Living life well is an art form and, as with any art form, it takes awareness and lots of practice to accomplish. An authentic and fully engaged life is one of being awake, aware and as objective about ourselves as possible. Learning to engage with life rather than resist it becomes easier when we are fully aware and accepting of the body we live in and the thoughts and emotions that flow through us. As clients become more and more able to objectify their behaviors, gain control over their thoughts and learn the messages that emotions have for them…then competency, freedom and power begin to emerge. The coaching process is designed to help clients develop this objectivity in order to fully realize their deep desire for a sense of freedom and competency in life.
The coaching process consists of two initial sessions to determine what the work will consist of and then a mutually agreed upon number of development cycles to produce the desired outcome. The first session is designed to allow client and coach to become acquainted with each other, to determine if there is a good match for working together, and to determine the desired area of change. During this session I will listen deeply and sensitively to where you are in life, in fulfilling your ambitions, in addressing your concerns, and in your personal fulfillment. This involves listening for information in many domains—cognitive, emotional, somatic, relational, and spiritual—and special attention is given to how you are integrating these domains.
Based on my understanding of our first session together I will design a program that fits your specific area of desired change. This program will specifically address your current-way-of-being and a possible new-way-of- being in your coaching topic that is mutually agreed upon. This is accomplished through a program of self-reflective exercises and daily practices that allow you to develop and actually live in your new-way-of-being with greater ease and freedom.
This coaching technique is not to be in lieu of professionally prescribed therapy but, rather it is a partnering between coach and client to produce a specific outcome. The technique is designed specifically around the practices and will not produce the desired outcome without a deep commitment from the client to their own personal development which means a commitment to actually do the practices agreed upon. “Coaching” assumes that the client is the one who actually does the hard work towards their own personal empowerment.
Hi Karen: I would suggest that you offer helpful coaching tips each week or so, or even more often if you felt so inclined, for people to begin following your blog as they glean the subjects and topics that you discuss. This way, you've got them thinking all of the time. Keep it short but impacting. As you offer these helps, thoughts and ideas to your audience, allow it to wet their appetites for more of your wisdom and insight that only comes by way of one on one "personal" coaching that you just happen to be available for.
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