Imagine
the feeling
of freedom
What coaching is
It is important to clarify this up front, as this profession is a jungle to navigate and therefore hard to get a true picture of. Indeed, many say they offer coaching when it is not, it is usually some sort of advice.
Coaching is a professional service that helps people to discover and reach their goals and supports them in any way that aids their learning and actions in the future.
Whilst pretty clear, I offer a little further explanation
Coaching is a process owned by the coach to help you realise things by yourself and move forward with them.
Through active listening and questioning, the coach helps you articulate your desires, objectives, limiting beliefs, authenticity, and structured actions to reach the your step.
In short, the coaching process helps you realise and action your known unknown.
Coaching, therefore, aims to empower each and every one of us. Nice, isn’t it?
What coaching is NOT
Coaching is NOT counselling, therapy, mentoring, teaching or training.
Coaching is NOT about spending ten sessions or ten years going round in circles, opening and closing wounds to help you live today, to tell you what to do or to give you off the shelf models, advice, or answers.
Coaching:
takes you from where you are and brings you where you want to be
assumes that you are whole, resourceful, and creative
allows you to breath and think as you look to your future, raise your awareness, and mobilize your own resources while overcoming your FEARS*, limiting beliefs, and negative stories (FEAR: False Expectation/Evidence Appearing Real).
The coaching process key axes
Connect – Create a trusted relationship between you and your coach.
Achieve- Establish and realise a defined objective.
Become aware – Elicit and articulate the beliefs, attitudes, or behaviours that separate you from what you want to achieve
Design - Design of the ideal situation. What new perspectives transpire that enable you to achieve what you want.
Plan - Establish an action plan, possibly developing new skills and abilities.
Follow up - Follow-up of the action plan and result indicators to help you evaluate your progress.
Integrate - You incorporates the learning that has emerged throughout the sessions and can autonomously sustain the behaviours, attitudes, emotions, and beliefs that enable you to achieve your objectives.