About Zangmo Alexander

I have a huge mine of personal and professional experience I draw on for helping my clients through life coaching.

Business

I have worked in the visual arts, the theatre, education, mental health and run my own businesses as a dancer, artist, art publisher, seaside landlady and art and photography tutor.

Personal and spiritual

I know the challenges and opportunities of dysfunctional family life and not quite fitting in to mainstream society as the descendent of eastern european immigrants at the turn of the last century. I have travelled in Europe and Asia, been married, am a mother of a 21 year old son.

I have travelled the path of self awareness through my own psychotherapy, body-mind therapy, art therapy and meditation. I have been on a spiritual seach exploring many of the world's religions before discovering my own spiritual home in Buddhism.

In 2007 I ordained as a Buddhist nun with His Eminence Thrangu Rinpoche, and presently live in Norfolk, UK. Since ordaining as a nun, part of my activities have involved facilitating meditation and mindfulness groups in the community and spiritual mentoring one-to-one privately with people of any faith and none.

Creativity

I have journeyed through creative waters completing a Batchelors Degree in Painting and a Masters Degree in Fine Art, graduating with distinction. In this exploration I have experienced that creativity and meditation are inseparable. Through creating I become more aware and awake to my own authenticity, and practising meditation and following a spiritual path completely informs creative practice. Furthermore, I now experience that there is no separation between everyday life, creativity and spiritual practice.

Teaching and Coaching

As a qualified art teacher and art tutor, I have guided and accompanied those seeking to free their own creativity and discover their authenticity. Over the past 28 years I have been nurturing the creativity of both adults and young people in colleges, schools, mental health, the community and privately. I facilitated Art and Photography for Personal Development and Self Discovery and tutored Creative Art and Photography students of all levels from beginner to postgraduate and professional. In this work, I found people would be seeking my help with moving forward with personal and work issues as well as creative issues.

Responding to this need has led to my currently training as a Life Coach with the UK Coaching Partnership, (accredited by the Association for Coaching). I am loving every minute of coaching clients and am already finding people I coach are recommending me to their friends.

Qualifications

I hold a Post Graduate Certificate in Education with full Qualified Teacher Status, a Masters Degree in Fine Art (Distinction), a BA Fine Art (Painting), have completed an 8 Week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy with Bangor University. I have been studying and practising Buddhist meditation and mindfulness for over 15 years.

I offer a free 20 minute telephone consultation to help you decide whether you would like to book a life coaching session with me. If you are interested, please phone Zangmo on 01379 687360 (UK number)