Common Coaching Topics

Most of my clients seek support in the following areas:

• Life, college, or career direction that fits
• Improving motivation, performance, and engagement in school or work
• Stress management related to school or work
• Prioritizing self-care and work/life balance
• Positive behavior change
• Enhancing approaches to parenting and family dynamics
• Developing
  • confidence and effectiveness
  • evidence-based decision making skills
  • conflict management and negotiation skills
  • social and communication skills
  • emotional intelligence, competency, and critical thinking skills
  • leadership skills

Overview of Philosophy & Approach

My approach is person-centered, pragmatic, and evidence-based. As social creatures in a shared world, we inherently affect one another and our environment(s). Those affects are unconscious and conscious. We can learn to build and leverage our resources more intentionally to create the conditions that promote quality of life, well-being, and performance. I coach to enhance the client’s relationship with and power to influence

• self and internal resources
• others and external resources
• and their environment through
• care, connection, and skills.

Highlights of the Person-centered Approach

• Primarily non-directive. Facilitating the client's awareness, insights, and decisions rather than telling them what to do.
• Viewing the client as naturally resourceful and whole
• Honoring the client's right to choose and capability to act on their own behalf

Responsive Evidence-based Guidance

• Well-being science informs the coaching intake assessment factors
• Clients choose what they self-disclose
• Clients self-select coaching goals integrating intake assessment factors
• Person-centered information sharing in manageable bits if/when it fits the client’s process in service of their agenda and desired outcomes

Perspective

• Humans have basic biological, psychological, and sociological needs that contribute to the overall health and well-being of the organism. When we consistently attend to meeting those basic needs, we build our energy and capacity to access our higher states of being and doing in the world.
• We have an inherent need to identify, nurture, and build our resources to survive and thrive.
• We feel a sense of homeostasis (balance) when our needs and desires are met with adequate resources.
• When our resources are insufficient to meet our needs or desires, we experience inherent urges to seek out resources to meet them.
• Our higher thinking and social brain are wired to use capacities like imagination, intelligence, curiosity, creativity, and goal-orientation to meet our needs and build our resources.
• Coaching taps into those higher thinking processes and social brain to enhance the client's chances of success