About

About Recipe For Happiness
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Values
About Your Coach
How Can Coaching Help?
Testimonials

About Recipe For Happiness

Recipe For Happiness was founded by Mio Seamder, based on strong passion for helping people achieve their true potential. She also strongly believes in contributing to the local community and the company policies and vision reflect her commitment to community development.
The Recipe For Happiness website does incorporate contents that focus on the local area of Geelong. However, we trust you find Recipe For Happiness’ resources, self-discovery tools, The Happy Times (e-newsletters) and tips useful and interesting…no matter where you live!

Mio offers her individual coaching sessions over the phone (including Skype), via email or online to cater clients globally.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our Vision

Recipe For Happiness’ Vision is bold:

Recipe For Happiness will be recognised as a professional coaching service provider who contributes to making the world a better and happier place.

At a local scale, Recipe For Happiness - Geelong, has a local vision:

Geelong will be recognised as the happiest place to reside in Australia. Geelong will also be a regional centre recognised for attracting, developing and retaining local talent. Recipe For Happiness will be instrumental in achieving these outcomes.

Our Mission

Recipe For Happiness works with key stakeholders to deliver the best possible outcomes to individuals, organisations and communities through the provision of high-quality, expert life coaching services, and additional value-adding services.

Our Values

Recipe For Happiness will be open and honest and treat everyone with fairness and respect. We will actively listen and respond appropriately to our stakeholders, with the goal of building trusted relationships, leading to success and happiness.

About Your Coach

Meet the Chief Happiness Officer of Recipe For Happiness!

Mio has led a fascinating life, and has always managed to remain positive even when faced with what she calls "life’s little challenges", including having had difficult childhood, leaving home at the age of 15 to live overseas, getting divorced, becoming a single parent and being broke!

She believes she could stay "happy" despite facing such challenges in her life, due to her natural ability to self-coach. She always sets herself goals and always works hard at achieving them. Now she has been trained in the art of coaching, she wants to help the others create happiness and success just like she has.

Mio is the first to acknowledge that life coaches do not lead perfect lives and she readily admits that she is not perfect, either! But she has fulfilling and happy life and loves being a life coach and she gets such a great satisfaction helping her clients achieve their true potential – potential the client him/herself may not have known existed…

Mio is an active member of numerous organisations, including:

The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists & Managers (APESMA)
Geelong Chamber of Commerce
Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI)
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD)
Junior Chamber International (JCI)
Business and Professional Women Australia (BPW)
Australian Businesswomen’s Network (ABN)
Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia (COSBOA)
Rotary International
Australian Life Coaches Society
Geelong Coaches Network

How can coaching help?

Professional coaches work in partnership with you and coaching process can help you by:

Fostering self-discovery
Increasing awareness about one’s own values and beliefs
Assisting in shifting perspectives
Promoting creative problem solving
Facilitating effective decision making process, and
Assisting with goal setting

“Imagine a relationship where the total focus is on you, on what you want in life, and on what will help you achieve it. The coaching relationship is like that. It’s unique. There is no other relationship in our lives that consistently offers this extraordinary level of support and encouragement”
(Whitworth, Kimsey-House & Sandahl, 1998, p.xvii – “Co-Active Coaching”)

What can I expect from a life coach?

Professional coaches are expert in art of coaching. Professional coaches work in partnership with their clients to achieve client’s personal and professional goals.

Professional coaches help clients by fostering self-discovery, increasing awareness about one’s own values and beliefs, assisting in shifting perspectives, setting goals and monitoring progress.

Why choose Recipe For Happiness?

Qualified - accredited life coach with B.A. in Psychology and Human Resource Management
Holistic Approach - recognising the importance of balanced life
Professionalism - high ethical standards, client centred approach, quality of service and commitment to continuous professional developments
Structured & Measured approach - evaluation system is incorporated into our coaching model

As a professional coach, Mio abides by a strict code of conduct. Please click here to review her code: The Code

What coaching is NOT

Coaching is an effective personal and professional development tool for performance enhancement.

Coaching can be offered in addition to therapies, medications and other treatment in collaboration with the GPs, psychiatrists or psychologists.
However, coaching alone is not a therapy and is not suitable for dealing with issues such as:

Dependency on alcohol or drugs
Mental illness including extreme and/or violent mood swings and severe depression
Issues relating to violence, abuse and/or other traumatic experiences (either being a victim or, being a perpetuator)

If your are experiencing any of the above issues, it is strongly recommended that professional help is sought from suitably qualified mental health experts such as a counsellor, therapists, psychologists or psychiatrists.

If you suspect you are severely depressed, suffer from mental illness or if there is a possibility of danger and harm to yourself or anyone else, please contact above mentioned experts, local hospital or call lifeline for help, support and assistance as soon as possible.

Testimonials

If you are still unsure whether or not coaching can help you, please take the time to read testimonials from other people whom Mio has helped with her unique ability to bring out the best in people.

Testimonials