Question 1

Do you take insurance?

Accepted Answer

As most insurance companies do not cover coaching, we do not offer insurance receipts.

Question 2

What types of payments do you take?

Accepted Answer

If you are in Canada, we accept e-transfers. If you are outside of Canada, you can pay via PayPal.

Question 3

Are your sessions online?

Accepted Answer

Individual coaching sessions are offered through Zoom while group coaching sessions are in-person.

Question 4

What is the difference between coaching and therapy?

Accepted Answer

Therapy and coaching can be complementary but have some key differences.

Past vs. future: A coach looks at your present to help you create the future you desire, while a therapist looks at your past to help you manage your present. Clients who keep talking about the past may need healing and support from a therapist.

Diagnosis vs. cocreation: Therapists diagnose disorders and work with traumas, while in coaching, the solution is cocreated between the coach and the coachee. The coach doesn't tell the client what to do but asks questions and facilitates their thinking process to maximize their strengths and resources.

Relationship patient vs. equal: In therapy, the relationship is between doctor and patient who needs to receive treatment, while in coaching, both client and coach are considered equal. There is no hierarchy or anyone who knows better.

Question 5

What does coaching believe in?

Accepted Answer

The underlying belief in coaching is that every individual has the ability to find solutions to their challenges from within themselves. They just need someone to support them in their process of discovering and uncovering those solutions.

Question 6

What can coaching help you with?

Accepted Answer

Greater self-awareness: Find the ability to appreciate your strengths and consistently operate from them.
Greater impact: Deliver greater impact professionally – on people, culture and business; and personally – in areas of life that you value, by unlocking your best self.
Easier Transitions: Make more intentional decisions. And succeed in a new career, role or assignment, by navigating the challenges and learning demands in new unfamiliar circumstances.
Clarity and alignment – Purpose: Answer the questions ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Why am I here?’ Through alignment with your purpose, find energy, joy and flow, and ultimately, greater success and fulfillment.
Harnessing a growth mindset: Nurture the courage to take on bigger challenges, the resilience to work through them, and the flexibility to adapt and succeed in an ever-changing world.
Synergy, effectiveness and impact of leadership team: Operate in sync, aligned to a common purpose and shared goals, to deliver greater impact. Enable your leadership team to unleash success through the rest of the organization.

Question 7

What does a coach do?

Accepted Answer

A coach holds the space of total acceptance for himself or herself and for their client as he or she facilitates the client’s self-discovery and re-connection to their inner-most truths about themselves – their qualities, their gifts and their life purpose.

The coach also facilitates the client with their conscious alignment with their inner-most truths in their everyday decisions and actions.

The coach’s role is to raise the level of consciousness of the client through questions that allow the client to choose what they want, what they are prepared to do and what they are prepared to commit to themselves in the present moment.

Question 8

What does a coach not do?

Accepted Answer

A coach does not advise. A coach believes the client has the answers and the ability to find them. A good coach operates a a good listener and from a beginner’s mindset.
A coach does not rescue. A coach coaches but does not become a crutch.
A coach does not get involved in the client’s problems.
A coach does not set the agenda for the client.
A coach does not sit in judgement of the coachee or his/her specific challenges.
A coach does not dictate the solution and the timing of the coachee’s journey.

Question 9

Who sets the agenda for a coaching session?

Accepted Answer

The client always sets the agenda. The best agenda is often specific, accessible, exciting, stretched and anchored to the future and the client’s overall goal. The coach holds no brief for the client’s agenda and approaches every session from a learner’s mindset.

Question 10

What is a good agenda to bring to a coaching session?

Accepted Answer

Every coaching session begins with an agenda. The client’s agenda. The coach holds the space for the client and for the client’s agenda and allows it to unfold through the session. A good agenda is Definitive, Exciting, Forward looking, Stretched, Time limited, Anchored and Reachable.

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