Lorna Storr Consultancy - Leadership, Coaching & Organisational Development
Coaching
- Finding freedom from our unreal loyalties... Woolfe 1938
'Coaching is about change and transformation, about the human ability to grow and
is more about asking questions than providing answers. Coaching is a conversation
between the coach and client, where the coach helps their client to challenge their
present perceptions and beliefs systems, in business and in life, in order to
create new ways of thinking'.
The International Coach Federation - www.coachfederation.org
'I don't think the important thing is to be certain about our answers nearly as much as being serious about our questions'
Rhor 2008
What next...
This is a partnership relationship which enables change to take place. As the coach
I will help you to contemplate, ruminate and examine what ever you choose to bring
to the conversation. This journey is intended to enable you to gain new insights and
interpretations into your life or work experiences. The process actually empowers
you to deal with present self determined issues, problems and challenges and to make
new sense and meaning of them. It also enables you to embrace change positively and
creatively.
The process evokes learning and creativity in a systematic and affirming environment.
"If experience is the food of learning, then reflection and "thinking" are the
digestive processes...to benefit from experience, it is essential to make something
of it..." Obholzer 1994
What I can offer is...
Creative conversations which can lead to...
Taking personal responsibility for change
Discovering
your true authentic self and your potential - becoming the person you truly want to be
Exploring & Challenging awareness raising
Life Story Telling - significant events, choices, consequences
Learning styles
Blind spots
Perceptions
Assumptions
Patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving (past and present) which
are limiting and cause scarcity
Dynamics between client and coach
Resistance to change
Self limiting belief systems and truths
Clarification of goals, options, actions
Doing nothing - providing space
Blending & Harmonizing
Personal values with choices, actions and decisions
Enlightened self awareness and self knowledge
Making sense of our experiences, our thoughts, feelings and sensations
Creating choices and inspiring goals
Resolving conflict Reframing our problems
Life enhancing decision making
Finding realistic hope & new perspectives - holding the paradox
between certainty and uncertainty
Experimenting & Transforming
Self belief and self confidence
Relatedness and enhanced social intelligence - tolerance,
mutuality and reciprocity
Thinking skills - new ideas and patterns of thinking
Problem solving - innovation
Performance and capability
"Knowledge is gotten by reading books or listening to lectures....and Wisdom by reading the book that is you....not an easy task at all, for every minute of the day brings a new edition of the book!...."
Anthony de Mello 1985
Coaching can help individuals, groups and organisations
