The Approach

Regarding how we work, look at it this way, if you only rip out the surface growth of a weed you will never get to the root of the challenge (pun intended!). Therefore coaching does not just look at circumstances, our reactions and ways of handling those, but we look for the bigger picture; the long term goals, your vision and values, so we can create awareness and action from a deeper place to take you to a more meaningful destination.

As with any structure, if the framework and foundation have not been developed and strengthened anything we build on it will easily crumble and fall. This is why YOU are in focus, not your circumstances.

When we start to explore and step back to look at the bigger picture we often find that all those different areas of our lives flow together, it isn’t really black and white but lots of overlap and connection. All your actions, emotions, reactions etc. comes from the same source – You! You bring You to work, to the park, to spend time with your friends etc so even though the focus may be on one specific area of your life, others are automatically included to some extent.

Click here, to get a graphical view of my focus and approach to life coaching.

You -

You will come to coaching with a set of values, experience, morals, dreams and goals etc. (whether or not those are already defined). By shining the light on who you are and what you want to create for yourself we start to discover what's important and what actually doesn't matter all that much. All powerful actions and learning will be anchored here as this is us where you can draw your most sustainable strength from. This is also the place that you have the most power to control and impact. Whatever happens here will spread into the rest of your life.

Contexts -

These are examples of some of the big areas of our lives; things that are constantly surrounding us and present. We live in all these contexts in one way or another every day and every moment.

Coaching Chart

Take the context "career" as an example and let say this is a very important area of your life. Well, within it are many other “sub-contexts”, the diagram gives some examples but there are more. Say that, in particular, you want to work on your time management skills; in coaching we start from the centre to discover what it is about managing time that is important to you, what values are you honoring or maybe stepping on when it comes to time management and what are the results of that. From there we build a strategy for how to handle time management in a way that works for you and supports the reasons for why you want this change (the process may look very different for different people even if they want the same thing). In this process you will be challenged to step out of the box and maybe also your comfort zone. You will also be challenged to take action and be present, awake and to learn from the experience. As your coach I will be there to champion you and keep you accountable to make sure your agenda is being honored.

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