SIGNATURE COACHING PROGRAMME:
While every experience is different, it might be useful to describe a typical coaching programme. Initially we would explore your present situation and, like ripples in a pond, consider how it impacts on other aspects of your life and the lives of those around you. We review the narrative that has become your story and consider how it reflects your lived experience. This provides a context within which the work takes place and helps to build trust.
Having established the setting, we look at what you would like to achieve. These could be specific and detailed goals leading to measureable outcomes or more abstract desires or feelings. Either way it is important we understand them and appreciate their personal significance for you. It can be unhelpful for goals to become fixed targets too early on, so outcomes remain flexible and are able to evolve as work progresses. This recognises that as we grow our wants, needs and desires may change.
Having put flags in the sand, we may take time to consider what has brought you here. Working through your chronology, we look at your early dreams and aspirations and the people and events that have influenced your decisions and choices. Walking down these paths we will collect snapshots of those moments which resonate strongly.
We would agree upon definitive steps you might take towards achieving your goals or fulfilling your wants and desires, and we take a hard look at what might get in the way of your success. This may involve revisiting any blinds alleys you walked down in the past and looking at why this worked out the way it did.
Quality coaching is about maintaining the balance between challenge and support. While challenge adds much of the dynamic energy to the conversation, without support it can feel like walking a high wire without a net. We will look at where your personal challenges lie and if we cannot find a way through them we will plot our course around.
Depending upon the time available we may invest more resources in particular phases of this process. For example, we may take time to lay out those snapshots we collected earlier and reflect upon their value, both then and now, in more detail. We may also focus on the absences; things, people or times that have not been mentioned and which now appear as holes within the narrative.
Finally, we will look at how this new narrative positions you to meet the future - both the one you are currently facing and the possible futures you might be hoping for.
This process is tailored to fit your situation and can take place within a single conversation or over several meetings and with elements being repeated throughout the coaching cycle.
Having established the setting, we look at what you would like to achieve. These could be specific and detailed goals leading to measureable outcomes or more abstract desires or feelings. Either way it is important we understand them and appreciate their personal significance for you. It can be unhelpful for goals to become fixed targets too early on, so outcomes remain flexible and are able to evolve as work progresses. This recognises that as we grow our wants, needs and desires may change.
Having put flags in the sand, we may take time to consider what has brought you here. Working through your chronology, we look at your early dreams and aspirations and the people and events that have influenced your decisions and choices. Walking down these paths we will collect snapshots of those moments which resonate strongly.
We would agree upon definitive steps you might take towards achieving your goals or fulfilling your wants and desires, and we take a hard look at what might get in the way of your success. This may involve revisiting any blinds alleys you walked down in the past and looking at why this worked out the way it did.
Quality coaching is about maintaining the balance between challenge and support. While challenge adds much of the dynamic energy to the conversation, without support it can feel like walking a high wire without a net. We will look at where your personal challenges lie and if we cannot find a way through them we will plot our course around.
Depending upon the time available we may invest more resources in particular phases of this process. For example, we may take time to lay out those snapshots we collected earlier and reflect upon their value, both then and now, in more detail. We may also focus on the absences; things, people or times that have not been mentioned and which now appear as holes within the narrative.
Finally, we will look at how this new narrative positions you to meet the future - both the one you are currently facing and the possible futures you might be hoping for.
This process is tailored to fit your situation and can take place within a single conversation or over several meetings and with elements being repeated throughout the coaching cycle.