Stepping Into Coaching
There are so many ways you may have landed here with me. You might have been one of my tech training clients (because, hey, here in San Francisco, having more than one job is kind of table stakes) and you’re looking for a more holistic growth experience. You may have been referred by a former or current coaching client. You may have wandered in courtesy of Doctor Google.
However you arrived, I’m glad you’re here. You’ve heard about coaching, and you weren’t sure if it’s for you, and you’ve also had one of those lightbulb moments. You’ve recently had a flash of clarity that something has to change, grow or deepen in your life. I’m so curious about whether any of the following feelings, thoughts or sensations have come up for you:
- I feel stuck
- I feel adrift
- I feel trapped
- I don’t know how to move forward
- I feel separated from others
- I feel separated from my emotions
- I feel separated from my body
- I feel separated from my power
Now, let me offer an invitation to work with those challenges, and bear with me, because it’s so counterintuitive.
What you’re feeling? You’re OK. What’s more, we can rise through these feelings, thoughts and sensations.
Being Okay With Being Okay
I’m so curious about you, and about how you perceive the image above (for my vision impaired clients, the image above has alt text). Do you sense a sunrise or a sunset? If you are feeling that this image hints at a sunrise, a precursor of what’s to come, you may be in a future perception. Perhaps you are holding space for the day that has just passed, seeing this as a sunset, pondering all of those events, both positive and negative, that made up the day, If so, you may be moving through a past-based perception. I invite you to consider a third space, the present world of that elm tree and its rich way of being. Holding space to live in that present moment is the heart of our potential coaching relationship.
The ability to name the challenges you’re facing is a great place to start. All of us, every one of us, has had these thoughts, these feelings, these sensations… and then we move on to all of the day to day tasks that keep us mired where we are. We in the coaching biz call that normal.
And here you are, so I suggest it’s because you have this conviction that you can grow, you can deepen, you can thrive. The struggle is over how to encourage those shifts.
Welcome To Coaching
I’m an integral coach® with a certification from New Ventures West, one of the most highly regarded and respected coaching organizations in the world. The integral development method of coaching is all about moving beyond the basics. Those questions about what to do and how to do it? Those questions matter, and there is also something deeper, something that looks at the bigger picture that helps those other pathways thrive, and here it is.
Who Do I Want To Be?
On a deep level, the clarity of this question has more to do with the truest version of yourself rather than just a bullet point list of tasks to accomplish? Yes, the career is important. Yes, the bills are piling up. Yes, how you achieve success and how you move through family dynamics and stress matter. I make this promise to you. It all connects and is sourced by the Big Question. Are my goals, my challenges, my failures and my troubles influenced at all by who I truly am?
Well, of course they are.
The path to progress begins with the practice of being true to who we are, and the fact you’re here exploring that possibility is a step we should honor. I’d like to begin a conversation with you about this. That’s me, extending a hand and inviting you to join me.
How to take that next step? Please contact me, and we’ll begin a conversation to examine how coaching can fit into your world, and maybe even make it a little bigger, a little deeper, a little truer to who you really are
Onwards!.