What Is Coaching?

 The Coach-Client relationship is a co-created partnership based upon trust and confidentiality.

Coaching is present and future-oriented.  Coaching focuses on where the client is now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future.

Coaching is action-oriented.  Coaching is not about fixing someone or their problems but about engaging clients in self-awareness building, exploration, and visioning.  Coaching then goes one critical step further by supporting clients in developing concrete goals and in taking the necessary steps to actualize their desires for the future.

Coaching assumes that the client is creative, resourceful, and whole.  Coaching seeks to elicit solutions and strategies from the client by tapping into their strengths, values, and desires.  Coaches support clients in honoring themselves and their achievements.

Coaching is insight-oriented.  Coaching brings to the clients' consciousness their strengths, challenges, resistance, fears, blind spots, triggers, automatic responses, and other barriers to success.

Coaches ask powerful questions to motivate and empower clients to act boldly in the present, while helping them envision new possibilities and solutions for the future.

Coaches engage clients in deep dialogue rather than telling them how they should think, feel, and act.

Coaching helps clients build self-confidence by offering a safe, non-judgmental space for them to consider different perspectives, engage in new behaviors, and take risks.

Coaching is transformational rather than transactional.  Coaching helps clients to create a powerful new future - to thrive rather than just "get by."