Coaching & the 100%Life
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Albert Einstein
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking
Albert Einstein
Coaching is essentially a transformative partnership which potentiates the shift from where you are now to engineering your best possible life into being.
Who do I coach?
Anyone who’s inspired, committed, courageous and willing enough to do what it takes to go from average to awesome.
How do I coach?
We kick off by figuring out exactly what your true ideal destination is. Let’s be honest, clarity is pretty key when you set off on any journey. No point turning up in Austria when you actually meant to head to Australia! Many of us also envision life goals or dreams without ever exploring where they came from or what those idealized notions are in service of. If they’ve been inherited – say from implicit or explicit parental messaging for example – when that goal is finally reached, the hoped for sense of fulfillment and lasting satisfaction simply isn’t. We’ll work on that!
How the rest unfolds depends on what arises from session to session … moment by moment. My coaching is a developmental style, meaning together we explore and craft a learning and life plan which enables this forward movement and together we guide it into action.
If there’s a keystone of my coaching, it’s a quality called presence. Like its close cousin mindfulness, presence is a powerfully transformative quality we all experience in passing moments and are certainly palpably aware of when when we’re in its company. Often unexplored and similarly undeveloped, nonetheless, it’s both immediately accessible and eminently learnable. One of my beloved teachers and mentors, the late leadership development and coaching master, Doug Silsbee defined it in his aptly-titled book Presence-Based Coaching as,
“… a state of awareness, in the moment, characterized by the felt experience of timelessness, connectedness, and a larger truth.”
Leadership supremo, MIT’s Otto Scharmer in his seminal Theory U expounds further telling us,
“When I started realizing that the most impressive leaders and innovators seem to operate from a different core process, one that pulls them into future possibilities, I asked myself: How can we learn to better sense and connect with a future possibility that is seeking to emerge? I began to call this operating from the future as it emerges “presencing.” Presencing is a blending of the words “presence” and “sensing.” It means to sense, tune in, and act from one’s highest future potential …”
All truly great leaders and innovators embody this quality as a potentiating state for their greatest potential to emerge. You can discover how. And there’s plenty more unique aspects which I bring as an innovator in the field of coaching and change myself; borne out of my role as creator and head of the Human Potential Institute’s coaching programs, where I’ve been integrating some cutting-edge work emerging out of the field of cognitive science with other proven change strategies. This emergent body of science covers astonishing topics such as Embodied Cognition and Embodied Mind, and has these days made many of the 20th century change models (such as the once ubiquitous NLP) rather redundant and looking somewhat dated.
All these skills, learning & life hacks aside, who I aim to coach is you—meaning the unique, fascinating, possibility-filled individual that only you are. No two of us are the same so no single formula will ever effectively fit all. I try to see the monumental range of possibilities that exists for you—for all of us really—and bring my whole self so that together we might potentiate possibility into gold.
And there lies the alchemy!
I’ve already given my version above, and the International Coach Federation (my professional body) define it as,
‘… partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.’
Firstly, let’s note that both of us state that it’s a partnership. A coach isn’t a mentor, consultant, therapist or advisor. We don’t have your answers, but what we do have is some really good questions that help you discover your answers. Let’s be honest how can anyone else possibly have them? I’m not the expert in you — you are!
This isn’t to say that I don’t have a ton of knowledge, hacks and skills which might be of enormous value. That I do have and in time and if they’re appropriate we’ll get to them. But I still don’t have your answers!
We professional coaches view it as a partnership in service of your change, growth, development and the maximizing your potential. Our task is working together with the common goal of you becoming who you know you can be and in living the life you are truly capable of. My side is to facilitate that, plus help keep your eye on the prize!
Coaching is also about forward momentum—how we go from current state to a future, better one. To realizing your ideal self. It’s this forward-focus which is also a helpful way to identify a key difference between coaches and psychotherapists. The latter are generally concerned with healing the past in order to have an easier present, whereas we coaches are more interested in discovering how you’d like you and your life to be, creating practical strategies to get there and then getting the job done.
Look, this is a pretty simplistic rendering but it’s a good enough overview of the main points. As I keep saying, if you want to know more then book a call. Hand on heart I do not bite.
A great and clearly important question.
Mostly we connect on the Zoom platform which offers voice and visuals in the same way as Skype, but with a lot more stability and functionality. It’s very common for coaches to work in this way these days and obviously means we can both coach while in any environment providing we each have a connection and privacy. Most importantly this means you don’t lose time traveling to sessions and back.
Oh and as such, obviously you can be anywhere on the globe to coach with me. I regularly work with clients from all over the world. The only catch for us is to suitably sync timezones. I’m generally on US eastern apart from my business travel.
With Zoom you can also connect via smartphone app as well as computer. If necessary you may simply call in as a normal voice-only phone call.
I do offer face-to-face coaching in the Chattanooga Tennessee area and for business clients we will typically combine a mix of Zoom and face-to-face.
I also offer coaching hikes. I’m located on the stunningly beautiful Signal Mountain TN with a huge range of wilderness trails virtually on my doorstep. We take 2 hours from trailhead where we’ll meet, and coach along the hike, stopping whenever a pause seems appropriate. Often insights and new views which are not so easily accessible when in the office or in our regular everyday environment, are far more easily revealed when we’re out in nature.
I thought it’d be valuable to unpack what I mean by a 100%Life. Seems a little mysterious in a way doesn’t it?
So why not the 110% or 200% life? C’mon. We’re all adults here and we all should know that there isn’t any such thing as more than 100%.
Equally overdoing it can often be the very reason why you’re even here reading this now and contemplating working with a coach. Nope, what I’m pointing to is how we can have a life which is 100% full and complete. One that not only addresses the issues of say finding a more appropriate career path or building greater security but one that also understands that having a great job also feels pretty empty if there’s no meaningful relationships or your health and fitness is absolutely terrible.
The well-known American motivational guru Zig Ziglar put it down as,
‘You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.’
Indeed how can we possibly think we’ve achieved our full potential if we only do so in one domain without addressing all the others?
I’ve also had a lifetime of research and experimentation in many areas of optimal human functioning. From my early years spent in the elite athletic and artistic field of dance, through my engagement with leading researchers and experts in the area of longevity and aging via the Grow Young Project, to my current work in the fascinating community of biohackers and at-the-coal-face-of-research-in-application as Head of Coaching Faculty and creator of the groundbreaking Human Potential & Emergent Coach Trainings I’ve been consistently learning, evaluating and applying what makes us function at the top of our game for over three decades now.
A 100%Life means together we optimize all areas of your life to create a truly 100%, firing-on-all cylinders you!
How the rest unfolds depends on what arises from session to session … moment by moment. My coaching is a developmental style, meaning together we explore and craft a learning and life plan which enables this forward movement and together we guide it into action.
If there’s a keystone of my coaching, it’s a quality called presence. Like its close cousin mindfulness, presence is a powerfully transformative quality we all experience in passing moments and are certainly palpably aware of when when we’re in its company. Often unexplored and similarly undeveloped, nonetheless, it’s both immediately accessible and eminently learnable. One of my beloved teachers and mentors, the late leadership development and coaching master, Doug Silsbee defined it in his aptly-titled book Presence-Based Coaching as,
“… a state of awareness, in the moment, characterized by the felt experience of timelessness, connectedness, and a larger truth.”
Leadership supremo, MIT’s Otto Scharmer in his seminal Theory U expounds further telling us,
“When I started realizing that the most impressive leaders and innovators seem to operate from a different core process, one that pulls them into future possibilities, I asked myself: How can we learn to better sense and connect with a future possibility that is seeking to emerge? I began to call this operating from the future as it emerges “presencing.” Presencing is a blending of the words “presence” and “sensing.” It means to sense, tune in, and act from one’s highest future potential …”
All truly great leaders and innovators embody this quality as a potentiating state for their greatest potential to emerge. You can discover how. And there’s plenty more unique aspects which I bring as an innovator in the field of coaching and change myself; borne out of my role as creator and head of the Human Potential Institute’s coaching programs, where I’ve been integrating some cutting-edge work emerging out of the field of cognitive science with other proven change strategies. This emergent body of science covers astonishing topics such as Embodied Cognition and Embodied Mind, and has these days made many of the 20th century change models (such as the once ubiquitous NLP) rather redundant and looking somewhat dated.
All these skills, learning & life hacks aside, who I aim to coach is you—meaning the unique, fascinating, possibility-filled individual that only you are. No two of us are the same so no single formula will ever effectively fit all. I try to see the monumental range of possibilities that exists for you—for all of us really—and bring my whole self so that together we might potentiate possibility into gold.
And there lies the alchemy!
I’ve already given my version above, and the International Coach Federation (my professional body) define it as,
‘… partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.’
Firstly, let’s note that both of us state that it’s a partnership. A coach isn’t a mentor, consultant, therapist or advisor. We don’t have your answers, but what we do have is some really good questions that help you discover your answers. Let’s be honest how can anyone else possibly have them? I’m not the expert in you — you are!
This isn’t to say that I don’t have a ton of knowledge, hacks and skills which might be of enormous value. That I do have and in time and if they’re appropriate we’ll get to them. But I still don’t have your answers!
We professional coaches view it as a partnership in service of your change, growth, development and the maximizing your potential. Our task is working together with the common goal of you becoming who you know you can be and in living the life you are truly capable of. My side is to facilitate that, plus help keep your eye on the prize!
Coaching is also about forward momentum—how we go from current state to a future, better one. To realizing your ideal self. It’s this forward-focus which is also a helpful way to identify a key difference between coaches and psychotherapists. The latter are generally concerned with healing the past in order to have an easier present, whereas we coaches are more interested in discovering how you’d like you and your life to be, creating practical strategies to get there and then getting the job done.
Look, this is a pretty simplistic rendering but it’s a good enough overview of the main points. As I keep saying, if you want to know more then book a call. Hand on heart I do not bite.
A great and clearly important question.
Mostly we connect on the Zoom platform which offers voice and visuals in the same way as Skype, but with a lot more stability and functionality. It’s very common for coaches to work in this way these days and obviously means we can both coach while in any environment providing we each have a connection and privacy. Most importantly this means you don’t lose time traveling to sessions and back.
Oh and as such, obviously you can be anywhere on the globe to coach with me. I regularly work with clients from all over the world. The only catch for us is to suitably sync timezones. I’m generally on US eastern apart from my business travel.
With Zoom you can also connect via smartphone app as well as computer. If necessary you may simply call in as a normal voice-only phone call.
I do offer face-to-face coaching in the Chattanooga Tennessee area and for business clients we will typically combine a mix of Zoom and face-to-face.
I also offer coaching hikes. I’m located on the stunningly beautiful Signal Mountain TN with a huge range of wilderness trails virtually on my doorstep. We take 2 hours from trailhead where we’ll meet, and coach along the hike, stopping whenever a pause seems appropriate. Often insights and new views which are not so easily accessible when in the office or in our regular everyday environment, are far more easily revealed when we’re out in nature.
I thought it’d be valuable to unpack what I mean by a 100%Life. Seems a little mysterious in a way doesn’t it?
So why not the 110% or 200% life? C’mon. We’re all adults here and we all should know that there isn’t any such thing as more than 100%.
Equally overdoing it can often be the very reason why you’re even here reading this now and contemplating working with a coach. Nope, what I’m pointing to is how we can have a life which is 100% full and complete. One that not only addresses the issues of say finding a more appropriate career path or building greater security but one that also understands that having a great job also feels pretty empty if there’s no meaningful relationships or your health and fitness is absolutely terrible.
The well-known American motivational guru Zig Ziglar put it down as,
‘You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.’
Indeed how can we possibly think we’ve achieved our full potential if we only do so in one domain without addressing all the others?
I’ve also had a lifetime of research and experimentation in many areas of optimal human functioning. From my early years spent in the elite athletic and artistic field of dance, through my engagement with leading researchers and experts in the area of longevity and aging via the Grow Young Project, to my current work in the fascinating community of biohackers and at-the-coal-face-of-research-in-application as Head of Coaching Faculty and creator of the groundbreaking Human Potential & Emergent Coach Trainings I’ve been consistently learning, evaluating and applying what makes us function at the top of our game for over three decades now.
A 100%Life means together we optimize all areas of your life to create a truly 100%, firing-on-all cylinders you!
So whether it’s work, earnings and professional fulfilment or health, brain function and cutting-edge exercise and diet protocols we can and very likely will go there.
Get in Touch
If this above has fired your imagination as much as your motivation. If you are ready for the life you deserve. To roll up your sleeves and do the work of dropping deep into your possibility, then contact me and book a call. Your life can change.
Get in Touch
If this above has fired your imagination as much as your motivation. If you are ready for the life you deserve. To roll up your sleeves and do the work of dropping deep into your possibility, then contact me and book a call. Your life can change.