Peta Heskell pka The Flirt Coach
Course Designer and Leader

Peta is the Director of the Flirting and Attraction Academy. She has been working in the general field of personal development and in particular relationship for over  15 years.   In  1997 Peta created the Flirting Weekend, designed to build confidence, generate playfulness, encourage connection and enhance communication. She has run relationship development workshops [or playshops as she calls them]  in the USA, Europe,  and the UK.

Peta is the author of 4 books in the Flirt Coach Series for Harper Collins Thorsons Element  including The Flirt Coach's Guide to Finding the Love you Want which initially inspired this course. She is in the process of writing a self help book aimed at the seasoned woman. She has a thriving private coaching practice and only sees clients face to face. She specialises in relationship coaching, seeing people through the early stages of dating.

Peta has studied with some of the worlds most prominent personal development gurus including   Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Joseph Riggio, Tony Robbins, John Grinder, Dr John DeMartini,Alberto Villoldo, Jan Stringer and has many intellectual mentors the most inspiring of whom is Osho, Ram Dass and in particular Joseph Campbell the worlds leading mythologist and the man who mapped the Hero's Journey. The journey all humans take to becoming human.

Peta has a background in social psychology and for the last ten years has been a Certified and Licensed Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP [Neuro Linguistic Programming] the fastest growing specialist field in psychology today] . She served a 7 year demanding and life-altering 'apprenticeship' with a mentor -  Joseph Riggio a man that she considers to be one of the worlds all time great teachres.  She was one of the first licensed facilitators of Riggio's extraordinarily effective MythoSelf-tm process. She is also a certified and Licensed Strategic Attraction Coach with Perfect Customers Inc. Peta believes her most important qualification is a PhD from SOL [Peta Has Done it in the School of Life]. She is a regular practitioner of Yoga and Chi Kung.

Peta is a popular media expert who has been contributing to press articles and TV shows for the last ten years, including featuring in 3 documentaries. and over 150 different TV appearances sometimes doing 3 or 4 radio or shows a week. She writes  regular column in ReSource, a cutting edge personal development magazine, where she is known for her willingness to share her personal stories, even when they are painful.  

Peta became single in 2003 after twenty continuous years in relationship. Over the last 4 years she's been through the menopause, been on the insider track of the internet dating scene and worked with couples and individuals to help them generate better quality relationships. She has recently come out of a short but intense love affair  which indirectly led her to meet a person with whom she is now writing an allegorical story and developing a relationship network.  Often we enter into experiences with one aim in mind and find that there was a far greater purpose for that experience.

Peta was privileged to be present when the plans for the Discovery resort were just a twinkle in the owners' eyes and for the last five years she has been a regular visitor to St Lucia and considers Marigot Bay her second home. The course is the result of four years of dreaming and planning, proving that when you really want something to happen, sometimes it takes time, patience and above all trust that it will all work out as it is meant to.   Just like relationship.

At 55 she considers herself to be on the edge of the best years of her life. She has redirected her focus to working with women of a certain age, who are looking to embark on a new relationship adventure.