More about Coaching
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch, but on its own wings..." (Charlie Wardle)
Coaching takes a collaborative approach to development that helps identify strengths, dreams and direction in professional and everyday life. There are times when we may feel stuck and could benefit from a dedicated space to explore next steps.
Coaching empowers and facilitates growth. Focus areas may include cultivating leadership, embracing professional authority, improving decision making, navigating change, choosing personal success, embedding creativity and embracing adversity.
Coaching is usually short term and solution focussed. Through building strengths it catalyses change, helping to achieve goals. It differs from psychotherapy which is usually long-term and specifically works with mental health needs as well as wellbeing.
I offer psychological systemic coaching that lends itself well to businesses and individuals alike. It understands that transformation is part of our wider context, e.g. work, culture, family. In other words change does not take place in isolation but rather as part of a dynamic process that is entirely, 'relational'.
Coaching is a dynamic process that can have lasting benefit. It offers a confidential space to explore the steps for change.
Professional executive & business coaching may focus on:
Leadership, ambition and authenticity
Being kind and successful
Creativity in workplace
Job satisfaction & career progression
Work - life balance
Managing pressure & building resilience
Working effectively as team and individual & valuing differences
Personal & creative coaching may focus on:
Life purpose & career choices
Identifying and activating hearts desire
Navigating change & making decisions
Moving forwards when feeling stuck
Finding the right home or next step
Working with life transitions
The stages of creative process
Building resilience, resource and relaxation techniques
Orientating to joy & healthy choices
Is coaching for me?
As a Systemic and embodied coach my focus is to help you identify your strengths and achieve your goals through active and creative exploration.
My approach has a psychological underpinning which I have found to be powerful and effective when driving holistic change in ambitious and professional settings.
We will work together using a variety of methods including cognitive knowing, emotional knowing, intuitive knowing and embodied knowing. We may also work with tools such as: imagination, visualisation, movement, mapping and creativity.
This approach to coaching is holistic and understands the profound inter-connection of individuals and their environment. It is well-suited to the unpredictable, volatile and complex challenges faced by us all in today’s turbulent world. It also lends itself well to working outdoors or online.
A warm-hearted welcome awaits you. As a white woman in my 50's, I am working to make my practice inclusive of difference and commonality, including race, age, religion, sexuality, class, ableism and gender.
Why work with me?
Session length : 60-90 minutes weekly sessions in the outset, to build rapport. After the initial session it is usual to commit to 6 sessions before reviewing.
Location: Off-grid in the Shepard’s hut or online. Options to work with groups in nature are available.
Session rates: The rates are variable, starting at £115 per session. Concessionary rates are sometimes available for creative coaching.
Next steps: I welcome enquiries by email. This may be followed up with a 20 min clarity call to inform next steps. (no charge)
Access: If in person, the shepherd's hut is a 5-7 min walk on uneven ground from road-side parking in village hamlet of Henley, Box.
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