These are the kind of things I hear from clients about coaching:

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• "I get to say it all out loud."

• "We clear away the surface stuff and get to the roots."

• "I'm able to see better from the balcony to the stage."

• "I'm creating time I'd never normally take for myself."

• "I'm feeling great about who I truly am, versus trying to be something I'm not."

• "I've become calmer and clearer, able to move forward with much greater ease."

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What is coaching?

Coaching is like tickling. Consider trying to tickle yourself. It doesn't work very well. Your brain sees your wiggling fingers and says, "Uh-uh! I see you. I know what you are trying to do, and I'm not having any of it!" We literally cannot tickle ourselves. Our brains are programmed to shy away from anything that shakes up the status quo. 

 

Now, someone else comes at you, making tickling gestures. Your brain and body wakes up! "Wait a minute. What's happening here? Something important is going on. I need to pay attention."

 

This is what coaching is: it's tickling your thinking, challenging you (and your team) to think differently. It interrupts the status quo of old patterns of beliefs, behavior, assumptions, and perspectives that often get in the way. That need a good tickling.

 

Your "Objectives and Key Results" (OKRs) and your aims professionally and personally are treated as destinations, while your "Coaching Goals" are the engine and fuel that get you there. You'll experience that coaching isn't just "more work" on top of objectives; it is the support structure that allows you to progress more smoothly.

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A coach helps people move forward in ways they may struggle with on their own, shining clear light on context and what's really important and meaningful, from priorities to visions and dreams. From there, it's about designing actions and following through. It takes commitment. It's also energizing, liberating, and fascinating.

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Coaching is a personalized, tailored, and consistent approach that will bring out the best in you and your teams. This ripples outward to stakeholders across your organization, to customers and partners, into your life as a whole​​​​, and even beyond into the world.

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Neuroscience is a hot topic in the world, including within coaching. It has a wow factor, as we constantly learn more about our brain and related body systems. Fascinating stuff!

 

I apply intuitive approaches to coaching, based first and foremost on social psychology, experience, and the art of non-directive coaching. It turns out, retroactively, these approaches are backed up by science. We can say coaching is a form of applied learning in many disciplines: neuroscience, performance and behavioural psychology, bio-psycho-socio sciences and even philosophy, physics, and the spiritual, existential, and metaphysical. More and more research proves coaching to be grounded in research and correlated in controlled and longitudinal studies. These may always be young fields - there is still so much even the sagest experts don't understand - so an endless area of fascination and learning. One that gives us hope for our society and the futures of our species and the planet we get to live on. That's big! Coaching and being coached can have a small yet significant role it can play.

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Any more than this, coaching is hard to describe. It really needs to be experienced. So, do reach out for your complimentary session. I'd love to meet you.​

 

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

~Rumi​

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