You Create, We Catalyze.

Being born and raised in western countries, we understand and embrace modern science. Modern science has been about quantifying everything, it helped society in wonderful ways and it created more material abundance for everyone. But, on the inside, it made things worse — people are more depressed than ever.

By opening our minds to other world views, especially from older Eastern-philosophies, we realized that older sciences were more focused on the Quality of things. And it's clear that their life was felt as more … magical.

We now believe that lasting Joy is deeply linked with the magic art of consciously creating what we want in life and living these experiences, fully. We understand that different levels of creativity do exist. The first levels are executed by the mind, building on past experiences and collective intelligence. While the higher level of creativity is … intuition. At this stage, ideas are born out of nothing (i.e. beyond time/space).

Accessing intuition is possible by turning off the intellectual mind, relaxing in the present moment and letting the flow of peaceful joy give you the answer you need to go on your adventures. Our role is to create a bridge between the old and new and communicate clearly the core principle of Alchemy with Holistic Psychology. We believe that the 21st century is the time for humans to unify and transcend both Quality and Quantity to navigate the world with more ease and fun!

Wisdom is not an abstract concept but, actually, it is "just" capturing the result of embodied knowledge. When we embody something, it means that the knowledge has been through the person's mind and body experience. It means that you feel the effect both on your cognitions and perception. This is the moment knowledge has got a feeling to it!

As children, we are gathering wisdom about the world, to make sense of it, to find orientation in our everyday life. When we become "educated", most of the population has learned to repress the emotional part of their life's experience — just because of the way school is tracking performance: it is about IQ, not our EQ — Emotional Quotient. The lack of embodiment in people is what drives down empathy, cooperation and… innovation!

Wisdom is Knowledge in Action through our body. You can only collect wisdom if you transform yourself while being connected to your body and emotions. Eastern philosophy makes us argue that both constructive and destructive experiences can contain pieces of wisdom to acquire along the path of growth! A good example is Kintsugi, the practice of repairing pottery — meaning Golden repair. In the same way, as coaches, we argue that the dysfunctional personality or team dynamics are the gateway to performance!

You love tools and methods, right? Maybe you even want us to be using one specific method with you within our coaching journey? First, we'll tell you the reality of our industry… It's easier and more profitable to sell a tool/method than to actually coach clients. Therefore, much advertising will lure us into the latest expensive method instead of letting us focus on finding the right coach for us.

Of course, each method has different physiological effects on the body. But do you really think it's the tool solving your problem, or is it your belief that the tool will solve the problem, making the work? In the medical field, the power of our mind is called the "placebo" effect. Depending on the pill colour, the caretaker's authority, etc., a treatment's effectiveness can vary by some 300%. So you… YOU are doing it, to yourself.

When you come to Full of Joy, you come for our ability to understand which methods fit YOU. We work with and adapt to your belief systems.

The market of coaching & self-development is rich in offering. It can feel very overwhelming and honestly, we understand: we have been there too. Over time we found there are 3 important factors that determine the success of the experience:

1. Has the practitioner developed a skillset that will help me see what I can't see by myself? Isabelle is intuitively gifted at sensing her clients' stuck emotions; Alexis is gifted with intellect and seeing patterns between your needs, your clients' needs and the world's needs. Great coaches know they don't have all the keys for everyone — we often offer clients specific external practitioner sessions as part of the journey.

2. Is the practitioner practicing and embodying what they preach? The best coaches truly embody what they teach — what we help with is what we are deep-diving in full-time. Isabelle and Alexis continuously invest in their own growth, and have both overcome their own struggles.

3. Is the practitioner really present during our sessions? We take on a minimum amount of clients to give you maximum presence & attention. We reschedule if we can't deliver the level of presence necessary. Our standards are very high — and the availability in-between sessions is a perk that is priceless. You'll feel it when you hit a wall and you just have to message us.