Change Agent: Coach, Facilitator, Teacher, Speaker, Writer
I help people through transition and change to make better decisions and get more satisfying outcomes.
For example, I won't pick your new partner/job/future for you, but I WILL help you pick a meaningful one.
I have a life-long fascination with and commitment to human potential. The corner stone of what I've learned is that: most of us are stronger, smarter and wiser than we've ever been willing to believe or accept.
I bring more than 40 years of experience in mentoring, leadership and personal development to an approach that I call "Story Coaching."
Story Coaching allows you to see and embrace the stronger, smarter, wiser, beautiful you that was there all along.
Through the lens of story coaching, I can help you untangle the parts of the story that aren't yours from the parts of the story that are yours, so that you can see yourself more honestly, make better choices and decisions, and get better outcomes in your personal and professional life.
So, what do you want to change?
Welcome to Little Red Elephant, where your journey of personal transformation begins. I'm Floyd, the founder and coach at Little Red Elephant. My mission is to guide you through life’s pivotal moments with compassion, insight, and transformative coaching techniques.
With a rich background in personal development and a passion for helping others achieve their fullest potential, I embarked on a coaching career over 15 years ago. My approach, which I have honed over the years, combines practical skills with deep emotional insights, aimed at helping individuals rewrite their narratives towards more fulfilling outcomes.
At Little Red Elephant, coaching goes beyond conventional methods. My specialized approach—Story Coaching—is designed to uncover and address the underlying stories you tell yourself that influence your life’s path. This method is about achieving immediate goals and fostering a profound and lasting change in how you view yourself and your interactions with the world.
Everyone has the capacity to transform their lives, regardless of their past or present circumstances. The key lies in understanding and reshaping the stories we internalize. By changing our narratives, we unlock a new realm of personal and professional growth possibilities. This belief is at the heart of every coaching session, workshop, and speaking engagement I conduct.
Choosing the right coach is essential for your personal development journey. Here are a few reasons why working with me could be the turning point you’ve been searching for:
Personalized Attention: Every coaching session is tailored to meet your unique needs and goals.
Experience and Expertise: With years of experience in coaching and a background in transformative methodologies, I bring wisdom and innovative techniques to our sessions.
A Commitment to Growth: Your success is my priority. I am dedicated to supporting you in meeting and exceeding your personal and professional aspirations.
I invite you to start your transformation today. Whether you are facing career challenges, relationship issues, or personal dilemmas, I am here to guide you through them. Reach out to discuss how I can tailor a coaching plan that best fits your situation and goals.
2010 Life Skills Coach certification
2009 1st Degree Black Belt Aikido
2012 2nd Degree Black Belt Aikido
2020 Right Use of Power Teacher
2008 Life Skills Group Facilitator
2010 Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy - Level One training - Stilling the Mind
50 years' experience and performance
1992 VIU Theatre Program
When we're small, the grownups around us, by direct teaching or indirect action, teach us the story of being a grownup: the rules, the expectations, the assumptions; basically how we play "the game".
As we grow, those lessons, those stories, get reinforced by how people respond to us, how people treat us, and what people believe about us, and how we interpret those messages. Over time, this becomes the story that we tell ourselves about us, who we are, who we can be and who we can't.
Often, unfortunately, the story is wrong or just simply not true.
Story Coaching is how we learn to find our truth, our story, so that we can be and become who we were always meant to be.
Story Coaching looks at internal mythologies, perceived limitations and actual potentials in a way that allows you to own the truth and leave the rest behind where it belongs.
Story Coaching looks at your habits, tendencies and patterns in a fresh way
This method helps you make choices based on what YOU want instead of what you've been told you can have
This makes your choices more certain, more confident and more rooted in healthy self-reliance
That cashes out to less guilt, hesitate or self-doubt about your choices
Story Coaching offers a wide range of skills and practices that allow us to "reality check" what we believe we deserve, what we've been told we deserve, and what we actually deserve.
With Story Coaching, we learn to mine the STORY of who we are for the TRUTH of who we are and the GOLD of who we are
Story Coaching can help you make better decisions that are more satisfying by helping you to align your choices with your true values, your true beliefs and what actually matters to you.
Learning how to make better, more satisfying and aligned decisions shows you that you can create the better life you've always wanted but weren't sure you could have.
Story Coaching helps you to discover what really matters to you, so that you can start writing your own story instead of the one you were told to write, or was written for you.
sessions can be in-person or online
folks willing to travel to, or who live in, the central Vancouver Island area of BC, Canada (from Parksville to Chemainus), have the option to have an in-person consult. All other consults will be done by Zoom.
Absolutely yes! In fact, group work often magnifies and accelerates the learning
Participants say they feel safe and seen when other people speak out loud what they have thought or felt themselves
People learn a great deal from others' experiences, and can develop a healthy sense of pride and self compassion when surrounded by those who have they've "been there" too
Accountability and support and tangible and immensely valuable for motivation, truth-telling and building community
All group work is rooted in life skills coaching and solution focused, brief therapy
If you choose to take any of these challenges (1:1, partner or group coaching) and do everything required of you, at the end of our time together, you will have a completely different relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your coworkers and everybody else too.
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