INNER INSIGHTS
I - It's an Inside-Out Journey
N - Now is a good time to evaluate where you are on that journey
N - New level
E - Emotional awareness solves relational problems
R - Reflection opens the door for you to embrace truth
I - It's God's presence that changes things
N - No obstacle can stand in your way when you decide to forge ahead
S - Support individuals in creating environments to help achieve their goals
I - It's time to connect with your inner strength and abilities
G - Greatness lies on the inside of you
H - Helping others to create and achieve their dreams
T - Think about how thoughts affect our outcome
S - Setting smart goals
My name is Theo Akpan I am the founder and CEO of Inner Insight Ministries. I am a qualified wellbeing coach, NLP and mental health practitioner, mentor, author and ordained minister. I love to pray and mentor others to do the same. I also enjoy writing and family time. I have a unique ability to connect individuals to their hidden self, their thinking processes and emotions, whilst also helping them to navigate and make sense of their inner world.
Who do I work with
Anyone with a desire to grow in God. I equip the body of Christ to function to its maximum capacity, by creating greater awareness of self, God and others, by challenging mindsets and exploring possibilities. and replacing old thinking with new insights. I work with leadership, helping them to accept the need to manage their own well-being whilst serving others.
My personal style of work
I create a warm and inviting environment where individuals feel safe to share as well as be challenged to grow, reflect and review their options. I work on the premise that everyone is valuable, unique and has something to offer.
What we offer
Inner Insights is a ministry designed to give support to the church and Christians in general. This is done through leadership coaching programs. Our programs include a series of courses, retreats, group and one-to-one coaching sessions that take the individual and organisation on a journey of self-discovery. We ask powerful, thought-provoking questions that stimulate fresh thinking, leads to new insights, clarifies issues and challenges the individual to explore reality and possibilities. Some of the courses we provide are 'Finding my purpose', 'Boundaries', 'Values' and 'My mental and emotional health'. The individual is propelled to look inwards while seeking to understand who they are. They come up with new perspectives and discover things about themselves that they had not discovered before.
The Inside-Out Journey
The Inside-Out Journey is an example of one of the virtual coaching retreats we do, where we aim to take the individual on a journey of self-discovery. This is for individuals to get a greater awareness of who they are, where they are, to be able to identify where they want to be and acquire skills that will equip them to find solutions to their daily challenges and obstacles that get in their way.
The Inside-Out Journey believes that communication and transformation start from within. We explore self-awareness, mindsets, emotional awareness, leadership, purpose and boundaries to mention a few. We also look at mental health and wellbeing. Spiritual awareness is where we look at things from God’s perspective e.g., what does the Word of God say about this or that.
My Own Journey
My previous experience as a teacher, nurse practitioner, trainer and manager equipped me well for my coaching career. My expertise as a coach comes from a combination of personal and professional experience and training. I have been mentoring and coaching for over 30 years now, even before my formal qualification. I had my own personal journey of self-discovery - a journey rich with daily encounters with the father. I was coached and mentored by the Holy Spirit and learned to hear the voice of God which provided a path through a lot of pain, disappointment and adversity. I downloaded tons and tons of poems from my heavenly father whilst in prayer and have written books of poetry and prayer as a result of the overflow.
I trained as a leadership and well-being coach with The Coaching Academy and more recently as a Christian breakthrough coach with Life Breakthrough Coaching and Academy.
A vision from God
I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to start a prayer group, and whilst praying with this group of individuals over time, I was told to begin to coach and mentor them. The Holy Spirit then instructed me to arrange my first retreat. This is currently an ongoing feature of the ministry
Where else can you find us
Inner Insights is currently on G.R.O.W.T.H. radio where we host programmes called 'Talk It Out' and 'Prayer Changes Things'. Key segments where our programmes have the capacity to make a difference and go beyond expectation are in educational establishments, institutions
(e.g. prisons, hospitals etc), churches and the wider community.