If you never change your mind, why have one?
~ Edward de Bono

Professional Coaching

Professional Coaching is an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance and enhance their quality of life.

Coaching encompasses your whole life. Though you may come to coaching to focus on one specific outcome, it's like trying to chlorinate only one corner of a pool. Change in one area will create change in another. Coaching helps you to integrate the change in a way that supports your whole life.

Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond
the knowable, to come back home to our elemental and essential
nature. Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors
we have closed and doors we have yet to open.
~ Navajo saying

The coach brings to the relationship expertise of the coaching process. Coaching provides a powerful structure to help people focus on specific outcomes and stay on track.

One of the more powerful attributes of coaching is the element of accountability. When you know that someone else is party to your promises, you develop a strength that you didn't realize you had. Coaching helps you strengthen your follow-through muscles.

Who Hires a Coach?

People who want things to be different.  They may want:

• More satisfying or meaningful work.
• More time.
• A more meaningful spiritual life.
• Deeper relationships.
• Freedom to make their own decisions and be themselves.

Or they may want:

• Less stress.
• Less craziness.
• Less procrastination or drifting.
• Less emphasis on things that have minimal value.

Things that are difficult to do are being done from the wrong centers

and are not worth doing
~ posted in A. Einstein’s office

What Happens in Coaching?

You start with a strategy session of about 2 hours. This initial meeting looks at the your focus and agenda, your strengths and possible obstacles, and establishes ground rules for creating the most effective relationship.

Clients call once a week for a half-hour coaching appointment. Coaching long distance is easily done.

Through powerful questions, listening, and visioning, together we make progress toward the client living a life that is more fulfilling

As client, you can expect your coach to hold you creative, resourceful and whole. This means that you are ultimately responsible for your growth, and that you have everything you need to create the life you want. (Really!)

People usually commit to three months of coaching and then continue on a month-to-month basis for as long as they continue to get the results they want. Coaching relationships that last 3 to 4 years is not too unusual.

Your coach does not give advice, tell you what to say or do, counsel or nag. Your coach believes you when you say you want something and holds you accountable when you say you will do it. This interaction creates clarity and moves you into action.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.
~ Montaigne

How is Coaching Different from Therapy, Mentoring or Consulting?

Therapy assumes clients require healing. Coaching assumes clients are healthy and resourceful. The heart of therapy is discussion; the heart of coaching is action.

A mentor guides others to develop mastery in an area where the mentor has experience and expertise. A coach helps individuals create the life and work they want.

Consultants intervene to solve a specific problem and then move on.  Coaching provides a structured relationship and the client decides when it is time to move on.

Forward Momentum, LLC focuses attention on three major areas of coaching:

Career Coaching – assists those who desire career transition, whether by choice or forced circumstance. We focus on designing and implementing a purposeful life that will provide a reasonable livelihood.

Learn more about Career Coaching

Retirement Planning / Coaching – assists those who are within 5 years of retirement plan how they will spend the next 30 years of their life.  We focus on finding meaning in life, how to structure time, where to live, and many other challenges that appear in this amazing part of life.

Learn more about Retirement Planning / Coaching

Life Coaching – assists individuals with clarification of goals and bringing meaning into their lives. It could encompass career, relationships, spirituality, finances, health, physical environment, or any number of circumstances that may appear in their lives. We work together to define what’s best for the individual.

Learn more about Life Coaching

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.
~ Steven Levine