GET TO KNOW ME

I am Ursula Cats, an ever growing untamed woman. I have assisted women, children, young adults and parents to find their inner strengths since 2002. Inner leadership coaching has always been the core of all the work I have done. I also have been actively fighting for human rights for many years and have founded the We women foundation in 2009. Since then, my focus has been women empowerment.

Pounamu Coaching supports the We women foundation. You receive coaching and 20% of your investment goes directly towards the Inner Leadership Coaching for Refugees in the Netherlands and Leadership Development for women in Myanmar.

I have studied dramatherapy, anthropology and followed a four year coaching course at the school of conscious being. Throughout my life I have been following the path of my heart and have opened up to everyday learning opportunities to grow and awaken my authenticity within more and more.

"That all is within yourself, to listen to your own inner fire and to know that you are whole is what I want to share with others."

I have always felt the urge to be outside and connect with the earth and to do what my inner fire asks me to do. As a young girl, I felt the freedom to live fully from my soul, this has always supported me to keep my fierce spirit alive. At the same time a traumatic experience taught me at a young age that the world was not always a safe place, so being on my guard and learning to adapt to my environment was also something that I taught myself. Through coaching, training processes and life experiences, I have peeled layers of my trauma and healed a great deal. I have learned that all is within me, that I was never broken and that I have always been whole.

"I am looking forward to share our inner fires and to dance along our soul path together."

My specializations

Inner Leadership, Transforming Trauma into Power, The Power of Now, Inner Source, Authenticity, Wild Woman, Self Healing, Fire, Rituals, Grounding, Gender Equality, and Migration.

My Motivation

The drive behind my work is to realize social transformation as much as possible. Wherever I can I will contribute by using my talents to assist other people grow into their own potential.

My ultimate goal is for everybody to live together in peace and equality with love for each other and the earth.

My work

In my work, I am the spaceholder and I ask you to dive deep into yourself, completely opening up to your own authenticity. Daring to open up yourself, not just a little, but completely: with the confidence that you are being held and carried, that you are whole, that you are powerful enough to handle whatever presents itself. To trust deeply that mother earth carries you and that the universe supports and provides you where necessary.

The here and now plays a vital role in my work. I want you to feel that you can choose to live in the here and now, that you can always come back to the here and now. If you feel that you are not present within yourself, come back to the here and now and forgive yourself for what was, now is different, every moment is different, you can make different choices at any moment. Let go of the story, the story about what your ego has told you who you are, the story about the events in your life, convert it, trauma or life events are there to learn, to change things in your life. Everything you experience makes you more aware and puts you more in touch with your authentic self. Use what you experience as turning points, and be kind to yourself. If you start walking new paths, do not forget that the old paths are worn deeply, so you regularly walk that old path again and when you become aware of it again, then you choose to let go and walk the new path again. My motto, which a friend of mine taught me is: Oh well! Oh well, it happened, I saw it and now I choose to be kind to myself again and I continue on the new path. No feelings of guilt, I am okay, I choose the new path again.