What is coaching?

Coaching is like tickling. Consider trying to tickle yourself. It doesn't work very well. Your brain sees your wiggling fingers and says, "Uh-uh! I see you. I know what you are trying to do, and I'm not having any of it!" We literally cannot tickle ourselves. Our brains are programmed to shy away from anything that shakes up the status quo. 

 

Now, someone else comes at you, making tickling gestures. Your brain and body wakes up! "Wait a minute. What's happening here? Something important is going on. I need to pay attention."

 

This is what coaching is: it's tickling your thinking, challenging you (and your team) to think differently. It interrupts the status quo of old patterns of beliefs, behavior, assumptions, and perspectives that often get in the way. That need a good tickling.

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A coach helps people move forward in ways they may struggle with on their own, shining clear light on context and what's really important and meaningful, from priorities to visions and dreams. From there, it's about designing actions and following through. It takes commitment. It's also energizing, liberating, and fascinating.

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Coaching is a personalized, tailored, and consistent approach that will bring out the best in you and your teams. This ripples out to other teams, to stakeholders across your organization, to customers and partners, into your life as a whole​​​​, and even beyond into the world.

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Neuroscience is a hot topic in the world, including within coaching. It has a wow factor as we are constantly learning more about our brain and related body systems. Fascinating stuff!

 

I apply intuitive approaches to coaching, based first and foremost on social psychology, experience, and the art of non-directive coaching. It turns out, retroactively, these approaches are backed up by neuroscience. So we might say applied neuroscience is a form of applied coaching: experiential approaches and practices emerging out of coaching of the past 4 decades. More and more, research proves coaching to be grounded in science, in studies taken out of the labs and into controlled and longitudinal coaching and psychology studies of the real world. Neuroscience is very much a young field, so my own learning in integrating this area is unending. I learn as much through my own studies as I do in working with clients.

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As to what coaching is, more than that is hard to describe. To explore how coaching can be a resource for you, it needs to be experienced. So, do reach out for your complimentary session. I'd love to meet you.​

 

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

~Rumi​

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