THERE IS A TREASURE WITHIN YOU GREATER THAN YOU KNOW.
ABOUT GABI
Gabi Lowe, founder of The Coaching Nest, brings decades of executive-level corporate experience in the fields of media, marketing and retail.
Gabi is also well known to South Africans for the rare set of interpersonal skills she brings to her coaching, most notably, an ability to process emotional complexity developed over many years of dealing with adversity, challenge and deep personal loss. The result is a coaching method built on a depth of life experience, compassion, courage and insight that offers clients a unique and powerful roadmap on the journey of self-development, personal resilience and conscious leadership allowing you to lead an authentic and full life.
Gabi is a professionally qualified coach (DIPC TCC), mentor, facilitator and international speaker. She is a member of the ICF and COMENSA. Underlying her practise she uses The Integral+ Practice of Coaching ©based on the AQAL framework and Ken Wilber’s synthesis of many theories, models and systems of thinking. This integral approach incorporates the heart, body and mind.Gabi accesses a multiplicity of integral theories and tools pulling them together in her own model for coaching. She practises from her office in the Southern Suburbs in Cape Town, or works with corporate clients in their offices. Skype sessions available for clients not living in the Western Cape.
Gabi also facilitates highly successful corporate workshops, brand coaching sessions and resilience workshops or one-on-one coaching sessions. Gabi has coached for over 500 hours – she works with Leadership Executives, MD’s, Directors and corporates as well as many hours of one-on-one personal development coaching.
Brief professional background: Gabi graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984. Following her studies she travelled for two years before joining SA’s leading woman’s magazine, Fair Lady, as PR and Promotions Editor. After 5 years in media Gabi moved to leading retailer, Woolworths. She spent 7 years in their central marketing department initially as PR and Promotions Manager, later taking up the position of Marketing Manager. She launched Upfront Marketing, a successful Media and Marketing Consultancy, in 1997 following the birth of her second child. Upfront Marketing delivered top-notch bespoke media and marketing services to many blue chip South African brands for 17 years. In 2011 a dramatic change of personal circumstances threw Gabi into the difficult landscape of Rare Diseases. The Lowe family are well-known for campaigning widely for media and social awareness around a rare disease called Pulmonary Hypertension and the dire state of Organ Donation in SA. Following the tragic loss of their eldest daughter Jenna in 2015, Gabi became a founder and Director of Public Benefit Organisation; The Jenna Lowe Trust. As a Director of the organisation Gabi continues Jenna’s work and legacy for patients who otherwise have no access to the medication and expertise they need.
The extraordinary journey that the Lowe family fought for four years precipitated a meaningful change in direction for Gabi which led to her becoming a professionally qualified integral Personal and Leadership Development coach.
“Authenticity, compassion and a deep understanding of emotional resilience are the most important perspectives and qualities that I bring to my coaching. I believe that as conscious, awake, emotionally resilient and compassionate human beings we can hold, embrace and survive just about anything.
When you align your thinking, feeling and intuition; when you ‘turn your face to the storm’ with intent; you can begin to rebuild your shattered world and enter the realms of hope and possibility. You cannot unsee what you have seen, or undo a traumatic experience, I can attest to that, yet you can reframe it through hard work, conscious commitment and different perspectives. Even in the face of unavoidable suffering, we must search for ways to make meaning and live with gratitude.”
