What is Life Coaching?

Coaching is led by you. You are the expert on your own life. As a coach, I am the expert on the process of coaching. You know what’s best for you, and I help facilitate the process of discovery, application, and reflection.

I believe that everyone is creative, resourceful, and whole. I believe that you can come up with the thoughts, ideas, solutions, and goals that are right for you. That you already have everything you need to do this. That there is nothing broken; you don’t need ‘fixing’.

Simply put, my role is to raise your awareness through deep listening, gentle challenges, and insightful questions, so that you can achieve your goals. We go at your pace, exploring the obstacles and celebrating the successes along the way.

What I won’t do is judge you, give advice, or my personal opinions. Of course, you are always welcome to ask — and I will respond creatively and humorously, usually with a variation of, “What do you wish I would say?” Saying out loud what you wish I’d tell you is always more helpful to you than anything I could say!

During a Coaching Session

This is what I do during a coaching session:

Offer a confidential, non-judgmental space and sounding board, allowing you to speak freely and at whatever pace you wish.
Follow the code of ethics and core values of coaching as set out by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Reflect back what I’m hearing. This is to allow you to hear it in a new way as well as to ensure that you know I’ve understood you correctly; this gives you the opportunity to correct or clarify my understanding of what you shared.
Gently challenge your thinking with insightful questions or observations. I will only make observations if I think it will be helpful to your thinking process in the moment and I will always ask first if it is welcome — I don’t want to interrupt your thinking with my thinking!

A Session May Also Include

During the coaching session I/we may also:

Share my thoughts as I hear you speak, as a way to co-create the experience together.
Take a moment to step back and allow us to reflect on where we’re at with our conversation or the challenge at hand.
Take notes, or try to capture key moments in other ways. I will aim to do this in the least disruptive way possible.
Offer tools or techniques that may be of interest to you. I will only do this if we’ve already agreed that these offerings are generally welcome and I will always ask before offering something to you.

Everyone is different and so I coach everyone in a way that makes sense to them. Some people like ‘homework’, visual aids, and lots of messaging in between sessions. Others prefer to stick to pure coaching and nothing else. Some like to understand the psychology behind the techniques. Others would rather experience things and not worry too much about how it all works. These are the things we’d figure out together over time, to arrive at what works best for you. And we’ll adapt as things change.

CONGRUENT LIFE COACHING

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