HELPING EACH OTHER CHANGE

This website describes a system of peer counselling
and life script coaching practiced by Bruce M. Small.


Bruce Small is a Toronto-based life script coach and peer counselling trainer who specializes in the exploration, management, and resolution of life scripts.

Simply put, life scripts are the repetitive dramas that most of us play out throughout our lives. Most of us have picked ways of dealing with life that were adapted to the conditions in our early childhood. These early decisions sometimes linger throughout our lives, causing compulsive behaviour (e.g. around time, work, food, money, relationships, sexuality, helping others, etc.) and often limiting us from reaching our full potential.

Sometimes these unconscious behaviours work through our bodies to cause or aggravate physical symptoms, postural problems, chronic facial expressions, habitual gestures, internal feelings including anxiety and panic, and feelings of stress and muscle tightness. Coaching is sometimes effective in shifting this emotional component of physical illness, clearing the way for more symptom-free and more productive living. Bruce is particularly knowledgable about both the physical and the emotional components of multiple allergies and chemical hypersensitivity.

Bruce works directly with his clients to help them discover their life scripts and to free themselves from the bounds that these scripts create. The process is respectful, gentle, truthful, and taken at a natural pace designed to meet a client's personal goals.

He also teaches concentrated peer counselling courses that are designed to deliver the knowledge of his coaching approach to others, so that they can use it themselves, and also so that they can arrange free exchange time with others who are similarly knowledgable. Through regular exchange sessions with a variety of people, individuals can continue effective analysis and changing of their life scripts over a longer period without cost. The courses bring a small number of people (ten or less) together at a time in order to teach them how to listen well to each other and to exchange attention that is finely tuned not only to the dramatic behaviour we all exhibit, but to the real personality underneath it all, which begs to be released and polished.

Those who have this training have the option of keeping in touch with the entire network of people who have gone through such courses. Through voluntary private sessions, live or by phone or even email, participants help each other through life's daily challenges and free each other of old compulsive behaviours that are impeding their lives.

Bruce can be reached by email at bruce@envirodesic.com or by phone or text at (416)-274-1628. New classes begin every couple of months. Convenient downtown Toronto location at 21 Carlton St., just steps away from the College Subway Station on the Yonge Street line. Individual coaching sessions can be arranged at your convenience. Depending on your location, Bruce can also come to you, particularly if travel is difficult or anxieties or sensitivities confine you to your own environment. Bruce is also an accomplished speaker and can address your group meeting or conference on this and many other interesting topics (check out Speaker's Challenge.)