Volunteering as a Coach for Ukrainian business

It’s been 4 months of the war in Ukraine yesterday…
Since the start of this war, I went through all the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

My personal acceptance started with joining the volunteer project free.on.support, which in April 2022, 2 months after the war in Ukrainian has started, kicked off by my alma mater university CoachingUp and their On.support project. The initiative had in mind supporting Ukrainian businesses in order to help them to re-think the new reality and find new ways of behaving, continuing doing business or even establishing new self support routines.

In 2 months I have worked with 2 individual entrepreneurs and participated in one tender to provide the team coaching for an enterprise.

It’s been especially a fulfilling experience because I was able to help build the personal strength, create an action-plan and be there when clients were executing it.

June 15th 2022 the project came to its end. 78 coaches and 7 psychologists from 7 different countries participated in the project and 78 different companies and much more individual entrepreneurs and employees participated.

Given a shock of the first days of the war, I consider the whole project a huge success and happy to be around such strong people, who are true to themselves, who not only work as coaches, but live like coaches, promoting the ethic approach in their life, decided to volunteer their time, knowledge and love to the Ukrainians.

In the end of the project, I’ve got an official “Thank you” letter from the team, see below:

Катє,

щиро вдячні Вам за підтримку підприємців України і участь у волонтерському проєкті FREE.ON.SUPPORT “Коучингова підтримка бізнесу”🇺🇦

Дякуємо, за сміливість допомагати у період кризи командам та співробітникам компаній України! 🙏

Ваше коучингове мислення, професіоналізм, щире сердце і воля до перемоги вражають!💙💛

Дякуємо, за сміливість допомагати у період кризи командам та співробітникам компаній України! 🙏

Ваше коучингове мислення, професіоналізм, щире сердце і воля до перемоги вражають!💙💛

Пишаємось тим, що маємо можливість співпрацювати разом з Вами і допомагати відбудовувати Україну!

Зповагою,
команда On.Support 🇺🇦

In English that is:

Katia,

We truly thank you for the support of Ukrainian entrepreneurs and participation in the FREE.ON.SUPPORT volunteer project “Coaching Business Support” “

Thank you for the courage to help teams and employees of Ukrainian companies during the crisis! 🙏

Your coaching thinking, professionalism, sincere heart and will to win are impressive! 💙💛

Thank you for the courage to help teams and employees of Ukrainian companies during the crisis! 🙏

Your coaching thinking, professionalism, sincere heart and will to win are impressive! 💙💛

We are proud to have the opportunity to work with you and help rebuild Ukraine!

Sincerely,
On.Support command 🇺🇦

As well 2 feedbacks from my clients, one is private, so I’ll keep it to myself only, but another one I am allowed to share, which I am happy to do. With this client I had 5 consecutive sessions and we have worked on building and kicking off her online business.

I’m very grateful for the opportunity to work with a coach. I’m overwhelmed with my emotions because of the great results!

I liked working with Katia. We had an immediate chemistry. I had a feeling that 60 minutes were always too short and I wanted to continue longer.

My results from the sessions are the following:

1. I have realized which blocks I have.

2. I have understood what I want.

3. In 5 weeks I have achieved more than in the previous year.

Katia is truly an amazing coach.

Thank you On.Support team for providing me with this amazing opportunity to get free support for myself and my business. I wish a blue and peaceful sky over your heads and prosperity.

Victoria Prijemnitska,
Jewelry brand owner Silver_moment.s

The only amazing thing this war has brought – are the people. The people I work with are truly amazing! They want to become better, they want to grow, they want to help their country, their business, their customers to be, survive and come out of the situation stronger, tougher, alive and full of energy. I’m privileged to meet all of them and having this experience, I’m sure, I can continue working with other CEOs, General and Top managers in the crisis situations to help them to stop panicking, write an action plan, follow it through, get the control over your life and the wellbeing of their employees. This is all very important, especially in the time of uncertainty, in the yuca world we all have appeared to live in.

If you’re in the same situation, not sure of the next step, what to do, panicking and not having a clear vision of the future (even if the future plan would be for a couple of days or even hours), feel free to contact me and we will see how I can help you structure your thoughts, your vision and stabilize your emotions.