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✈️ To move or Not to move to a country? 🛄 To change or Not to change my job?

🤯 Sounds like voices in your head?

As a knowledge immigrant, I have had these voices in my head ever present and loud. After spending a decade away from home country and now coaching fellow knowledge immigrants, I found that applying the framework from Co-Active Training Institute can provide clarity in decision making process.

As a Co-Active Coach myself, I design my alliance with my clients and we look at these dimensions of their lived experience:

The four dimensions of lived experience

Intrapersonal: Me with myself. What is my direct experience of my vision, values, personal growth and saboteurs?

Interpersonal: Me with others. How am I affected by relationships with others and in turn what is my impact on them?

Systemic: How am I impacted by the different systems of which I am a part: family, friends, neighbours, work, city, country?

Structural/Institutional: How do structures inform and shape how life is lived: laws, policies, regulations? There is often some overlap between the systemic and structural dimensions.

Having a structure to such life-changing decisions has helped me immensely.

I have often engaged with a thinking partner such as a coach to navigate such choices to avoid biases and assumptions.

If you are at a crossroads and seeking guidance in such decisions, let’s connect over a FREE discovery call.

Radha Krishnaswamy

Career & leadership coaching for mid-career and expat professionals.

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