Shirley was born and grew up in the UK, she moved to British Columbia, Canada in 1982 with her family. Shirley has gone through many life transitions herself. Moving from one country to another is a major transition and comes with lots of ups and downs and many adjustments to be made. She has personally experienced separation and divorce after a marriage of 25 years plus. Shirley has also experienced very personal family loss.
In her career life Shirley has had a number of diverse interests from doing an apprenticeship after leaving school to operating her own business back in the UK.
During her years in Canada she has spent a number of years in the real estate industry. It was during her real estate years that Shirley started to take time off in order to attend training in areas that really interested and fascinated her. Her passion is helping people improve and make changes in their own lives. Shirley started her NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming, Life Coaching, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) training about 15 years ago. She has also studied EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Solution Focused Counselling and Family Therapy.
Shirley has worked in her community with families with young children where she has facilitated many groups. As well as this in more recent years, as she gets closer to retirement age herself Shirley has focused more on the soon to be retired and already retired population. She developed and presented workshops on planning a life in retirement which focuses more on lifestyles than finances. Her latest venture is publishing her own website for over the 50s called www.lifebydesignover50.com. Please call by and check it out.
Shirley believes in keeping an active mind and lifelong learning. Do your brain a favour and keep it busy.