Coaching is not psychotherapy.
Life coaching differs from consulting and counseling in that life coaches are guides that help you discover, through guided inquiry, new ways of thinking and processing information instead of telling you what you should be doing or are doing wrong. It is not as linear a process, the coach and client use their creativity to come up with new solutions to problems or improvements to existing systems. Coaches share with you suggestions, ideas and mastermind with you in order to help you move ahead on your terms, within your integrity and based on your values. It is always about the client and their agenda.
When it works, it is magical. You can feel the energy between the coach and client build and the excitement explode and ideas are flowing freely like an electrical current. It is astounding to see the momentum when there is a shift in the thought process. One degree, two degrees change in thinking, can send your ideas and your creativity in an entirely different direction.
Two minds are greater than one mind plus one mind. Together, the minds of the coach and client form the mastermind, an entity far greater than the sum of its parts. The coach is there to support the client in change and to help with action items and accountability. The coach is your guide on safaris through unfamiliar territory, your advocate and your support system. It is truly a powerful process that I hope you all have the opportunity to experience. It is so powerful when coach and client work in harmony.
Love and Light,
Coach Kristine
