Coaching Introduction

Coaching: One Perspective

For me, coaching is simply the co-creative art and practice of helping a person change in the way they wish.

It may invite us into a three step process: Dream, Discern, and Do, as illustrated in the diagram above, to be read from bottom left to top right. Perhaps, it is a path for you!

Through coaching, you can benefit from inquiry, practices, tools, techniques, and accountability in partnership with a professional adept at the art of coaching.

LifeCalls coaching employs the Integral Coaching Canada method. This approach looks at the whole of the person and is oriented toward fostering your desired growth.

LifeCalls coaching packages include:

An intake conversation, during which we share with one another and determine whether to proceed with a coaching program or take another course. If we’ll proceed, we’ll draft your coaching topic, which all other elements of the program will flow from and support.
If we mutually choose to enter a coaching relationship, our second session will be an offer conversation. The coach will present and together we will tailor your coaching topic, a set of developmental objectives, and two helpful metaphors to guide our coaching program.
During three or more developmental sessions, we’ll engage and review practices to advance your custom-tailored coaching topic and developmental objectives.
In our completion conversation, we’ll assess and celebrate the progress to date and plan for next steps.

Throughout it all, you will have the final say about and responsibility for what you do, how you do it, when, and toward what outcomes.

The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.”

At another level, coaching can be seen as a three-step process, customized to each wonderfully unique person for their present need. Those three steps include: