About Coaching

Mission To facilitate clients in identifying, realizing, and sustaining their full potential to live a life of meaning, purpose, and passion

What is coaching?  Coaching is thought-provoking and creative partnership dedicated to inspiring clients to maximize their personal and professional potential.  Coaches provide structure, feedback, support, and accountability to help identify goals, clarify values, make powerful choices, and execute on those choices. Coaches are trained to listen carefully and ask powerful questions to facilitate clients in clarifying and manifesting their definition of 'the good life'. 

Coaching is not therapy, consulting, or counseling. I do not attempt to explain behaviors, diagnose a problem, explore your past, or offer advice. Instead, I ask powerful questions to motivate clients to make choices that add meaning, balance, and design to their lives.  

Client/Coach Roles  Each coaching relationship is different and uniquely designed to empower the client to manifest their vision of 'the good life'. I expect clients to want to deepen self awareness, think creatively and courageously, and most importantly, take action to create a life they love. You, as client, are responsible for the changes you make in your own life; therefore, the best clients are those committed to action, growth, and change.

I use a variety of techniques and assessments to encourage clients to define and clarify their vision, expand possibilities, choose goals, design a path toward those goals, and pursue them with persistence and resilience. Mostly, I ask questions: 'What nourishes you? Where are you out of balance?  How do you define success? What stands in the way of you living 'the good life' right now? What are you passionate about? What do you really really want?'  Or in the words of Mary Oliver, Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?  My personal style is warm and direct, compassionate and challenging, and humorous. I am relentless in holding the vision my clients articulate for their life when they do not.  I believe fully in each of my client's unique brilliance and potential.     

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