What is integral coaching?
Integral coaching is a powerfully effective way of expanding self-understanding, nurturing development, and integrating the life of clients. This has the impact of enabling the client to be more effective and fulfilled in the aspect of life the coaching is focused on.

What support does a coach provide?
The coach and the client form a partnership that supports the client. The coach facilitates the assessment, designs the coaching program, and supports the client through regular coaching conversations either face-to-face or by telephone. During the contract period, the coach customizes the client's coaching program as necessary to better help the client fulfill the purpose and outcomes of the program. To effectively do all of this requires the coach to be grounded, centered, and fully engaged with the client. In this state, the coach brings forth appropriate knowledge and wisdom to compassionately respond to what is happening for the client.

Why does coaching work?
When you work with a coach, you develop a relationship based on trust and respect that enables you to get a clear vision of your goals and values. A coach is your collaborator, mentor and sounding board. When working with a coach dedicated to your success, you are able to move forward with more clarity, speed and ease than would be possible otherwise.

What is life coaching?
Life coaching is an on-going partnership with someone who helps you produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. Imagine, what a personal trainer does for your body... a life coach works in similar ways but it builds your life’s goals. A coach provides you with the tools, support and structure to help you identify your goals, eliminate obstacles and accomplish more, more easily.

What are the benefits of working with a coach?
There are many benefits to working with a coach. With constant support and feedback from a coach, you will create a life you love based on your values, passions and desires. Simply put, you'll reach your personal and professional goals faster and get ahead sooner than you would on your own. Through the process of coaching, you will deepen your learning, improve your capabilities and enhance your life.

Do you do all your coaching in-person and over the phone?
My coaching practice is based on in-person and over the phone coaching. You will be able to clearly determine which one works best for you. It has been my experience that both are equally effective.

Who works with Coaches?
Students, parents, professionals, and business owners. Individuals in transition -- including personal or career changes. Entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. Visionaries and leading edge thinkers ready to put their ideas into action. These people use coaches to help them create, plan or accomplish personal and/or professional goals

What is the benefit of having an objective person coach me?
The benefit of having a Coach is that you have someone you can confide in that has no hidden agenda and, you can get straight answers from.

Coaches are trained to be objective in assisting people in optimizing their performance and deepening their satisfaction in life. Coaches move people from potential to achievement.

Would I benefit from having a coach?
Behind successful people is someone who mentors him or her, believes in him or her, and challenges them to be more. If you want personal or professional growth, clearer vision and perspective, having a coach makes a lot of sense.

How does coaching work?
Coaching is done with weekly or bi-weekly sessions by telephone or in person. Your regularly scheduled sessions provide consistency and continuity. Clients may live near the coach, or they may live thousands miles away. Distance and desire determine the mutual coach/client preference for coaching by telephone, in-person, or both. Each session we, together, may create some tasks, actions, results, or changes you will commit to completing before our next meeting. This gets you to take action on what we are working on and to integrate it into your life.

What kind of results can I expect?

• A balanced life that works.
  You will learn how to simplify your life and improve your effectiveness with time. Having it all starts with a balanced life between home, work, and play. Balance is not something you create. When you have certain things in place, balance finds you!
  
  
• Having your life optimized by making better decisions for yourself and your career.
  You will learn how to optimize everything in your life. Optimization is getting the maximum return, results and rewards, while minimizing your effort and risk. Talking through your ideas with someone who understands you and is subjective enough to want a lot for you, yet objective enough not to be biased or self-serving is extremely valuable.
  
  
• Ability to communicate much more effectively.
  Be clear about what you need and communicate it elegantly to the people around you. Be able to ask for what you really want and need. Learn to ask the right questions. Learn how to speak straight. Learn how to be unconditionally constructive. Learn how to resolve conflicts while creating positive solutions. Become closer with others. Attract and deepen relationships with quality people.
  
  
• Take more worthwhile actions!
  Set the goals you really want. Ultimately, you do what you really want to do anyway. Finding out what you really want for yourself and your career or business is our first task together. We will discover what, in your heart of hearts, you really want for yourself. Once you are clear about your ideal goals, you are naturally much more likely to take consistent action to reach them.
  
  
• Get on a path, or further the path you are on.
  Discover your personal mission, purpose and vision. Reorient your life exclusively around your true values. Be internally peaceful. Grow from the inside out.

What can I expect from my coach?

• To respect your privacy and hold everything you say in complete confidence.
• To be on time, resourceful and totally present for our session.
• To be straight and direct with you. To hold you as able to hear the truth.
• To not buy into your limiting beliefs.
• To listen. Your coach will listen fully to what you say, and what you are not saying.
• To suggest and strategize changes.
• Unlimited amount of love, compassion and strength.
• To anticipate blocks and challenges and help you in developing strategic plans to overcome them.
• To emphasize and speak to your strengths, not harp on your weaknesses. Your coach is there to champion you!
• To challenge you

What would I need to do as a client?

• To be on time for every call or meeting. Make the time with your coach a priority, because it is.
• Come to the call or meeting prepared to work.
• Let your coach know what to do differently if something is not working. Do not assume that your coach knows you as well as you know yourself!
• Coaching is not something that is done to you. It is a process that is done together. There are certain things you need to be willing to do in order for us to accomplish what you want.