Reviews

Transformational game “Ariadne's Thread”

I want to say an enormous thank you for organising yesterday's meeting on the theme “The need to be loved at any cost”. It was my first experience of a group like this and I am very glad I decided to come. The atmosphere was surprisingly warm and friendly, and because of that I was not afraid at all to open up and share what I was going through. The meeting turned out to be very valuable for me — I was able to look at my problem from a different angle, I learned something new about myself, and I thoroughly enjoyed talking both with Jekaterina and with the other women in the group. It was incredibly interesting to listen and to take part in the conversation. Thank you for creating such a safe space for honesty and support.

Transformational game “Ariadne's Thread”

Enormous thanks to you, Jekaterina, and to all the other participants. It seems to me this was the best meeting we have had — the others were wonderful too, but this one was really powerful. I am grateful that thanks to you and your careful way of seeing, I could look at my difficult, shadow self from another angle. I felt, and truly gained, more resource and more trust in myself and in what I do. I understood that it is enough to keep hiding away, and that it is time to remember how I used to step out of my comfort zone deliberately — to take those actions up again and find new ones that challenge me. It is impossible to put into words; I want to pay you, and pay a lot. I will think of something.

Transformational game “Ariadne's Thread”

I am so very glad I took part. Thank you very much for running a game like this. It was something new for me, and it turned out to be genuinely interesting and useful — I saw things in myself that I had not been paying much attention to, and a view from the outside really helps you get to the heart of it and find solutions.

Transformational game “Therapy Through Love” · a week afterwards

Katyusha, you are absolutely brilliant, an expert in your field, an inspiration and a driving force for thought. Thank you — everything is moving as it should, the result will come.

Jekaterina, I want to say thank you as well. On the one hand, I needed to learn to ask. But I knew where to find the money for this project. If anything, I should be asking for money for a bigger one — building a hotel. I have decided that when I get to Moscow I will invite them for coffee and talk about working together.

Eight-week masterclass

Katyusha, thank you so much too — for the valuable knowledge, for sessions so powerful that they let you look deep inside yourself, realise things and come back to who you really are.

Thank you, Jekaterina, for the meeting and the debrief. It was so valuable! There is a lot to think about. There was also a lot I recognised in myself — thank you to everyone who was there!

The game “Crossroads of Six Paths”

Hi, I slept so sweetly last night. I woke up with a calm head and my thoughts flowing in harmony. You showed me from an interesting angle what discipline actually means for me. It turns out I have spent my whole life fighting a demon that was in fact my strength and my originality. We are all so different, and we should not be trying to be the same. Otherwise we lose our power. It matters so much to live with pleasure, and I am rather good at that. So why should I fight it and be like everyone else? I also want to say that there is definitely something inexplicable in you — you see far more than I do, and the game opened me up to you as if you were looking straight into my soul (I have no doubt, by the way, that we have met in a past life). I want to thank you from my heart for your talent, your professionalism and your help. We will certainly meet in other games. Life is a game after all, and it is wonderful that thanks to you we can play it better and step out of the victim's place. With love and gratitude.

The game “Crossroads of Six Paths”

A fast read of the situation, a clear understanding of it, and the ability to say the words that knock your legs out from under you and make you speak. I am a tough, active person and I need exactly that kind of approach — otherwise I adapt very quickly and start going around the problem in advance, automatically. I will definitely come to the game again. I would not say everything in my life changed at once, or that one time is enough, but for me specifically it makes me think about the questions I am afraid to ask myself, and it raises the problems that hide neatly behind our needs. It was a surprise to learn that my pull towards adrenaline in everything I do is a wish to live here and now and to switch off from what was and what will be… I will still climb the mountain — only now I will look at what is behind it.

The game “Crossroads of Six Paths”

The game reminded me that you do not always have to force your way through with masculine energy — that you can go through softness, flexibility and lightness, and let your Devil, your shadow, out. And I am not the only one who sees it! Strengths that stay in the shadow for too long will find a way out regardless. Better through a plus than through a minus.

The game “Crossroads of Six Paths”

The game showed very vividly what exactly stops me from showing the world my strength and my beauty. One of the main realisations: I want to genuinely help people, not chase a particular sum of money or a number of followers. Huge thanks for the support and for the suggestions, which inspired me to act differently, and better.

Money transformational game — “My Finances”

Katya, thank you very much for the invitation. It was useful and interesting for me; once again I had it confirmed where and in what my energy drains away and where I stall, and what I need to do and why I am not doing it. Thank you.

Metaphorical cards meeting “Women's Power”

When you have wings… A woman walks to the edge of the night. To the edge of the night. Into the deepest haze of faceless blue, into the furthest reach of the hidden, into the longest night — the one that spreads out in lavender fields and Morphean promises of misty dreams. The woman steps unhurriedly, every step of hers full of strength — she walks rightly, knowingly, and is cut through by stars in that cool blue expanse… The woman walks to the edge of the night, leaving behind everything that is not needed, everything picked up somewhere, stuck on, grown into her like a bright mask… She takes it all off, sweeps it all away, all of it empty. Not about her. Not alive. Outlived. And she steps into the darkness bare, vulnerable, powerful, fierce… Her hair scatters over her shoulders, her free chest fills, her shoulders are wings with stars beneath them, and summer lightning dances in her eyes in sparks. Here is the edge of the night, and here she is — a woman, exactly as she is, without deceptions, without temper, without questions, without anything extra or borrowed, simply a woman who has walked around the night…

Meeting “Introducing yourself with one card”

Thank you for how involved you were! Today I was given the task of telling people about myself in 30 seconds, while everyone present is riding in the same lift with you! Thank you for the meeting. The card I drew was very much about me today.

Meeting “Introducing yourself with one card”

It was a veeery interesting meeting. And the card was about me. Thank you. I am grateful!

Meeting “Introducing yourself with one card”

“Only the weak are sent on a safe journey.” H. Hesse. Yesterday was an incredible day in Rīga! Thank you to everyone who was part of it! I am still putting my thoughts in order and living through the feelings. Yesterday's events caught up with me only once I was in Lithuania: my path is definitely not one for the faint-hearted.

Individual session

The session became an important and deep experience for me. In the process of restoring myself I was able to see the hidden connections and the reasons behind inner struggles that had stayed outside my attention before. I came to understand more about my own feelings, my place in the system of relationships, and the resources I can rely on from here. After our meeting there was relief, clarity and an inner movement towards harmony. Thank you for the careful accompaniment, the professionalism and for creating a safe space for work this deep.

Coaching session with metaphorical cards — “Stay or change the country I live in”

Good day. I had a session with the metaphorical cards. It is an interesting process that reveals our fears and worries and at the same time points towards the actions we need. The theme of the session was whether to stay or to change the country I live in. Honestly, after the session there was a surge of energy, emotion and joy at what I had seen. There is a belief in a better outcome in my life — perhaps it is a coincidence, but the cards I named matched the pictures on my wall, and that astonished me! At the end of the session I shared this with Jekaterina and it was wonderful. Many thanks to her for lifting my spirits! The goal is set: “small steps into a big future”. Good luck!

Coaching session with metaphorical cards — “Sources of additional income”

Having lived almost 70 years in this world, I have come to a conclusion: if there is no personal freedom, and you depend on many circumstances — health, finances, relationships with parents and children, relatives and the person you love, lack of time, age and so on — then life turns into routine contemplation. Only you know what you need; only you decide how to fill your own existence. And so, in order to find your path, your wishes, your actions, your motivation and your goal, you have to understand yourself, and that information has to be drawn out of your own subconscious — which is exactly what your metaphorical cards helped me do, Katya. Thank you for that opportunity.

Coaching session with metaphorical cards

Jekaterina, when you laid out the metaphorical cards for me I was mostly just curious — I had never done anything like it before. Gradually, to my own surprise, the pictures started to make sense, outlining the problem area of my question very clearly. The result struck me to the core, quite literally. Thank you, Katya! For anyone who wants to see a problem at its very root — I recommend this without reservation!

Coaching session with metaphorical cards — “Personal effectiveness without burnout”

A review of the cards session. I wanted to thank you, Katya, for such a rich, deep and at times very moving session, with so many feelings and states recognised in myself and a much deeper understanding of my own inner world! You approach the work with a client so caringly and so professionally, you touch the most painful points gently and carefully, and you softly help to work them through and understand them, and afterwards to heal them and ease how the client feels. This way of working is deep and it asks you to think and reason clearly, which is not always easy alongside everything it brings up — and in that you turn out to be an excellent guide in the work we do together. Thank you for this experience. You are a remarkable professional when your knowledge and your personal gifts come together. My gratitude to you! I came away with new realisations and an understanding of my own state on a much deeper level!

Coaching session with metaphorical cards — “Bringing harmony to family relationships”

Hello! Katya, after our meeting, when we worked with the metaphorical cards, I found answers to difficult questions in my life!!! At first it seemed like a game, but then you start to analyse and an understanding of the situation arrives! I recommend it! We will certainly come back in future, whenever things get hard.

Coaching session — “My sexuality”

What I came with. Hi! Answering the three questions before tomorrow's session: 1) my request — I want to accept my own sexuality; 2) what I expect from the session — to see what sexual energy gives me, how it can change my life, and to understand how to “switch it on”; 3) the best outcome — I accept my sexuality, I love my body, I feel free and at the same time protected.

What I left with. I want to thank you for the last session, where we touched on a subject that is delicate for me. I feel I have started to look differently at some of the men I have had a connection with in the past. I genuinely feel gratitude towards two of them. Closeness with my husband happened differently too. It mattered to me to say out loud what I had hidden and pushed aside for years, and to get a response. Thank you for supporting me and for taking it without judgement. It is one more step towards change.

Coaching session — “My sexuality”

Thank you, Katya, for today's session! By the end of it I understood that I expect a great deal of other people, and demand a great deal of myself. Remembering a situation from early childhood, I was able — thanks to you — to look at it from another side. What could my mother have been feeling then, what reasons did she have for behaving as she did? For as long as I looked at it only through my child's eyes, I was deeply hurt and living in the fear of being rejected; once I stepped outside that child's perception, I could feel that my mother had her reasons too. I imagine she was frightened and ashamed of what people would think. In the first moments I would most likely have done the same with my own child in those circumstances — but my expectation that a mother should behave perfectly did its work… Thank you, Katya, for suggesting I write my mother a letter, to “say” everything I felt in that situation, and to “play” at being someone who lives without expectations, watching herself.

Champi head massage · working with separation

Hi Katya! I am all right. My mother called yesterday to ask how we were, and then she said that after lunch she felt as if her strength had gone somewhere. I did not think it could work that fast… It is hard to believe it all works this way — I understand it with my head, and still it is hard to take in. I want to live my own life, so however hard it was to hand the weight back to my mother, I understand that it had to be done.