BENEFITS:

WHAT CAN COACHING DO FOR ME?
Like an athletic coach who helps an athlete develop athletic skills in order to excel in a sport, a life coach helps people develop life skills and abilities in order to excel in the game of life.

Coaching is a professional relationship that can help you to:
  • Clarify, focus on and live in alignment with your values, passions and purpose.
  • Identify and achieve your goals and dreams.
  • Maintain motivation and make effective life changes.
  • See situations or obstacles from a new perspective and think differently about challenges.
  • Identify and change the ideas, thoughts and beliefs that are keeping you stuck and blocking your joy.
  • Move beyond fears and limiting beliefs/expectations.
  • Discover new ways to do things.
  • Hear, see and know yourself in new ways.
  • Embrace your strengths and enhance areas of desired growth.
  • Celebrate your victories and learn from your setbacks.
  • Maximize your success, fulfillment and JOY in life:)!
COACHES:
  • Are 100% invested in the client's success and offer non-judgmental acceptance, encouragement, positive feedback and support.
  • Listen deeply--to the client's words, but also to the energy, emotion and non-verbal communications behind, around and beyond those words.
  • Ask empowering questions that elicit clarity about desires and paths to achieve them.
  • Provide structure, tools, insights and accountability for enacting changes and accomplishing goals.
  • Shine light on the client's abilities and possibilities until the client can clearly see these on their own.
  • Foster synergy--helping the client to accomplish more than the client would have accomplished alone.
COACHING IS NOT:
  • Coaching is not advice giving.  Instead of advising or telling the client what to do, a coach helps the client to connect with the client's own internal wisdom about what action might be appropriate.
  • Coaching is not psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.  A psychotherapist may explore, analyze, interpret and/or seek to resolve past issues, whereas a coach focuses on present-moment living, shifting perspectives of the current experience and taking concrete actions to create an even better future.  In psychotherapy the focus may be on what happened; in coaching the focus is on what's possible.  A therapist may see a client as "wounded" or hindered by past experiences, whereas a coach sees the client as fundamentally whole and capable of making any desired changes in the present regardless of past experiences.
  • Coaching is also not consulting.  A consultant has their own vision of what would be best for the client, whereas a coach elicits and supports the client's own vision and path to enact that vision.