1 to 1  coaching is hands down the most effective way to work through whatever is getting in the way.   

Group coaching is impactful for different reasons and offers opportunities that are impossible to experience in a 1:1 setting. 

Coaching: 
When we are in a coaching session, I am creating the environment for your own wisdom and insights to emerge from you.   Think about adolescents for example... What happens when you tell a teenager not to do something because you've had a bad experience and you don't want them to have to go through it themselves? 

They do it anyway!  Right? Because they need to learn it for themselves. 

This is the same with coaching. 

If I tell you - you won't come to that wisdom, insight, and clarity on your own. It won't be as meaningful, impactful, or sustainable. 

Mentoring: 
If we are in a mentoring session, I will share more of my own experience, and offer teachings, and tools that may support your growth and development. 

When you commit to a coaching package, some sessions may be coaching, and other times you may be looking for mentoring.  Both are available.  

Another thing my coach used to help me identify was the difference between struggle and unnecessary suffering. 

Sometimes, what we are confronting requires us to get comfortable with the discomfort - AKA struggle. 

Other times, you may find yourself spinning in emotional distress -  AKA unnecessary suffering. 

Make sense? 

Therapy focuses on the past. 

Coaching focuses on the future. 

Therapy has its roots in the medical model.  Something's broken and needs to be fixed. 

Coaching is modeled after athletics.  Athletes want to perform their best and the coach supports an athlete by offering personalized attention so they can play their game at their optimal state of being. 

Coaching is not a replacement for therapy.  They serve different purposes and can often be very complimentary. 

Someone may choose coaching over therapy if they've spent a lot of time in therapy and are ready for a different kind of support. 

Support that isn't about analyzing the past but rather can take what's been learned from that work and integrate the new states of being into their everyday life.   

A coaching session begins with us getting grounded. 

Then we set the contract - or what you want to explore. 

You share and give context to what you're experiencing. 

We decide what our work together will be. 

Then we enter the space where insights are often revealed, shifts occur, and wisdom is gleaned.  

Then, we explore the opportunity for you. 

And finally, we close the session. 

It's quite natural, beautiful, and fluid. 

Major shifts can happen in one session, and sometimes that can be enough for someone. 

Although the people who have committed to their own journey for 6 months to a year,  experience such a shift in being, there's really no fear of slipping back into old ways or patterns of being (which is more likely with fewer sessions because there's no integration). 

It also depends on where you're at on your own growth journey when you come to me. 

We're all in different stages of personal power, and you may or may not have done a lot of personal work yourself.  

So, what I can offer is the classic response of - it really depends. 

If for any reason related to the quality of service provided that you wish to terminate the coaching relationship prior to the completion of all scheduled sessions, I will offer a refund of unused monies received for unused sessions minus 10%.  

There are no refunds if the client continues not to show up or terminates the agreement based on their own lack of commitment.