Hello My Name is:
Jane Deknatel
I write a daily diary about life as it passes, and every month publish excerpts on this website. So please go to my blog page now…
More About Jane
Jane established her life coaching practice in Los Angeles after her career in the entertainment industry. She has been coaching individual clients and groups, including Non-Profit Organizations, for more than twenty years. For four years she coached the 20-person executive and management team individually and in groups at The Broad Stage Performing Arts Center, in Santa Monica. She was the Executive Director at The Broad Stage from to May 2016 to June 2019.
What I Do
Writing
I write a daily diary on life as I experience it, and every month publish it on this website in day-by-day blogs.
Coaching
I help my clients to clarify their goals, identify the obstacles holding them back, make the most of their strengths while living life to its fullest.
Workshops
My Conversations with Women™ workshops help us to review and share what we have experienced and learnt, and gather support for moving forward.
Public speaking
My first public speech was as Duke Orsino in my school’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, at age twelve. Now I write my own speeches.
What I am discovering as I write is that aging produces a different kind of memory. A memory that makes up for all the mistakes, burnishes the rough edges a little and comes to peace with what we have done in the past and where we are today. Some horrors are etched forever but others softened and dealt with only in memory.
I learned from a brilliant therapist, in my late thirties, that all the distress and obstacles of today, once dealt with, will remain like distant bells. Sometimes when the wind blows and the bell sounds, it will stir a memory but not all the distress associated with it, that is the inner work of the soul.