Coaching
My goal as a coach is to get you from where you are to where you want to be - as quickly and easily as possible! It's a simple description, but it takes years of dedicated study to do it well.
I earned my first life coaching credential in 1991, when the profession was very young. I renewed my training in 2005, at the Institute for Life Coach Training, which focused on helping therapists become coaches. With my two master's degrees, including one in psychology, my clinical hypnotherapy credential and my twenty years of Life Coach experience, I am your ideal partner!
Coaching includes plans, timetables and accountability with a person who is 100% dedicated to your success. Coaches who are not also therapists like I am are not qualified to deal with "deep" problems. A coach is trained to work with mentally-healthy people who are unhappy because they are not living the lives they want to live, the lives they were born to live.
You were born to Soar With the Eagles!
Don't convince yourself that you can't. Call today - and find out what I can do to get you soaring.
Coaching and Consulting - an excerpt from the WebCircle, July 2011
Do you need coaching or do you need consulting? Are these just semantics?
Not really, on that latter question. I do both and sometimes I segue from one to another in the same session. But I always know what I am doing. They are not the same.
A couple of weeks ago, a guy decided not to become a client because I can’t teach him how to tweet. [I know, the same bird joke occurred to me. Restrain yourself.] Instead of getting defensive [a beginner’s reaction] or going into objection-overcoming sales mode [very annoying], I asked him why he thought a coach would be the place to go to learn how to use Twitter. He explained that he wanted someone who was “very knowledgeable.”
The light dawned. And I explained to him that a consultant is someone with content knowledge, who imparts that knowledge to you, or who you outsource part of the deliverable to. So a social media consultant could teach you how to tweet.
A coach is a totally different animal. We sometimes tweet [oh, you saw that coming, you know you did] but we don’t tell you what to do. A person who is telling you what to do is consulting for you. You are paying them to give you information that you didn’t have. A coach assumes that you will know what to do, or know how to research to find specific information, once we do OUR magic, which is focusing your mind, heart and soul on the process of figuring out what you really want and how to get there. We ask you discerning questions, you take some steps forward, we ask more questions, you see where you need to research. Some days pass. We get back together and we work some more. A coach polishes your rough stone until you understand what you need to do. A coach sees you as a brilliant stone in need of having the gunk chipped away so it can shine brightly. A consultant sees you as an empty vessel that needs to be filled up by him/her.
The reason I sometimes switch from coach to consultant is that pure coaching gets you were you’re going a lot slower than simply telling you what I think you should do, or teaching you how to do something – so sometimes I tell instead of coaching, if I think you really need to get past an impasse quicker. The glory of pure coaching is that the client knows s/he figured it out themselves.
So I helped Mr. Tweet with some ideas on how to find someone who just consults, and sent him on his way. He’ll never find out that I have a Twitter account but prefer blogs to micro-blogs. It was a coach who helped me figure that out.
Who have I coached in my twenty years?
* Health
Losing weight [can be combined with hypnotherapy]
Getting serious about nutrition or exercise
Dealing with a chronic or serious disease
Being a caretaker for an elder or an ill family member
* Life purpose and direction
* Career direction or career specifics
[see also www.soarwitheagles.biz]
* Midlife questions
Menopause without hormones
Life shifts/unsettled feelings
Relationship questions
* Preparing for retirement, in more than financial ways
* College students, choosing a career and life direction
* Military re-integration into civilian life
