All About Us

I’m a great believer in life happening just exactly when it’s supposed to. (Not that I always remember that but that’s one of the challenges of being human.) The last couple of years I have had a great spate of not only life but my business, “happening”. I am a teacher and coach. I am a creator of great personal/spiritual growth programs but I am not a business woman per se. I am also not a lover of working alone or in a vacuum. My partner, who is also my husband, has been my creative partner in the past. We are a perfect foil for each other. He sees the world one way and I another. We also share most values. But for the past 6 years he has been super busy being a high school teacher. Taking on a 5th career at age 70 has been a great challenge and he has mastered it beautifully. But he hasn’t been available much to be my creative partner. So for the past 6 years I’ve been laboring away at creating an online coaching business. I have had some success. I’ve met lovely people and coached my share but in my heart of hearts I’ve wanted something more. I wanted to be able to use my teaching and mentoring gifts also. I’ve dreamed of training coaches but truly had no idea how to make that happen. And it’s happened.

Seemingly out of the ethers came four amazing women who have not only been trained by me, but have brought their varying talents to help create YOU University’s All About Life Coaching into a viable internet coaching and training business. And now there are 5 more in training – and by the time you read this, there will likely be more. They use their multifaceted gifts to partner with me in the same way my life partner has done in the past.

Our Mission

Each human being is unique. No two people are exactly alike and so after years of my evolving awareness of what that means, after years of not being able to put my finger on why sometimes programs worked and sometimes they didn’t, I’ve been able to design programs to help you uncover that individual distinctiveness in order to create a happy and more fulfilling life based on your own, one-of-a-kind, authenticity.

Unwittingly, in order to be efficient and marketable, most personal development programs start out with the premise underlying their creation, “Everyone is alike. If we can make this change and get this result, so can you.” Our personal development programs are different. They are based on the knowledge that each human being is unique.

We have all been subtly influenced by the “sameness” paradigm which employs some fictional measurement of “what we’re supposed to be like”. Look at any fashion magazine. We are supposed to look like the models look. But not only do we all look different, we even have our own distinctive biochemistry and we all have one of a kind talents and gifts and ways of being that make up who we are.

Our programs, with their emphasis on uncovering who you were uniquely meant to be before all the influences of life had their way with you, have an assurance attached to them: If you submerge yourself in what you learn, you will have the tools and have gained the awareness of when and how to use those tools in order to create the unique, individual life you want.

We support you to take yourself and your need to be yourself and find yourself very seriously.

Transformational Effects of Emotion-Based Coaching

Either I’m just the luckiest person in the world or (and I like this idea much better), my plan when I came here to Planet Earth was to have the first part of my life be somewhat hellish and then when it was just exactly the right moment, to run into ways and means to heal from my past. My whole transformational healing journey led to the development of Emotion-Based Coaching.

The Evolution of Emotion-Based Coaching

A lot of people don’t know this about John Gray (author Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus) but he is a master at understanding emotions – how they work and how to process through them. I was trained by him in this work for years. When I met John, I had no idea what a normal array of human emotions were. I usually felt wild optimism or deep sadness and depression.

As a result of what I learned from John and the continued work I did using the tools I learned, I became an emotional intelligence “savant“. After years of using this technology and understanding how the process of emotions works in me, I can and do train coaches in similar work. All of this technology is contained in YOU University.

Couple emotional healing with the universal truths of forgiveness and it’s healing effects, then add on the understanding of what quantum physics says tied in with spirituality and you end up with Emotion-Based Coaching experienced through attendance at YOU University.

Our coaches help clients to heal from their past so they too can continue on their life’s journey towards fulfilling their purpose here on Planet Earth. At the same time that you receive support, guidance, instruction, you can also benefit from the life coaching skills your coach has been trained to do.

Heal the Past, Change Beliefs, Inspired Action

The bigger picture of YOU University and all of YOU University Online programs is that if you heal the past, you will be able to uncover the incorrect beliefs about yourself and life that you carry as a result of unheard and unprocessed feelings. When you do both parts – the healing and the changing of false beliefs, you find you are a kind of vessel for inspiration and therefore can perform inspired action instead of the same old hamster wheel of behaviors which will keep creating pretty much the same life over and over.

Who We Are

Maia Berens: Maia has a spent a good deal of the last 30 years involved in the human potential movement. She started going to 12-Step meetings in 1980 and continued learning and growing – spending years working with John Gray of Men Are from Mars fame. Ultimately Maia founded and directed his Mars Venus Institute. She has been coaching, mentoring and creating personal development programs for the past 15 years. Her role, as founder of this company, is to mentor and train new coach/instructors of YOU University, direct the YOU University team and continue to create great personal development programs meant to increase your emotional intelligence.

Maia has been committed to an ideal of discovering who she is at her core ever since she discovered transformation was possible. She became inspired by her own growth and transformation upon consistently applying the Three Magic Secrets her 12-Step sponsor, dubbed “Wise Fairy God Mother” (immortalized in story and internet movie), taught her at the beginning of her new journey.

Maia’s dedication to her own growth and creativity, has led her out of a troubled past and into the life she now dreams possible for everyone.

Click here to read what Maia says about what she’s learned from her training, her life’s journey, wisdom acquired and what drives her life coaching and training of coaches:

To contact Maia, call 310-264-5625 or email maia@allaboutlifecoaching.com.

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