Personal development: improve your psychology to improve your life.
SOELmethod offers personal development coaching Online and also in person in Arnhem, Netherlands it two formats:
One-on-one Personal Development Coaching
One-on-one coaching sessions allow you to fully explore the issues that are most important to you. You will receive the individual attention and advice that will help you make the fastest possible progress.
One-on-one coaching sessions also provide a safe space where you can discuss issues that you might not be comfortable discussing in a group session.
Available Live in Arnhem, Netherlands or online via Zoom.
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Group Personal Development Coaching
Group coaching sessions are part personal development course and part support group. Approximately one third of each session is lecture style and the remainder of the time is sharing/debriefing and discussion.
Groups are a more affordable alternative to one-on-one coaching, and also provide several additional benefits:
- You gain a better understanding of what other people are going through and the different perspectives on life.
- It’s a safe place to practice interacting with other people in new ways.
- You may develop some deep friendships.
- Seeing other people’s issues may reveal issues in yourself that you were unaware of.
Groups last for a minimum of 8 sessions and may then continue for additional 8 session blocks and become ongoing support groups.
Available Live in Arnhem, Netherlands or online via Zoom.
A personal development coach helps you get unstuck, and then guides you through the many possible paths, bringing clarity and direction to your endeavor, and helping you avoid the pitfalls.
A personal development coach has three main tasks:
- Gives you information and techniques about the best ways to do things.
- Is an objective observer who can point out things in your blind spots, ask you questions that you wouldn’t ask yourself, and give you honest feedback.
- Keeps you focused and motivated on taking the small steps that gradually improve your life.
Enlightened personal development places a greater focus on achieving the deeper goals of self-confidence, peace of mind, happiness, and—for those that wish to go all the way—‘enlightenment’.
Enlightened Personal Development
The SOELmethod style of personal development is slightly different to traditional personal development (such as that promoted by Tony Robbins) because our style places more focus on the deeper life goals. Much of traditional personal development focuses predominantly on achieving material success, because it believes that material success will bring you happiness.
At SOELmethod, we believe that the traditional approach takes ‘the long way around’. We believe that what people actually want is happiness, and that therefore, we should go directly for the happiness, rather than aiming for material success in the hope that it will then deliver us the happiness.
Of course, material success is also worth achieving, and SOELmethod also focusses on that, but it’s not the most important thing.
SOELmethod also incorporates the best elements of the Eastern spiritual wisdom (while leaving out all the dogma and unnecessary fluff.) Eastern enlightenment traditions were designed for celibate monks living aesthetic lives in monasteries and caves, not for modern people in a western culture. It was designed before modern psychology and neuroscience had emerged, and so it focuses almost entirely on long hours of meditation.
The SOELmethod approach, which we call enlightened personal development, values meditation, but also believes that personal development (clearing out the dysfunctional aspects of our psychology) has a very important role to play in the journey towards ‘enlightenment’.