Are we there yet? As a teacher, this is one of the questions I have often heard from students over the years en route to a school trip. As adults the question of when when we’ll ‘get there’ often relates to the end of our working day, reaching retirement or even becoming a happier person. What about if our ‘there’ is ‘now’? What about if the end point wasn’t that important after all? I don’t think that I’ll ever be ‘complete’ or the ‘finished product’ or that I am even meant to be and at the moment I feel quite o.k. with that.
Incomplete
A painting not yet finished
A dress that’s being made
A plant that is still growing
That needs both light and shade
A project that’s in progress
A race that’s not yet won
I’m part way through the process
A dawning morning sun
The journey’s never ending
I’ll never quite arrive
The energy I am sending
Is what makes me alive
I’m learning I know nothing
The child inside me smiles
We spend our whole lives bluffing
Keep clocking up those miles
I’ll take the time to savour
What counts is my life’s beat
I love the different flavours
Of life that’s incomplete
Published by Sam Allen Creative Coach
As well as being a poet, highly-sensitive being and self-confessed Crazy Cat Lady, I am a Creative Leadership Coach, Trainer and Team Coach with considerable experience in coaching clients in the Creative, Manufacturing, and Pharmaceutical sectors.
I specialise in helping individuals and teams to work past limiting beliefs, to think outside-of-the-box and to show up as conscious, inspiring and dynamic leaders. I am passionate about helping leaders to show up authentically and I design and co-lead bespoke Conscious Leadership programmes for FMCG organisations wishing to create opportunities for their employees to shine and truly maximise their potential.
In addition, I co-facilitate Happy Teams workshops, helping remote teams to build trust and connect to their strengths, purpose and vision in playful, creative and experiential ways.
A co-active coach with PCC accreditation from the ICF, I am also Leadership Circle Profile certified and ORSC trained. I graduated from the CTI Inner Leadership programme in February 2020 and know from firsthand experience what it means to do the deep, inner work needed for personal growth. I hold a BA in French and Drama and a PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages.
Throughout my coaching career I have empowered individuals to write books, make life-affirming career changes, overcome anxiety and to take giant leaps towards heightened self-realisation, increased authentic leadership presence and spiritual growth. An ex-lawyer and C-suite executive client recently shared that she had “never experienced anything so powerful” and that she is now able to “trust her truth”. One global client team leader reported being “touched, motivated, encouraged and brimming with energy” and another shared that his team was able to “demonstrate their creativity and really get behind their vision”.
My personal and team coaching style is playful, intuitive, somatic and compassionate. My workshop facilitation style is dynamic, inclusive, expressive and authentic and my 20 years experience as an international school educator and team leader have contributed to my ease in leading group facilitation.
My superpower is using my incredible intuition and sensitivity to see into people and challenge them in a powerfully courageous way. A prolific poet and podcaster, I live and breathe my own creativity and in turn inspire others to do the same View all posts by Sam Allen Creative Coach
Peacock Poetry 
We are all in various stages of work in progress….so are we there yet? No. And probably not ever, because every time we are near completion of a milestone we seek new ones!
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Exactly and that is the fun of it in a way too!
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