I have tried to identify what feels wrong and the most accurate description I can come up with is a sense that I am being tamed by the city, that I have temporarily lost my wildness.

Last weekend I went with a very good friend of mine up to the most special place I know, a valley on the Yorkshire/Cumbria border, where sheep and hairy horses roam on the high fells. We took enough food to feed an army, wood and kindling for the fire, my dog-Suzie and our fiddley craft projects. We had 3 nights, walked and explored all day and we forgot the time and the rest of the world. There isn’t any mobile or internet reception up there, so our worky lives just had to wait til we were ready for them again.

After our days away and returning home, the internet seemed like a very unnatural way to spend my time and I’m finding that people & actual things delight me even more!

The most real thing of all right now is the growing baby inside me! They remind me just how full of possibility we all are and that I am the wild free creature I was born to be. If we just keep attuned to our wildness and keep doing the things that make us feel free, our sense of feeling ‘there is something wrong here’ may just begin to float away on the breeze!

Dig deep- what makes you feel tamed and sedated or wild and free?

PS. I love lichens and this valley has the largest selection I have ever seen in one place. Cladonia fimbriata, the gorgeous mini ‘golf tees’ are one of my favourites.

The songs for Jack & the GM Beanstalk are brilliantly catchy. Especially ‘Friends‘. Music written by Alan Creedon

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The coaching encourages an approach to change that is really useful: practical, accessible and theoretically interesting. There’s a lot in there and the benefits to me were varied and abundant. I gained a real clarity of intention.

The Be The Change course helps people build their confidence in their own skills. It  definitely gets things moving. What are you waiting for?”

Charlotte, Manchester.

“Beth’s coaching is open and supportive. She asks thought provoking and difficult questions when needed! This allows people to reach their own conclusions- she doesn’t tell you the answers, but SHE DOES ask the right questions. Beth really believes in you and cares about you achieving what you want.

I initially wanted to concentrate on having more clarity in my life, how to ‘fine tune’ it to get exactly where I wanted to be. It has confirmed for me that I should go with my gut when making decisions. This course has been really beneficial to help me feel that I really can achieve what I want to do.

Beth’s use of analogies and examples allows you to see things from a different perspective. The home actions work well to get you thinking.

Beth really does make a difference and it’s a legacy as well- not all the changes will happen instantly, but it all keeps building on the work you’ve done.

This course would be good for someone who has been a passenger in their own life for too long.”

Katy, Peak District.

For more info on BE THE CHANGE course starting 21st March 2012.

New beginnings start by creating new intentions.

Consider what you want for you in 2012.

Which of your own thoughts, behaviours and actions have worked positively for you this year, and how can you create more of the same?

What do you need to help you be the person you want to be and have the life you know you can achieve?

Ask yourself these questions and set intentions that feel exciting and adventurous, grounding and stretching in equal measure.

Remember to anticipate some set backs and program resilience into your intentions at the very beginning. Don’t be stopped by the first minor set back. Brooke Castillo has a great analogy for this. She these set backs to being stopped at a red light during a car journey. When we reach a ‘stop’ light we don’t abandon our efforts and turn around and go home, feeling despondent and a failure, do we? The reason we don’t is because we have anticipated that there may be traffic lights to navigate. There may also be traffic jams. I know that when I get stuck in a queue of traffic I think creatively about what other routes I can take, how I can move around or get through the problem. I do this when I hit a block along my way to achieving any goals I set for myself too.

Consider your intentions, when you set them, remember to factor in the possibility that you may need to find an alternative route on your journey to reaching your goals. Anticipate metaphorical road blocks, diversions and red traffic lights. Be open to travelling along an unexpected route to get where you want to be.

Enjoy the journey, take the beautiful scenic route to fulfilling this years’ intentions.

Happy 2012 to you all.
xx

I had held 6 wild food evenings at a smaller local café before that, but when I was invited to run a Guestrant at Electrik, my stomach flipped over! I felt excited, flattered and terrified!I am not a trained chef, but I have always loved feeding people and loved running my small, intimate, did I mention…SMALL wild food nights.

I knew I had to recruit another brilliant pair of hands to keep me calm in the kitchen. My friend Aleyna, had always helped me with my wild food evenings, but she had left Manchester in January 2011 to start her incredible shop in Suffolk earlier in the year,  her absence left a huge gaping hole.

My new right hand woman arrived in the form of Deanna Thomas, food blogger, professionally trained chef and joint founder of  North Star Deli  back in 2003. We created a menu using my wild food knowledge, that others might then hopefully feel inspired to recreate.  Deanna has a big reputation and her professional expertise were both a most welcome relief and a scary prospect. I knew that I wanted to do my very best to make sure that her reputation wasn’t left in tatters after associating with me! Together we delivered 3 courses of tasty, beautifully presented.

The night was reviewed by North South Food Blog and I can honestly say that night I felt STRETCHED well out of my comfort zone. I didn’t feel panicked though, because I had all the help around me that I needed. Plus the passionate conviction that responsible foraging and eating of wild food is something worth sharing.

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It feels very strange answering emails as usual as well as completing all the jobs that we always meant to get around to!

It’s a huge step for us as we started Dig as soon as we got back from honeymoon. We had neither jobs, nor money. In fact our friend leant us the money for our rent that month! We knew we wanted to work for ourselves & that we both were interested in and had some experience of working in the organic veg world. We never dreamt that it would be as successful as it is.

It has been an incredible journey and we are incredibly grateful for all the physical, emotional & skilled help we have received from friends, family, farmers, producers and customers over the years.

We are passionate about veg, but we have other passions too. We have scratched the itch that was the desire to be business partners.

It is time to move on. We are very excited about being just marriage partners again soon-what will we talk about…can’t wait to find out.

Dig was our first born. Now Kirsty will be helping it leave the nest and taking it off to pastures new!

The other fantastic news the 2nd BE THE CHANGE group coaching programme starts in Spring 2012. Will your brain child grow just as Dig did?

Click here for the full course details.

Photo by kind permission of Shirley Bainbridge

BE THE CHANGE course is the result of a goal I created for myself to

be the change that I want to see in the world.

My mission is to give as many people as possible the tools of how to coach themselves to truly get stuff done.

I have been coaching 1 to 1 for 2 years and training and mentoring other coaches.

I have been running teleclasses for other people too and I have been dying to create my own group programme, but had been terrified of doing it.

I took my own advice; made a plan, created a support group, defined my skills and overcame my fears.

I hit a few pot holes, managed my time-management skills(!) and came out the other side.

Just writing this course has me right out of my comfort zone and it feels great, because I know this is what I want to do with my life.

This is the first time I have run this course-so you guys will be my pioneer group.

I have invested so much of myself, my coaching knowledge and own experience into this course, I can’t wait to see what you all create for yourselves.

Looking forward to meeting you!

FREE 1 hour TELECLASS

8 STEPS TO CREATING CHANGE

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Thanks

Beth x

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 – 1948)

Want to spend 8 weeks concentrating on you, your own individual skills & what you can give to the world?

How you can use your super powers for good & be fully self expressed?

Get to know a group of inspiring like minded people, be supported & give support to get stuff done?

Learn a whole tool kit of coaching skills to enable you to coach yourself for ever more?

Ready to make a difference to your life?

Be the Change

Course details

8 weekly group coaching telephone classes.

Topics include:  Money/Abundance. Community. Comfort Zone. Reality. Choice. Happiness is a serious business.

This is the course that I wished I could have taken 10 years ago. I have pulled together 10 years of personal development work & training to create a programme to stretch, excite & inspire you to take the steps to then ‘Be the change’ that you wish to see in the world.

Now I want to pass on all the skills and training I have gathered over the years to accelerate you in finding & living your own path!

I am a qualified coach, so this course won’t just be a training exercise. It is a rigorous investigation into who we are and what stops up from being what, where & who we want to be. Ready for some fun?

We work to get results.

SOLD OUT- next programme Spring 2012

Dates & Times

8 x 90 minute telephone classes using a teleconferencing call.

(Costs are 2p minute = £1.80 per call on your phone bill, this is not included in the cost of the course)

The classes will be every Tuesday evening 7pm til 8.30pm

Tues 18th Oct

Tues 25th  Oct

Tues 1st Nov

Tues 8th Nov

Tues 15th Nov

Tues 22nd Nov

Tues 29th Nov

Tues 6th Dec

1 to 1 peer mentoring & support-you will be partnered each week with a different participant to work through structured exercises between teleclasses.

(Bonus) 1 hour -1 to 1 coaching session with Beth. (Worth £75)
Cost

£320 (concession £275)

To be paid in one installment.

If you are not completely satisfied at the end of the course & you have participated fully I will give you your money back!

Contact me to arrange a free 30 minute enrollment consultation telephone call.

bethcreedon@gmail.com or call 07833 774775.

I’ve had one client come to the end of her sessions this week too. She was glad that she had reached a point where she had now-  ‘Stopped wanting to change‘. Instead she said ‘ I have completely changed the way I approach and see life and its challenges.’  Becky has been a joy to work with, read the rest of her review of our sessions here.

Continuing the loose theme of new from old…

What can you create new today from the old/original & best you?

Spinning & Twirling…

Beth x