Your Coach

Transformational coaching is all about you, not me. Therefore, this is the only section where I use the “I” pronoun instead of “we”, and where I will tell you a little bit about myself, so you know who will be coaching you.

My name is Arvid Schigt. I was born in April 1980 in the Netherlands. I qualified as a doctor in 2008, finished emergency medicine training in Amsterdam in 2016, and have worked abroad ever since. One-and-a-half years prehospital and in the emergency department in Bangor, North-Wales, which was an excellent stepping stone to a two-year period of critical care and retrieval medicine with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in rural and remote New South Wales, Australia. Since September 2020 I have been living on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, where I work in a small, but great emergency department.

I did my first coaching training in 2023 and qualified in 2024. In 2023 I started the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine core accreditation and I am hoping to finish this in 2025, and will update this website as soon as I have. Coaching allows me to combine working with people, enhance their health, and utilise my creativity. I noticed quite soon already that a coaching session can leave me with as much joy, fulfillment, and “stoke” as a surf session does. Even beyond the next day!