Life Coaching
What is Life Coaching?
The word "coach" is borrowed from the town of Kocs (pronounced just
like "coach") in Hungary, where a type of large four- wheeled spring
suspension carriage came into use in the 15th century. The word morphed
from a very luxurious mode of transportation to being a great personal
tutor in around 1850. Oxford students of early Victorian England re-imagined
the word as a fitting metaphor for the university tutor who could carry
a student along to higher achievement.
Most techniques used in modern life coaching have their foundations
in mentoring, counseling, and spiritual guidance.
My training and life coaching skills are developed from these domains
with one vital addition: my deep belief that working with the body can
illuminate important messages that typical coaching practitioners overlook.
Many life and career coaching relationships focus primarily on reasoning,
thoughts, values, and behaviors, in service to achieving new life goals.
However, most of this is done in a cerebral context. I believe it is
critical to include strong somatic elements in my practice.
I have seen demonstrated time and again that our bodies hold more information
about our selves than is available in brain centered reasoning. The
body holds our brain and has vastly more information to reveal if addressed
with full inclusion, care and appreciation. The somatic information
that is available through touch is invaluable in expanding awareness,
clarifying life goals and directing actions towards effective change
and personal growth.
As a modern personal growth and life coach my goal is to provide clients
with feedback, insights, and guidance from an outside vantage point.
To me, life coaching is an ongoing collaborative partnership built on
taking action. Skilled and intuitive, I offer myself as a guide and
coach for the person seeking to learn and change their quality of life.
I bring many years of experience including a decade involved in human
diversity work and years of somatic therapy. I'm well versed in a variety
of developmental tools, strategies and interventions. My emphasis working
with individuals is a collaborative bodymind approach that weaves together
conversations, yoga, massage, awareness exercises, breathwork, and other
resources developed uniquely for you.
My goal is to cooperatively reveal self-evolution stages and affirmative
discoveries that are available to people seeking to broaden self-awareness
and life balance.
Contact me -email
or 415.497.9200