About
I’m Laura Barker. This is my story.
This is a story about a search – my search for meaning and purpose. I carefully considered my career at the time, Human Resources, and decided that a change from Human Resources to Project Management would be the ticket. It wasn’t. I explored teaching, facilitation, senior HR roles, volunteering, more education, and did lots of research. I felt lost and frustrated. My quest seemed elusive. I was “in my head,” making everything more complicated than necessary.

Laura Barker, CPCC, ACC
Mind, body, heart, spirit – that is what makes us human. I had a regular yoga practice for over twenty years that taught me how the body informs the mind (and heart and spirit). I realized that by focusing only on the mind, I missed out on accessing information that would be available to me if only I listened to body, heart and spirit. I knew I wanted a kinder world, guided by The Golden Rule. I knew I was heart-based and intuitive in my thoughts and behaviour, despite denying this aspect of myself for years. I knew I was called to serve others through my primary passion, understanding human nature.
Then I had two separate conversations in which each person suggested I consider coaching. The first time I heard it, I dismissed it (I was still too much “in my head”). The second time landed differently. Boom! It felt good right away. Something had shifted and I knew this was what I was meant to do. Everything fell into place, quickly and effortlessly. I quit my project management job, enrolled in coach training with Co-Active Training Institute, co-founded a new charitable endeavour that reinforced kindness, and found a new HR job in a company that reflected my values. And all of this happened six months before the pandemic started, something that has changed each of us so profoundly.
Action flowed easily once I knew who I was and what I wanted, and suddenly I felt fully dynamic, engaged and alive. I realized I wanted to help others achieve the same clarity that I now enjoyed. To help others discover what makes life meaningful to them. To experience a life fully loved™.