we have an opportunity to explore new ways of knowing, seeing and being in the world.
My name is Gwendolen. I work as a highly trained and experienced coach, facilitator, speaker, teacher and guide.
I am the founder of Alive Wire, a transformative teaching and learning portal which holds unique programs curated for my clients and students to find meaning and create profound and sustainable shifts in their personal and professional lives.
My heart is for the healing and awakening of humanity.
I am a single mother of two young men who continue to delight and surprise me. Motherhood is not for everyone. For me, it has been my making.
I have a longstanding love affair with South Africa.
For as long as I can remember I have been interested in the interface between science and the sacred and the evolution of consciousness.
I love birds and horses, Cape Town and adventure, friends and community, writing, mythology, sense-making and story telling.
My life has been full, challenging, real and rich; a crucible for spiritual growth. I have taken the path less travelled and learnt to follow my inner tuition and trust my truth. As an authentic leader and healer I am here to share my medicine, to point the way inside and, hopefully with humility and transparency, model the way outside.
I would love to be your guide.
Despite your achievements and outer confidence, you are feeling off-kilter, off-track, restless, jaded or disillusioned. You may be sitting with an odd sense of foreboding – something isn’t quite right – or a feeling that time is running out. You are trying to make sense of things. You are starting to ask deeper questions. You are looking for substance.
I hold space for you to re-calibrate; to know your true nature and achieve your soul purpose.
My job is to get out of my own way and be a channel to guide you to guide yourself. Your job is to show up fully and “do the work”.
The invitation is to be part of the Alive Wire community and join me and a small group of others on one of my transformative courses. I can help you decide where to start.
Learn powerful and essential skills to shape reality and trust life in times of transition.
Move through spiritual malaise. Heal. Grow. Evolve.
Know yourself. Shift your identity. Overcome your doubt, insecurity and inadequacy. Own your magnificence. Access your inner guidance. Face your fears. Meet your edges. Walk your talk. Find joy. Participate fully in life. Share your gifts.
Create success, substance and significance.
Do and be what you came here to be and do.
Come join me.
The short answer is that I’ve been been in this game for a good 25 years and as you can see I have a roster of happy clients. My heart is singular – for you to stop holding back, stop wasting time, know your value, claim your worth and do your thing in the world.
I am able to hold space for you because I have learnt to hold space for myself.
The longer answer is that I have an unusual mix of skills, interests and life experiences.
I guess you can boil it down into six advantages:
You are in good hands, safe hands and experienced hands. My spaces have clear boundaries. Confidentiality, co-creation and clarity are essential. Courage, trust and acceptance are key.
It matters hugely to me that Alive Wire is a place where you are free to show up exactly as you are, fully yourself, in your power or in your shadow, feeling good or feeling shit. It is important to me that you have a space to be vulnerable and real and a space where it is OK not to have all the answers and not to know.
I see you. I hear you. I get you. I believe in you. I want the highest and the best for you.
I will meet you where you are at. I will have high expectations of you but I will never judge you.
I have a Law Degree, a Certificate of Comparative Religion, a Post Graduate Certificate in secondary school education, a Diploma in Creative Education. I have received training from the International Baccalaureate Organisation in the Theory of Knowledge which I taught at Diploma level.
In 2011, I was awarded my Diploma in Practitioner Coaching from the highly credible Integral+Africa Coaching Centre in Cape Town.
I enjoy giving talks and am a competent Toastmaster.
Here is a list of some of the trainings I have participated in since the beginning of my coaching journey in 2010.
I have a rich and diverse tool-kit which I use sparingly and with discernment. This is not about me leading you down a path, or pushing you through a set of practices or process. I will not be doing your thinking for you. This is about you and you only. Your end results. Your happiness. Your freedom. Your truth. Your evolution.
So…let’s get on with the job, let’s dive deep and let’s do so with professionalism, playfulness, ease and grace.
I am not perfect but I am the real deal.
I have known hardship and success. I have journeyed many times into the unknown. Facing my pain and shame. Doing the work. Owning my power and presence. I have not always walked my talk. I have fallen and failed. I have risen and rallied.
I value you because I have learnt to value myself.
What I teach you, I have applied over and over in my life.
Not a lot shocks me.
I start with the premise that you are a powerful creator, inherently valuable, sovereign and whole.
I will show you your greatness and help you see your shadow. I will make a stand for you.
You are not flawed. There is nothing to be fixed.
My clients and students are looking for a “trusted thinking partner” who will act as a mirror and not be afraid to hold that mirror.
I push the envelope. I am quirky but not flaky. I care.
Over the past decade I have developed an expertise in resilience, rooted strongly in positive psychology and the new science of happiness.
Today, my umbrella focus is spiritual resilience and spiritual intelligence.
People don’t pay a coach to have an uplifting conversation they pay for results. I care deeply about the results you want to achieve. You want transformation. I understand transformation.
When the student is ready the teacher appears.
This is your time. This is my time. This is our time.
Alive Wire is an online container for young movers and shakers who look like they’re rocking on the outside but feel jaded, off-kilter, inadequate and alone on the inside. Each program offered is designed to help these unique individuals know themselves, trust themselves and express themselves, equipping them with powerful skills to attend to their soul growth, participate fully in life and create success and significance in times of transition.
Re-calibration. A fresh take on reality. A new way of being.
A fresh sense of freedom. Tools to feel good, do good, for good. In short: transformation.
enlightening, illuminating, empowering, inspirational, thought-provoking, eye-opening, affirming, informative, challenging, surprising, fun, revealing, interactive, clear, well-prepared, a must for leadership.
engaging, intelligent, entertaining, professional, passionate, knowledgeable,
interesting, animated, warm, authentic and approachable.
touches lives, powerful and real
on the ball, uncanny levels of intuition
knowledgeable, vulnerable and committed
a wisdom-keeper
softness and strength
a complete package
uber intelligent
technically sound
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she understands who I am
walks her truth
elegance, dynamism, style
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a sense of what is possible, transformation
alternative / quirky
she gets me and sees me in my entirely
Gwendolen sees into my soul