Coaching
Coaching is a partnership, a supportive relationship between client and coach. The coach is there to hear you, encourage you and help move you in the direction you want to be heading. The coach is your personal cheerleading squad. She’s there to say “I believe in you; I know you can do it.” There are many aspects to coaching. Your coach teaches skills such as goal setting and the value of setting timelines to achieve these goals. She reminds you to be accountable for all your choices and actions. You can also bounce ideas off your coach; she’s there to listen and reflect those ideas with clarity and awareness.
Coaching can help reformulate strategies, ideas and beliefs about oneself. A coach guides you towards finding your own answers – she doesn’t tell you what to do. Lorraine’s approach involves not only assisting you to develop effective strategies and plans of actions, but also addresses emotions that might interfere with attaining your goals. What might stop you from realizing your dreams? What has stopped you in the past from getting what you want? What do you really want? What makes your heart sing? At some point in the work there is an “aha” moment, in which the client, while exploring possibilities, suddenly lights up as the true answer presents itself.
Key benefits to having a coach:
Clarify your ambitions
Develop the ability to tap into your strengths and resources
Develop new skills, including those that work with your subconscious to empower yourself
Become more aware of limiting beliefs and patterns and replace them with healthier ones
Formulate strategies
Get clear about what you want and then get yourself out of the way
Believes in you so that you can believe in yourself