EXECUTIVE COACHING www.ceotodaymagazine.com 57 foundation the vision and mission is to bring teacher training with a difference: teacher training focused on heart science, emotional intelligence, brain science, coaching, management of emotions for children, yoga for kids and in general teacher training with a difference to arm teachers with the knowledge to really help the children of today. Additionally, we would like to bring home schooling and remote schooling to children that really need it and through these programmes, we wish to give work to teachers worldwide to deliver the teacher training and home schooling. In this way, we would be creating an infinity 28 teacher trainers worldwide delivering the training in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Slovakian, Serbian, Polish, Arabic, Portuguese and Bulgarian. In addition, we are now starting our new certification called NeuroHeart Educational Coach training, also accredited by the International Coach Federation. This training is for teachers of all topics and disciplines, and even for Human Resources, Management and Training and Development employees. What is the most rewarding and most challenging part of your job? For me, witnessing the total transformation of teachers is phenomenally rewarding, but most importantly when they receive excellent feedback from their learners. I am always saying that the best feedback we can get is from the learner! The most challenging part is when teachers are frustrated by educational systems and policies that are antiquated and need shifting into 21st-century learning processes. Trying to see how to help teachers who are burdened from the systems is sometimes heart wrenching as most educators really want to shift into new paradigms and new ways of working. Tell us about the NeuroHeart Education Foundation and its objectives? Last year, I was able to fulfil my dream of setting up an educational foundation, together with my business partner Gary Houlton and Efficient Language Coaching, which we have christened the NeuroHeart Education Foundation. Through this symbol, providing work and giving service: the eternal flow of both. NeuroHeart Education is about creating a worldwide ripple, taking neuroeducation one step beyond 21st-century learning. Harnessing the educators of today with the skills to bring brain, heart and compassion into learning. My greatest vision is that when multitudes of teachers/ educators transform, they will be the powerhouses that will shift the educational systems across the world. What would you recommend to anyone who wishes to learn, improve or enhance their language skills for business? I think the first thing I would say would be to create strategies for that individual learner. To focus on what is needed and evaluate the starting point well, so that a goal and action plan can be created with a crescendo of learning over a period of time. This will bring certainty and clarity to the process as well as keep the learner calm. Once the plan is clear, then the question will be how to create a learning process that focuses not only on explicit learning but also on implicit learning or rather the subconscious input of language, almost like replicating an immersion learning situation but from home. I am whole-heartedly going to recommend the learner works together with a Neurolanguage Coach as the expert, the GPS, the soundboard and the accountability partner. Language learning is a quest that enrichens the soul leading to greater understanding and deeper communication. As Nelson Mandela said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” “Neurolanguage Coaching® is about transforming language educators, by providing them with the knowledge and tools to come into a “brain-friendly” approach to language teaching. In practical terms, firstly, we incorporate elements from professional coaching.”
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