How coaching and mentoring can help you navigate life's challenges and support you to do even better!
A mentor is someone who shares their knowledge, skills and/or experience, to help another to develop and grow in themselves and their competency. A coach is someone who provides guidance to a client on their goals and helps them reach their full potential.
1. Self-awareness The first significant area of development for most participants is self awareness and self knowledge. This is a foundational skill for both personal and professional development. Once we develop ways to embody, to notice, and reflecting the practice of knowing ourselves more deeply we can then work to cultivate a deeper insight into what you need, what you want. What your challenges and gifts are and future areas of growth and transformation.
2. Resilience By cultivating self-awareness, and ways to effectively reduce stress, we can then develop more tolerance of the challenges and difficulties in life. Through learning some basic resilience practices we can become more able to adapt to changing circumstances In turn. This also decreases the likelihood of burnout and can help improve mental health with a deeper sense of life satisfaction. Through forming a more congruent and authentic picture of who you are are in your becoming, this awareness can inform you as you navigate life's challenges and start to orientate your life more consciously and functionally.
3. Collaboration With personal awareness and transformational practices you are more able to understand the motivations and underlying commitments of other people, benefiting from reduced conflict and improved confidence in boundaries and decision-making. This can help improve time management and being able to work in more healthy relationships with others. As well as becoming more aware of human nature and how inter-relationships are operating in the more than human world too.
4. Self-efficacy The main components of self-efficacy are learning through another’s experiences and being affirmed by people you trust. These factors are key building blocks in the coaching relationship. Creating strategies to achieve goals and celebrating those successes with a coach is a prime way to build confidence and trust in oneself. Any goals or intentions that we work with together may be action based, relational or well-being based- you set your intentions and objectives as this content is on your terms.
5. Communication Effective communication skills can help you in all aspects of life — both in familial relationships and professionally in the workplace. To be able to clearly communicate thoughts and feelings has it's own positive impact on stress — as this is most certainly exacerbated by dysfunctional communication. The communication practices and tools I work with include assertiveness, exploring options, practicing difficult conversations. Learning and practicing authentic and compassionate communication ( removing blame and shame language). The language of the body- our whole truth. Practicing being in integrity - as communication happens on many levels not just verbal.
6. Work-life balance With coaching, I can help you to take time to inquire and to set your own priorities Our work together can help implement clearer boundaries and to make this practice a greater part of your life, that can empower you to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This can lead to more job and life satisfaction and can be attributed to both improved self care and living in greater alignment with your passion, your goals, intentions and aspirations. While growing meaning and purpose in your life.
7. Increased mental health Coaching and mentoring can help to improve your mental health and help to practice self regulatory, self soothing, relational ways of promoting a healthy life for your selves . It can also then help you support others in your life, increase life satisfaction, living with purpose, and social interactions and connections.
8. Adaptability There is a lot of current research showing that often we can get stuck as we habitually follow predetermined patterns. Opening up our internal apertures and exploring wholeness can help you to become more adaptable to deep change and uncertainty. More flexible, more available to what is present and less chaotically reactive, helping you to make a more considered approach to changes and challenges
9. Purpose, meaning and passion. Getting clear on our core values, core principles, and nurturing our vision for the future all help us orientate better to our life and our place in the bigger scheme of things. Getting clear of life purpose is an ongoing journey of becoming and evolving. It is not a final destination so thus practices can help you throughout life as you grow and change.
10. Assertiveness The drama triangle describes the roles of victim, persecutor, rescuer and how these roles interact. We can instead cultivate the roles of creator, challenger and coach, becoming an actively engaged author of our lives and interactions. Challenge and conflict will always be present in our lives, we can learn how to be engaged with conflict in beneficial and transformative ways. Where it becomes a place of developing resilience and creative solutions. 11. More than IQ The cultivation of our many intelligences, intellectual, emotional, somatic, relational, social, spiritual, cultural, habit life, …developing as a whole person.