Kurzportrait

Bettina Bonkas

After my studies and living abroad, I worked in responsible positions in the human resource departments of international companies.

Since 1994 I have been teaching English / Business English and I run a language school. Our way of teaching is geared towards the different learner types (English training). The way we learn, perceive and handle things shows throughout our whole life, also in our personal issues. That’s something I experience both in my lessons as well as in my coaching sessions.

I am an accredited coach with a private practice based in Wehrheim, I did my coaching training with the International Coach Academy (Australia). I am also a resilience practitioner, I took my training both in English & German at the Resilienz-Forum in Berlin.

Lifelong learning never stops – and neither does my curiosity about people. 🙂 That’s why I completed a Profiling Bachelor and Trainer certification at the Brain-Short Academy (Switzerland).

How did I come to coaching?

I experienced workplace harassment. This experience hit me pretty much unaware, not immediately but years later I felt the effects. Back then, I didn’t realise I was dealing with a narcissist.

I had two choices: I could go on seeing myself as a victim and dwell on it or I could move on. I decided in favour of the latter. I started working on myself, getting to know myself better and the people around me. I learned to accept the experience, to look at it from a different perspective and made sense out of it. I found myself and became self-employed, started a language school and found coaching.

I have been working with people throughout my entire life: first in the HR department of companies and as a trainer, later as a coach & trainer. Having experienced a bad time in my life, I have a strong desire to help other people and to support them on their way forward. Coaching gives me a wonderful opportunity to support people to pursue a fulfilled life with self-acceptance & clarity and a “Yes, I can!”-mindset.