Transformational Coaching
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What is a Transformational Coach?
A Transformational Coach provides individuals with a direct, lived experience of the reality they have created in order to empower them to shift their current paradigm to make way for what is desired. |
Our fullest intention is to empower clients to fully embrace the dilemmas and choices facing them.
This inevitably supports
• Cultivating awareness and choosing to choose through intelligence and mindfulness
• Stepping into vulnerable, intimate, openness and expanding ones capacity to be the fullest expression of their essential self
• Choosing to live in faith, trust, and the unknown fuels the leap of faith required to achieve one’s desired outcome
• Realization that fear is always present and available to inform us of all our perceived limitations
• Experiencing and embracing the magnificence of Being that we already are
• Realizing the priority or hierarchy of our commitments and how they inform us of the values we have in place and the way we make meaning
A coach is an expert empowering people and organizations at strengthening commitments to their Vision. From these commitments come actions that produce powerful results. A transformational coach adds a unique dimension to coaching in that they are masterful at assisting you in revealing the very core interpretations and beliefs that support each and every aspect of your life remaining unfulfilled.
Individuals seeking coaching for themselves will have a thinking partner with whom to investigate and reveal underlying patterns of operating. These patterns undermine your capacity to have what you say you want. It’s very different then therapy in that you are focused on your future aspirations and take on practices that exercise, strengthen and expand your capacity to manifest your desired results.
This inevitably supports
• Cultivating awareness and choosing to choose through intelligence and mindfulness
• Stepping into vulnerable, intimate, openness and expanding ones capacity to be the fullest expression of their essential self
• Choosing to live in faith, trust, and the unknown fuels the leap of faith required to achieve one’s desired outcome
• Realization that fear is always present and available to inform us of all our perceived limitations
• Experiencing and embracing the magnificence of Being that we already are
• Realizing the priority or hierarchy of our commitments and how they inform us of the values we have in place and the way we make meaning
A coach is an expert empowering people and organizations at strengthening commitments to their Vision. From these commitments come actions that produce powerful results. A transformational coach adds a unique dimension to coaching in that they are masterful at assisting you in revealing the very core interpretations and beliefs that support each and every aspect of your life remaining unfulfilled.
Individuals seeking coaching for themselves will have a thinking partner with whom to investigate and reveal underlying patterns of operating. These patterns undermine your capacity to have what you say you want. It’s very different then therapy in that you are focused on your future aspirations and take on practices that exercise, strengthen and expand your capacity to manifest your desired results.
Therapy is an important process in supporting people in developing a strong ego structure in order to live in well-being in the present moment. Transformational coaching attracts people who are willing to take a leap of faith into the unknown territory of their future reality. We all have dreams. But, too many of us are afraid of what lies within the mystery of “let’s make it happen!”
In the business world, distinguishing business operations from ever-present human dynamics (which undermine these operations) enables clear, effective, and rapid change to processes and procedures. This results in a healthier, more vital company and a much better bottom line. Each person in your company, from the president to the receptionist, through their humanity, fundamentally impacts how your organization functions and manifests its Vision. Coaching to the personal dynamics of your staff will facilitates long-lasting and high-quality results.
Supporting you in moving beyond your present paradigm, liberating you from limited thinking, and expanding possibility beyond your imagination is what good coaching is about. One famous high tech company proposes that we “think different!” Good coaches facilitate this “thinking differently” out of and beyond the box. Transformational coaching is far more powerful than problem solving, which addresses the symptom but not the root cause of the symptom. Discovering the root cause gives you choice where presently there is none.
Here, in this moment, you get to choose your level of greatness. Until now the choice belonged to those who came before you. They limit your vision of the future by only providing solutions from the past.
In the business world, distinguishing business operations from ever-present human dynamics (which undermine these operations) enables clear, effective, and rapid change to processes and procedures. This results in a healthier, more vital company and a much better bottom line. Each person in your company, from the president to the receptionist, through their humanity, fundamentally impacts how your organization functions and manifests its Vision. Coaching to the personal dynamics of your staff will facilitates long-lasting and high-quality results.
Supporting you in moving beyond your present paradigm, liberating you from limited thinking, and expanding possibility beyond your imagination is what good coaching is about. One famous high tech company proposes that we “think different!” Good coaches facilitate this “thinking differently” out of and beyond the box. Transformational coaching is far more powerful than problem solving, which addresses the symptom but not the root cause of the symptom. Discovering the root cause gives you choice where presently there is none.
Here, in this moment, you get to choose your level of greatness. Until now the choice belonged to those who came before you. They limit your vision of the future by only providing solutions from the past.
What is Transformational Coaching?
Coaching in general, is results oriented, generative in nature and requires clients to practice being accountable for what occurs in their lives. It distinguishes a client from the interpretations she has about life in general, herself in particular and about the specific outcome she is wanting. Coaching empowers her to shift those interpretations, which no longer serve her. It also empowers her to practice new ways of being that align her with her desires in order to reach her highest potential. It is transformational in nature because it focuses on the states of being that generate actions, which either move the client closer to her desired outcomes or further away. Shifting how an individual is being, rather than what she is doing, will create transformation, because the way she is being is transferable to every other aspect of her life. The client transforms their perspective, shifting their paradigm to include more, which allows an expanded repertoire of possibilities to exist.
Outcome Oriented
The focus of coaching, any type of coaching, is on the desired outcome or results. It focuses on where you are in this present moment, how you want to be, where you want to be, and how you want to get there. The outcome is something that is tangible and measurable. For instance, a client who is desiring more peace in his life might be asked: “How will you know when you have the level of peace you want? What will be present or absent when there is more peace?” In other words, the client needs to have some tangible and measurable indicators so that he and his coach will know when they have met their target. The client may say that when he has more peace he will experience more balance in his life. He will have more time with his children, more intimacy with his wife and more quality time with himself. He will make time for exercise and being in nature. These are tangible results that can be seen and measured.
Coaching in general, is results oriented, generative in nature and requires clients to practice being accountable for what occurs in their lives. It distinguishes a client from the interpretations she has about life in general, herself in particular and about the specific outcome she is wanting. Coaching empowers her to shift those interpretations, which no longer serve her. It also empowers her to practice new ways of being that align her with her desires in order to reach her highest potential. It is transformational in nature because it focuses on the states of being that generate actions, which either move the client closer to her desired outcomes or further away. Shifting how an individual is being, rather than what she is doing, will create transformation, because the way she is being is transferable to every other aspect of her life. The client transforms their perspective, shifting their paradigm to include more, which allows an expanded repertoire of possibilities to exist.
Outcome Oriented
The focus of coaching, any type of coaching, is on the desired outcome or results. It focuses on where you are in this present moment, how you want to be, where you want to be, and how you want to get there. The outcome is something that is tangible and measurable. For instance, a client who is desiring more peace in his life might be asked: “How will you know when you have the level of peace you want? What will be present or absent when there is more peace?” In other words, the client needs to have some tangible and measurable indicators so that he and his coach will know when they have met their target. The client may say that when he has more peace he will experience more balance in his life. He will have more time with his children, more intimacy with his wife and more quality time with himself. He will make time for exercise and being in nature. These are tangible results that can be seen and measured.
With the desired outcome clear, a coach listens to what the client is saying and distinguishes whether what he is saying, and what he is doing, is in alignment with the desired outcome. The degree to which the client is committed to that outcome is the degree to which he will be willing to hear the distinctions the coach is making and generate or choose new ways of being that align him with the stated outcome. His willingness to practice taking actions that result in having fulfilled the commitment will also become clearer over time.
Eastern spiritual traditions suggest that it is best to desire no desire in order to reach enlightenment and live without suffering. This desire for no desire is a desire, none the less.
It is our relationship to our desires that creates suffering. Millions of individuals suffer from having desires, having them fulfilled and from having them unfulfilled. The fulfillment of desires is not a bad thing. If it was, then the fulfillment for the desire for peace, the desire for enlightenment and the desire to end desires would also be seen as something other than good.
Noticing the relationship you have with your desires allows you to observe how you are being with them. Are you being demanding, greedy, impatient and untrusting? Or, are you being open, allowing, and unattached to the outcome? Again, it’s important to distinguish the desire from how you are being with the desire.
Eastern spiritual traditions suggest that it is best to desire no desire in order to reach enlightenment and live without suffering. This desire for no desire is a desire, none the less.
It is our relationship to our desires that creates suffering. Millions of individuals suffer from having desires, having them fulfilled and from having them unfulfilled. The fulfillment of desires is not a bad thing. If it was, then the fulfillment for the desire for peace, the desire for enlightenment and the desire to end desires would also be seen as something other than good.
Noticing the relationship you have with your desires allows you to observe how you are being with them. Are you being demanding, greedy, impatient and untrusting? Or, are you being open, allowing, and unattached to the outcome? Again, it’s important to distinguish the desire from how you are being with the desire.