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Values and Philosophy

Coaching for Purpose™ – Philosophy and Guiding Principles

 “Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can.”

--Emerson

As a coach I'll be working with your fundamental values and beliefs. For that reason it's important that you understand what I believe in regarding my coaching and what you should expect.

My Background:

I come to coaching with a diverse background that reflects both my interests and inclinations.

• 17 years teaching foreign language in high schools.
• Nine years working in the high tech industry: six as a senior level executive working with networks and web content, two as Director of a Non-Profit Internet Service provider, and one as a web-based business owner (which I still run today).
• I became interested in coaching because all the work I did as a teacher and business leader revolved around working with people to get them to realize their worth and potential as I moved forward with them rather than telling them what to do.
• As far as my education and training, I have a BA and MA in French, an Administrative School Executive Certification, and am trained and certified by the Coaches Training Institute of San Rafael, California (CPCC).

My Beliefs:

These are the values and principles that led me to start Coaching for Purpose™ and those that keep me going.

• A coach focuses completely on the client’s agenda, supporting and facilitating the difficult work of finding one’s own way, based on a mutually designed plan of thought and action to achieve results and create a self-sustaining plan for lifelong growth.

• A coach is a full partner with the client in the coaching process.

• In the coaching relationship, coach and client are committed to collaborating as peers, mutually determined to seek the best possible outcome the relationship can produce.

• Clients come to the coaching process with goals. They are looking for the assistance a coach provides to help them sort through those goals, point towards a more effective process, and accompany them to the fulfillment of those goals.

• A coach creates the conditions of resourcefulness, self-reliance, and confidence so he won’t be needed by the client in the future. An important part of the coaching process is producing a stronger client capable of self-directed change.

• Coaching is complex: it is not a linear sequence of events, but rather the recognition and appreciation of all the nuances of being human. Coaching is holistic, taking into accounts all aspects of the client’s life: intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual.

• Coaching is values-based. The coaching relationship identifies, clarifies, and celebrates the client’s values to make them the foundation for future growth and change. Coaching is based on a love of learning and an insatiable curiosity about how people and human organizations work. Coaches strive to make life better through improving the human condition.

• And, most important, coaching is about you, the client: what do you want to be and how will you get there?

Many of these ideas and thoughts were inspired and borrowed from Co-Active Coaching by Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phil Sandahl, copyright 1998 by Davies-Black Publishing.

International Coach Federation Pledge of Ethics - Click here for a pdf.

Coaching brings serenity and calm intention to even the most turbulent and active life.