Bristol Programme Coordinator and Outreach
COURSE PARTICIPANT 2021
My life has been a journey of change.
I started my career in 1990 as a software engineer in the research team of an Italian company, but a growing call to work with people, rather than machines, eventually took over.
In 2000 I trained in Community Psychology and qualified as a Biodanza teacher (music - movement and contact in groups) and after creating my own tiny charity, I worked for it as a group facilitator in various settings for several years.
Being baffled in my private life by entrenched compulsive behaviour in the areas of sex and relationships, I made a really bold choice and I left my work and my country in 2006 in search of spiritual healing.
I spent many years living and serving in spiritual communities and monasteries in the US and UK and partially in India and Sweden, mostly within Buddhist traditions.
I have been involved with the 12 steps movement since 2008 and I still serve as a sponsor for SAA and SLAA fellowships.
Finding my way back to a normal life I got a qualification in horticulture and I worked as a professional gardener in stately homes in the Cotswolds area for about 5 years.
Eventually, my desire to work with people pushed me back to undertake a professional coaching qualification which I got in 2021.
Having invested all my life in healing my own issues with intimate relationships, I consider my current ability to co-create intimacy and fulfilment with my partner the highest achievement of my career.
For this reason, I chose Intimate Relationships as my area of intervention as a coach, helping both individuals and couples to create fulfilment in their love life. My work is informed by the Internal Family System paradigm of Richard Schwartz.
I currently make my living working as a relationship coach, a part-time gardener and running my family house in Italy as an Airbnb.
I also volunteer for various charities engaged in addiction recovery and community mediation.