Happy Birthday-Hello to those who are considered fruit flies. Yes, you!

It’s Birthday month! Holistication is 1 year old! TATAAA !!!
I started with Dramatic Language Coaching and now, 12 months later, I also offer self-care & sustainability. 

I was told that I should decide what I wanted to focus on, that I couldn’t do it all. I am not sure what assumption this advice is based on. 
 
Does this assume that potential clients only have two braincells and therefore can't make up their own minds? That they will get confused when confronted with options?
Is it really true that people only “have the attention span of a fruit fly”, as I was told by a marketing specialist? (The cheek! It's time to prove them wrong!)
 
Or is it the notion that a person can only do one thing well enough to pass it on?
Or Is it the idea that potential clients don’t trust someone who has more to give?
What? What??
 
Holistication stands for holistic lifelong learning and adult education. 
Besides, it’s not my call. It’s my clients’ decision. I offer, what I'm passionate about. They take what serves them. 
 
To be clear. I don’t have all the answers, but I’d like to help you to find yours. I live with my choices and enjoy my life and I gladly share my experience, knowledge, and skills with others who struggle with language, self-care, or sustainability. 

I started with Dramatic Language Coaching, because I saw a need for a creative and emphatic way to helping people overcome their fear of making mistakes, which keeps most people from speaking a foreign language. 
 
Fear closes the mind. 
Fear keeps us from learning and experiencing new things and ideas.
Theatrical tools like breathing, games, and movement, make it easier to let go of the fear, and they promote self-care and wellbeing. Having a good laugh together is the best that can happen to release tension.

Dramatic Language Coaching clients talk to me about anything they like. Listening to them and talking with them about their lives and interests is a fantastic way to learn about their world and they slowly grow confident and dare to speak more freely.  

I had a group of clients who wanted and needed to talk about sustainability. During our sessions I became aware of how self-care, language and sustainability are connected on many different levels. To quote Wittgenstein: “The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.” (And no, I haven’t read anything by him yet, but it’s a great quote).
 
It can be a long journey to overcome those learned ideas about oneself. 
I started my self-care journey over 25 years ago, and I have been toying with the idea to pass on what I know for some years now. Guess what kept me from doing it for so long? Yes. Fear and self-doubt.
The journey never ends, but it gets easier and more fun every day, and at some point, all I can do, is to do what feels right, no matter what others say.
I don’t have to believe everything that I think. And what others think isn’t really my business anyway, right?

You are still with me. I salute you and thank you for restoring my hope in humankind. 

So, I finally decided to offer 1:1 sessions and workshops on self-care and sustainability. I strongly believe that Self-care and sustainability are connected. If we don't start living more sustainably, no amount of self-care will do us any good. But where does self-care start and sustainability end? 

In my workshops, all participants get the opportunity to find their own answers. 
​Without a moralising finger, but with a lot of fun and many tips and ideas.
And here the language comes back in. I can do this in English, German and Finglish (Fin & Eng).

​If clients want to learn the language with the help of these topics, great!
If clients want to learn about self-care and sustainability in their own language, great!
If clients want to learn the language and talk about their own topics of interest, great! 

​If this sounds interesting instead of overwhelming, if you want to know more or have any questions, drop me a line or book a session!

Find out more about workshops
 
Thanks for reading, 
Have a good day!
​Pia