MORE ABOUT COACHING:

A coaching overview.
Coaching with Joy: my personal style.
How do you know you're ready?
Format
Questions and answers about personal coaching.

A Coaching Overview

Coaching is a collaborative process that supports you to gain clarity, take action, and experience more freedom and choice in your life. Often, it is the smallest changes that lead to the biggest long-term results (think of an archer who slightly adjusts the trajectory of the arrow). As a coach, I help you discover what is true for you and support you to take action. When you dare to step up to your life in this way, miracles happen. I see them everyday, and so can you!  

Performers and athletes have long understood the value of coaching. No matter how gifted or successful, they rely on coaches to point out things they cannot see and to support them to be their best. Individuals use coaching to develop strategic plans and take action on personal or business projects and life/career transitions, and to increase self-awareness in their own lives.

Coaching is an investment you make in yourself and your future possibilities. In addition to helping you meet a significant goal or challenge, you will discover more about who you really are and what motivates you, learn tools to transform stress and struggle into effortless movement, and trade in behaviors and beliefs that don't work for ones that do.

Coaching with Joy: my personal style

I coach with warmth and compassion, always believing in your possibilities. I challenge you when you need to be challenged, make big requests of you to move you forward more quickly, and stand for you when you are doubting yourself. I assist you to find the truth about your situation so that you can maximize your strengths and eliminate needless frustrations. I am direct, honest and I love to laugh. I will encourage you to take extremely good care of yourself and stretch the edges of your comfort zone as you learn to take actions that will get you the results you want.  

The guarantee I offer is my integrity. You will get out of your coaching experience whatever you put into it. There is no guarantee on your results because that is up to you. My guarantee is that I will tell you the truth about what I sense, observe and hear you saying, doing and being.

Are You Ready for Coaching?  

Consider these questions:

• Are you willing and receptive to self-discovery?
• Are you ready to learn and make changes in your life to support the insights and shifts that will occur within you?
• Are you willing to learn how to embrace your gifts and live a life of authenticity?
• Are you willing to grow and stretch and become someone you have always wanted to be?
• Do you have a big vision, goal or project that you are ready to take consistent steps towards enacting?

Format

Most coaching takes place over the phone in weekly scheduled sessions of 40-50 minutes each. I am available to clients for short phone calls and fax/email support between sessions. I limit the number of clients I work with at one time so you get my full attention.

You can email me directly from this website with any questions you may have. I offer a free introductory session (no obligation) so we can decide if we're a good "fit".

Questions and answers about personal coaching

What is personal coaching?
Coaches help people set better goals and then reach those goals, ask their clients to do more than they would have done on their own, help their clients to focus so they can produce results more quickly, and provide clients with tools, support and structure to accomplish more.

Why does coaching work?
Coaching creates a unique relationship where trust and confidence are accelerated, resulting in higher levels of self-esteem and mental, emotional and spiritual awareness. Coaching helps people understand their behaviors and interactions and make changes to create new opportunities. Better goals are set - ones that naturally pull the client towards the goal rather than goals that require the client to push themselves.  

How is personal coaching different from consulting, counselling or therapy?
Coaching is is about helping the client find the answers they already have by illuminating blind spots, identifying obstacles and limiting beliefs, and then taking action to make things happen. Unlike a consultant, the coach is not hired to provide the answers and solutions. The coach is hired to assist the client in finding their own answers and providing the support to implement them, one step at a time. Unlike a counsellor or therapist, the coach is not hired to work on "issues" or heal the past. The present and the future is the focus of the coaching relationship. Coaching is about taking action on personal and professional goals that will give the client the life they really want.  

What about people who are already doing really well in their lives? Why do they hire coaches?
The most successful people understand the value of having an objective yet committed success partner to help them ensure they are living the life they most want to be living. The coach supports them to do what they most enjoy, to create and sustain relationships that are deeply fulfilling, and to help them ensure the successes they experience are the successes they most want to have in their lives.