Personal Development Coaching
Our personal development coaching is for clients who want to focus on their flourishing inside and outside of work. Personal development coaching gives the client more freedom to discuss a broader set of issues, though is still usually paid for by a sponsoring organisation. It is often a great opportunity to have deep, more expansive and exploratory conversations about life inside and outside of work. These conversations often have the power not only to heal hurts and wounds or reframe bad experiences, but also to explore exciting new pathways for a much more fulfilling life.
Personal development coaching is a great opportunity to have deep, more expansive and exploratory conversations about a more fulfilling life
Our first goals are always to build strong relationships of trust and professional support, whilst establishing a clear coaching agenda defining what greater flourishing looks like for each client. Many of our clients and their sponsoring organisations ask us to do a mix of professional and personal development coaching, and this works really well. On the professional issues we agree some reporting mechanisms back to the sponsoring organisations, but the discussions of personal issues remain between us and the individual being coached. Our one to one personal development coaching, like our professional development coaching, is anything between six and twelve sessions (one a month) often followed up by quarterly reviews in the following years. We do coaching with personal development clients using video links, meetings at cafes and hotels – we even have coaching conversations outside on long walks!
Personal development coaching
Key skills we focus on include:
- Working through life changes and transitions
- Building a rich emotional life
- Dealing with persistent and unhelpful emotions
- Building mutual relationships of trust
- Establishing and managing a vocation
- Working through major life disappointments
- Community and collaboration skills
- Communication
- Having great conversations that matter
- Developing a spirituality that works for you
- Working out your place in the community
- Working through difficult and complex relationships
- Exploring who you really are – your strengths, your preferences and your unique personality.
Articles
Every month we send out an article on flourishing, outlining some coaching reflections on how to flourish. These articles are particularly designed for clients who are interested in Personal Development Coaching. Below is a example to give you a flavour of the style and help you decide whether you would find them helpful.
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How are you?
Why do we find it so hard to answer one of life’s most common questions?
How are you? It’s a question that I never really enjoy answering, unless I am with one of my few soul mates. I can almost feel the neurons in my brain crashing into each other like badly driven bumper cars. It’s a question that gives birth to other equally tricky questions. What do I say? How interested, really interested is this person? Are they just being polite? And if the person is interested, what level of answer shall I give? Do I go for raw emotion or something deeper? And that sets off another set of questions: how am I – really?
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Key aspects of flourishing
The images on this page pick up on a number of the key aspects of flourishing that we bring to our personal development coaching. The top image highlights the need of many clients to slow down, detach themselves from the pressures of work and find a safe and supportive context for conversations that matter. Our goal as coaches is to create very different emotional environments for people to work through significant issues in their lives. The second image is very much about finding believable optimism and hope, often in very difficult periods. We have worked with a number of clients who have been through tremendously difficult, painful and dark times. We have had the privilege of helping them to find the light of hope, move from feelings of entrapment to more spacious places of freedom. We have helped people get unstuck from difficult emotions that have plagued their lives for too long, and helped them to find new, constructive emotions.