The Call and Pro Bono Work
“I believe that when we fully understand the deeper meaning and function of Love and Empowerment, we are provided with an elemental truth that can unify us across cultures and religions as well as offer us the ability to become whole, confident human beings. This understanding allows us to enjoy a personal freedom that will naturally permeate in our communities, with loved ones and even in professional relationships.”
Pro Bono Work
I offer coaching and counselling at reduced fees* for individuals who are experiencing financial hardship coaching and counselling. If you think this is you, please get in touch *proof may be required. Discover more about my areas of coaching, packages and methodology.
Beyond my practice, I am strongly is aware of the importance of ‘gratitude’ and ‘appreciation’. I am passionate about giving back - my deepest wish is that my work is available to all. I work with at least one Pro Bono client at any given time.
The Call
I also work with larger organisations such as schools and businesses, offering workshops, talks and group coaching sessions on the topic of Love and relationships and more in Italy, the UK, Spain and Singapore. In short, The Call is about devoting time to designing and delivering workshops, talks and group coaching sessions on the topic of love, following L. Buscaglia’s initiative, and a little touch of my own. For love cannot be separated from responsibility. When well understood in their deep meaning and function in our life, love and responsibility provide us the ability to become confident human beings, with personal freedom within ourselves to be shared with others around us too: with our partners, our family members and all our children.
Introducing The Call
Modern research confirms one of my deepest beliefs: that mental and sexual abuse, as well as emotional neglect, in childhood and adolescence can lead to mental health issues in adulthood.
My vision and dream is to work with large organisations such as state, public and international schools, institutions and business in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. To design and offer workshops and talks on topics of Love, Empowerment & Personal Freedom, which I deem indispensable values in promoting a solid and lasting approach to mental health and ultimately nurturing a healthy society enriched by impactful, authentic leaders and human beings.
The Call is a social project that follows L. Buscaglia’s initiative and work at UCLA University in the 80’s. After spending much of his life in Asia, Buscaglia developed a university course focused on Love as a unifying element between different cultures and religions. (For more info on The Call and its connection to Buscaglia’s work, please see attached PDFs below the video: The Call for Schools and The Call for Corporate).
I was inspired by one of Buscaglia’s most popular books, ‘Living, Loving & Learning’, to carry on his legacy, with a little touch of my own, for I believe that Love is very much interconnected with Empowerment & Personal Freedom.
I believe that when we fully understand the deeper meaning and function of Love and Empowerment, we are provided with an elemental truth that can unify us across cultures and religions as well as offer us the ability to become whole, confident human beings. This understanding allows us to enjoy a Personal Freedom that will naturally permeate in our communities, with loved ones and even in professional relationships.
With the advance of technology, it’s possible to reach greater audiences, both globally and nationally, with online offerings such as workshops, talks, coaching and eventually master classes and even retreats. Of course, the benefits of community and connection that come with in-person, on-site experiences cannot be paralleled, therefore these would be organised on a local scale.
Introducing Elisabetta
Over the past 20 years, I have garnered and extensive wealth of knowledge in my fields of Psychology & Self-Development. My studies and training include:
MA in Psychological Counselling, University of Adelaide (Australia)
Wellness & Integrative Coaching, USA
Family Systems Therapy, Germany / Singapore / Italy
NLP & Motivation, USA
Gestalt Therapy & Movement, Spain
Gabriel Roth’s 5 Rhythms, USA
Tony Robbins Life Mastery, USA
Personal Fitness Training, Singapore
Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicine & Philosophy, India
Body Movement Methodologies, Chile - Argentina
Emotional Intelligence, UK
Berth Hellinger Family Constellations
Primal Therapy & Anger Management, Australia
Neuroscience & Epigenetics, Italy / USA
Transpersonal Psychology, USA
Roberto Assaggioli Psychosynthesis, Italy
Personality Profiles including Human Design, Enneagram, Temperaments, Wellness Wheel Inventory, USA
The Hoffman Process Train the Trainer, Italy & Australia
Path of Love Residential Retreat, UK
Art Gym Academy Creative Facilitation, UK
Through my own personal applications, life experiences and studies in a breadth of areas within the mental health and self-development sectors, I have acquired the wisdom to be able to offer clients a bespoke and motivational experience. With this well-rounded and diverse training, I guide clients to achieve their goals and dreams, discover and connect to their life purpose and build authentic confidence within themselves and in relationships. In my work, I am to nurture my clients’ wellbeing inside & out.
The Call Motivation
In 2009, the Singapore National Library hosted and event to celebrate my first book’s anniversary. At this event, I’d announced my deep desire to devote part of my work hours to raise awareness on the topics of Love, Empowerment & Personal Freedom, and the negative consequences that a shortage of these elements in our lives can have on our physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
The reality is that parents with little to no education or awareness on how damaging the absence of positive and authentic Love & Empowerment can be, pass on this legacy blindly. More often than not, they also repeat toxic behaviours they themselves learnt in family, such as physical, mental and emotional abuse, neglect and/or manipulation, over-protection and control.
Often overlooked, these are very real ways in which we deny our children and adolescents their free will, often going onto impact their mental health as adults. As one of the most cited authors on these topics, Alice Miller, affirms, “any child has the chance to become and abusive, manipulative, indifferent, even depressive young or mature adult, able to repeat the same abuse, neglect and humiliation they had to undergo to the next generations”.
Today, extensive research has presented evidence that both mental and physical abuse or neglect can lead to negatively impacted mental health. When a child is abused or neglected, they can develop mental health issues that might require life-long support and management. Depending on the extent and length of the abuse endured, and the individual’s existing mental health, the symptoms of a mental disorder can vary greatly. However, an individual who has endured abuse and/or neglect and recurring trauma, can develop profound symptoms that could require years of treatment. The extent to which an individual is impacted by mental, emotional and physical abuse and/or neglect is being studied globally and is a topic that has been garnering a lot of attention in recent years.
Unfortunately, the services on offer for mental health diagnosis’ and issues are rarely not accessible to children and adolescents born into disadvantaged households. Self-development and empowerment is often not an option for lower earning families or parents, deemed as more of a luxury than a necessity.
All the core work that will go into The Call, from the materials, to presentations, the articles, the talks and workshops, will be inspired by the content of Get Into Your Groove: Steps for Men and Women on the Road to Personal Freedom, my 2nd book due to be published in the UK in 2023.