Coaching to become your 'Best Self'

What is Coaching

"Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential.” (ICF Professional Coaches) 

• Coaching is a more structured way of working towards your personal and/or professional goals. 
• Coaching can be structured in to 1 x 2 hour session or 6 x 1 hour sessions, which focus on specific development areas or issues. 
• You will be supported in identifying your goal/s, you set your own agenda, and coaching will be purely focused around you and your goal/s.
• For self actualisation

What is different between Coaching and Counselling

Coaching is driven by desire and is future based where as counselling is often recognising where you have come from, recognising the significant people and experiences that may have influenced how you are, and how you behave and function as an adult personally, professionally and in relationships. Sometimes coaching can be a good chapter to move onto after you have explored what you wanted to within counselling, although it is not necessary to have gone through counselling first.

Why Coaching

Have you ever wondered how you've ended up in the same place but at a different time? That personal or professional goals and aspirations just seem to keep moving out of reach as though you’re climbing a never ending staircase. As a child this can seem exhausting with such little legs, but if you’re still climbing as an adult sometimes the easiest thing to do is to sit on a step for a while or just give up. If you sit there for too long this can feel like a stuck place, if you give up you may always have that unfinished business or that goal that you’ve never reached leaving an uncomfortable feeling. Are you still sitting on that never ending staircase? If so coaching can help support you with identifying what is getting in your way so you can climb every step with purpose, so it no longer becomes never ending?

You enter into this world on your own and you leave this world on your own, surely as you evolve through the chapters of your life, you should be able to feel happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction fulfilment and growth in the areas of life that are important to you. That you can look back and reflect with who you are and how you’ve grown as an adult with pride. There is no better person to know your best self than you. This does not mean that other people and the advice and guidance that they might give to you on your life journey are not important, it just asks the question, are you also paying attention to what you really want too? Sometimes for one reason or another, whether through life circumstances, difficulty focusing or trying to please others, we just stay sitting on that staircase. Are you ready to set off again?