Gordana Stankovic
Diploma in Counselling
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Counselling for individuals and/or couples, Communication coaching, Conflict mediation Expert
Gordana Stankovic Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- family & relationship problems, career/work related issues, inner growth, personal development, needs based communication
- Career Focus
- Counsellor, Life Coach, Trainer, Workshop Facilitator
- Affiliation
- Living Peacefully - Hymanistic Counselling and Life Coaching
I am a qualified counsellor and life coach. My counselling and coaching approach is an integration of the humanistic counselling, otherwise known as person-centred counselling, and the model of Nonviolent Communication, a process developed by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg, which offers practical and powerful skills for compassionate giving and receiving, helping to create deep, meaningful connections and relationships, and transforming conflicts into peaceful dialogues.
Originally, I come from Croatia and since my early 20's I've lived in the UK, The Netherlands and Spain.
I value peace, the authenticity of every human being, relationships based on trust, acceptance and genuine contribution to each other's lives.
For more information about me please look at my website Living Peacefully - Humanistic Counselling and Coaching
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Travelling from ''bloody'' to beautiful awareness
Several years ago, during the process of dealing with yet another painful situation she was going through, a friend of mine experienced a deep connection with her own feelings and needs. I like to refer to this as a connection with her core self. In that moment of clarity she exclaimed ''bloody awareness!'' She realised, or rather, re-realised that 'the secret' of whether you react to situations and outside triggers or whether you respond to the outside world acting from your core in harmony with your values is very simple – awareness.
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Season of giving
In last a few days I've thought a lot about this phrase ''season of giving.'' We often refer to this time of year around Christmas and New Year as the season of giving. And while so much meaning is contained in the word giving we often reduce it to mean exchange of presents. Of course nothing is wrong with giving a present to another person, on the contrary it could be such an act of joy and pleasure for both giver and the receiver.
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Protection vs. connection
We human beings are social creatures who are high wired for connection with other human beings. Connection with what is alive, in other words what is real, true and genuine in others with that what is real, true and genuine in us is one of our deepest basic needs and it is universal which means we all have it. What differs for all of us is not the need, but how we choose to meet that need. So what differs is a strategy that we apply to meet our need for connection (or any other need for that matter) and there are many strategies to meet that shared need for connection we all have.
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Protection vs. connection
We human beings are social creatures who are high wired for connection with other human beings. Connection with what is alive, in other words what is real, true and genuine in others with that what is real, true and genuine in us is one of our deepest basic needs and it is universal which means we all have it. What differs for all of us is not the need, but how we choose to meet that need. So what differs is a strategy that we apply to meet our need for connection (or any other need for that matter) and there are many strategies to meet that shared need for connection we all have.
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Feel pain, heal and find love for the lost one
I wanted to write this particular blog for two reasons. One is as a memory of my loving mum who died almost 6 years ago. And the second is to share my process of grieving, what I've learned from it and how it's helped my inner growth with hope that my story may also help others who are going through a similar process.
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Self-acceptance and self-love
These two concepts go hand in hand with each other. You cannot truly and fully love yourself if you do not accept yourself fully, and you cannot accept yourself fully if you do not love yourself. It is a little bit like with the chicken and the egg, no one can really answer what comes first and it does not even matter which one comes first. What actually matters is that you cannot have one without the other and what is even more important is that in order to be a healthy, thriving, fulfilled, loving and loveable individual you have to both accept and love yourself as you are.
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Love in a Cup
Lessons in love are hiding in almost every moment and situation of our life. The question is whether we are ready to take an opportunity to live that moment fully and whether we are going to stay open to receiving a lesson in love that this moment and situation have the potential to teach us.
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Always take a chance to say “I love you!”
I woke up quite early this morning. Strictly speaking I do not know whether I woke up or whether I was really woken up by a dream. It was one of those very real dreams, the one you want to go back to and complete it. In it I was with my best male friend, whom I really was in love with. I was just telling him what an important part of my life he had been, and how much I had cared, and I'd just been about to say ''I love you'' to him when a group of other friends arrived and I woke up.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gordana Stankovic
''Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we are not all caught up in our own vision of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allow us to be with them and communicate with them properly.''
Pema Chödrön