Welcome!

I am Dr. Jane Simington, with a background in both nursing and psychology. My work focuses on supporting people through grief and trauma as they move through sorrow, healing, change, and transformation.

Tragedy often turns us inward. We come to see how suffering and healing have changed us. We realize we are no longer who we once were. What once seemed important may now have little meaning, while what once seemed insignificant has become essential. Old ways of being and doing no longer fulfill us or reflect who we have become. We may sense that something important remains to be accomplished and that time is running out. We find ourselves asking, “What am I to do with the rest of my life?” The search for life’s purpose becomes our ongoing quest.

If this description resonates with you, the Transformation Certification Coaching Course may be a meaningful next step.

I developed this course for both professional and personal use. While healing from the traumatic death of my son, I realized the experience had changed me and that my life needed to take a new direction—one more aligned with how I now understood reality. This course gives helpers the skills to support clients, so they feel less alone in their search for purpose and transformation.

 The course is also for personal growth. I believe we can only support others on their healing journey to the depth we have travelled ourselves. As you apply the methods taught in this course, you gain a deeper awareness of your own destiny and learn how to use that insight to support and counsel others as they engage in their own meaningful soul-searching.

A Different Approach to Healing

Within the context of this course, spirituality is described as a human being’s personal relationship to what is meaningful to him or her, and what gives direction and purpose to their life. The spiritual needs as identified by Carson and co-authors in Spiritual Dimensions of Nursing Practice are love, trust, hope, forgiveness, belonging, and meaning and purpose in life. According to these authors and other researchers, all people are considered to have a spiritual dimension, regardless of if, or how, it is expressed or practiced. Spiritual distress is the suffering experienced when one or more of the spiritual needs are not met.

To address the spiritual distress of those who are feeling a desire to be more in line, with their Soul's purpose, course participants are introduced to the work of Carl Jung who noted that if you want to address soul, you must speak soul’s language, the language of symbol and metaphor. Supported by his work and by research that demonstrates that highly-charged emotions are processed in the brain’s Right Hemisphere, course participants learn to incorporate therapeutic art and guided visualization, as spiritual interventions, and learn to help their clients interpret the symbolic messages being revealed.

Testimonials

 Therapeutic art activities helped me take step back and really evaluate my ability to see things differently.

Therapeutic art does help to communicate the unspoken purpose. Thank you for the Guided Visualizations, they help me to know my purpose, how to help people. 

Participants of the Transformation Coaching Certification Course April 2024 

Thompson, Manitoba  

The feedback from the course facilitator was excellent. Dr. Jane provided insights, guidance, and feedback that I wasn’t able to see or realize on my own. She helped put things in meaningful perspective and to tie everything together. Her further questions guided deeper thinking and possibilities not considered before. Her soulful direction definitely helped move my life more in line with my soul’s purpose!!!

 Lori Aliche,

Director of Education, Dene Tha' First Nation

High Level, Alberta.  

I truly appreciated the feedback from Dr. Jane Simington, it reminded me why I was doing the course. It also encouraged me to bring my best food forward, it also reminded me that a part of my own self is receiving positive affirmations for work done. 

 Stephanie Landherr, 

Thompson, Manitoba

Taking Flight International Corporation

Offices of Dr. Jane Simington. PhD.

205 Griesbach Road NW

Edmonton, AB T5E 6S5

Tel: 780-473-6732     

Fax:780-472-0885

E-mail: info@takingflightinternational.com