Personal Development Coaching – to live life better
Life is precious and it’s short, yet I meet so meet people suffering with angst, stress and feeling dissatisfied with life.
I want everyone to live their best life and to feel happy and fulfilled. What makes each of us happy varies and a coach can help you to figure out what it is for you (and often we find it’s not what society has led us to believe).
I know through my coaching experience that it’s about having a purpose in life, combined with a sense of calm contentment – that underlying feeling that life is good, despite the inevitable challenges we all face.
We’re not going to be happy all the time, that’s not realistic, but if we can develop that underlying sense of well-being, we will be more successful, we’ll be able to enjoy the highs more fully, handle the lows more effectively and bounce back from any setbacks more quickly.
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If you want to:
- Achieve success – understanding what that means to you
- Gain a sense of purpose, meaning and direction
- Be happier and feel more fulfilled
- Move from merely functioning to flourishing
- Manage your emotions more effectively
- Deal more effectively with life’s challenges
- Gain the confidence and courage to achieve your goals
- Experience more joy in life
- Clarify what you actually want in life and/or work
- Identify what is important to you – your values
- What drives you – your needs and motivations
- Your beliefs
- Who you are when you are being authentic
- What makes life enjoyable for you
- What gives you energy and what drains you
- What’s working in your life right now and what’s not
- What you want to be different
- Unhelpful habits and how to change them
- How not to get hooked by negative emotions
- How to reduce stress and anxiety and build resilience
- How the mind works
- How to be more positive
- What’s getting in the way of you being your best
- Effective communication
- How to set personal boundaries
Setting up coaching for success
There are a number of steps which I consider to be really important, in ensuring that coaching is right for you and that you get the most out of the coaching we do together:
- the opportunity for you to ask me any questions you may have about coaching itself and the process
- a discussion to explore what you want to get out of it
- a free taster session for you to experience what coaching with me is like, so you can decide if it’s right for you
- the taster session will also enable you to see how coaching can get you to where you want to be
- a mid-coaching review to ensure you are getting what you want out of the coaching
- an end-of-coaching discussion to reinforce key learnings and identify maintenance strategies
- an end-of-coaching evaluation to measure success and achievement of goals
Coaching outcomes
Examples of actual coaching engagements and outcomes:
- “Cathy has opened my eyes to behaviour characteristics, guided me through a change process and provided invaluable information to help me to grow.”
- “The transformation and learning I experienced came from within but could not have been achieved without Cathy’s skilled focus and expertise, leading me to explore and find a way through.”
- “Cathy enabled profound questioning of some previously held limiting beliefs and opened up a sense of new and more creative possibilities.”
- “I learnt to challenge my inner dialogue that holds me back”
- “Cathy’s coaching style helped me to open up and challenge my way of thinking. The sessions helped me to make sense of why I was doing certain things and have provided me with a framework going forward to apply to any situation.”