ALISON BANKS

Alison Banks was born in Biggin Hill and moved to London when she was 3 years old.  There she lived by a common, an influential wide open space. She remembers walking to school in her early years, as a perfect time to think and play in her head.

On reflection, probably one of the most important things, that happened in Alison’s life, was to become aware of her dyslexia.  Alison maintained a  steady 2 out of 10 in English for a year. She was never asked to read in class following one mortifying occasion, after which she decided to teach herself to read.  Alison achieved this through ‘seeing’ each word in her head. Alison considers this the place where she began to create ‘Vision’ and it turned her academic life around.

From that time, Alison developed the ability to really enjoy her work.
Alison set up her own Catering company after college. There, she developed her ability to create Vision around a business or a personal situation.  

Around the age of 30 Alison recalls that a number of painful events resulted in her shutting herself down from her feelings. Although outwardly her life and world looked ‘perfect’ she had the ‘big house – marriage - the children – the cars … inwardly, she had started to question her life and True Purpose. 

This resulted in her attending personal development courses and training with some of the most experienced teachers around the world.  What has emerged is Alison’s real gift for inspiring people to greater levels of success and happiness.  It is her passion to maintain it for herself and her family and the privilege of others who come across Alison, to learn it from her enthusiastic and infectious manner.

Whilst Alison did her years of training to become a coach, she simultaneously grew her very affluent and brilliant businesses (and brought up 3 boys!).  She is currently writing a book called, ‘Having the Life you Want’.  Alison finds that she has the ability to spot and support people and companies in the changes necessary to bring greater levels of success and happiness.

ZARA DAISY DRUMMOND

Zara Drummond (usually known by her second name Daisy) grew up mainly in London. However she gives considerable credence to the influence of other cultures and languages which occurred as a result of her parents’ early divorce and her mother’s subsequent remarriage and removal to the Middle East:

‘My holidays were spent adjusting between friends and family in different cultures, languages and religions – from the outer Hebrides to the south of France or from Italy to Lebanon. From Spanish to Russian; from French to Arabic.’ It was a very full and diverse start to understanding people.

Quite early in her life , she experienced the horrors of inter racial and religious civil war in the Lebanon where previously (cultured and educated) friends and neighbours turned each other into objects of violence hate and madness. She sometimes found this hard to resolve with life and boarding school back in England.

It was perhaps that questioning, which helped to promote a spiritual searching quite early on in Daisy’s life. It was certainly helped by having two parents who were very open minded ‘searchers and seekers’ in their own rights; and focused by a challenging illness that began when Daisy was 18 years old.

Daisy was very successful in her first career of Industrial Design, with awards and a job in the top consultancy of the day. But this to her, was only half her life. Just as important, was her spiritual path which soon led to studies and workshops in the psycho-spiritual field with the aim of living a life free of one’s own psychology, as far as possible. This has inspired her to re-evaluate everything in her life. She eventually changed her career, relationship and country in her early thirties.

Now Daisy is a successful and visionary portrait artist. She combines this with looking after her family, her mentoring in the field of addiction, and prison work. She is studying Psychology of Vision currently because for her it answers more questions, frees more blocks and pulls people out of more holes, than any method to date. Through her experiences she knows ‘there is no difficulty too great that doesn't have a lesson and healing somewhere.’