What Is Coaching?

An ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action.

Coaching accelerates the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future, recognizing that results are a matter of the client's intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of the coaching process.

What Coaching Is Not

Coaching is not therapy or counseling. Therapists, psychiatric counselors, and others in the mental health field are traditionally looking at root causes. The coach is primarily supporting you to clarify what you want and helping you to move forward on your goals in the present and in the future.

Coaching	Therapy
Focus on growth and forward movement in the present and future	Focus on underlying issues from the past
Helps people achieve personal and professional goals	Helps people understand human behavior
Facilitates learning, growth, and transformation	Facilitates healing
Does not ask "why"	Often asks "why"

Information from the class Coaching: The Leadership Edge; July 2002; Academy of Coach Training; Bellevue, WA

Therapy and counseling are for issues including (but not limited to):

Clinical depression
Addictions
Compulsions
Eating disorders
Mental illness
Trauma
Anxiety
Neuroses
Psychoses

There is so much more to coaching that does not translate directly into words. Are you ready to experience the magic and synergy of coaching? Contact me now for a complimentary consultation.

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Kathryn White, CPC, MUP
Certified Professional Coach
Om Mandala, LLC
Professional & Personal Life Coaching
Seattle, WA
Phone: 206-524-9091
Kathryn@om-mandala.com
www.om-mandala.com