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Warkworth’s Jefferson Chapple teaches both life skills and sailing and says the two things have something fundamental in common.
“Everyone is on a journey and you have to know which way the wind blows to get where you want to go,” he says.
Jefferson’s life skills instruction includes conscious breath work, creative expression and ‘belief upgrades’.
“The essence of it is the removal of obstacles that are in the way of a person living to their full potential.
The obstacles are often not in the world, but are internal obstacles such as self-doubt,” he says.
Jefferson has 13 small water craft on his property, including an outrigger canoe he built after studying designs from Kiribati.
“I spent five years visiting museums looking at Kiribati canoes and measuring them, and I’ve spent 30 years learning to sail it.”
Jefferson says unlike a western sail boat; a Kiribati canoe has no rudder. Instead, it relies on sail adjustment and weight balancing for manoeuvring.
“The Western model of sailing is adversarial, viewing the water as your enemy. The Polynesian model is what I call ‘the harmony paradigm’.”
“You decide where you want to go and adjust the sails so the canoe sails itself. A Kiribati canoe leaves no wake – all that is left behind is a line in the water.”
Jefferson applies the same kind of thinking to his life coaching.
He helps people to identify what their goals are based on their deepest desires and then trains them to make the right choices to get there.
“The result will come – it’s just about managing the time in between. Everybody is already all they need to be.”
Jefferson is also a practitioner of Reichian therapy – a form of psychoanalysis that explores the reciprocal relationships between the body and mind.
Info: jeffersonwayne@gmail.com
