Arnold Zeman is thrilled to join the Focusing community as a Certified Focusing Professional, having been trained by Ann Weiser Cornell in Inner Relationship Focusing. His Focusing journey was literally ‘what should come next’ in his living. He kept bumping into Focusing over some 15 years, first through a professional mediation mentor, a therapist, and in his training as a professional coach. Some three years ago, he started his Level 1 training culminating in 2020 with certification.

Arnold is also a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach trained by the Harvard of professional coach training, the Co-Active Training Institute. He has also been certified by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach.

Prior to becoming a coach, he had a 33-year career as a Canadian public servant in progressively more senior positions, completing his public service career with his appointment as Assistant Inspector General of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. After retiring from the federal government in December 2006, Arnold trained and was accredited as a family mediator by the Ontario Association of Family Mediation. He was on the court roster as a family mediator in Ottawa for a number of years and also had a standing offer with Health Canada to facilitate discussions about workplace conflict. He also believes that we are all each other’s guests while here on planet Earth and seeks to cultivate Self-in-Presence in his living.