Meet The Mindfulness Coach Lorien Holiday (left) very kindly volunteered to host a series of Mindfulness Coaching Workshops for all Forest Holme staff at the beginning of this year to develop personal growth and encourage self-care across the physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual sides of their lives. With the eight week course recently concluding, we asked Lorien to tell us more about his coaching and reflect on how the course has benefitted staff wellbeing, especially after the pandemic.
Tell us a bit about yourself and what being a Corporate and Professional Wellbeing Coach involves?
never imagined when I started this next phase of my life. I became a personal trainer and ended up supporting the elderly and infirm with quality-of-life I spent 20 years working in Financial physical movement and activities, working Services and whilst I was professionally with them in their homes and in care successful, I was personally very dissatisfied with my life. It was ultimately homes and ultimately working with some of them up until the last few days of their this dissatisfaction and the prospect of a further 30 years in employment that drove life. This really opened my eyes to human connection and suffering and lead me to me to change careers really with the sole explore the world of mental health in intention of “at least having tried addition to my physical health something else”. qualifications. It isn’t a noble or altruistic start to the I became a certified coach, supporting story I am afraid… people with physical and mental But opening one door led to so many new wellbeing, focusing on strategies such as possibilities and opportunities which I mindfulness, transformational coaching, 20
