I formally became a coach in 2015 to shift my paradigm from healing to empowering my clients in their change process in a new way. At the time, I was in the Movement Therapy and Bodywork space, focusing on helping my clients learn to move their bodies with functional ease to relieve and eliminate chronic pain. My role was essentially the teacher and guide, impacting my client’s lives, but something was missing. I wanted a new way to relate to my clients and my expertise.

The shift was subtle at the time, but I knew I wanted to support them to shift the deeper patterns on a holistic level and shift the paradigm on how they were relating to their bodies from something to be “fixed” to a part of themselves that had wisdom and information to offer. I came to coaching looking for a new paradigm to relate to my clients – shifting out of being the teacher or guide and supporting my clients to tap into their wisdom and potential in a new way. By making a subtle shift within myself from healer and teacher to coach, I facilitated my clients turning to their wisdom, process, and insight and using me as a sounding board instead of a source.

The coaching model puts us side by side with our clients on a path where the source of our wisdom is between us and within us.

It is an approach to supporting our clients to actualize their potential in their lives by not leading the way but asking for the next step. The magic of coaching is the relationship and the coach’s ability to tap into their transformative energy and leadership in their own lives so they can hold that space for their clients. In this way, coaching transforms the coach as well as the client.

I like to think of coaching as a paradigm of relating that is one among many – like healing, guiding, mentoring, and so forth. But I think the coaching paradigm can potentially move humanity forward in new ways that others may not. This is because the pure coaching paradigm allows us to meet each other not with the expectation that we know the way but that we will envision and create the course together. It taps into a way of relating, being, living, and envisioning together that is profoundly creative and empowered by nature.

I now use coaching as one of my primary methods with my clients, but I continue to move in and out of the role as the healer, consultant, and guide. But even when coaching is mixed with other paradigms (like consulting, healing, mentoring, etc.), when coaching is at the center, the energy of the relationship stays creative, empowered, inspired, and visionary.

In this way, coaching inspires the more significant movement at the heart of my life and business- constantly seeking my conscious growth and evolution and supporting that in others.

So, how does the coaching paradigm inspire a new movement towards conscious co-creating in your life and business? What is the movement you are here to create as a coach? Download the guide below for my tips on activating your movement.

Cheering you on,