Aug 18th, 2008
Coaching
Do you ever have conversations with loved ones, friends, colleagues or just with your own ‘head talk’ where you use phrases like “if only….” or “when I …..”? If so, you might benefit from personalised coaching to help you focus on your challenges and aspirations to maximise your potential in a way that works holistically to achieve success, perspective and balance your life.
In a world that increasingly demands so much, but which seemingly gives little tolerance, it is very easy to lose perspective and, in finding success, lose so much along the way. Coaching is a great way to stand back and take stock of what is important to you, what you are trying to achieve, why you want to achieve it and how best to achieve it.
Coaching provides a confidential and supportive environment to explore your challenges, aspirations and expectations to create action plans and goals to achieve them in a way that works harmoniously with your values. The benefit and challenge of coaching is that the client is challenged to move beyond the ‘if and when’ in a way that supports change, rather than just dreaming about it.
Most people come to coaching because they seek positive change in their lives, albeit that impending change may be unavoidable
My approach to coaching is a collaborative one that works from the assumption that the client has the innate resources to support change and growth without becoming dependent on me.
I believe that the job of the coach is be ‘expert’ only at helping the client to identify their own direction and strengths and to resource them to undertake positive development in aspects of themselves where this is needed.
I have found that a few coaching sessions, at the end of a period of formal counselling, can be a very positive way of integrating growth and learning experienced through a therapeutic process.
