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Niels Hojer graduated from our Certified Option Process® Mentor Certification Program in 2003 and currently practices in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a way to support and encourage private mentoring practice, we are pleased to provide a web page for each of our Certified Mentors. The following information has been provided to us by Niels.
1. What is your mentoring background and related experience.
Since 1989 I have been working as an Executive Consultant in the field of hiring executives for various positions such as Managers, Country managers, CEO, CFO and Sales Managers throughout Europe and in the former Eastern European countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Croatia.
I have also been working with Outplacement, which means that I am personal coach and supporter of a person who has been fired.
I have been a personal mentor and sparring partner for managers, and have facilitated seminars about personal development.
2. Why did you become an Option Process® Mentor/Counselor?
Because I want to serve my clients even better, and in a more powerful way. After 20 years of studying and practicing different methods, I found that the Option Process® Dialogue was the most effective tool to use.
3. Why do you believe the Option Process® and the Option Process® Dialogue are so effective?
Because we give no advice, and because people find their own reasons for believing what they believe and they find their own answers. And because people see that they are in control of themselves, which means they decide what they want to believe, and it opens a new positive and powerful way of seeing themselves, and these notions stay for the rest of their life.
4. How can someone specifically use the Option Process® Dialogue to change their life?
When we focus on an issue in our lives, we can always go deeper and find our underlying beliefs and reasons for our behavior. When we have found a belief and our reasons for holding it, or the reason for our behavior, we can decide to change or not.
5. How have you used the Option Process® Dialogue to make changes in your life?
It has changed the whole perspective of my life.
I took almost one year out of business for studying and participating in the Option Institute programs. This was an in depth education process, and I became a Certified Option Process® Mentor in January 2003. That was the best year of my life, I went through the most wonderful learning process.
My wife and I have been married for 25 years, and since we learned the Option Process, we have had much deeper conversations in our daily life. And we have not had any fights or arguments in any situation since the very beginning of the process and until now. We have a very happy life.
The change in my life also means that every person I meet I feel much more connected to, and deep down inside totally accepting, and I am much more present in my life than I was earlier.
6. Do you recommend anything to help someone prepare for a dialogue? (any specific reading, listening, viewing etc.)
Yes, I have recommended that people read Happiness is a Choice, and also, To Love is to be Happy With online. My experience is that people who have read one of these books have a clearer understanding of the Dialogue. The result is that they are more effective in their session.
7. Do you have any quotes from clients that you would like us to include?
"Thank you for helping me heal last summer. I feel wonderful and all my suffering from the past 54 years is over. What a gift to the world you are. Thank you from my heart."
~ Connie, California
"First of all I want you to know that I have been off my anti-depressants for about 2 weeks prior to meeting you. Nothing horrible has happened to me because of not taking them and I actually feel good about being able to go on with life and not have to depend on a pill to keep me alive emotionally. THANK YOU! The Option Process® makes sense to me and using it certainly helps to speed up the healing process as opposed to the cognitive therapy that I have experienced in the past 14 years."
~ Jackie ,USA
"I am sure that this method can help a lot of people and organizations. I have changed my bad habits and a pattern of negative reactions within 6 dialogues. Niels gave me the opportunity to help my self. Again and again I commented "this is ridiculous" and then I had a relieving laughter. It happened every time Niels gave me the opportunity to se my own behavior and get into contact with my feelings connected to certain situations where I had negative experiences."
~ Steen, Sales manager, Denmark
8. Please include a brief statement on what being a mentor has meant to you along with any inspirational stories or updates on your progress as a professional.
First of all, the energy and the feelings I have every day when I open my eyes are remarkable. I feel that I am ready to be there for the whole world.
Every dialogue I have is a gift both for me and the explorer. First of all I can see how happy people are when we do the dialogues. Every time they find a belief which brings unhappiness , and they change it, I see how they become more happy than before we started.
I dialogue with a lot of managers, and they are so positive about the dialogue, that we now are planning to do it in a much larger scale for more employees.
I have started revitalization programs in several companies.
The program is for employees who need new perspectives and new energy, and already the feedback is very good.
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