What is Coaching?
Let’s first clarify that coaching IS NOT advice, therapy, counseling, or telling others what to do.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”
In this partnership, the coach helps the client focus, achieve mutually identified goals, generate solutions to their problems, break down tasks into actionable items, find clarity and confidence in themselves, identify their passion and purpose in life, work more creatively and effectively, and live a more fulfilling life.
What is Leadership and Lifestyle Coaching?
Leadership coaching involves addressing specific challenges as well as difficult relationships and transitions in a person's professional life. By increasing self-awareness, refining communication skills, and strengthening the connection with self and others, clients develop the clarity and confidence needed to overcome obstacles and self-limitations, envision future outcomes, and choose a course of action to become more effective as leaders.
Lifestyle coaching involves improving self-care, managing stress effectively, and developing healthy habits. By increasing personal awareness of one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors rather than denying or avoiding them, clients tap into their inner strength to improve their overall well-being including physical, mental, and emotional health; relationships with self and others; and an optimistic outlook on life.
What is a coaching session like?
Before we start working together, my client and I schedule a 20-minute discovery session to get to know each other, discuss expectations, and ensure coaching is their best option.
Following this, I meet with the client weekly or bi-weekly for an hour via Zoom. Sessions are 100% confidential.
The client decides the focus of each session and what they want to accomplish. As we work together, we may explore areas such as:
As your coach, it is my job to listen deeply, ask powerful questions, serve as an objective sounding board, and keep you focused and on track. I help you break through old barriers and develop new practices so you can accomplish your desired goals.
At the end of each session, we usually develop a list of action items or a homework assignment to be completed before the next session.
What are the benefits of coaching?
Coaching provides a trusting, non-judgmental space and time where you can share your goals, fears, insecurities, hopes, and desires. This sacred space will allow you to:
Who needs coaching?
People who commit to a coaching engagement are motivated to make sustainable changes in their personal and professional lives. Some clients may feel stuck and unsure about their choices, are experiencing health issues, or are living a chaotic and unbearable situation. Other clients may have a somewhat stable situation, and want to discover what's better and what's next for them.
By choosing coaching, these individuals make a commitment to themselves and their loved ones to live a healthier, more harmonious, and more purposeful life.
How long is a coaching engagement?
In order for a client to achieve lasting results and depending on each individual case, the average number of coaching sessions is between 6 and 12. In some cases, the process may take longer. The client may choose to extend the coaching engagement or discontinue at any time.
Deciding how to handle personal issues, incorporating coaching tools into areas of need, and implementing choices is the client’s sole responsibility.
How does coaching work?
We think an average of 60,000 thoughts per day and 70% of those thoughts are usually the same. The way we think generates emotions, emotions make us behave a certain way, and our actions produce the results we get. So if you want to obtain different results at work or in your personal life, the starting point is your mindset.
The thoughts we generate in our neocortex trigger our sympathetic or parasympathetic system, causing important neurological and physiological changes in the body. This is why thinking differently makes us feel differently. Feeling better helps us generate a healing, constructive, inspiring attitude.
