board of the International Coach Federations East Bay coaches chapter.
Before coaching, Julia taught voice, guitar and songwriting to support her artistry as a performing singer and songwriter. Her original acoustic alt and rock music is captured on her album, "In The Wildflowers and Weeds", and she still performs occasionally with her band. Prior to music, she led social justice campaigns as a community organizer in San Franciscos Chinatown. Julia is happily married and lives with her husband and daughter in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her loves include hiking, novels, massage, trees, dancing, movies, music and yoga. Her greatest achievement is now her own life: balanced, nourishing and abundant in love and the daily joys of life.