Biography
Barti is a life coach specializing in facilitating self-leadership in her clients. She believes that by cultivating awareness of the underlying beliefs/thoughts that hold us back we can live into our full potential. Much of this internal data that drives our behavior (strategies) lives unexamined below the surface. It's only through awareness that we can heal and find new perspectives.
Clients come to Barti seeking change related to health, career, relationships, and unwanted patterns of behavior. Her work is inspired by the Internal Family Systems model and mindfulness meditation practices. Her philosophy is through increased self- and social-awareness we can move beyond what currently appears to be possible. Her business, Move Beyond the Edge, LLC is located in Portland Maine.
Since leaving her marketing career, Barti has earned her Masters Degree in Consciousness Studies from The Graduate Institute, and acquired the following professional credentials: ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Professional Mindfulness Teacher Certification (CMT-P), and 500 RYT Yoga Instructor.
Barti also volunteers within the Portland Public School System and the Long Creek Youth Development Center offering mindfulness classes to middle and high school students as well as faculty. She sits on the Executive Council for The Maine Coaches Connection, a Satellite of ICFNE.
Barti grew up in Maine and earned a BS in Business Administration from Boston College. Before transitioning to coaching as a profession, she had a 30-year marketing career building brands such as Cole-Haan, Tommy Hilfiger, Sperry Top-Sider, and Levi’s. She has lived and worked in Boston, New York, Colorado, and Maine.
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