|
"Be The Change You Want To See In The World"
- Mahatma Gandhi
WHAT IS COACHING?
Coaching is a process that inspires you to get the desires of your heart. It is a unique, and proactive alliance in which coach and client work together as equals to meet the needs of the client.
Fervent curiosity is more important for the coach than specializedknowledge. Skills and techniques are important; authenticity and connection are more important.
- What is your passion?
- When was the last time you explored (foryourself) life possibilities?
- Are you living authentically?
The Coaches Training Institute which I attended holds that all people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole, and capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. My job is to ask questions, listen, and empower rather than to instruct and advise. I also believe that all parts of people's lives - their careers, relationships, recreation, personal growth, and finances for example - are interrelated and may be addressed on the way to the client's goal. I coach the whole person to extraordinary results.
Coaching = "A powerful alliance designed to forward and enhance the life long process of human learning, effectiveness, and fulfullment." - Co-Active Coaching by: Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandl
THERAPY vs COACHING
The question is often asked, "What is the difference between the two fields?"
|
Therapy
|
Coaching
|
| Focuses on healing. |
Focuses on evolving and manifesting
potential. Healing is a side effect.
|
| Emphasizes past and present. |
Emphasizes present and future.
|
Explores genesis of behaviors that
create low self-esteem. |
Explores actions and behaviors that
manifest high self-esteem. |
| Asks "why, and from where?" |
Asks "what's next/what now?" |
| Is problem oriented. |
Is solution oriented. |
| Is insight oriented. |
Is action and being oriented.
|
| Uses therapy techniques. |
Uses coaching skills.
|
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
You (the client) are the "star" in the Co-Active model of coaching, and in the heart of your life lives the three core principles of Fullfillment, Balance, and Process. All of the specific items you bring to the coaching experience such as: feeling stuck, mid-life transitions, relationships, well-being, career, family - all lead to the core principals.
-
The attributes are: confidentiality - you can be assured that what is said in the coaching sessions will be held in strict confidence, tell the truth quick and fast - it is essential to build trust and strength in the relationship to effect the change necessary in your life. And another is accountability - which stems from these questions:
1. What are you going to do?
2. By when will you do this?
3. How will I know?
WHAT TO EXPECT?
-
100% focus on you, your hopes, dreams, having someone (your coach) follow your agenda through a deeper level of listening
-
A supportive and inspiring partnership
-
Help to do more than you would do on your own
ARE YOU OPEN TO STARTING AND COMPLETING A GOAL FOR YOURSELF?
The probability of completing a goal is:
-
10% Hear an idea
-
25% Consciously decide to adopt it
-
40% Decide when you will do it
-
50% Plan how you will do it
-
65% Commit to someone else you will do it
-
95% Have a specific accountability appointment
with the person committed to
- Statistics from the Society of Training and Development
Your success is enhanced when you have a coach much like that of an athletic coach, or a fitness trainer. One who strives to bring out the best in you. The person you choose to be your accountability partner with a plethora of tools, stategies and modalities to assist you along the way.
|
