Coaching
Coaching is a series of structured conversations which help you identify and work towards a meaningful personal goal. Unlike therapy, which focuses on the past as a way to understand the present, coaching focuses on the future - how can we get you to where you want to go?
As an ICF (International Coaching Federation) qualified coach, I never tell you what to do. You are the expert in your own life, and in the end you are the person who needs to make the big choices and do the work to achieve your goals. Instead, I work with you to help you make your own decisions, identifying anything that might be blocking your path, and helping you come up with a strategy to get you to your destination.
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How does coaching work?
Coaching typically consists of six structured sessions across a six-month period. In the first session, I will help you identify a meaningful personal goal - something towards which you want to work over the six-month period.
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In the second session, often a week later, I'll help you identify the milestones on the route to achieving your goal, and work out a strategy for how to get there.
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Four more sessions then take place, usually on a monthly basis, and will be used to check in on your progress and talk about any barriers that may have come up in the intervening period, as well as recalibrating the plan where necessary.
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By the final session, we will hope that you have achieved your goal.
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This is a time-limited process as we want to see real, concrete change in your life - coaching should not be a relationship of long-term dependency, much as that might be convenient for some coaches! By setting a clear time frame, we help you achieve a concrete goal within a short period and without great expense.
Why use an ICF-trained coach?
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The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the most well established coaching training and accreditation organisation in the world. In an unregulated industry that can be a bit like the Wild West, using an ICF coach gives you a guarantee that you are receiving coaching using a carefully crafted methodology that has demonstrated its success over years of research and experience. It also guarantees that your coach will be operating at the very highest ethical and professional standards.
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Get in touch
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If you are interested in coaching, let's have a no-commitment chat - please get in touch on alex@foolishsoul.org.