Coaching is oriented towards change.
FAQs
The last coach I had was when I played high school sports. “Coaching” is kind of a strange word in this context—what is this all about?
It is initially hard to know what to make of the word “coach” in the context of your life and career. The word “coach” is used to convey that the process is different from therapy or consulting. The coach is a guide to help you find the answers to your questions, rather than answering questions for you or telling you what you have to do with your life.
How is coaching different from therapy?
While there are many different kinds of therapy, therapy is primarily focused on processing emotions and gaining insight into the emotions generated by relationships. While coaching also generates insight, coaching is primarily oriented towards change. Your work with me will involve the exploration of changes you could make to attain your goals and working to plan and implement the action steps to make changes happen. Coaching and therapy are complementary - one does not replace the other.
So you’ll come up with a plan for me to make my life better?
The goal of a coaching relationship is for our conversations to lead to you identifying:
What it is you want.
How to go about getting from where you are to what you want.
Setting out action steps and providing accountability on action.
Through this process, you will come up with the plan to make your life feel more fulfilling. This ensures that the steps you take are ones that feel true and right for you.
How does this work?
We will have an initial meeting to talk at a high level about what you’d like to accomplish, and most importantly, whether it seems like a good fit for us to work together—i.e. are we the right coaching-client pair to get you where you want to be.
Have a question that we didn’t cover?
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