I grew up in a mid-small city in Finland. In our family we had a lot of international guests visiting us and sometimes living for longer periods of time. Many times I didn’t have a common language with the fellow people so I learned to sense peoples feelings and interpret their body language.
As I was used to observe different people and cultures, I continued doing the same when entering the working life. I noticed that many work environments were broken and many times the problems could have been solved with a better communication. I also noticed that sensing peoples feelings and reacting to those, helped them to give words to what they were processing and go forward with a better feeling.
I studied as a nurse, to help people when they are already facing problems with physical or mental health. By time I got a stronger feeling about how many problems could be solved before they become problems, if people just got timely help.
This is when I came up with coaching.
If everyone could get help to their questions on time, we might be able to prevent people suffering from bigger challenges.