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COACHING FOR INDIVIDUALS
You have the ingredients you need - let's make the most of them
I see you my friend. You are not a problem to be fixed - you never were. You are actually an array of rich ingredients waiting to be mixed up for full flavour. When we work one-on-one together our job is simply to find what works and use it in service of your ambitions or transforming the situation you find yourself in.
As your coach, I want to enable you to see yourself with clarity and acceptance, get curious about possibilities, fill your cup with belief and bravery and identify the words and actions to carry you forward - your way.
What we do in coaching
Coaching should never happen to you, it should happen WITH and FOR you. That means I definitely don't have a '7 step system' - instead we co-create the experience. There is a loose framework of WHAT we will do (both in a single session and across a series of sessions), but HOW we do it is what makes your coaching unique to you. Here's the WHAT:
Orientation
Quite simply, we get connected by getting to know each other and drawing out the resources that will prove useful in our coaching exploration - things like:
How you think and process
Your questions and ambitions
Your strengths and resources
The environment you want to work in
Your sensory profile
The logistics of conversations
How I can be your best coach
Exploration
Exploration is what it says on the tin. We explore. Imagine emptying a closet, seeing what's inside and getting curious about how to put it back, whether to put it back or whether to change the closet entirely. Exploring can involve:
metaphors, activities and experiments
mentally or physically mapping or connecting
reflecting back what I see or hear
investigating 'what you mean'
Check-in
Checking in is about ensuring we're still on the path you want to be on. We'll check in on the mission, what's working, what's not working and what's next. This might look like:
End of session review and actions
Reflecting on experiments
Sharing feedback with each other
Reviewing mission progress and whether its still fit for purpose
Identifying when to finish coaching and what happens next.
Ultimately my job is to help you do the thinking you can't do on your own. It is a great privilege to witness and hold space for you as you are. Not as society, family, culture or workplace want to you to be.
Topics we can explore include:
Making transitions (parenting, health, moving, career shifts, etc)
Neurodiversity diagnosis support
Wellbeing + Resilience
Fulfilling career choices
Boundaries + Connection
Energy + Capacity
Spirituality
Self-efficacy (finding what works)
Self-belief + confidence
Self-advocacy + boundary setting
Self-acceptance
How I approach your coaching mission
Whatever you've arrived to coaching with, I find clarity, confidence and communication always matter. Whilst we might not go in this order, in my experience they've become important places to visit and gather insight for a full picture.
Clarity + choice
It's rarely about the decision or action itself - and more about how that decision or action will be made, measured or resourced.
This comes from awareness - looking at yourself and the situation with less judgement and more creativity and compassion. It comes from making choices (even temporary choices) - about what matters and what doesn't. We spend time sifting through ALL the things to find the IMPORTANT things.
Confidence + self-efficacy
Knowing what's important is one thing - believing it's possible and navigating doubt is another.
We work to name strengths, own the quirks that make you or your team most effective (Let's use what works, not judge what works) and find what you can rely on to move forward.
When these elements are named, claimed and seen through a new lens - the words and actions that follow are potent in all the best ways.
Communication + advocacy
We are social beings and what we want to create won't happen alone. So we work to find ways of expressing respect for others and, crucially, great respect for ourselves - who we are, what we need and what we stand for.
We can't just know what is important, we have to voice it. We can't just be aware of our values, we need to live them. And we can't be effective if we can't ask and advocate for what we need - and be open to hearing, and inviting, the same from others.
What to expect of each other in coaching
What I expect from you
You're in the drivers seat to:
decide on the goal and purpose of coaching.
lead on where to focus attention in a single session.
invest time in experimenting between sessions.
give feedback about what's working and what's not working to keep coaching fit for purpose.
What to expect from me
I'm your thinking buddy who will:
be committed your clarity.
bring support and challenge.
ask questions and share models, tools or resources as requested.
reflect back what I see or hear to aid your insight.
hold you accountable.
operate ethically and safeguard your well-being.
What we'll do together
Together we'll create the environment that will help you to do your best thinking. It will be confidential and non-judgemental with a focus on safety. That means we'll decide together:
number and length of sessions
setting for sessions
physical and sensory needs
how to think together (visually, audio, metaphor, logically, etc).
how we'll check in and re-adjust
What clients say...
"I came to Heather after trying three different psychologists to help me get past quite a difficult period of unemployment. Through working with Heather, what I realised is that I personally didn't need therapy - I needed someone who could help me gain clarity about all the great ideas and plans that were already in my head. That's what I got!”
-- Nick, Philanthropist
"I appreciated the highly reflective nature of coaching and through our sessions noticed a stabilizing of my emotional state, a greater confidence in my ability to handle situations, a more centered view of myself as a whole rather than just pieces, and a sense of value for my accomplishments and everything I've grown through. I've come out more confident in myself as a whole now, and where I am going into the future. That has contributed to a healthier mindset, healthier behaviours, and a self-optimistic future orientation."
-- Michael, Co-founder and Researcher
“Working with Heather has been an incredibly positive and empowering experience. Coaching helped me to unpack the issues that were holding me back from achieving my goals and helped me to gain more confidence in my ability to achieve them. I found the action-oriented process of coaching to be very encouraging, because I was able to see tangible results and improvements at every step along the way.”
-- Katie, Project Manager, International NGO
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