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Life
Coaching is just one of the disciplines @ discerningWays…
Coaching is not telling what
to do but draws out and affirms relevant factors to enable
and equip decisions and actions. It helps to externalise internal
debate - to create space for realisation - coming to terms
with and working with the present and building into the future.
It involves identifying and connecting with a person where
they are now and enabling them to move beyond any present
barriers to fulfilling what they realistically aspire to.
Coaching is about 'realignment', facilitating change, releasing
the potential in people, bringing into reality hopes &
dreams, plans & schemes - be they personal or corporate
- individuals or teams. Coaching is about walking together
into a new place where exciting things are possible.
Coaching @ discerningWays…
One of the objectives
of coaching at discerningWays
is to help individuals
to touch base with their core vision, motivation, purpose,
and sense of 'calling' in life, and to re-connect with it.
For many the past becomes a constraint to going forward, but
we aim to discover with each client, how the past and what
we know to date, can be a springboard into the future. This
is achieved through a combination of creative, spiritual,
and pragmatic approaches to coaching.
At
discerningWays
we work with you to
help you to become who you are in the belief that each one
of us are uniquely created for a purpose, and that achieving
that purpose brings personal fulfilment and effective living.
We believe that our 'lifestyle' is something that comes from
within rather than an external approach to life that is adopted
or 'put on' as a prescribed 'formula for success' that, although
it may address an areas of life, becomes a badly fitting coat
on the whole of your being.
A sense of well-being
comes from internal integrity that is appropriate to the external
environment and situations that you are required to operate
within. For some there is disconnect between internal expectations
& perceptions, and the external realities that we are
engaged in. Achieving a healthy lifestyle is not just about
balancing the activities in our lives - prioritising work,
family, recreation. It must include an inner harmony which
is also balanced with external activities to achieve an 'active
poise' that brings fulfilment, releases energy and enables
effectiveness.
Most of our lives are determined
by a 'logical' assessment, focussed on the needs of
the situations that we are in. The needs may be external requirements
for action or internal expectations & conditions that
shape our behaviour. The pressures that are experienced within
each of these situations plus our cultural background tend
to fragment our appreciation of life at several levels, often
creating tensions and disconnect between ourselves and work,
family and any other activities/relationships that we are
engaged in.
An Holistic view begins to
help us to come to terms with where we are in life, and where
we need to go next. It cultivates a 'wholeness' perspective
where we can grow in awareness that we were created for a
purpose. We can then ask - "are we on track to fulfil
that purpose, or have we been diverted from it by the pressures
of life?"
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