Your Partner in Growth
"With a deep passion for empowering others, I facilitate the transformation of lives and businesses through personalised coaching." - Rudolph van Schoor
I am a dynamic coaching practitioner in private practice. My mission is to help you discover and shape a congruent, thriving life across business, career, family, and self.
I have completed courses and workshops in coaching, trauma debriefing and trauma counselling, Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction -including learning from renowned authors, practitioners, and trainers such as Gerald French and Yvonne Retief.
In 2009 I attended a Technical Symposium hosted by Applied Metapsychology International (AMI) and The Traumatic Incident Reduction Association (TIRA) at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
In addition, my six years as the head of the HospiVision Trauma Counselling Unit at the Accident and Emergency Unit of Steve Biko Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, provided me with deep insights into how the human brain processes and deals with trauma, loss, and other challenges.
This training and experience have enabled me to establish my practice in collaboration with the Stellenberg Therapy Centre in the Northern suburbs of Cape Town. I helped develop this centre, which entails a multidisciplinary team of therapists who work with children not fitting comfortably into mainstream schooling. They support children with neurotypical and atypical difficulties as well as the children’s parents.
I was also a mentor for the students of the Small Business Academy of the Business School of the University of Stellenbosch from 2020-2022.
I have local, national, and international clients. In South Africa, I serve clients in Gauteng and The Western Cape. My global clients reside in the United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands, Germany, and France.
When I am not working, I enjoy reading or listening to insightful podcasts. I am also a karate fanatic and follow the UFC and Karate Combat competitions closely. I love spending time with my loved ones—preferably in nature or over a well-rounded and aged Shiraz from the Durbanville or Bottelary wine regions.
Read how Rudolph van Schoor’s expert coaching has empowered individuals to achieve their goals and overcome challenges. Explore their stories and see the transformation for yourself.
I follow the three-phase framework of congruence, competence, and flourishing. Congruence ensures alignment between personal values and needs and all areas of your life, including professional, social, emotional, and spiritual. Competence refers to having the skills to succeed in life and business, whereas flourishing means building a fulfilling, successful life or business. Applying these concepts can help individuals lead satisfying lives and foster healthy relationships. It assists professionals in realising their career goals or establishing sustainable, resilient businesses that excel across all domains—from leadership to branding and beyond.
However, I am not a franchise coach. I will never force you to fit into a coaching or counselling framework and keep a non-judgmental stance. My focus is person-centred: The departure point is you and where you are. During sessions, you create your unique roadmap towards your individual goals.
My interest is the dynamics of human behaviour. During sessions, we discover the hidden forces that drive your behaviour during interaction with people. Those relationships include business, professional, romantic, family, and especially the relationship you have with yourself. By gaining insight into your behaviour through self-awareness, you can figure out how to change to live more optimally. The heart of my coaching and counselling is overall well-being.
My coaching style is interactive, practical, intuitive, and straightforward. It is a no-nonsense mode of action that does not shy away from the elephant in the room. We focus on being present and backing ourselves in the here and now. I aim to help you discover your own voice and improve your congruence, which is the foundation for the growth of your strength, competence, vision, and thriving life. The desired outcome is to help you increase your resilience in the face of the unknown and the storms of life.
I don’t fix you! You remain the director of your growth in and out of sessions as you discover yourself and shape who you want to be and what you want to build in your life. I am simply a catalyst who holds the coaching space, asks dynamic questions, listens, and, when appropriate, provides mentoring and consulting for practical tools and skills.
These are the questions I would like my clients to answer while working with me:
⚑ Did you discover yourself on a deeper level, and are you hearing your own voice?
⚑ Are you thinking for yourself, or are someone else’s ideas still gripping you?
⚑ Are you living more congruently?
⚑ Are you growing in strength, competence, and vision to thrive?
⚑ Are you present and backing yourself in the here and now—not being bogged down by the past or fearing the future?
⚑ Are you shaping the life you want to have and being the person you were created and called to be?
Answering yes to these questions makes YOU the legacy of this private practice. The life you create because of this work becomes the legacy you pass on to your partner, children, colleagues, and team.
