Coaching

At its simplest, coaching is a 3-step process. People who are uncertain how to change a personal situation or achieve a different goal will typically try out different strategies or seek advice from family or friends. If these don’t help, using an objective independent coach can be useful to:

Clearly understand the problem that needs to be resolved,

Define your desired outcome, and
Create a realistic plan to achieve it.

The difference between coaching and getting help from those close to you is that the coach had no personal investment in how you reach your goal and is therefore focused solely on what you can realistically achieve. There is an element of counseling to it, but its primary function is to give you a neutral and objective person who will help you focus and put together a plan that you can use to refocus the steps needed to get to your goal. It is different from mental health counseling in that you remain in total control of your life, there is no diagnosis or suggestion (or record) of any impairment, and you choose how much change you need and how far you want to take your plans.

My life has been dedicated to helping other find solutions to . Most of my career has been as a psychotherapist, but I have also been trained as a mediator; a service which allows two or more parties who are at odds to come up with a workable solution that meets both their needs. Coaching is closer to medication, except there is only one person whose needs are in focus.

Life coaching can range on any variety of professional and personal issues It is about helping you identify personal goals and smooth out typical transitions in life. Spiritual coaching is a focused form of life coaching and is different from pastoral counseling. Pastoral counseling is a therapeutic technique guided by your religious perspective. Coaching assumes no formal belief system and is guided by your belief system. It can be helpful when you are seeking your spiritual path, strengthening your individual spirituality or is often sought by those who have been alienated by formal religion and don’t know what to do next.

Coaching, like other forms of assistance, is sometimes useful when we feel there’s too much coming at us and feel overwhelmed, confused or just exhausted from trying to juggle too many things at once. This distorts our perspective, so part of the work may need to be a process of sorting out what’s happening before figuring out why you aren’t on a smooth road to getting where you want to go.

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