What is Coaching?

Coaching is a professional relationship in which the coach and client are collaborators in reaching an agenda defined by the client. The Coach seeks to help the client find balance and direction in taking action towards their goals in accordance with their self -defined values and unique personal strengths.

COACHING IS:

• Collaboration
• Moving in action
• Getting things accomplished
• Accountability
• Future-oriented
• Using your strengths
• Finding your personal best
• Being the CEO of your life and your future

SOME COMMON COACHING QUESTIONS ARE:

1. What do you want?
2. What would it take to make that happen?
3. What parts of your life need balance?
4. How will we know when you’ve completed that goal?

A WORD HERE. COACHING IS NOT PSYCHOTHERAPY, NOR IS IT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY. Coaching is forward-looking, goal-oriented. Psychotherapy seeks to help resolve problems of the present that are often based in the past. Coaching does not address common mental health concerns - depression, anxiety, worry, addictions. Thus it has it’s own set of skills and techniques to bring to the task of going forward. But Coaching and Psychotherapy can work well together to help.

Copyright 2006 Marcia J. Lindsey