What is Coaching?
Coaching is a supportive relationship that helps you gain clarity about what’s most important to you, set goals that are aligned and meaningful, and move beyond your usual stopping points to achieve them by focusing your attention and energy and tapping into your internal resources.
Am I the Right Coach for You?
I love to support purpose-driven individuals who are committed to living consciously, compassionately, and building a better world. This includes non-profit, social impact, or humanitarian professionals, educators, those in pastoral or ministerial roles, medical professionals, and dedicated volunteers. I'm not limited to working with clients in these roles though and will be happy to partner with anyone who'd like to benefit from coaching.
People usually seek coaching because they desire growth and change in some area(s) of their life. I’m happy to work with you on any topic related to your personal or professional development, though most clients come with one or more of the following:
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Making Your Vision a Reality
You have a vision, dream, or goal that’s important to you, but you feel stuck trying to bring it to fruition. Coaching will help you identify your next steps and take action. Or maybe you struggle even to articulate a vision and set goals. Coaching can help with that too.
Career Satisfaction
You may be feeling unmotivated, disengaged, or discouraged in your work, or finding your effectiveness diminished by prolonged stress, overwhelm, or lack of focus. Coaching can help you bring your best qualities to your work and experience greater satisfaction in your professional life.
Navigating Change
You’re facing a big life transition with an uncertain path ahead – relationship, career, relocation, midlife, empty nest, retirement, etc. Coaching can help you get clear about the future you want to create and live into it with focus, ease, and grace.
Directing Your Energies
You’re dissatisfied with the way you’re investing your time and energy; too much here, too little there. Coaching can help you learn to focus on the things you care about most in a balanced and sustainable way and accomplish goals that express what's most important to you.
What can I expect from our coaching sessions?
Over the course of our coaching relationship, we'll work together to:
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Get clear about what's most important to you and the contribution you desire to make in the world.
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Identify your core values and strengths.
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Set aligned, meaningful goals and take action to accomplish them.
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Observe and move beyond the worries, doubts and fears that might arise.
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Check in on the progress you're making.
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Celebrate your success along the way.
Some Important Distinctions
Clients sometimes come to coaching expecting therapy, counseling, consulting, mentoring, or training. While these are all beneficial in particular contexts, coaching is a distinct approach. Here’s how:
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Therapy or counseling helps you gain important insights and experience healing. Coaching supports you to gain clarity about what is most important to you and take action toward your vision and goals.
Mentoring offers guidance from someone with more experience and success in a particular field or area. Coaching guides you according to your own values and intentions.
Consulting provides solutions based on another’s subject matter expertise. Coaching helps you tap into your own wisdom and emboldens you to act upon it.
Training follows a set curriculum toward pre-defined learning objectives. Coaching reveals your own objectives and helps you chart your own path to fulfill them.
Getting Started
I offer a free 45-minute discovery session to discuss what you’d like to achieve and decide if coaching is right for you. We'll start by clarifying what you'd like to get out of working together as well as answering any questions you might have.
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There's no obligation at all. If it doesn't feel like a fit, I'll be happy to share referrals to other excellent coaches in my network. I can also help you decide if a different approach might be better suited to your needs.
Investment
My minimum coaching package includes 12 one-hour sessions over 6 months, along with text and email support in between sessions as desired. This time frame is long enough to achieve meaningful results and short enough for a do-able commitment. You can always rewew if you choose.
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I believe strongly in the value of coaching because I’ve experienced its benefits in my own life. To make it accessible to people in a range of financial situations, I offer a sliding payment scale. My fee structure to the right includes two 50-minute sessions per month, as well as any text and email support you might like in between.
I ask that you select a tier that’s an authentic stretch for you, but not a hardship:​
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$300/month if you’re making ends meet
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$400/month if you're living comfortably
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$500/month if you're thriving financially
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I can also offer a scholarship rate on an individual basis and packages for non-profit organizations, so please don't hesitate to reach out. Use the contact form or send me an email to schedule a free Discovery session.
"Partnering with Chris to navigate both personal and professional opportunities offered insights that I wouldn’t have been able to realize by myself. He is an attentive listener, an expert question asker, and an insightful ally. Chris helped me understand things from a new perspective and that awareness allowed me to let go of confusion and move forward with clarity. He is highly talented and I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone looking for a skilled partner on their journey."
Andy, Non-profit Leader and Consultant