Hi, I'm Hugo

From a young age, living close to a train station, I’ve was struck by the depression and the lives of quiet desperation of people going to and coming back from their jobs.

We spend our lives working, but isn’t there a better way?

As I entered the workforce I had a job that was so problematic there was an almost daily turnover rate. It was damaging to my own wellbeing and performance and that of my colleagues. This then caused problems for the company. In other words, everyone lost.

Yet I also experienced extremely positive and supportive work environments where the busier it got, the more fulfilled I was at the end of the day, and the stronger the bonds between team members became. I saw that qualities such as joy benefit everyone including the bottom line. I saw that work done well can make life better.

Inner work

At the same time that these experiences were happening, I developed a deep love of inner work when I discovered that transforming our inner world transforms our outer world in miraculous ways. I was inspired by the doable methods to create this transformation yet I couldn’t seem to make them work.

As I continued to explore these methods, I began to learn about ancient cultures and their wisdom. There was a marked contrast between the modern fast paced culture that said “push harder”, and the wisdom and harmony of ancient cultures that was often beyond words. Our disconnection from a more natural way of life seemed too big to solve.

In a moment of crisis, where the common advice of mindfulness meditation, exercise, good nutrition and so forth was so ineffective for the kinds of problems I was facing that I didn’t know what to do, I uncovered a way of transforming these big, intense and complex challenges that worked for me.

The experiments

I began to experiment and found that the more I nourished my inner world in a genuine, profound way, the more productive and efficient I became without any extra effort or need for fancy hacks or time management strategies.

I took it a step further.

If everything in this universe is energy, and our inner and outer worlds are interwoven as ancient wisdom and modern discoveries tell us, what if, in order to make progress towards my work related goals I only worked with energy and my inner world? I put this idea to the test by taking an entire week off and only doing inner work.

About a month later, goals that I had been trying to make happen for over a year just fell in my lap, opportunities were offered to me on a silver platter, a richness entered my life and years later I am still benefiting from the results of that one week. This pattern has continued. It’s not always easy or simple, but as best as I can tell, every significant improvement in my life since then has come from doing deep inner work.

Bringing the pieces together

As I’ve continued to explore how to work with our inner world, I’ve deepened my understanding of how to facilitate the transformation in others that I initially couldn’t do for myself.

I’ve come to see that genuine lasting transformation comes when we work with our specific challenges in a way that honours our humanity. I still have challenges and difficulties, but this work helps deepen our capacity to stay sane when the chaos comes, and create genuine solutions even when there seems to be no way through.

My hope is to bring this deeper humanity, possibility and magic to the workplace so that we can experience a life filled with more richness instead of always gasping for air as we struggle with the problems at work.

I believe that the way we move forward and find the flexibility necessary for these changing times is to bridge corporate work with inner work, ancient wisdom with modern day living, it’s bridging the magical to the mundane in doable ways. It seems that many issues, including the struggles people experience at work, stem in part from the attempt to separate these elements. By bringing them together again, we open the door to transforming work in miraculous ways.

Values

Human rights and freedoms.
Personal sovereignty.
The sacred qualities of life that cannot be measured.
Kindness and compassion that is in service to truth and sanity.
Exploration, experimentation and discovery.
Nature and harmonious ways of living.

Training

Positive psychology coaching (currently training) - Rise and Thrive with Catherine Plano
Holographic healing (currently training) - Marilyn Harper
PSYCH-K® facilitator (basic, advanced integration, master facilitation) - Ian Spicer, Rosi Pletzer
Emotional freedom techniques certification - EFT Universe - Naomi Janzen, Jenny Johnston
Energy psychology certification - EFT Universe - Jackie Viramontez
Permaculture design certificate - Pete the Permie
Reiki certification (level 1 & 2) - Sarah Najjar
Bachelor of performing arts - Monash University

Note: while there's the word "psychology" in some of my trainings, I am not a psychologist