Personal and Lifestyle Coaching"Coaching is all about where you are going to... not where you are coming from..
It's about the future... and making it the very best it can be.""Coaching helps me define where I want to go and it gets me there faster and more easily than if I worked on my own."
Coaching is concerned with “the now and the future”. A coach helps people gain the confidence and ability to move forward in a positive manner in the areas of their life where they want change. Coaching is about breaking down barriers that prevent change from happening and creating the ideal environment for positive action to take place. It is a totally holistic approach that looks at the present and sets goals for a successful future.
Coaching begins with an awareness that every human is born with the ability to be, do or have, whatever they want in life (within the realm of the possible – after all as a four foot eleven inches black haired woman, I will never be the six foot blond I always wanted to be!!). Nevertheless, by the time we become adults, many of us have lost the ability to strive for the things we want. Eventually, we experience the feeling that our lives are drifting off course and that “there must be something better than this”.
Coaching is a professional and personal relationship between two people, the coach and the client. The coach uses completely practical skills, underpinned by a good knowledge and understanding of the theories and applications of personal development.
Private coaching sessions provide invaluable support for creating any changes you need to make. The coaching techniques work at quite deep levels to help you design the life you want to live. Expect to gain new perspectives, deep insights and come away feeling different. However, it pays to periodically check in and re-evaluate what your short term objectives are, and what you really want long term. Staying on track with your deep values will mean that you can be true to yourself and congruent in your behaviour. Money is not the only measurement of value. Learn how to address the equation from a more balanced perspective. You can uncover different ways to achieve the kind of success that is not only beneficial for you but also for everyone around you.Coaching often combines NLP with Practical Psychology techniques. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming 1, a form of applied psychology that specializes in dealing directly with solving people's problems: whether they are mental, emotional or physical, or a combination. Everything a person says, and how it is said is important. The words and phrases a person uses to describe themselves reveal their thought structure, beliefs and values. NLP involves a cooperative process of exploration to discover the cause and reveal the best solution.
I offer coaching in the following areas:
- Leadership
- Work/Life Balance
- Career Planning
- Emotional Intelligence
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Developing Special Skills
- Presenting and Performing
- Stress management
- Body image
- Health management (including weight management)
- Lifestyle management
Health and Stress issues
- The main purpose of coaching is to empower you to take control of every aspect of your life along with the acceptance that personal responsibility is an integral part of such control. I can show you how to do this and will guide you every step of the way.
- With my breadth and depth of understanding about attitude and results, I will often achieve benefits that are realised faster and will last longer than those resulting from a mentoring or counselling approach. As a coach I do not give advice – you have the resources and knowledge within you – I will just help you to recognise and draw it out. Whilst coaches do not need to be experts in the area, as a health professional I have more than thrity years of experience to draw upon.
1. NLP is the study of how people think and do the things they do. Because people are complex, NLP offers a structured approach to simplify the complexity. NLP is a positive approach to help you create the results you want. It combines a multitude of simple and practical techniques with profound understanding of 'what works' in the human experience. What does that name mean? Neuro refers to how the neurology of the brain takes in information through the 5 primary senses and how the processing of that experience creates responses in the body. Linguistic is the language and non-verbal communication which codes this neural experience, and makes meaning through pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes and smells. Programming explains how your neurology has been programmed since birth, and how you can change it to be more compatible with what you want.
How is coaching delivered?
Face-to-face - I will work one-on-one with you in an environment conducive to the confidential nature of coaching. Usually you will visit me however in the corporate sector I will visit the workplace. We must feel at ease and comfortable. I will take notes and will have any necessary documentation to hand.
Over the phone – I will arrange for you to ring at a pre-arranged time. I will be prepared to take the call, with any paperwork and notes to hand and be situated where I will not be disturbed. Similarly, you must also be situated comfortably where you can give their undivided attention to the coaching session. These calls are generally at weekly intervals and each one typically lasts at least half an hour and will not be longer than one hour.
How many sessions are needed?
It is unlikely that you will achieve significant results in fewer than three sessions (although the benefits begin after the very first session). It is unusual for a coaching process to last longer than three months without a break.
The role of the coach
The role of the coach is to help you. Your role is to agree to a total commitment and honesty in dealing with the issues that concern you.
The coaching process
Coaching is an interactive process where I will guide and facilitate your progress towards defined goals. These may concern relationships, career, self-confidence, financial matters, or – and this is common – an uneasy feeling that 'life has drifted off course' or “there must be something better than this”.
The coach is a listener who is totally non-critical and non-judgmental. As each goal or desired outcome is defined, I will propose specific actions that will move you ever closer to the results that you seek. Whilst these actions are important, it is the outcome from those actions that achieve success.
Each session closes with agreement on the actions to be taken before the next call/visit. The subsequent session will review those actions, their results and your feelings about them. It is this immediacy and need to report back which make life coaching so effective.
Just to be absolutely clear let me reiterate that:
Coaching is not about the past. It does not dwell on what has happened or why it has happened. It is not the medium through which serious abuse or addictions can be treated. Coaching is not therapy.
Coaching is not designed to support individuals in times of deep crisis or serious emotional trauma. It is not designed to help individuals overcome feelings of intense grief, deep depression or other psychological conditions. Coaching is not counselling.
Coaching does not teach, show or demonstrate how to approach new situations, nor does it give people the answers or solutions to their problems. Coaching is about helping you to explore your own solutions; the agenda belongs to the you. Coaching is not mentoring.
A coach encourages and facilitates you in identifying your own challenges, goals, and dreams and works alongside you to help you to achieve those self-defined goals.
And you can be assured of total confidentiality.
Tel:
0844 826 82 88
Email:dawn@
accomplishingwellness.co.uk
