Dear Parents,

If your young adult:

is unsure of his career path and would like to discuss it with someone who can guide him to more clarity
does not know which field of study to choose and why
feels a lot of tension related to learning and cannot cope with pressure or stress
feels lost and chaotic about their future profession
is unaware of their strengths and motivations.

And instead he/she:

would like to talk through his ideas for life with someone and have more clarity
wants to explore different possibilities in the context of choosing a field of study and a future profession
would like to see what obstacles stand in the way of achieving the goal
would like more ease and peace of mind in preparing for exams and confidence in what he is doing
would like to get to know themselves and understand their motivation and what is important to them.

Find out how I work and how I can support your young adult in choosing a career path.

I also support young people in the area of conscious living:

If your young adult:

is insecure and fearful of the opinion of others
has many unsupportive beliefs about himself
excessive thinking and worrying about his joy of life
has trouble in a particular peer relationship or another that keeps him awake at night
cannot see his life from the perspective and his own impact on it
is lost and needs support to make changes
does not know or does not like himself.

And instead he/she:

wants to empower themselves and express themselves authentically
wants to stand by his side and change what he does not support
wants to come to terms with himself and with the world – in joy and peace
wants to feel good among colleagues and build lasting friendships
would like to take a closer look at different areas of his life and see what can work better
needs support in changing
would like to get to know themselves better and learn to get in touch with themselves.

A few words about the method

Coaching is a partnership in a thought-provoking, creative process. It inspires to maximize personal or professional potential.

It is a method of supporting development implemented in the form of a series of meetings between the coach and the client, during which
the coach, through active listening, asking questions and using other specific development tools and tasks. He accompanies the client in setting goals that are important to him, finding the internal resources needed to achieve them, and establishing and implementing action plans.

The coach supports the client in discovering and effectively using their personal potential to improve the quality of their life.

With coaching work that young people are highly responsive to, your young adult may:

feel confident and catch the wind in his sails
learn more about themselves and feel the ground under their feet
gain tools for their own work
feel calm and clear about the chosen career path
understand the relationships in their life and their role in them.

My name is Anna Gapinska

I HELP YOUNG ADULTS STAND ON THEIR SIDE AND MOVE ON TO LIFE ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET

I work in the spirit of needs-based Coaching.

It is a combination of Non-violent Communication (NVC) and coaching.

This approach was developed by Danish NVC trainer and coach Pernille Plantener.

And it focuses equally on building awareness and on putting changes into practice.

In an accepting 1:1 relationship, the nervous system is somehow protected, it calms down. Then it is also easier to be clear and determine in which direction to go.

It is in the place where our nervous system is relaxed that we have real access to ourselves.

I work from a safe, gentle place to cover the areas they want to be seen.

As a coach, I am a guide-partner and I support the transformation.
I support you when there is a challenge in striving for change and achieving goals, both big and completely small. If needed, I will hold your hand.

Thanks to this work your young adult:

will feel supported and received in confidence
will find out where he stands
sort out the things that keep him awake at night
will gain an understanding of their own and others' behaviours
will feel more peace and trust in themselves
will start working in the right direction.

Anna Gapinska – Gently on your own side

I WILL HELP YOU MOVE ON TO LIFE ON YOUR OWN TWO FEET

A few words about my specialization

The path of my first professional job led me to coaching and diagnostic work, because I am a philologist by first education. I worked in education for 20 years – systemic and non-systemic – in Poland and abroad, at almost all levels of education, from Montessori Nursery, through primary school, middle school, to preparation for the Leaving Certificate exams and International Baccalaureate exams in colleges abroad. This experience allows me to see the needs and support families with children, as well as adolescents and adults in their work.

I specialize in working with young people and women.

I am an accredited coach with a specialization in Career Coaching and Life Coaching,
a certified coach in the Needs-based Coaching approach, and a certified consultant
of the DISC D3 diagnostic tool.

I work as a coach based on Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, Needs-Based Coaching – according to Pernille Plantener and Rick Hanson’s Neuroplasticity of the brain.
I incorporate elements of the Resonant Healing approach according to Sarah Peyton
and IFS (Internal Family System). Attachment parenting is close to my heart – in upbringing and education.

In my work, I also use my pedagogical, trainer, Montessori experience and broadly the NVC (Nonviolent communication) approach.

In my work on the process, I am guided by safety, trust and, above all, the coach’s code of ethics. I regularly participate in supervision.

Gentle and authentic is the way I work. I am close to specifics, effectiveness and left-hemisphere action, which, however, without right-hemisphere relationality, never gave me the longed-for joy, but caused a lot of stress and tension. That is why I integrate them in life and at work, supporting my clients.

Privately, I am a mother and partner, exploring the Middle East world, and Armenia. I feel fulfilled in a mix of intercultural and multilingual environment. I enjoy getting to know new cultures from the inside. I’m calm when I am in contact with the forest and the movement of my body, in contact with my loved ones, and when I travel inwards.

Besides, I love to put my knowledge into practice and then pass it on to others. My daughter inspires me in this process.

Why do I do what I do?

I like accompany others on a journey into the depths, first I supported my students in this, and then naturally my field expanded.
I feel sense and see value in it.

I’ve come a long way to self-discovery, learning different methods of working as a client and then as a professional. This gave me strength and desire to live, and taught me how to use my own resources.

Thus, knowing the scenery on the other side of the mirror well, I support and guide my clients to “home” with tenderness and gentleness.

MY SUBSTANTIVE PREPARATION

Completed studies and trainings:

I have been an accredited coach since 2014.
Certified Crisis Consultant of the Institute of Positive Crisis Therapy IPTK – First Aid in a Psychological Crisis; Elżbieta Kluska-Łabuz, PhD;
Annual mediation study conducted using the Nonviolent Communication method, NVC Zone;
Needs-based Coaching, Pernille Plantener, Leance;
Systemic Consensing – group decision-making by taking into account diversity and opposition, Magdalena Sendor;
Positive Neuroplasticity Training according to Rick Hanson, Joanna Berendt, Anna Andrzejewska;
Resonant Healing by Sarah Peyton; Joanna Berendt, Maja Wyborska;
Introduction to the therapeutic approach of the Inner Family System (IFS) by Dr. Richard Schwartz - Workshop for professionals (and not only); Agnieszka Pietlicka; Dialogue Unlimited;
Nonviolent communication, Collegium Civitas; Postgraduate;
Certified trainer DiSC D3, Effectiveness;
A range of courses for professionals and parents; Agnieszka Stein and Małgorzata Stańczyk, m.in.: Highly sensitive children; Build cooperation with your child; Communication; Attachment Parenting for Professionals; and developmental processes related to upbringing and education.
Certified Trainer of 'Birth to Three'; Association Montessori Internationale (AMI); Trainer: Patricia Wallner, Netherlands;
Maria Montessori's pedagogy, CUD Montessori, Ewa Nikolajew-Wieczorowska;
Executive, Life and Career Coaching, accreditation ICF (International Coaching Federation); Positive Success Group, Dublin, Ireland;
Certified Trainer, Train the Trainer, The Open College, Dublin, Ireland;
Special Needs Assistant, Kylemore College, Dublin, Ireland;
Teaching Polish as a foreign language; University of Wroclaw;
Public Relations, postgraduate studies; Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan;
Polish Philology; teaching specialisation, master's degree; University of Lodz;

I value coaching for the fact that it gives:

agency and choice
self-acceptance and faith in one's own abilities
deepening contact with oneself
reaching for one's own resources
perspective in looking at your beliefs and assumptions
clarity of goals and desires
and as a side effect: liking your life for good.

What will the step-by-step work with me look like?

Dear Parents,

I will answer your questions about coaching, topics, internships by e-mail or phone.

Ask: info@annagapinska.com or leavingcertpolish@gmail.com

We can also arrange a phone call.

• Then I will meet for a free introductory session with your young adult – 30 minutes online and we will check what his/her needs are for the coaching process, what he/she wants to work on, what he/she needs support for,

• I will help him/her to set goals,

• We will talk what is coaching about, what our meetings will look like and what is their main aim,

• We will discuss the principles of coaching work and the course of the session,

• I will answer questions about the process that your young adult wants answered,

• We will learn how the cooperation contract looks like that is effective and safe,

• During the session, we will work online for 60 minutes,

• During the session, I use my skills as a coach and mentor,

• Sessions take place on the Google Meet platform.

What your young adult can expect at the session:

Opinions about working with me

Talking and sorting things out helped me to work on myself, release my emotions and shake myself off to act. . The topic and purpose of the session were determined earlier, but during the conversation, establishing specific steps, it turned out that it would be a process, a gradual liberation from the situation that was bothering us. The session went in full trust, I felt comfortable, I could vent my emotions, get rid of my sadness, but also see many positives. Thanks to the tools, I have identified issues that are important to me, because it is good to have these partial answers to questions, set a goal and focus on it, and not all at once. I realized that I had just taken on too much at the same time and was struggling too much with my thoughts. Now I see it a little differently, gradually and more confidently. For now, I have freed myself from the pressure I put on myself and in this order I see the sense😊. Such a session/conversation can sort out the mess in your head. It’s not like someone will tell you what to do. You figure it out on your own, but in harmony with yourself, and then you act at your own pace. Kasia J.

As a coach and trainer, Ania is a real professional, a powerful motivating force, a real, fully objective mentor. Ania is an extremely inspiring person who can find a common topic with everyone. In addition to being full of warmth and empathy, she keeps her feet firmly on the ground and quickly becomes an example for those who interact with her. Since I used Ania’s services as a career coach, and in a way also as a life coach, I have felt positive effects and energy to this day. I owe it to Ania to build my self-esteem and greater self-confidence as a valuable and reliable employee and professional, which was not an easy task. Ania helped me believe in my strengths and re-see the values that are important to me, which are necessary to find the right career path. Thanks to Ania, I found many of my talents, and thanks to a joint in-depth analysis of my abilities, I developed new ones, more precise ideas and a plan for their implementation, which I am implementing in small steps. I am grateful that I came across Ania as a career coach, who was not afraid to counter and bring me down to earth. I highly recommend Ania to everyone, both those who are just at the beginning of their careers or have lost themselves somewhere on its winding paths. Together you will surely succeed! Agnieszka N.

I really appreciate the coaching sessions conducted by Ania. They help me to be closer to myself and touch my feelings and the needs behind them. Her soothing and supportive presence and questions serve me very well. I feel heard, seen and strengthened after each match. Aleksandra B.

A conversation with Ania is a time full of delicacy and tenderness. It collects the chaos of my words into sentences that are exactly what I want to say. It leaves a space of silence that does not weigh down, but is life-giving. Each time I have the feeling that thanks to her accompaniment and attentive presence I am closer to myself, more “with myself”. It’s like freeing myself. A powerful tool such as coaching is used by Ania with skill and respect for the tool and for me – a “complete” person who comes for support. Ania F.

Ania, I felt very safe during the session with you. I had the feeling that I could really contribute everything that was important to me, and you would see me with it with gentleness, openness and acceptance. My body was making it clear to me that it felt safe in this space you had created for me between us and that your invitations and questions gave me the freedom to choose and decide. I was supported by both questions and your catching of meaning and needs, and naming what I was talking about (whatever you called, I was the one who checked how my body reacts and whether it was really what I wanted – it gave me more clarity). I am captivated by the delicacy and calmness with which you conduct the session, it grounds me a lot (but in a good sense – rooting, slowing down, mindfulness) and allows me to stop and slow down a bit of my crazy train of thoughts. I had the feeling that I really touched quality, meaning, I connected with what was important to me. And I also felt this energy of accompaniment, of being with me – and this is the intention and experience that I take away for my own practice. I was enriched by the session with you on various levels. Kinga C.

Ania is a warm and extremely nice person. At the first meeting, she created an atmosphere full of warmth and acceptance, thanks to which I could listen to myself and my deeply hidden needs. It was a new and very difficult experience for me. I received a lot of support. The coaching session with Ania was a very pleasant, although demanding job. Full professionalism! Monika O.

Mrs. Ania,
Thank you for the report and for all the sessions. It was an opportunity for me to stop for a moment and define priorities. Thanks to your questions and suggestions, I looked inside myself, which I did not have the opportunity to do in the rush of life. Your empathy and positive energy made me trust and open up right away, which allowed me to be fully honest, and it seems to me that this is the most important thing in coaching.

Wiktoria M.
(Career coaching sessions – programme for young adults)

After the sessions, I became more confident and stopped being afraid of failures and rejection. Thanks to this, I will certainly defend my own opinion more often and stand up for myself.
I also broke through in trying new things and making new friends. I also discovered a good career path for me. I learned to manage my time – duties and pleasures. I am extremely happy after these sessions and I have gained confidence.
Przemysław B.
(Life & Career Coaching sessions – programme for young adults)

I conduct coaching in a cycle of 5 or 10 sessions.

The fees for sessions:

Single session: €65
In a package of 5 sessions: 280 €
In a 3-month package (10 sessions): €510

I issue invoices.

Sometimes a single session in empathy is enough to make significant, long-awaited changes.

Make an appointment for a session:
info@annagapinska.com