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Finally said out loud
“I've never told anyone this” is something I hear often. I think it's because people feel safe with me. I don't judge anyone, and whatever someone brings to a session is fine. When you finally have someone to say that thing to, the thing you can't say anywhere else, a weight usually falls off your chest.
Two hours instead of six months
“In two hours I got more than in half a year of therapy.” Don't take it as a contest with therapists. It says more about what two unhurried hours can do. And maybe about my approach.
A decision put off for 7 years
The second-hardest decision of his life sat in his head for seven years. After a few sessions he made it. And he left with an energy he described as “strange, brave”.
Faced his fear and raised his rate
A freelance translator who started out charging four hundred crowns an hour and treated not being able to say no as part of who he was. In one package we raised his rate, closed two conflicts he'd been putting off, and added thirty thousand to one job. Then he bought another package.
I thought I'd lost my dad
That's what the son said about the argument. He and his father run a family business, and for six years they'd been circling the same fight. First I met each of them separately, so each could work out in peace what he actually wanted. Then the three of us met together, and out of that came a solution neither of them had said out loud before.
He wanted to save a relationship that had already ended
He came in after a twelve-year relationship ended, saying he needed to get it all out. Most of the first session we just mapped where it came from. A month later he had his own place, he'd got back in touch with friends he hadn't seen in years, and things around his son that he used to leave to his wife he now handled himself. “The guys at work say I've changed somehow.”
I'm holding a manual for life
He came in saying his job was boring and he didn't know whether to look for another one or start his own thing. We put three sheets of paper on the meeting-room floor, one option on each, and he physically stood on each one in turn. It turned out the dilemma was mostly fear. He never did start his own thing, but he still uses the map of criteria from that session whenever he has a decision to make about work.
Two months, and he had a prototype
He'd coded for other companies for ten years and kept putting off his own game. We worked out the one thing that had to happen before release and what could wait. Two months later he had a playable prototype. “Whatever happens with it, the thing I always dreamed of already exists.”
Half an hour every Friday
He'd had a book half-written for years and couldn't finish it. Instead of two-hour sessions we did short ones every Friday with a paper planner. He negotiated with work to keep Fridays for things other than his main job. And then he wrote everything that had eluded him for years.
I've never been more productive
He said that about the year he started resting more. He came in saying he couldn't say no and couldn't give himself any credit, and his inner critic spoke in the voice of a coach from his childhood. We went through specific conversations at home where, instead of staying quiet, he tried saying what he thought. “My biggest fear, that pushing back would damage my relationships, turned out to be a false assumption. It wasn't based on reality, it was based on fear.”
The ball of responsibility
A salesman who kept giving in to his ex-wife, his partner, his mother and his brother, and then every once in a while exploded. We set up an image of a ball people throw at him, and started telling apart when he catches it and when he should throw it back. Shortly after the session he turned down something he'd previously have driven off to do without a word.
He got the money he wanted and felt empty
His own company, a hundred thousand crowns a month. The moment he hit that number, it hit him that he'd stopped enjoying it, and he didn't know why. We reframed the goal from a number to a pace he could sustain, and he got one simple rule: when something is at eighty percent, that's enough. “Within the first five days there was already a huge fire in me for the business again.”
Jaroslav Filip
Director of Aviation Business,
“Vojtěch earned my complete trust and worked with me in a very empathetic way. His personal approach was absolutely key to the success of the whole coaching. […] I recommend Vojtěch with full confidence to colleagues and clients.”
Rostislav
Investor & Developer
“Sometimes his feedback ‘hurts’, it's like a slap :-) that you don't quite want to give yourself, but that I, at least, needed to get. […] What resonates with me most is the fact that I can only influence my own thinking and not other people's. […] He's human, direct, doesn't put on an act, and I like that.”
Tomáš Kovařík
★★★★★ · Google
“Through deep conversations, precisely aimed questions, careful listening and the ability to see a person without prejudice, Vojta guides you to find your own answers. Thanks to him I'm now several steps closer to my ideal version of my own life.”
Michaela Kulhánková
★★★★★ · Google
“Even though I was very sceptical about coaching at first, I have to admit that Vojta changed my life, however much of a cliché that sounds. Vojta gives you a sense of being understood and has shown me a different angle many times.”
František
Special-needs teacher
“The result was that a few months after the coaching ended I felt a great relief. I'm no longer tense and stressed. I can weigh things up and deal with them calmly and with perspective. Vojta, thank you.”
Eva Rozsypalová
★★★★★ · Google
“I don't know how he does it, but in a three-hour conversation I managed to answer all the questions I'd been turning over for more than a year, I understood the whole context and finally knew exactly what to do.”
