How Coaching Works
When you hire a coach, you are not buying a package or an off-the-shelf product. Rather, you are partnering with a skilled professional who, with your input, will tailor coaching to meet your needs. A well-trained, expert coach will have no agenda other than helping you achieve the goals, peace of mind, and life satisfaction that you seek. Not only will coaching look different for you than it may for another of my clients but your coaching may look different for you from session to session. It will vary depending on your needs and requests for our time together.I am a co-active coach. Co-active coaching is a collaborative relationship between coach and client designed just for you. There is no hierarchy.
My coaching toolkit holds abundant options for us. I use questions, metaphors, movement, visualizations, intuition, listening, challenges and requests, and paper and pencil exercises, among others. Together, we learn what works for you to gain insights and discover your own answers. You will have homework between our sessions. These assignments are intended to further your learning so that you don't push a pause button between sessions. You decide if you want to commit to doing the request. If you should not follow-through on commitments you've made, we will coach on that to discover what got in the way. That can be full of learning for you. Periodically, we will check in with one another to decide if adjustments in our coaching are needed. Because we are collaborators, I depend on you to be honest and forthcoming about your experience and needs.
Why Coaching Works
Coaching provides a safe, expansive, confidential and unique context to express yourself freely and to find answers to your questions.Coaching provides you with your own personal navigator who will guide you, brainstorm, provide feedback and support, and give you a push, compassionately, when you need it.
Coaching puts you into action. You will stay on track and be accountable. You will move forward. It's not all talk.
Coaching deepens your self-knowledge. You will come to know yourself more authentically and know what you stand for.
Coaching inspires and motivates. The spark that brought you to coaching will grow and propel you to achieve your aspirations.
Coaching works because you have a burning desire for a more meaningful, satisfying life. You hold the answers as to how to get there; the solutions and paths you decide upon are yours, no one else's. That ensures that the changes you make are sustainable.
Please contact me by email or give me a call at (314) 787-8171 to find out more about coaching! If not now, when?
"Fran, I am in awe of your gifts. You quickly zeroed in on the problem, helped guide me into a way to recognize it for what it was, and then just let go of it. After letting go I felt tremendous freedom. Immediately. All the images were so helpful. I really want to thank you and tell you how grateful and unburdened I feel. Thank you for your amazing gifts!"
LC, St. Louis, MO
Musician and a Force of Nature
"Fran is a compassionate and influential coach who has shown me that there is more to life, that my life can be more full and joyous. When I work with Fran I feel that she has no other clients because she makes me feel that I am her only concern. Through the use of various techniques, Fran helped me help myself when finding alternatives to my struggles. Through holding me accountable for my goals, Fran helped me show myself that I can do it and that what I once thought could never be achieved, can be. Fran helped me articulate what I was feeling, dissect it and explore my options. Thank you Fran for creating a loving and warm space for me to explore myself."
EG, OH
College student
"I came to coaching in an all out search for answers. I wanted to find a way to uncover a more authentic me. I had achieved some level of success in my life but I wanted more. With coaching I am developing a sense of well-being and to capture the essence of what I yearn for."
WD, St. Louis, MO
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