Hello

I'm Ilka, welcome to my website. What would you like to know in order to decide whether I could be a good coach for you? Here are some questions I picked. If you'd like to know more, feel free to send me an email.

What are the ingredients for being a good coach?                Awareness. Attention. Empathy. Creativity. Humour.                Creating a safe space and being clear about expectations and boundaries.

What topics do you coach on?                                                             I am open to any topic you bring to the conversation. In the past I have worked with people on personal development, confidence, decision making, grief, relationships, anxiety, and spirituality.

Have you always been a coach?                                                      No, I have been a sign language interpreter for more than twenty years. I also trained as a Feldenkrais practitioner and an Embodied Life teacher before qualifying as a coach.

What do you love about coaching?                                                     I love it when things become unstuck, when people get in touch with their essence and experience flow. They uncover who they are and feel their power to choose how they want to be, what they want to do. Creating the space for that to happen and being companion and witness to that process is very rewarding.

Ilka... that's an unusual name                                                          Yes, I was born in Germany but have lived in England for many years. I am happy to coach in both English and German.