About Chris Henderson
Work with Chris to powerfully realise your vision - and connect with your zone of sustainable unstoppability and deep fulfilment. Where you fulfil on your dreams and create the extraordinary unique results you're here to make for your life, your business, the planet.
At your service is deep listening, a profound commitment to the empowerment of women, and a catalyst presence that draws on 35+ years.
If you'd like to find out if Unstoppable is right for you, register for a complimentary 30 minute chat to see if and how Chris can help you to be Unstoppable - on YOUR terms - to achieve the contribution you want to make for yourself and your world. To do so, fill out the form and Chris will get back to you.
Chris draws on a wide range of experience and has an intuitive touch to her coaching which helped me to feel understood as an individual. She inspired me to consider that my future is real and she has challenged me to wake up to its possibilities. |
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Creating happiness in my life and others'
In my own life, I really got present nine years ago to just what a profound difference coaching could make in an area of life I didn’t think could get any better. This was in my relationship with my husband and life partner Keith.
Keith and I have been together for over 40 years. You can maybe guess from that that I look ahead to the big picture. I don’t let challenges get in the way of something I believe in, and I sure don’t give up easily on a good thing!!! Coaching got me present to areas that I didn’t know I didn’t know - ie those areas that are so often hidden from view. Coaching has enabled Keith’s and my relationship to keep growing through new levels of joy and effectiveness. For both of us, this has been the most awesome and inspiring journey imaginable. I've also experienced transformations in my work life balance, in making “me time” a priority, in becoming a non-smoker after thirty-five years, in making exercise a regular and even joyful part of my life. Coaching has been the catalyst to enable me to put into practice so much of what I already knew but never seemed to be able to actually do!! And it has enabled me to grow in a new areas I hadn’t been aware I could. This is the contribution I want to make to others, to the world. |
Unstoppability life training
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For decades I have been drawn towards the less travelled path. The one with bumps and challenges where it looked as though I wouldn't make it. I've learnt to quietly and resolutely stand - and stay standing - for what I believe in, despite believing that I 'wasn't good enough', 'shouldn't be speaking up' and would surely 'get it wrong'.
While I struggled daily, I had no doubt that the difference I was there to make was way more important than me as an individual, or my my inner put-down dialogue. The huge motivation for me: to be where I was needed, where I could be most useful. To take on something that was needed. That wasn't being addressed already. And that - I believed - would make a positive difference in the world, especially in the areas of social justice, peace, the environment. You get the idea! The bumps and challenges I got into along the way ....I talk about a few of these in my presentations. Some are a hoot, such as my stint as one of the first half-dozen female city council bus drivers in my city (I didn't believe they'd actually hire me!). Others are deeply moving, such as the poignant grass-roots national tour a friend and I started to stop Australia joining the war on Iraq in 2003. That tour continued for years. Or having Amnesty initiatives introduced into Senior English at school, so that secondary students became activists writing letters to free a jailed female Russian poet. Every experience in our lives is a contribution, a potential for learning and growth. |
Big Dipper Unstoppability Training
In January 2012, Keith was diagnosed with advanced acute myeloid leukaemia. It was serious. Six weeks later, just after he'd come out from hospital from his second round of chemo (and the day after this photo was taken) there were two huge complications, from which there was little chance of survival from either, let alone both.
Six months later, following 14-24 hour vigils in the ward and Intensive Care, Keith survived. He's called Miracle Man by the hospital. Now, years later, he is still in remission and doing brilliantly, despite the fact that he couldn't have any more chemo or a bone marrow transplant. I tell this story to share what we, the medical teams and our wider community of support believe made the difference.
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Background
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For decades, through my various teaching and education support roles, I have provided coaching to students and colleagues when the opportunity arose, and really enjoyed the opportunity to be a contribution to others.
My paid work has included an early period as wildlife carer, waiter, bus driver and visual artist. For most of my adult life my focus has been on teaching at primary, secondary and tertiary levels in the areas of Art, English, learning support and behavior management. For the last 13 years, I've coordinated statewide and national education projects that have covered restorative justice and, for the greater part of that time, a national project creating safe and supportive school communities free from bullying, harassment and violence. My voluntary roles include Australian President of a world women’s peace organisation, representing Australia at a world peace conference held in Hiroshima, Japan... and the role of ‘tilitja’ or culture worker supporting the work of a remote group of Aboriginal women elders. |
My vision and commitment |
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Through all these areas, my passion and delight has been making a difference for others at individual, community and global level. And particularly being the catalyst for people, whether they start as cynical and resigned or hopeful, what that looks like is helping others identify what they are passionate about …what the difference is they’d like to make…help them take the steps towards achieving their dream… and being there for what it takes to go beyond resignation and reasonableness, if that’s what they’d like to do.
I have been so inspired by this. It is now my absolute joy to be the contribution that enables others to achieve their vision. |
About success coaching
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As a Courage Catalyst and Unstoppable coach and activist, one of the frameworks I draw on is coaching.
For those unfamiliar with coaching, coaching is the process of assisting you to create transformation in one or more areas of your life - and to build in sustainability of the transformation over a period of time. It helps you to discover and become deeply connected with what you really want in life, and then provides a supportive, empowering environment to have you achieve your dreams. Some of the areas of life where success coaching can make a major contribution are business, health, finances, relationships, emotions and spirituality. My magic lies in enabling you to My magic lies in enabling you to powerfully effect changes in these areas:
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