Testimonials

Group Facilitation and Myers Briggs Team Profiling (Away-days)
“Thank you for facilitating our away day.  The team found the day's activities, reflections and planning discussions really useful despite their uncertainties beforehand.  They were very complimentary about your facilitation on the day and I know it contributed greatly to them coming away with a very positive experience.  It is really good that we can continue that process with you.”
Jeremy Olsen, Head of IT, Cancer Research

Business and Leadership Skills (2-month programme)
“Bella did a fantastic job of interpreting and delivering the brief we provided and in helping all the participants not only to build on the skills and knowledge they already had but also to identify areas where these could be developed and improved.  On a more personal level, all of our students commented on how warm, engaging and approachable they found her, and that's certainly an impression we agreed with from our own communication with her.”
Rachel Middlemass and Mariana Matoso, Centre for Integrative Learning, University of Nottingham

Employee Engagement (18-month programme)
“Fantastic communicator and networker, Bella applies sound logic and excellent people skills to shape and influence decisions when a humanistic cool-head is required.”
Chris Dalby, Head of Network Programmes, Virgin Media

Facilitation Training with Managers (2 sessions)
“I just wanted to drop you a note to say thanks very much for last Thursday - we enjoyed it very much and are applying what we learned. You should have seen M being assertive in a meeting on Monday - magnificent!”
Project Manager (Pilotlight), London

Senior Manager Workshop
“Great group discussion and involvement throughout. Explanations behind behaviour interesting and aided self-awareness. Role-playing exercise was very valuable and informal conduct of the role plays in groups of 3 made it less intimidating and more rewarding than it might have been.”
Manager (BBC), London

Workshop participant
“Through gentle coaching and well-constructed and relevant questions, Bella enabled me to deconstruct my frantic thought processes and allowed me to focus on what I wanted to achieve, why and how. She helped me to identify my business and personal priorities, to recognise short-term objectives and how best to achieve them whilst also keeping in mind the bigger picture.

After working with Bella, I was much clearer about what I wanted to do, more peaceful and relaxed, and had renewed energy to make it happen. The process was healing and thought provoking at the same time, with an overriding feeling of positivity and calmness … thank you Bella”
Interior Designer (self-employed), London

Coaching client (6 sessions)
“Hard work, but very enjoyable and hugely rewarding. Initially I didn’t want to address lots of things to do with my business, finance and home-life, because dealing with them seemed scary. You give supportive suggestions and bring together confused thinking very well. You expect your client to do the work, so no easy answers! You seem very interested and involved in my issues – I felt very listened to and understood. You enabled me to make sense of my issues and I was able to see how to move forward on each, having made them concrete and no longer vague. I liked putting things on paper, as random thoughts, as diagrams and as pictures. I’d never thought of that before.”
Artist (self-employed), Sussex

Coaching client (12 sessions)
“I am clearer on the emotional difficulties I get myself into at work and feel better about treating myself as equal to others. You created a very open, caring atmosphere but it was still challenging. I found the relaxation exercises good (something I can’t usually do). Drawing things was a bit of a revelation as I was a sceptic, and it helped clarify certain issues in a way talking didn’t. Not intimidating as I have found before.”
Production Assistant (employed), London