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  • What areas will coaching cover?
    We will work in various areas that include but are not limited to the following areas. Relationships: We work to build emotional awareness and increase resiliency and selfdiscipline. The happiest and most successful people score high in emotional awareness and intelligence and report having a solid support system and healthy relationships. Feedback: I will provide feedback that ranges from active listening to formal assessment tools and reports about your performance, behaviour and potential blind spots. Feedback allows you to build development plans that increase performance and sometimes include behaviour modifications. Listening: As an effective coach, I will actively listen to you. Being growth-oriented can be lonely. As a leader or creative visionary, you may need a listener and effective dialogue to sort through issues and decisions. I ask questions that lead to insights and openings for accountability. Stretch and Risk: With the support of a great coach, you will push yourself outside of your comfort zone. Wellness: Re-examining your goals and values with health in mind can bring new insight. You are more than your successes and failures. Your productivity is only one aspect of a life of friends, family, and interests. Coaching can help you create harmony between these areas of your Life. Effective Communication: The gift of language is a tool. Speaking and listening are essential to coping with our lives and relationships. Together, we strategize on the most powerful ways to communicate. Personal Power: Where does it come from, other than knowledge? Passion: What is it—and what is yours? We think of our passion as those things we love to do. We unleash our gifts through what we offer to the world, which is our purpose. What will be your legacy? Strategic Design: We can create and implement a personal or corporate Vision, Mission, Purpose and Core Values. This work will guide you through your expansion and be a touchstone for choosing between opportunities.
  • Can coaching be done online?
    Yes, I provide online sessions for you to access coaching in the comfort of your own space at a convenient time.
  • What Coaching is NOT?
    Coaching is not a fountain of knowledge that dispenses advice and information. If that were true, there wouldn't be much use for coaches these days – there is more information and advice available than ever before, via Google, books, podcasts, webinars, workshops, training courses, academic programs and e-learning programs. Because a coach is someone other than the person with all the answers. A genuinely creative coach is someone with the empathy and curiosity to ask good questions. People often look to coaching once they've read all kinds of information and advice, much of it conflicting, and they want to find the best answer for themselves. They want to make better decisions and find clarity on their way forward. This is the real magic of creative coaching. A coaching session is a conversation – unplanned, unpredictable, and improvisational. And it's from this conversation that insights emerge.
  • Is Coaching therapy?
    Working with a good therapist can be essential to healing and wellness. If you're working through childhood trauma, mental illness or family-of-origin issues, working with a qualified trauma-informed therapist is necessary. A good therapist can help us to analyze the past to make sense of patterns and behaviours. From there, coaching can take us from being healthy to thriving. Coaching and positive psychology can help us live to our most significant potential. A good coach can partner with us to find unlimited power, love, joy and deep and meaningful fulfillment. Coaching is also different from therapy in that coaching is self-directed. You determine the outcome and desired destination, and it's my job as your coach to help get you there.
  • Why Coaching?
    The truth is change can be difficult. Often, self-limiting behaviour shows up strongly when we need to make significant changes. The right coach can help us to see our blind spots and push through to reach our most important goals. The right coach can fast-track you through difficult transitions and make change empowering and fun.
  • What is the ICF?
    ICF is an industry association that provides a credentialing program to raise coaching standards. As an ACC, I follow their Code of Ethics. Coaching is a creative process that helps clients explore their full potential through thought-provoking conversations. The ICF is an industry association that sets professional standards in the coaching industry. Their internationally recognized credentialing program has helped to raise the bar for coaching competencies and establish legitimacy within the industry. As an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), I adhere to the ICF's Code of Ethics.
  • How does the International Coaching Federation (ICF) define coaching?
    ICF defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
  • What is the Erickson method?
    1. People are OK: 2. No one is 'broken' or needs fixing. 3. People have real resources: 4. They have many more inner resources than they know! 5. Every behaviour has a positive intention: 6. It is trying to fulfill a need the person has. 7. People do their best: 8. They make their best choices each day with the information they have at that time. 9. Change is inevitable: 10. Not just a possibility – no matter how difficult, we learn, grow, and change continuously.
  • How Can I Get Started?
    1. The first step is to book a complimentary 30-minute discovery session to determine if working together would be the right fit. You can contact me to arrange our initial conversation or book an appointment here. 2. We agree to work with each other or not and in what capacity. 3. We set up a simple contract outlining our commitment to the process. 4. We define focus areas, S.M.A.R.T. goals and success criteria. 5. We work together virtually or in person. 6. We evaluate and celebrate the results.

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If you’re ready for a change, let’s work together. Contact me, call 604-739-7665 or schedule a discovery call here.

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