Testimonials

GENERAL

Anna is one of the warmest, most compassionate and intuitive people I know. She has a superb sense of style and positively sparkles with an infectious vitality for life.
Angela Barnard

Anna has a range of skills applicable to many problems. She can mix and match to suit individual requirements. She is a very knowledgeable person.
Elisabeth Miller

Anna possesses an intuitive understanding of the way to realise the best in others and helps them to shine through the use of her gifts. Her friendship and support have helped to turn my personal and professional life around.
Nicola Oldroyd

I have worked with Anna Libby on promoting and delivering a series of life coaching events. Anna has great compassion and a huge talent for setting people at ease. She combines her energy and enthusiasm to provide a wonderful healing experience. I would not hesitate to recommend her as a life coach.
Peter Granger, Feb 2005

LIFE COACHING

At Christmas I paid a visit to my youngest daughter who was constantly nit picking and left me feeling rather despondent. Also, most of my friends are elderly, expecting me to do for them. It is hard to maintain ones patience, but have recently faced most of them with the problems as they occur!! Being assertive to their face and giving them my positive thoughts, encouraging the families to do the same.

All this would not have been possible without Anna's help, we discuss anything that has arisen since I last saw her. I feel very relaxed in her company, especially the Life Coaching Sessions, setting out my future plans giving me focus on what I really want from life!! Thanks, Anna for helping me to find myself!!
Ruth Jones, July 2005

I recently had a life coaching session with Anna Libby to help prepare me for an important interview. Anna assisted me greatly in focusing my mind on the interview and in looking at some of my concerns about the interview process as well as how to handle some of my perceived weak points.

Anna has an extremely welcoming and compassionate coaching style and set me at easy immediately. She soon helped me get to my core issues and fears around the interview. She didn't shy away from the more difficult areas around my self-image and lack of confidence, bearing in mind that this was my first interview in over ten years. Anna gave me some very useful information about effective communication and an exercise to ground and prepare myself as I traveled into the interview. The aim was to maintain my positive stance even when my fears became triggered by awkward questions or by any focus on my weaker areas.

In the event the interview went very well and I managed to maintain my positive body language and to keep my voice loud enough for much of the time. I do think Anna's coaching helped me to remember my 'self' during the interview.

In terms of this session I cannot suggest any development areas for Anna as it went very smoothly. I would certainly recommend Anna as a life coach.
Peter Granger April 22, 2005

The sessions have been easier than I imagined but more thought provoking than I anticipated. Anna's telephone manner makes it easier to begin talking about a subject without really being aware of how the subject came up. She is patient and listens well and frequently comments to let me know when a concept has been grasped or when I've done well on a particular aspect of the coaching.

The suggestions of ways to monitor my state of mind have proved useful although I would like to try a few more exercises to try out the different ways in which this can be accomplished so I am looking forward to that.

I wasn't sure how easy it would be to do this with Anna being a friend as well as my coach but I think it has helped me to open up and I feel safe confiding aspects of my life to her which I may not be comfortable sharing openly with someone more unfamiliar to me.

I am benefiting from the coaching and look forward to exploring the process more over the coming weeks.
NJO

Approach and rapport . I regard these 2 as linked as the rapport is frequently dependent on the initial approach.

I have always found that your approach to people welcomes inquiries about whatever is pertinent at the time. The warmth and welcome of your approach includes the recognition of boundaries for all parties concerned for very personal information.

From this basis the rapport developed has put me at ease to explore topics without feeling over exposed and vulnerable. Also the rapport has been positive in that Anna appreciates different viewpoints and ideas to her own.

Style and development . Anna's style is reflective in that the onus for making decisions on how to make progress is with the client. Anna reflects the client's perception of their objective to assist them with considering whether it is a need or a duty etc. From my own experience this style is productive however Anna is able to suggest alternative viewpoints when I have been 'stuck' and facilitate creative thinking. Anna's style is gentle and reinforces the concept of ideas that are progressed must be mine otherwise the commitment and motivation will not be forthcoming.

With regard to developing my chosen path Anna has helped me to be realistic about setting objectives so that they are achievable and less nebulous. She has used her knowledge of psychology and tools/techniques to good effect so that I have not been overloaded with information and felt swamped.

I am aware that during face to face sessions I am not rigorous at writing down information to support my development following the session. It may be helpful to Anna to encourage clients to do so as that has the advantage of clarifying any information in a summary of the session.

Knowledge, information and tools . Anna is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge so that her clients may benefit and/or be inspired to carry out their own research. Anna's enthusiasm does not mean that her clients are spoon-fed as that may be counterproductive and result in the client becoming dependent.

I'm aware that Anna has extensive knowledge about the topics that we have explored because it relates to our professional background and experience in common. Moreover, and importantly Anna is confident in imparting her knowledge which is encouraging to her clients.

The tools we have used to date have been connected with goal setting and skills analysis. We have used SMART goal setting in conjunction with 531 as a time line to organise the priority and stage at which some tasks should be completed to attain my overall goals. Simple techniques such as reviewing past achievements and the skills required in those achievements as a means of listing existing skills and application. Anna has encouraged me not to be modest but factual and honest in listing these skills.

In addition we have used visualisation to inspire confidence and facilitate creative thinking. The sessions to date have been beneficial in helping me to organise my work, rest time and leisure.
Julie Marsden June 2005

COLOUR COACHING

At the Rotary Club of Westminster East we have a guest speaker every Thursday evening at the Thistle Charing Cross Hotel and are used to a great variety of subjects and quality of presentations. What we had not expected was the ray of sun shine that came to the hotel that cold January evening when Anna entered the room. She not only talked about the importance of colour in our lives but her infectious enthusiasm for the subject and her obvious knowledge and experience in applying this fascinating subject to peoples lives very quickly convinced the most sceptical members of the audience.

A truly colourful evening that created a lot of interest in the subject and gave many of us new insights!
Herbert Fuchs, Chairman, Westminster East Rotary Club.