Introduction ♥
Life coaching is a structured means for personal growth. Through scheduled coaching sessions, clients identify what is most important to them and align their thoughts, words, and actions accordingly. As your coach, I work with you to identify what you want personally and professionally, and support you in achieving a life you really want and love. Having a life you love starts with gaining clarity on your values, enabling more meaningful choices and consistent action. We will also uncover where you get stuck and work on ways to move through that 'stuck-ness' and on to more fulfilling matters. Your commitment to your life through coaching offers a means for more balance, joy, intimacy, energy, financial abundance, and ultimately more goodness in every area of your life.

Approach ♥
As your Life Coach, together we will:

• Identify Core Values. What's really important to you?
• Embrace your Creative Spirit. What Inspires you?
• Discover Patterns that no longer serve and where you get 'stuck'.
• Develop an Awareness of those patterns and learn to Make Another Choice.
• Clarify your Vision of a Fulfilled Life – Personal, Career, Relationships, Creative Expression.
• Create Goals and Establish Accountability.
• Shift Focus from what's missing to What's Possible.

I work with each of my clients in the Co-Active Coaching Model developed by the Coaches Training Institute.
From CTI:

Co-Active Coaching is a unique, proactive alliance in which coach and client work together as equals to meet the needs of the client. Fervent curiosity is more important for the coach than specialized knowledge. Skills and techniques are important; authenticity and connection are more important.

CTI holds that all people are naturally creative, resourceful and whole, and capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. The job of the Co-Active Coach is to ask questions, listen and empower rather than instruct and advise. We also believe that all parts of people's lives - their careers, relationships, recreation, personal growth, and finances for example - are interrelated and may be addressed on the way to the client's goal. We coach the whole person to extraordinary results.

 

Common Questions ♥

When would I invest in a life coach?
A great time to invest in a coach is when you are:

• Committed to making changes in your life
• No longer willing to stay stuck
• Dedicated to taking an honest look at how the choices you make shape your life
• Eager to free your creative spirit
• Evaluating life choices
• Embarking on a career transition
• No longer willing to tolerate a relationship that does not celebrate you
• Excited to create a personal or professional breakthrough!

What will I learn during the coaching process?
During the coaching process you will learn how to:

• Identify and change recurrent patterns that keep you stuck
• Move forward
• Take responsibility for your choices and actions
• Clearly state your personal and professional boundaries
• Trust your inner wisdom
• Live authentically
• Build environments that support your on-going success
• Create and expect more from life!

How does the coaching process work?
Coaching is conducted three times a month during 45 minute sessions. You also have access to me via email check ins and phone support in between sessions. In addition, there is a preliminary Discovery Session which takes place over the phone or face-to-face depending on where you live.

During the initial Discovery Session, we spend time discussing your goals and dreams. It is a time to freely express your desires and fears. This is the starting line where we begin to develop our relationship in a way that creatively nourishes your unique needs and personal style. The most important element of the Discovery Session is to begin to lay the foundation of trust that will lead to an open and candid partnership.

How does life coaching differ from therapy?
The simplest way I can explain this is that therapy looks to the past and asks the question ‘Why did that happen?’. Coaching looks at your current state and asks ‘What do I want to create from this point forward?’. Life coaching empowers the client as a completely resourceful individual capable of creating the life of their design.  In coaching there is nothing to ‘fix’ about a client, only their true self to reveal.

How do I get started?
If you are ready to work and ready to make serious changes in your life, call me at 630.936.6305. I will answer your questions and clarify each of our roles in the coaching relationship. If we both feel there is a good connection and you decide to move ahead, we will design a plan that fits your needs. We will schedule a preliminary Discovery Session over the phone. At that point, we will schedule appointments and begin the coaching process.