Introducing Telana Simpson

Personal and Communication Coach

Telana works with people who want to make changes in their life, and who want to improve their communication skills and ability to express themselves verbally, creatively, emotionally and physically.

They are individuals, employees, managers, entrepreneurs, team members, team leaders, project managers, students, parents, travellers, musicians, artists, leaders, coaches, and adventurers.

They are local, national and international. (Testimonials here)

Do you have any of these symptoms or experiences?

To know if Telana is the right person for you to work with, look over the following lists of symptoms, experiences, and signs. These are indicators that Telana might be a good fit as a partner on your journey of personal development.

In relation to your communication abilities, do you :

  • Feel self conscious?
  • Find yourself timid and nervous in conversations with others, or meeting someone new?
  • Take a long time to reach decisions and lack firmness in your decisions?
  • Find it difficult to express your opinions? Or even fearful?
  • Have the habit of avoiding certain people, topics or issues rather then facing them?
  • Tend to just agree with others to avoid conflict?
  • Feel like you have an inferiority complex? (which might be demonstrated by at times find yourself expressing self-approval through what you say or do, as a means to cover up a feeling of less worth; doing things to impress others; imitating others in the way they talk or dress, boasting of made-up accomplishments)
  • Care what others think or say about you, to the point that it holds you back?
  • Lack initiative and ambition?
  • Fail to take full advantage of opportunities to advance yourself?
  • Lack confidence in your own ideas?
  • Give evasive, unclear answers when asked a question by a superior?
  • Hesitate to the point that you miss out?
  • Label yourself as mentally and physically lazy?
  • Think you are easily influenced by others, to your detriment?

 

   
  “Anything is possible, and everything is negotiable.” --Telana Simpson  
   

 

Would you like to:

  • Be more assertive?
  • Be able to say what is on your mind, share your ideas and opinions and even enjoy doing so?Telana Simpson, Communication Coach
  • Stand up for yourself?
  • Develop the capacity for deep and meaningful relationships?
  • Experience a freedom and openness in attitudes and dealings with others?
  • Talk in front of groups of people, or in meetings or even one-on-one with ease and confidence?
  • Not take things so personally, and rather be able to participate in debates and heated discussions such that you feel you can make a contribution and also learn from others?
In your life, do you feel diminished, and are you ready to do something about it? Are you experience the following symptoms or experiences:
  • operating at a fraction of your capacity
  • defaulting on self actualisation
  • shrinking from being the real you
  • undermining and dampening your real aspirations
  • draining off your energy in unrewarding areas
  • disintegrating into fatigue and depression
  • achieving only a small fraction of your potential intelligence, potential love, potential life
  • feel stuck in the game of blaming, accusing, complaining, whining
  • indifferent, expressed through your lack of ambition and your acceptance of whatever life is offering you without any protest
  • mentally and physically lazy
  • lack imagination, enthusiasm, self-control and discipline
  • don't take initiative
  • indecisive, possibly even allowing others to do your thinking for you
  • doubtful, and have all the excuses to explain, apologise for or cover up areas of your life where you feel a failure, sometimes even criticising and feeling jealous of others who are successfu
  • worry a lot, and can easily find fault with others
  • neglectful of your own personal affairs, lack self-reliance
  • feel nervous and self-conscious a lot
  • over cautious, and tend to wait for the right time to take action, and now this is a habit
  • pessimistic, with the habit of only looking for the negatives, what wont work, and not finding the means of succeeding, seeing only those who have failed, dismissing those who have succeeded
  • are a procrastinator of note, you put things off, come up with excuses as to why you haven't or cant do something
  • refuse to taking responsibility when it is possible to avoid
  • compromise with set backs rather than using them as stepping stones to progress
  • lack a definiteness of purpose and direction, feel you don't have or cant find meaning in your work or life
Would you like:
  • an inner directedness, a knowing about who you are and where you are going
  • to tolerate and manage uncertainty more
  • to accept yourself and others
  • the capacity for more intense, deep and meaningful relationships
  • to be more spontaneous and creative, more unrestricted and uncensored by yourself, in your expressions (verbally, creatively, sexually, physically etc)
  • to be more real, more authentic, feel congruent
  • to walk your talk, take actions, make things happen in your life
  • to develop a more efficient, healthy, robust, empowering perception of reality
  • experience more peak or "in the flow" experiences more frequently

What does Telana offer?

Telana offers the following:

  • Training to understand the complexity of communication with the aim to master your communication, relationship and influencing abilities
  • Coaching programmes to develop holistically, spiritually, relationally, intentionally, and personally, specialising in communication challenges, and entrepreneurial pursuits
  • Support and facilitation for entrepreneurs and creators to develop personally and professionally, to find their unique flare and expression
  • An alternative, complimentary and holistic approach to health management for auto-immune illnesses
Why choose Telana as your coach?
  • She's a system-buster and pushes the bar of possibility
  • She's fascinated by consciousness evolution and those who take risks and dare to go where no-one has been before
  • She loves creation- being a creative co-creator herself, skilled at making something out of nothing
  • She's an early adaptor, been involved in ground breaking information & projects, start-ups, pioneering industries and her own businesses
  • She follows her joy and co-creates in this world, inspiring others by her example
  • She's all about expression, manifesting, creation, enthusiasm, evolving, transforming, consciousness
  • She climbs rocks and trees, trades a matchstick, scuba dives, tango's, tweets and celebrates life
Telana's background and resume:
  • She's been coaching professionally since 2002 and has been using a coaching management style through out her career.
  • Her background includes working as a manager and coach in start-ups in the e-commerce industry, the quick service food sector, and the cycling industry.
  • She experienced some health challenges in 2005 and through her journey to well being, has come to specialize in the areas of health and communication.
  • Her qualifications include: BSc Honours in Psychology degree specialising in Psychology and Physiology, ACMC (Associate Certified Meta Coach), certified Neuro-Semantic Master Practitioner and Trainer, McIntyre System ® Coach, and trained in the paradigms of Energetic Living™ and The New Human™.
  • She is a member of the MCF (Meta Coach Foundation), the International Society of Neuro-Semantics, and COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa).
  • She has been the keynote speaker at events and conferences, and appeared on radio and television, and been interviewed for many magazines and newspapers.

Next Step:

Send an email with your contact phone details to book your Readiness Session with Telana, for you to experience Coaching and establish whether it is right for you. In this 1½ hour session, Telana will explain more about Coaching, you’ll both be working out what you want to change or develop, and you’ll discuss a framework for achieving those goals.

More info on the Readiness Session here.

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