Change the World

I can’t tell you how fulfilling it is to receive messages from trained coaches explaining how they are using our New Insights life coaching programme to change the world in relatively small yet very positive and sometimes surprising ways!

Last week I was contacted by certified coach, Christel Rohrs, who I had met many months ago. She is about to embark on realising a very selfless dream that will make a huge difference in the lives of kids and young people who have fallen victim to what can only be called a horrific crime against humanity.

More about this – and how you may be able to help – later.

A programme of personal transformation

The New Insights life coaching system that our trainee coaches are licensed to administer represents a six month programme of personal transformation. Clients embark on an inspiring journey during which they really get to know who they are, what they are truly capable of and what they are here to do.

We encourage the coaches we train to choose a niche market that best suits their interests and experience. By doing so, coaches are able to connect with those clients they most want to serve. In our experience this makes for the most financially successful – and happy – coaches.

Niche markets could include teenagers, newly retired folk, people wanting to get fit and lose weight, executives wanting more work/life balance, stay at home mothers, newlyweds, career minded people, people confronting significant change, and so on and so on.

Christel … and a very unusual niche

In the case of Christel, her niche market is very unusual. She has chosen to devote herself to use her life coaching skills to address the potentially soul destroying effects that sex trafficking has on its victims. What makes her decision even more laudable is that she has chosen to volunteer her services.

Christel, who is currently based in South Africa, has chosen to work in Thailand. The United Nations Human Rights Council has identified Thailand as the world’s major source and destination of the men, women and children who are victimised by the sex trade industry.

Christel lived and volunteered in Thailand before in 2005 and 2006 when she was involved in rehabilitating young girls between the tender ages of 6 and 15 years who had been forced into prostitution and subsequently rescued from the sex industry.

Between 2009 and 2011 Christel worked with the LA Police Department in Los Angeles, USA helping to combat human trafficking. In 2011 she returned to South Africa and chose to train as a life coach with New Insights.

Christel takes up the story:

“I was approached by the founders of an organisation called ‘Freedom 418’ in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their mission is to rehabilitate the young kids who get rescued from sex trafficking by the Thai government.

These kids who are trafficked across the Myanmar (Burma), Laos and Chinese borders, are so young. Despicable though it sounds, children of just 5 and 6 are being used in brothels for oral sex.

My role will be as a life coach and mentor. Part of the rehabilitation programme will involve life coaching to give these kids a realistic chance of a decent future, despite the terrible start. I will be using the New Insights system and materials with the more adult women and will do some adaptation for use with the younger kids.

My plan is to go for an indefinite period of time (perhaps up to 15 years) and to return home once a year to refresh my mind and hopefully attract more sponsors, who are, of course, vital for me to continue.

The New Insights Programme has aptly prepared me for this journey. Had I not done the New Insights training, I honestly believe I would not be suitably equipped for everything that lies ahead. Through New Insights, I have been able to live out my purpose.”

We wish Christel every success with this venture and will be encouraging her to start and maintain a blog where we can keep track of her experiences and successes as she changes the world in her unique way.

Connect with and/or support Christel

If you would like to connect with Christel and, hopefully, become one of her sponsors contributing anything from £5 or R100 per month, please use the following email address. (To protect from online spambots we have disguised the at symbol in the address so just change it accordingly):

christelrohrs[AT]yahoo.co.uk