My name is Ofra Jacob, I am a Biographical Counselor, a Coach, an Organizational Consultant, and an expert in Designing Learning Processes.
With the experience I gained from all of these – I founded the Biographical Code.
I have lived and dreamed stories since childhood. They are the arena I have always been drawn to.
People's lifestories fascinate me, each a unique mystery, an enigma which contains all the clues to its resolution. They are imprinted in the story itself just waiting to be revealed.
This love of stories and people I have transformed into more than my profession. This is who I am.
The Biographical Code is a worldview, a perspective. The method originates from various consulting and coaching approaches, integrated here to generate development and change, linking action, emotion, thought and spirit, connecting everyday reality with its higher meaning, past to the future, choice to destiny.
Our story is a pattern that reveals the code driving how we conduct our lives; an enigma we can decipher to choose how we conduct our lives. We will then write our story beneficially, more completely, closer to our goals in life, relationships, career, and in particular, within ourselves.
About
The method
Which "chapter" would you like to rewrite?
Which "chapter" would you like to rewrite?
Counseling
Personal
"Why is this happening to me? What do I need to do to get out of here?" These questions arise in various chapters of our story, in different periods, various areas, specific events or certain relationships. For some of us these questions are our existential experience.
The process of personal counseling using the Biographical Code, is based on the profound understanding that one's personal biography is filled with consistent, invisibly connected clues. Deciphering the clues allows us to take responsibility, to choose another way and to act in order to change the cycles of our lives.
Personal
Counseling
Vocation and Career
Our profession, vocation and our personal decisions regarding our career, are intimately connected to our personal development. The Biographical Code links our personal path to our professional one. Deciphering the code identifies the relevant junctures of our professional development, broadens the horizon increasing the choices of how we conduct and manage our career and business.
Relationships
Our story is filled with people who are important to our lives. The Biographical Code intricately connects us to others in our story, understanding their role in our development. Reviewing these connections, allows us to reshape our attitude to relationships of the past, and to choose to act more beneficially in our current and future relationships.
Me - Myself
From mid-life onwards, questions arise regarding our phase in life, and what we would like to be on all levels. The answers lie in understanding the significance of covertly connected events in our lives. The Biographical Code enables envisioning and constructing a new life, connecting past, present and future, taking responsibility for choices more closely aligned with our true selves.
Organizational
Consulting
Organizational Consulting using the Biographical Code, views organizations operating in an era of uncertainty, as biographical entities. An organization is a comprehensive entity with a story of its own; a history and a future, its current management; an organic entity developing in clear stages very similarly to human beings. The functional systems and people with their roles and relationships, constitute the intricacy of the organizational entity, an entity in which reciprocal interaction between the various systems is critical for it to succeed and advance in the direction it is striving for.
Organizational
Consulting
Lectures
The two series of lectures based on the "Biographical Code", The Time Travel Serie and The Cycle Serie, offer a unique opportunity to see ourselves and our story from a different perspective. They enable to discover the hidden connection between events and people we have encountered throughout our lives, to link our past experiences to our current behavior patterns and habits, to make more accurate decisions through freedom of choice, to have better relationships with the significant people in our lives, and particularly, to create an opportunity , for change within ourselves, in our lives.
Each session opens a door to understanding the Biographical Code of the story of our family, our relationships, our career and ourselves.
Each session illuminates an old-new chapter or our story on our way to a change that can begin at this very moment.
Lectures
workshops
In the workshops we dive into our story through one particular biographical perspective.
Each workshop opens a personal window to observe our lives, ourselves, and the human issues that concern us as the central characters of our story. The interactive encounter with ourselves, affords a deeper understanding of biographical themes in our lives. This is a true opportunity to generate transformation of our actions, thinking and feelings.
In the workshops we dive into our story through one particular biographical perspective.
Each workshop opens a personal window to observe our lives, ourselves, and the human issues that concern us as the central characters of our story. The interactive encounter with ourselves, affords a deeper understanding of biographical themes in our lives. This is a true opportunity to generate transformation of our actions, thinking and feelings.
workshops
Panorama
Our journey through our lives is linked to the ability to observe life's events differently: beyond the limit of time and place, beyond the boundaries of logic, cause and effect. Observation and contemplation of the panoramic view of the events of our lives and of all humanity.
Lion meets tortoise
Everyone, from birth, has their own unique innate temperament, fundamentally related to who they are.
Of the four basic temperaments, defined by behavior patterns and characteristics and the hazards intrinsic to it, one temperament accompanies us throughout our lives.
Identifying our temperament is key to understanding, our lives, relationships with others and ourselves.
Autumn Leaves
The latter part of life is a time for parting from all that has held us in our physical world so far.
Our senses dulled, the body weakened, our memory betrays us.
These are years of review, yet also of formulating new meanings and perspectives of our story, life and death.
Body Talk
Our body is far more than just physical. It reflects the mark imprinted by our spiritual world.
Pain and physical injuries are components of our growth – if we agree to observe their origin and significance.
What story does our body reveal to us? What do we see in its reflection?
Visual Story
An individual healing process that involves personally creating one's life story.
Observing the story via the perspective of time, revitalizes the biography using photography, writing, drawing, sculpture and so on. The results offer the "storyteller" and significant people in their lives, an opportunity to experience their story from a new perspective.
Courses and Training
Courses and Training
As counselors, therapists and coaches, we encounter the stories of those who come to the clinic. Biographical counseling opens up a new point of view, an additional perspective of the story, and the person. The biographical map which emerges during the process provides an opportunity to help people identify the keys that are woven into their lives.
The course does not qualify biographical counselors but gives coaches and therapists biographical language enhancing the processes they conduct.
A series of sessions in which business owners discover the profound connection between their personal story and their business. The business and the owner are one inseparable entity. Our choice of business, or its choice of us, our decisions, the choices running our business, are impacted by the integration between it and us. Observing a person and their business offers new perspective and insight and a deeper, stronger basis for managing and developing the business. A workshop to connect personal processes and new choices, establishing vision and strategy with a practical plan for its promotion.
Contemplating the significant people in our lives we discover their presence is not accidental. They are a destined, intertwined biographical network.
The close structure of family, serves as the nucleus around our core, created at birth. The family's components and challenges are not why people become who they are, but rather it is this precise environment that gives them the opportunity to meet themselves and the challenges of their destiny. Reacquaintance with your family through your shared biographical story and understanding the family's behavioral mechanisms on the path to personal development.
The group facilitators' course is a practical, professional course designated for experts in their field, who wish to expand their circle of influence and promote their business to a broader audience.
The course is unique as it combines the skills used in group facilitating with personal stories and their significance.
It is based on practical experience in facilitating, to enable all graduates to develop their own personal concept and style of facilitating, to broaden facilitation skills and to delve into the personal story as key to personal and professional development.
If the enigma of life fascinates you and you wish to generate personal change, or change in your family, business or organization through a new perspective, you are invited to a complimentary introductory meeting, on your way to shaping the next chapter of your story.
