Speaking • Coaching • Training
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Welcome to aVara Consulting, specialising in:
- transformational coaching for individuals within organisations
- keynote speaking blending energy, fascinating insights and humour for your special event
- invigorating and innovative strategies to enhance wellbeing in the workplace
- fresh and engaging workshops and skills training for leadership and staff
- tailored advice for effective and strategic performance management.
Welcome from Karen Ross, Director and founder of aVara, offering a wealth of experience and professional wisdom to businesses and their people. Drawing on my 13+ years in the field of coaching, training and consulting both in NZ and in Europe, I’m interested in working with organisations that are focused on cultivating the potential of their people.
Don’t you like to know that something works before you use it or do it? When I went sky-diving for the first time, I wanted to know that my parachute would open, that the shoot would work and that I would arrive safely on the ground. Fortunately it did! Stand by to hear if the next one works as well.
I take the same approach to my coaching, training and speaking. I want to know that the methodology I’m using or the skill I’m teaching works; that is, that it gets you the result you want.
Ultimately, the way we know something works is based on how we work inside. Our mind works in certain ways that we are only just beginning to understand, and it is this understanding that really tells us what skills and tools actually work. Why? Because it’s not the tools or skills that work, you do. You work, very well in many ways, and there are probably ways you could work even better - it is the same for everyone. Understanding how to work even better is what aVara is about.
Every human resources or learning and development manager I’ve spoken to wants to know that the coaching or training service they engage is going to make a difference to the way their people think, work and act. Business owners say the same; they want return on investment. I guarantee you return on your investment or your money back.
Don’t take my word for it, make it your business to find out more about my experience, services and what my clients say. Take a look around and discover an approach that will make a positive difference to you and your organisation.
aVara - I create as I speak
The word aVara comes from a (very) old Hebrew expression avara k’davara (believed to possibly be the root of ‘abracadabra’), which means I create as I speak. aVara represents the fact that:
- Our world is created in language (otherwise how would you know the things that you’re looking at right now are called words?! Or that those two things back there are a question mark and an exclamation! mark?)
- We feel what we think, or put another way, your thoughts determine how you feel
- Our language and words can change our life, and the world.
Thinking about driving in a rally car at 200km/hr as exciting and exhilarating, or as terrifying and dangerous, gives you two completely different sensations in your body, doesn’t it? The difference was in the language. Certain words connect you with particular images, sounds, smells, tastes and emotions that create your state in that moment. Your words create your reality - inside you and outside. When your language changes, so does your experience of life. What do you want to create?
