Hello! I’m Joanne Garner, offering Coaching, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Crawley since 1991.
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I help people make changes in their lives through changing their conversations. A 'conversation' might be between themselves and another person, or it might be one of those imaginary conversations we have inside our own heads, before or after the event.
A problem with many conversations is that if we expect it to go badly, it probably will. Or, if we expect it to go well, and it doesn’t, we feel we've done something wrong and can't put it right. On the other hand, if we expect it to go well and it does, we experience a really positive sense of confidence, adding to our self esteem. So maximising the chances of it going well, improves not only our effectiveness inthe moment, but also our sense of wellbeing. And of course, effective conversations reduce the personal and business cost of poor communication.
Poor quality conversations waste time and sap energy. If a communication doesn’t achieve its aim, both
sender and receiver feel frustrated, and the 'feedback loop' gets stuck or diverted into what may well be very unhelpful
digressions. Does this seem to keep happening for you?