Life Coaches - Helen Abel, Ainka Fulani and Randy Wilson

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Helen Abel Helen Abel
Helen, a social worker and therapist for more than 20 years, is now bringing her passion and skill for helping people transform painful ways of living their lives to her work as a life coach at the Life Performance Coaching Center. She has been influenced by her training over the last decade in the practice and theory of improvisational theatre, and by her ongoing study of the work of Fred Newman and other postmodern approaches to human development and community building. Helen has come to believe that she can most effectively help people develop by helping them learn how to use their capacity to create, perform and play. As a life coach, Helen helps her clients access these skills as she leads them in creatively developing more effective and impactful conversations with their friends, family and colleagues.

Helen is also an adjunct faculty member of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy headquartered in New York City. She offers introductory workshops to both professionals and non-professionals. Helen is a founder of the All Stars Project, an outside of school development program for inner city youth. She graduated from New York University School of Social Work.

Ainka Fulani Ainka J. Fulani
Ainka is a wellness coach with many talents. She believes that professional, personal and physical development can happen at any age, at any stage in life. She believes that taking care of ourselves and our relationships can be a rigorous and gratifying creative process. Ainka's practice focuses on helping her clients grow in all areas of their lives; diet and fitness, stress, time and career management, and managing through transitions. Ainka has been a long-time participant with an international performance community and she is delighted to have joined the coaching team at the Life Performance Coaching Center while continuing her training at the LPCC and the East Side Institute, an international training center for new approaches to human development and community.

Ainka decided to pursue a career in coaching after working with a stellar executive coach post business school. She was deeply impressed by his astuteness, people-savvy and multi-faceted approach to helping her navigate as a new executive living in a new city, working in a new industry and in a new function.

She was further influenced by watching friends and family begin to suffer with chronic diseases, often times caused or exacerbated by how they responded to the stress of their lives. She enrolled in a Master's program for Nutrition with Clayton College of Natural Health and became a certified Pilates Mat instructor with personal Best Pilates Studio. Ainka will complete her Pilates equipment certification in Spring 2009 with Synergy Fitness in Albany, California, and take the certification exam for Personal Training shortly thereafter.

Ainka holds an MBA from Wharton, where she majored in Entrepreneurship, Operations and Strategy with a focus on Global Business. She holds a Certificate in Human Resource Management from NYU and has held various roles in retail, financial services, telecommunications and with non-profits. She cites her professional experiences in sales, advising, coaching, diversity, recruiting, training and development, process improvement, project/change management, strategy/business development and merchandising as great training for her current roles as a coach with the Life Performance Coaching Center and as the Associate Director of MBA Advising & Programs at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Randy Wilson Randy Wilson
As a long time life coach, Randy is a skilled and effective leader of creating environments that are challenging and loving and that help clients become more creative choice makers. Having grown to meet many challenges in his life, including living with HIV, he has come to believe that participating in building community focused on the development of all involved helps to reshape and redefine emotional and physical pain.

People respond in all sorts of ways to how they experience pain in their lives including using alcohol, drugs and/or sex to "medicate" themselves. Randy specializes in helping his clients recreate their relationship to that pain, both physical and emotional by helping them transform how they live their lives with others. Trained in the Life Performance Coaching Center's performance based approach to development, Randy believes that people from all walks of life can come together and learn how to use our human capacity to perform to create new and effective ways of relating to ourselves, our friends and to the world.

A gay man, born in Hawai'i to Chinese and African-American parents, Randy received his B.A. in human development from the State University of New York, Empire State College in New York City. He completed a 3 year postgraduate certificate program in social therapy at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and studied for 5 years at the California School of Professional Psychology. Randy has been living creatively with HIV for over 27 years. He attended 12-Step Recovery program meetings for many years.

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