Mentoring and Coaching
Mentoring and coaching are commonly distinguished from counseling in that with mentoring, we work together to address your future goals and life path, and how to best accomplish your wants. Psychotherapy, or counseling, often spends more time working with issues and belief systems held in the past. Mentors and clients have a more collegial relationship and work more in a team environment whereas counselor and client maintain a required, stricter “doctor-patient” relationship.
Of course, mentors don’t and can’t diagnose, and ethically should refer clients with deeper emotional issues to a licensed counselor. As a mentor with many years as a practicing counselor, I bring a broad range of tools we can apply to help you enhance the skills, resources, and creativity you already have.
Technically, mentoring and coaching can be different skills although the terms are often used interchangeably. Mentors typically use their knowledge, first-hand experience, and skills to guide lesser-skilled or experienced mentees in the right direction, whether professionally or personally. Coaches often focus on accomplishing specific goals, perhaps breaking larger, long-term goals into discrete or defined steps, all the while providing encouragement, feedback and guidance to the coachee as they tackle their goals. Both mentoring and coaching are options for us.
For a more personal touch, let’s add a shamanic heart walk to our program, and listen to what your heart desires for you. We stay too much in our logical minds, too little in our spiritual mind.
Afraid of moving forward? Negative thoughts holding you back? Let’s include the powerful shamanic ceremony of releasing overshadowing thoughts to your coaching program. All of my shamanic and Reiki tools are available to us during our coaching or mentoring sessions.
How IT works
We work one-on-one, at a frequency we mutually determine, depending upon your goals and needs. We’ll typically start by identifying what work you want us to accomplish together, potentially reviewing all major aspects of your professional and/or personal life, to include your thoughts on what’s keeping you from moving forward. Together, we’ll plot a measurable course of action to help you achieve what you’re seeking. Sessions usually last 50-minutes but can be scheduled for longer. We can tailor a program to fit your needs.
Benefits
Whether with a single or ongoing sessions, we work together to help to you progress towards your personal and professional goals. Searching for a spiritual path? Starting a new business and want an experienced ear to “white board” ideas with? Perhaps teaming with someone who can help you stay on your project plan, or help you develop your project plan? Whether it’s to increase your motivation, improve your health, figure out why you feel stuck on your current path, tackling that new direction you’re yearning for, we start with where you’re at in your personal and/or professional life today, then shift that paradigm to enable you to be more confident in meeting your goals.
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