Coaching Change
Change is happening all the time. Careers, families, children, life, everything is in constant transition. We typically don’t become aware of change until life events such as a lay off, a divorce, kids going off to college, or aging parents in need of care, force us to confront it. Coaching can help you navigate these transitions. Find the next job that aligns with your values or launch the business you’ve always dreamed of. Be the parent, partner, and child that expresses love to others and to yourself. Be the person who knows themself, likes themself, and gives themself grace.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness teacher, Joseph Goldstein, points out that we are experiencing a combination of only six things at any given time: touch, taste, sound, smell, sight, and, our sixth sense, thoughts. Mindfulness is a skill we cultivate that helps us bring non-judgmental awareness to these phenomena in the present moment. In the context of coaching change, this awareness provides opportunities to see experiences for what they are, and space to make skillful decisions. It provides an opportunity to act, not react.
There is a growing mindfulness industry that unfortunately sells the promise of “emptying” the mind as a means of finding peace. It is a false promise. The nature of the mind is to have thoughts. And it seems down right cruel to give the impression that if you push your thoughts away that they will forever disappear. In my experience, this approach layers suffering on top of suffering, often resulting in unskillful behavior.
Goals
When working together, it is important to establish goals from the start. Here’s how I encourage you to think about your goals:
01. Values-based
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Where do you find meaning? Let’s explore what’s important to you.
02. Motivation
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Discover your level of motivation and what might be blocking you from moving forward.
03. Client-led
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You are the expert of you.
04. Malleable
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Avoid rigidity. Goals can adjust, shift, and change. Our process may provide insight to values and motivations that were not previously apparent.
“Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job or a limb or a loved one, a graduation, bringing a new baby home: it’s impossible to think at first how this all will be possible. Eventually, what moves it all forward is the subterranean ebb and flow of being alive among the living.”
From Barbara Kingsolver’s High Tide in Tuscon
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