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What dream do you want to share with the world?

Sometimes in coaching, people get a chance for the first time to say out loud a dream that they’ve been holding close to their heart. A dream that has been too precious and vulnerable to share with the world before. A dream that they’re scared might get mocked, or damaged, or criticized. (Danette Relic has a beautiful post about this, Precious Beginnings — “when a creative dream is just poking through the surface of consciousness it can feel so tender”).

When they have the safe space of coaching, this dream comes out. They hear themselves say out loud, “I want to run my own company.” “I want to go back to school.” “I want to have a child.” “I want to get married.” “I want to run for political office.” “I want to change a government policy.”

For me, it was a chance to say that I want to serve as a guide, a teacher, and a listener as people make sense of their experiences and stretch towards growth.

What dream do you want to share?

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Through coaching and therapy, I help smart people to live from their hearts. If you’d like to get a taste of what this might mean for you, I invite you to get in touch. 

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What are you avoiding?

Noticing what we are avoiding can clue us in to our values

(What value are you honouring by avoiding [x]? What value would you be honouring if you paid attention to [x]?)

and show us where we need to grow

(“I could accept — rather than avoid — [x] if I grew in this way…”).

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Coaches don’t just cheerlead and say warm positive fuzzy things. Oh no. We ask tough questions too. Questions such as, “What are you avoiding?”

If tough questions rock your world, get in touch so that you and I can ask and answer tough questions together. 

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What do you not know?

“Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.” – Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart.

Is there something that you have been calling “good” or “bad”? What if you surrendered your perspective, and stayed in the place of not knowing?

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One coaching tool I love is the Balance coaching skill of exploring perspectives. If you’re feeling stuck somewhere and would like to experiment with looking at it from new angles, get in touch to see how coaching could help you do that. 

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What is a full, rich life?

On the 18th (my birthday) of every month, I assess my personal “state of the union”. Over the past three years, as I have become a coach, been coached, and (nearly) completed my three-year therapist training program, I’ve noticed from month-to-month that I feel I have a fuller, richer, and more peaceful life.

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Would you like to move in the direction of fullness and richness? Coaching is one way to get there. Get in touch to experience coaching for yourself. 

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What serves your self-actualization?

“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also our best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that the best ‘helpers’ are the most fully human persons.”

- Abraham Maslow, Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

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Coaching gives me a playground for self-actualization. Might it be a playground for you too? Get in touch to experience coaching for yourself. 

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Who could offer you support?

Coaches ask questions that help you get to the answers that are most true for you. Intrigued? Get in touch to experience coaching for yourself. 

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Whatever you are choosing,

is it bringing you more satisfaction?

Coaches ask questions that help you get to the answers that are most true for you. Intrigued? Get in touch to experience coaching for yourself. 

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