Coaching & Living Well
Towards Better Coaching
Towards Better Coaching
Coaching’s ultimate aim, I believe, is to help people live well in both their personal lives and their professional lives. What living well means in practice, however, is rarely obvious, nor is how coaching can best support people in fulfilling their potential to live well.
The big issues concerning what coaching does and how it works are rarely explored seriously by the coaching industry as a whole, which has barely deepened its understanding since coaching emerged as a profession in the early 1990s. But at Coachwise we believe that these issues are important. They underlie everything that we do as coaches. So we’ve drawn on philosophy, on our experiences as coaches, and on anything else that might prove useful, to develop more satisfying ways to understand the coaching process.
We have now launched a set of Living Well courses that give coaches a simple set of maps of the territory of living well. We believe that these maps can help coaches shape better investigations and we believe that many of those who get coaching would also benefit from having access to these maps, for this would enable them to collaborate more closely with their coaches and shape better investigations together.
Life’s Big Picture
The first three courses focus on the ways in which coaching helps people handle the big picture of their lives.
- Authentic Purpose explores how a person can be guided by an examined sense of purpose in all the most important areas of their life.
- Becoming Strategic looks at how people can become better at navigating life at the big picture level and therefore arrive at futures they’re glad to reach.
- Getting Organised looks at what it takes, in practice, to become better organised.
Human beings are narrative creatures. We weave together strands of belief into stories that define who we are what what our lives are all about. Purpose, strategy and organisation can work together to give coachees a clear sense of their own life stories. They can gain control over who they are.
Using The Moment
The next two courses are about how coaching can help people better handle situations as they arise in the here and now.
- Maintaining Orientation looks at how, by being fully oriented, people can make good use of what particular moments offer.
- Performance examines what it takes to do things well.
Orientation and performance can work together to help coachees advance their life stories through taking advantage of what is possible from moment to moment.
Putting Everything Together
- The Examined Life explores the fundamentals of the human condition and shows how the human capacity for insight can overcome the aspects of the human condition that might otherwise be troubling.
- Coaching Journeys looks at how a series of coaching sessions can be structured to guide a person towards living a fully insight-led life.
These are challenging times. Many people are anxious and many struggle to know how they can make the most of their time upon the planet. At Coachwise, we believe that it is only by going beyond the simplistic thinking of the early 1990s that coaching can truly meet people’s needs.
Our Mission
The Coachwise mission is to make it possible for everyone to fulfil their potential to live well, with coaching and coach training as the vehicles we use to pursue this mission.
The launching of our Living Well courses is a big step towards delivering on that mission. We believe the courses are important, so we are currently making them available for free.
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