We coach educators. We don’t ask the educators to pay for coaching, but we do ask for their feedback.

This is a sample of the feedback educators send to us. It makes us feel extremely proud and happy with volunteering to coach educators:

• The most enriching thing I have ever done for myself in my teaching career.
• This was a positive and easy way to reach a coach.
• This was the most inspiring and interesting discovery of my life so far!
• This whole experience was amazing. I’ve discovered things that I will continue building on for the rest of my life, both personally and professionally. I am so glad I took advantage of this opportunity. I can’t recommend C4E highly enough. Thank you so much.

This educator wrote a long testimonial that shows how C4E Coaches work and the impact they have.

“The C4E coaching sessions with Catelijne Coopmans have been an awesome journey of collaborative discovery! One that you have helped me to explore deeply and meaningfully through your interactions.  Through Catelijne’s skillful ways of responding and guiding by questioning, she has kept me and continue to keep me exploring inside and outside. Her questioning has helped me to see how these interact to make me feel what and how I am feeling and experiencing.  Catelijne has been incredibly helpful in facilitating the journey of exploration and self-discovery. I am deeply grateful for the space that Catelijne has always helped me with and has helped me to hold throughout our coaching sessions. A space that is safe and conducive for self-inquiry. Our interactions have been immensely enriching, and never fails to confer a great sense of freedom. It is liberating yet exciting as one learned there can be so much space for exploration and some much more yet to be discovered inside and outside.   This journey of inquiry and discovery continues within and mindful that there can be so much possibilities and learning yet to be uncovered in every individuals confers immense openness, strength, and freedom!  At the same time, it is humbling and powerful as I reinforce my will as an educator, as a facilitator of learning. I believe and am closely aware of every one’s innate potential can be deeply profound and unlimited.  

Sincere thanks for all the time, patience and kind understanding. I am deeply grateful for all the coaching sessions.“

The educators’ comments continue to flood in to C4E:

• A lot of people in life offer help and advice but very few people ask questions like a coach does. This is what a lot of us need sometimes.
• All in all, I highly recommend the profound help the C4E Coaching Programme offers educators at a crossroads.
• Coaching can resuscitate people’s spirits and wake up self awareness and nurture your self esteem.
• Coaching is really collaborative and allows one to deeply inquire and gain greater self awareness and confidence in carrying out the path as an educator and facilitator of learning.
• Deep down, I knew this would be worth it.
• Everyone needs a coach to ask those important and difficult questions. This has been extremely helpful to me in my effort to find my value base and priorities.
• First of all, the coaching service via the C4E Coaching Programme was fundamentally supportive for me to navigate, as an educator and mother, a fully-encompassing transition to a new country.
• Go for it! Feed your curiosity!
• Her professional approach and effort that went into the coaching sessions in preparation, follow-ups and during the coaching calls were systematic and thoughtful that provided me the right balance of the science and art of walking me through as a coachee to my finish line.
• ​Highly recommended!
• I am feeling more empowered at work now
• I am so lucky to have found C4E. Being coached was a magical experience. My coach is very wise, resourceful, professional and kind. I am very grateful to her for leading me to readjust my core values and made a huge leap in my teaching.
• ​I can absolutely recommend this coaching.
• I concluded yesterday my last coaching session with my coach. It was an incredible experience I wish I could have had before.
• ​I enjoyed this coaching journey with an open mind and heart. I can’t wait to get back to school again
• I had no expectations when I applied to C4E. I had never been through coaching before and I wasn’t clear about what it involved.
• I have personally learned a lot about myself and my potential and capabilities as a leader in the classroom
• ​I never knew how powerful I was until I was coached. The coaching sessions gave me a safe space to explore my inner thoughts and ideas that I’ve never had the chance to really think about deeply.
• I now truly appreciate the power of silence
• I think the best part about coaching is that it makes me feel really strong, like there’s nothing that can stop me if I set my mind to it.
• I was surprised by how everything is connected, from my heart’s desire to my daily habits.
• I was surprised that even though my coach didn’t come from a teaching background, he was able to identify exactly what I needed to work on.
• I would highly recommend C4E to all the amazing educators out there!
• Coaching allows me to take a deeper look within myself, and reassess myself as a whole person as well as the academic that I have identified myself strongly with.
• It was amazing how my coach was able to see what I needed to work on during the sessions. The coaching was fantastic. Truly.
• It was good to think aloud about my work situation.
• More people need to know about this service!
• My biggest two take aways from our sessions together are gaining clarity and focus in terms of what is my immediate next effective step, as well as to shift my mindset to aim higher than I was conditioned to believe.
• My coach topped my expectations and over-delivered in a number of ways.
• Our sessions involved a lot of introspection, something I’ve never been very comfortable with. One of the most important things I’ve learned is to accept praise and gratitude when you do something well.
• Setting aside an hour a month has helped me to find the dynamic balance between my professional and private lives, working in a challenging, bilingual, pre-school environment.
• Sincere thanks for all the time, patience and kind understanding. I am deeply grateful for all the coaching sessions.
• Thanks for this unique opportunity , can’t find the words to thank you enough.
• The best part was getting a direction to think about and try out in between coaching sessions. ​
• ​The coaching via the C4E Coaching Programme was fundamentally supportive for me to navigate a fully-encompassing transition as an educator and mother to a new country.
• The C4E coaching sessions have been an awesome journey of collaborative discovery.
• The coach established a comfortable environment from the start. She helped me to stay focused on my goals and listened carefully to things I had said and noted common behavioral tendencies.
• The coaching lead me to build daily habits which make me feel happier and more fulfilled, I feel like I am able to be truer to myself and act without so much fear.
• The coaching sessions have been very empowering and enriching. It has helped me to find different meanings and acquire greater understanding in whatever I am experiencing as an educator as well as a person as a whole.
• The most enriching thing I have ever done for myself in my teaching career
• This was a positive and easy way to reach a coach
• This was the most inspiring and interesting discovery of my life so far!
• This whole experience was amazing. I’ve discovered things that I will continue building on for the rest of my life, both personally and professionally. I am so glad I took advantage of this opportunity. I can’t recommend C4E highly enough. Thank you so much.
• Very helpful reflection and thinking time together
• We all need a vision of who we can become

We would are always signing up new C4E coaches to give their support to educators. Please join us!