What will we actually do in a coaching session?

Each coaching session begins with you identifying a specific challenge or competency that you want to coach around that day and what specifically you want to work toward by the end of the coaching conversation.

No two coaching conversations are alike, but generally, we will explore how you are observing and being with the challenge at hand. Together we peel back the layers of what’s getting in the way to get to the heart of the matter. I engage in deep listening, observing, reflecting, and asking questions. We may engage in embodied inquiry, meaning we tune into the sensations in the body to inform or transform the questions at hand.

Each conversation includes the design of actions and practices that you commit to continue to work with after the session. Because coaching is highly individualized, and is action and results-oriented, you will continue your work between sessions.

Why “Creative” in the company name?

Creativity is the ability to generate meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc, and to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, and relationships. It’s imagination, play, exploration at work. It’s the courage and willingness to entertain the question “what if?” It’s a process that allows you to see what has become transparent to you, so that you can shift your perspectives and take different action. Creativity is at the heart of transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is coaching?

Coaching is a co-created conversation for personal inquiry, exploration, and discovery that supports you in cultivating awareness and choice toward specific goals, action, and practice.
It starts with the belief that you as the client are a whole person, capable at every moment to be and do whatever is desired. The focus of coaching is to ask questions, reflect, and provide observations around the topic that you bring to the coaching conversation. I will never prescribe, diagnose, or suggest your path forward.
Everything in a coaching session comes from you so that the learning and process of transformation is yours alone:
You bring the goal, the topic, your life experience and perspectives.
I bring the curiosity, questions, observations and plenty of space for exploration.

Is this like therapy or consulting? What’s the difference?

No, coaching is not therapy. Here are some distinctions that might be helpful:

The focus of Therapy is usually to work through past experiences to help with something in the present. It may or may not include experiences of trauma.

The focus of Consulting is to be the "expert in the room", providing expertise, experience, advice, and strategies. Consultants often provide solutions to problems for people and companies, analyzing something that's not working and providing concrete strategies and answers for a way to proceed.

The focus of Teaching is to impart given knowledge or skills to apply knowledge and skills in service of whatever is at hand.

The focus of Coaching is to work with something occuring in the present with a view to generating a desired future. Our work may hearken into the past, drawing on past experiences that inform your current emotional context, but our conversation is rooted in the present with specific goals in mind.

What is Embodiment?

Embodiment acknowledges the body as a subjective aspect of who you are:

“I am a body.” not “I have a body.”

We experience our emotions in our whole body, not in the mind as we are accustomed to thinking. A great deal of my coaching work helps individuals move from their thinking minds into their feeling bodies, not only to better understand their experiences but also to learn invaluable skills that allow them to be at choice with how they want to be, rather than at the mercy of their reactions.

Mindset work without the Body is incomplete.

We integrate the Body and Embodiment tools into our coaching work as resources for emotional information and as tools for generating new ways of being in your life.