Grace and perserverance deliver Monique to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite.
Mission
To facilitate sustainable health and well-being by resolving stress and increasing awareness, wisdom and acceptance.
Clients
It’s no surprise stress management and well-being appeals to a wide range of professionals. Coaching clients include staff, managers and executives of corporations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard and Intuit. Since 2005, Monique has contracted with MediFit Corporation for their corporate wellness coaching program, maintaining a rotating average of 15 high tech clients.
Clients extend to small business executives, entrepreneurs and individuals from a wide range of industries: high tech, financial, legal, marketing, healthcare, consulting, and higher education.
Keynote and workshop clients: Cisco Systems (Silicon Valley), NASA Ames (Silicon Valley), The Chopra Center for Well Being (San Diego), National Association of Women Business Owners (Marin), North Bay Coaches (Marin), American Society for Training and Development (San Diego), San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, One World Children’s Fund (San Francisco), and many others.
Background
By 1994, Monique had become a consultant and speaker, sought out for her unique perspective and growing expertise in well-being and stress relief. This is when she worked with bestselling author Deepak Chopra, MD, at the Chopra Center (formerly The Center for Mind Body Medicine).
Subsequently, she co-founded San Diego Women of Vision & Action facilitating empowerment and transformation. Following that she worked with Newton Learning, a personal and professional development company. At all three, she contributed her expertise, while continuing to make great strides in her own development.
In 2001, she became a certified professional coach through Guiding Mindful Change (GMC). In 2005, the president of GMC recruited Monique to coach for their employee wellness program.
Her experience includes 13 years in healthcare and corporate wellness, 20 years in business development, eight years in human resources, 25 years in personal and professional development, and the last 10 years as a coach and speaker. (She’s not 90; there was overlap.) She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001 for ongoing training with Zen teacher Adyashanti for invaluable exploration of the mind, human behavior and self-actualization.
Monique’s education includes a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and certifications as a professional coach, facilitator and speaker. She is involved with Bay Area chapters of the International Coach Federation, National Speakers Association, and the American Society for Training and Development.
Personal Wellness
Monique enjoys exceptional health, well-being and awareness. She is stronger and exercises more in her midlife, climbing Half Dome in Yosemite at 48. She dances weekly with 5Rhythms, her favorite activity. Yoga, Qi Gong, and hiking provide more fun and balance. Her motto for exercise is, “Do what you enjoy and spend time in nature.”
Her motto for nutrition is, “Remember quality, quantity and time of day.” Mostly fresh, whole, non-processed foods form her well-balanced diet. A wonderful Italian dinner or potluck offer occasional treats. Working in healthcare in the 90s and observing many doctors and nurses eating, she was surprised at how much better her diet and physical fitness was than theirs. Her weight, cholesterol and blood pressure are all low normal.
Monique meditates regularly and continues to study wisdom from the masters. She has a deep sense of peace and contentment throughout her life. When life throws her a curve, she sits, closes her eyes, and experiences waves of emotion and thoughts come and go. She’s rooted in something deeper that does not waver. Life goes on. Allowing it, not resisting it is her way. Awareness and insight into truth guides right action.
Your True Self is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and feels beneath no one. And yet, it is also humble and feels superior to no one, because it recognizes that everyone else is the same Self in different disguises.
Deepak Chopra