About Wanda

Wanda Hennig is a certified personal and professional coach with a background in psychology, counseling and coaching. To this blend add more than 15 years spent as a writer, photographer and editor on newspapers and magazines. As bureau chief for Cosmopolitan magazine, South Africa, for "five fabulous years," she specialized in writing in-depth interviews, self-help articles, investigative features and lifestyle pieces.

As a writer and photojournalist, her work has appeared in an array of publications in the U.S., South Africa and the U.K. For many years, accessing the source of creativity has be a focus for Wanda. She has explored this in creativity workshops, in her own writing practice, in meditation, in fiction writing – in her life.

Wanda was the editor of Diablo, a glossy Bay Area city magazine, when she learned about life coaching.

"I liked that it was about self-empowerment, not about fixing people or telling them what to do. It acknowledges we are creative and resourceful – that we have a core source of wisdom – but can sometimes do with a bit of help finding our way through the maze."

Some other factoids about Wanda:
• Her post-grad psychology degree and counseling diploma are from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.
• She is a "Tiger" in the Chinese calendar; has practiced karate, tai chi, and yoga; traveled in Asia; connects with the wisdoms of Africa and the East; and has a long-time Zen practice.
• She trained and certified as a coactive coach through the Coaches Training Institute in California.
• She likes to paint, and write, play tennis, walk in nature, travel to obscure places, take pictures, cook for friends, go to the San Francisco and Berkeley Zen centers and divide her time between South Africa and the U.S.
• She also likes solitude, good company, her mother and fabulous daughter - and the musician she lives with.

She identifies with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi when he says: "Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives... [and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life."