Barbara Jaques

About Barbara Jaques of mindMoves Coaching and Training

• I’m passionate about helping people help themselves.  Seeing someone’s eyes light up when they’ve uncovered a hidden gift they have within, inspires me to coach and train individuals and groups. 
• I offer in-person trainings and coaching via the Zoom platform making me accessible to anyone in NZ.

• Self-employed for the last 15 years, I feel privileged to have shared the company of many individuals, from diverse backgrounds, businesses and organisations; from students and start-up business owners to senior leaders and managers of large corporates and organisations.     

• mindMoves is dedicated to activating the inner strength of individuals to help them lead and inspire harmonious relationships, transforming whanau (family), communities and the planet.  This is where I thrive. 

• My career has spanned management, administration and HR functions of government departments, muti-nationals and small, owner-operated enterprises.  My broad base of skills and knowledge covers systems development, recruitment, quality and performance improvement, health and safety and all aspects of administration and finance. 
• I’m passionate about lifelong learning, NLP and reading books, and listening to music.  I’m constantly amazed and impressed at the many different ways we as human beings can behave.  My curiosity, combined with my skills and experience allow me to hold a safe space of grace, and partner with individuals and groups to support them in being their best selves. 

• For fun I love reading books, usually several at once!  Music is the wallpaper of my life – it inspires me to move and dance and sing and be taken to another place when I need to shift my state.  I enjoy good quality ‘couch-time’, watching rom-com movies with happy endings and I swim regularly for fitness.  I’m revisiting my gardening skills having planted my first vegetable garden in years, and I’m training myself to find pleasure in weeding!  I love soaking up our rugged west coast beaches here in NZ and absorbing the energy they exude, walking and exploring, or taking a road trip to visit friends and family.  Oh – and I’m a ‘cat’ person.      

Thanks for taking an interest in what I have to offer and I look forward to meeting you sometime!

Kia ora from New Zealand!  Thank you for reading this far!  You'll find a coaching session with me to be fulfilling, uplifting and inspiring.  Well, that's what my clients keep telling me! 

My clients are business professionals, owner-operators, managers, supervisors and leaders who want to feel confident, articulate clearly and maintain a cool-as-a-cucumber presence when faced with challenge and tension.  In my coaching sessions I use a range of tools from my NLP and Havening tool kits to support cool, calm, clear thinking to activate your awesomeness.  

Many of my new referrals have come from managers and leaders wanting to up-level the way they lead.  Clients who have partnered with me and achieved outstanding outcomes are self-driven, emotionally intelligent managers and leaders wanting to discover the 'secret sauce' for leading their teams.  New leaders, managers and business-owners wanting to grow into their new role as well as highly skilled and experienced managers who may have come through a challenging experience have also found success following their coaching partnership series with me. 

My focus is and always has been on growing capability to generate a ripple effective of harmonious relationships with ourselves and others.  I'm 'in' this journey myself and sharing my learnings as well as holding a 'space of grace' for you to explore your relationship with yourself is the heart of my mahi (work).  

GRACE is important to me in all aspects of my life including my business.  For me, GRACE is about:

- Growing - continuous learning

- Relating - how we connect with those around us

- Awareness - caring consideration of self and others

- Co-creating - new ways of being and doing

- Empathy - courteous, kind, respectful, compassionate understanding of others' model of the world. 

One comment I hear often from my clients relates to the realisation that "... I learned that it starts with me."   Oftem problems are 'out there' and it's other people, situations and places causing my problems and my pain.  My philosophy is when I move my language, my mind moves in response.    

Clients who have worked with me have said: 

"You changed my work-life by giving me a skill set I could use..." - Megan H

"... with her excellent communication skills ... she soon has you answering your own questions, solving your own problems and empowering you with the skills to just get on with it." - Sue M

" ...she wowed me at life coaching and how to tackle my ‘problem’. It wasn’t what I expected either ... no judgement, just an unbiased friendly voice of support ... to move on from a life situation..."  Clare O

You can engage with me at no cost for an initial compatibility check discussion either in person or via Zoom.  Currently I work solely in NZ. 

If you choose me as the coach to support you in your journey we can discuss what you'd like that journey to look like.  If I'm not a match for you, my connections in the NLP and ICF communities mean I can refer you to someone who may be the match you're seeking. 

If you're interested in partnering with me for coaching, please reach out through my website and let's organise an obligation-free compatibility check meeting via Zoom.  Let's have a conversation where you can interview me and confirm I am the trustworthy, confidential and amenable coach you're seeking.  And, it's FREE!  

Barbara's coaching services are a great fit for emotionally intelligent individuals who wish to grow their capability and skills.