Testimonials

I am a 37 years old Medical Doctor and General Practitioner. I work in central London UK.
I am  delighted  to give a reference about Nina Bivona as a most  effective and inspiring life coach and NLP Practioner.
I have been working with Nina for over a year now, with exciting results, both in my private and professional life.
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During this period she has provided me with periodical life -coaching and facilitation sessions.  I initially engaged her services to clarify my career goals:  this aim has progressed into a clarification of my personal as well as my professional development plans.

Given the geographical distance my work with Nina has been done mainly over the phone.   I have found Nina’s sessions very well timed and always relevant to the issue at hand.  Nina’s approach is warm and personalized and her interventions helped me to increase my self confidence as well as my professional confidence.

In a situation of particular distress at work when major changes were happening in my work environment and dysfunctional dynamics were affecting me negatively, Nina helped me to clarify my role and the boundaries of my responsibilities, with very effective exercises, delivered over one hour weekly phone sessions. I found this very impressive:

Nina is obviously a very experienced practitioner who has matured the methods she uses and confidently chooses the most appropriate ones depending on the context.  Her approach stimulates and promotes clarity by asking appropriate questions.  I was always very positively surprised by Nina’s presence during each session: by this I mean that Nina responds to what arises in the session appropriately and promptly with a rich range of different exercises that deal effectively with the issue there and than. I found the exercises very powerful both in shifting old patterns in accepting change, and in creating new behaviours.  I have now many strategies that I use in my everyday life, strategies which enable me to access my resources and deal more effectively and less stressfully with challenging situations.  As a result I am a better communicator, more able to enjoy my work and more competent in dealing with a demanding and fast changing environment.

Nina has always been very aware of the possible issue of dependency that could emerge between the practitioner and the client she has always worked very openly and efficiently to minimize this possibility, by fostering a relationship based on mutual respect and collaboration, always encouraging me to take credit for my own achievements, and making her interventions always transparent: for example, she always informed me of the techniques used and explained the details of the process when I required to know, more in depth, the details of the methodology therefore. I have learnt much about the actual methodology of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and I find myself using successfully some of the basic techniques with my own clients, as well as in my dealings with family members.

I have no hesitation in recommending Nina as an excellent life coach, and facilitator of change both in the contexts of career and personal development.

Should you need to contact me please do not hesitate to do so at the above address.

Yours faithfully

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New career direction
It means that I tell my conscious mind the way I want to feel and not the other way around (the way it used to be) ‘I’m driving the bus’. I now set goals more often and as often as I set them I also convincingly and successfully complete them. I have also witnessed change in another person in the work environment as a consequence of  my changing my behaviour and  my thinking: this was very powerful and resulted in the development of much better communication with staff and clients.
And one of the most powerful NLP assets to me is the language, this too has helped me change by focusing on positive language and removing the negative.

NLP has also helped me look at life from the fence rather than from one side of it.
Changing your language CAN change your life…
 
DW, Graphic designer and now enthusiastic Student of NLP

Career
NLP has invigorated my interest in my work, especially after doing your course Metaphor for Lasting Change. I am now using a few techniques successfully and more consciously than before.
Bodymind  Therapist, Perth W.A. 

Stress management
I am aware of being able to be more in cause than effect.  Less depression, more able to get myself more into state of equanimity and going with flow.  More

Values
More aware of the importance of my own and others’ values in choices made

Spirituality
More able to ‘experience’ rather than be questioning about what is ‘right’

Life experiences
More able to ‘go with the flow’

General
More accepting of life and others states. Better rapport with others generally, much more assertive Good outcome with difficult neighbours recently.  A little more persistent in creating rapport and going for outcomes that are suitable for me (and others) than stay in ‘whinge’ mode.:

Meditation
Sometimes I use more imagery than before.
 
Relationships
I am more aware of what I want in my relationships.

Thank you Nina for all your help and support.
Bodymind Therapist, Perth W.A.