Thelma van der Werff believes everyone has the potential to be a `star in their own field’ – something she has learned from a lifetime’s study in the spiritual field and from working in professions as diverse as being an airhostess for a European airline to running her own business.

Today Thelma is a `colour coach’. In essence Thelma has innovated a whole new way for women and men to know more about their deeper selves, their ambitions and potentials by examining the colours they wear – or avoid – on a daily basis.

Maybe you overdose wearing one colour and totally avoid another? Such wardrobe choices tell Thelma about the hopes and disappointments that have coloured your life, about what parts of your personality are most dynamic and successful ... and those parts that may need strengthening and support.

Thelma likens colour in our wardrobe to vitamins – use the right ones and you’ll feel wonderful.

This incredibly effective and empowering method is used to increase motivation, success, happiness, ease and love in your life by the conscious utilisation of colour in the way you dress.

Thelma has published two books on her work and has been asked to talk across New Zealand and in several Europe countries about her colour coaching work. She is now training people in her method.

Thelma was born in Holland and is married to Jos who is now retired from a career with a multi-national company. The couple have two teenage sons and the family has lived in New Zealand for the past six years.