Family Matters

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog,

I’m Ronit and this is the first time I’m writing a blog. I’m very excited.

If you’ve reached this page, you probably want to know who Ronit, the person behind this photo, is. In presenting myself, I had to choose what to put at the front because I did and still do so many things, under so many hats and titles. I’m a partner to Gal, a mother to 3 wonderful children, I teach children with learning difficulties, gifted children, university students, language, math and emotional intelligence. I’m a journalist, an author (see my book), a public speaker, a workshop facilitator, a community worker, helping to connect people, and the list will never end. I’m thinking about each of them and realise they have many things in common, It is only different dress to the same figure. I, with every cell of my body am a happy and proud educator.

Education takes a big part of my life. I believe it is the same for all of us. Our parents and our school years have had a huge impact on who we are today, with happy and not-so-happy experiences. I value education and its power and wish to pass it on.

My non-professional life started … a long time ago (I’ll let you guess - Clue: I have an 18 year-old daughter). The highlights were: being a child with disability, being sick and being very unsuccessful at school. These were the three things that had the greatest contribution to my top successes in life, the things that I’ve learned to turn into my greatest achievements.My professional career started 22 years ago, when I decided to study Special Education in hope of saving all the kids in the world (including my young self) from the evil of non-acceptance. I was lucky, while being a student, to work in a Special Education project led by a professor in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem called “Creative Thinking”. Yes, I was lucky, because while working with him, I experienced things that would have taken me a lifetime otherwise and I had a chance to work and learn from the most inspiring people in the education industry and to adopt a different mindset. I learned from them that there is hope, there are always great ways to developed kids and that I have a “magic powder” with a special property: the more I give from this powder, the more I have from it. So I specialised in learning difficulties, increasing intelligence and building emotional skills.

During those 4 years of work, I could see the great value of my learning but couldn’t stop asking myself “how can I give this knowledge to others, to allow them to make educated decisions?” Sure enough, the answer appeared and I wrote the “Garden of Eden” program and opened a childcare centre and had the time of my life using this powder and proving that all kids are very talented if we only provide the right environment for them.

A major part of the program was coaching the parents to make sure they would be able to support their children afterwards. It might sound surprising to you, but the techniques were so good they worked perfectly on the children and their parents.

After two years of a great success, with my husband Gal and my eldest daughter, I moved to Texas. This was the beginning of a great adventure that I hope will never end. In Texas, a school that was about to close heard about my program and asked me to join. There, I had the opportunity to implement my program the second time. This time, it was easier, better, with faster results (the school grew when I was there).

At this stage, you’re probably asking yourself what was so special about this program that it saved a school from closing and being better and faster than the first one? The answer is that this program doesn’t teach. It focuses on personal development. It is not about knowledge, but about skills and thinking.

Education in its early years focused on knowledge - we gave the kids “fish”, which was “food for a day”. Later on, focus moved to skills and thinking and my program had plenty of those, so I gave the kids “fishing lines” and knew they would last them longer. But the reason my program was faster was that I found a way of giving them a “fishing NET” by coaching their parents and getting the parents to help their children.

Parts of my program were later implemented in California and Thailand and a full implementation was done in the greatest two years of my education career in Singapore. This implementation I consider to be one of my greatest achievements (except my 3 wonderful children and my relationship with Gal), because it was the most challenging and the most successful. At this stage, I believed that personal development was equally important for the adults and the children, the relationships between them became an important factor in the success of the children and after this, I knew the sky was the limit.

The decision to become a professional life coach came after going through the Anthony Robbins program. It did a lot for me and my whole family and I knew I needed to add this as a tool to my education toolbox. Again, I asked myself “How can I share this with others?” and found two ways of doing it, two ways that are my passion and to which I had dedicated many years of my life: to educate and to write. Even in my stories I write about personal development so the person reading them feels he or she has grown in the time it took them to read.

I coach men, women, gays, couples, singles, groups, children and teenagers. My clients come from a wide range of ages, abilities, professionals and cultural backgrounds. Among my clients are consultants, hair dressers, general managers, lawyers, business owners, performers, CEOs, PhD students, lecturers, self employed professionals, government employees, police officers and the variety is great. Among my organisational clients are The Dyslexia Centre Melbourne, private schools, Multicultural QLD, MLTAQ, C&K, ECTA, The University of QLD,Winning Women, Libra financial services and Investment Intelligence.

I think if they all had to describe me, they would say that I believe in what I do with all my heart, that I live my passions, my dreams and my purpose every day of my life and for that I’m happy and grateful. Coaching is a wonderful tool and I love its power to inspire people to grow and live their dreams.

My own dream is to spread the message of positive thinking, emotional intelligence and acceptance to the world. I live this dream wearing different hats and titles and every time I write and coach. It is exciting to be in a profession where I grow when my clients grow, where I get from them as much as I give them, if not more. I inspire them and they inspire me and it is a never ending cycle, it is a positive ripple, sweeping and getting bigger every day that I’m happy to be a part of.

If you want to contact me with any questions or issues, click here. I will use your name as entered and post a reply for you in the “Ask Ronit” category as soon as I can.

May the force be with you!

Ronit (Little Happy Song - this is the meaning of my name)