Live the life you were meant to live
Marius Olivier
Certified Paterson Guide and ICF Coach, Corporate Strategist, Management Consultant and Mediator
THE PATERSON LIFEPLAN PROCESS
-Now also accessible in German speaking Europe 🇩🇪
You no longer have to continue living your life in silent despair.
The Paterson LifePlan is your personal journey of discovery: you will realise who you really are, what you are called to do and how you can make your unique contribution to the world.
Imagine having absolute clarity about who you are and what difference you can make. The Paterson LifePlan accompanies you step by step to your true identity, your purpose and your greatest potential.
Over the years, we’ve had the privilege of guiding thousands of people through the LifePlan Process. One thing we’ve observed time and again is that great beauty can arise from great brokenness. In so many cases, the hardest parts of someone’s story often provide fertile ground for seasons of profound discovery and growth.
Tom Paterson has had a lasting impact on the companies and individuals he has worked with throughout his career.
Marius Olivier from Freudenstadt in the beautiful Black Forest (Baden-Württemberg) specialises in guiding people through the transformative Paterson LifePlan process. With his expertise in coaching and mentoring, Marius supports clients in discovering their individual purpose and gaining clarity on their life path. Whether you are seeking personal growth, professional breakthroughs or a roadmap to achieving your goals, Marius’ approach offers you tailored support so that you can live your life the way you imagined it.
AS GUIDES, WE LEAD BY EXPERIENCE
As guides, we can only lead someone on a journey that we ourselves have navigated – and are still navigating!
The diagram below provides a high-level overview of the LifePlan Process. During the two-day LifePlan, you will cover Perspective and Planning. Management and Renewal are introduced at the end of Day 2 and are explored further in subsequent sessions.
LIFEPLAN / LEBENSPLAN
“Live the life you were meant to live”
The Paterson LifePlan Process is a facilitated journey that helps individuals uncover their unique identity and purpose. This clarity leads to breakthroughs and provides a roadmap for making their greatest contribution in life.
LEGEND
- Perspective
Where am I now? - Planning
What’s important now? - Management
How I am progressing? - Renewal
What needs to change?
It is not a plan that is conceived and developed, but rather one that is discovered through a series of guided processes, tools, and conversations. Participating in the LifePlan Process allows individuals to better discover the unique, creative plan for their lives. The process involves completing a series of sequential exercises or modules designed to help clients uncover their own uniqueness.
The more Tom understood how God had shaped him, the more he became aware of God’s individualized plan for his life. Tom discovered more than 1,000 references in the Bible that refer to the fact that God has a plan for each of us in our lives. Tom’s process-oriented mind went to the next step: If God has a unique plan for each of us, why is it that so many do not know what their plan is. If we don’t know what it is, what hope do we have to live it?
Among Tom’s unique talents was a remarkable gift for innovation. Tom holds patents for ATM PIN technology and the first portable video recorder, was a friend and regular collaborator of the Disney brothers, and was commissioned by President Reagan to open up the global economy in China. Peter Drucker once said of Tom that he was ‘the world’s greatest process thinker’. Tom’s and our heart, our constant endeavour to lead people and organisations to their full potential and purposeful impact.
When you arrive at the end of more than a day of perspective gathering, both the client and the Guide will begin to see connections, rising trends, and unmistakable clarity as truth begins to fill the room. A personal life pathway is unfolding — with clarity into one’s life purpose, life calling, and life vision.
Perspective Before Planning – The Paterson Spiral
The strategy for a two-day plan begins with perspective. During Tom’s work in China, he observed that the eastern approach to problem-solving often produces more thoughtful solutions. Their circuitous thinking produces a multi-dimensional answer. The LifePlan process uses their method.
TYPICAL WESTERN APPROACH
The typical western approach is a direct frontal assault, sometimes a shot from the hip motivated by a desire for a speedy “solution,” tending to produce one-dimensional answers to multi-dimensional problems.
THE PATERSON LIFEPLAN PROCESS, AN EASTERN APPROACH
The eastern approach is more circuitous, yet ever-closing in. A balanced perspective is pursued through thorough situation analysis and diagnostics. The goal is to achieve more thoughtful, systemic solutions, multi-dimensional answers to multi-dimensional problems, and less work later through a holistic perspective.
ASCENDING PERSPECTIVE
In the two-day LifePlan process, we spend almost a day and half gaining perspective before we begin planning because of the tremendous power inherent in gaining perspective first. A Guide facilitate clients through the proven tools and process of their LifePlan experience, helping them reach and discover truth from the peak of this ascending spiral.
Trust the Process
Tom saw the Paterson Process as a gift to be stewarded and cultivated. That doesn’t mean we use it blindly — not at all. But it does mean we hold it and use it with deep respect. We Trust the Process, because it has shown itself to be trustworthy. We know that until we’ve mastered something, we haven’t earned the right to change it — especially something that’s been around for 40+ years, and helped thousands of people. And so we encourage you — as we do too — to Trust the Process and to use the tools in the way they are taught. As we learn a trusted process like LifePlan, we encourage you to notice those times when your desire is to change a part of the process — we’d suggest those moments are great invitations to instead go deeper into understanding that part of the process, so we don’t miss the beauty within.
The Journey to Live Life’s Purpose
The “Journey To Live Life’s Purpose” diagram to the right illustrates the big-picture overview with general phases or stages that we go through in our desire and pursuit to live out our calling. – Pete Richardson
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Marius Olivier
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