Coaching is a partnership.

Coaching creates a focused and supportive space for you to work on a goal, address an issue, or make a decision. It facilitates your growth and helps you take action. My role is to support, guide, and encourage you, but not to lead the way. The direction or agenda comes from you. The answers will also be yours, after all those are the ones that will work for you. But coaching helps you find those answers.

I can help you:

identify your choices.
build on your strengths.
address what you're tolerating.
articulate and clarify goals.
see new possibilities.
make decisions.
figure out plans of action.

How coaching differs from consulting, therapy, and mentoring.

Treat yourself better.
Set bigger goals for yourself.
Stop putting up with things that don’t serve you.
Shift your understanding.
Make significant changes in your behavior.
Go for what you want.

Ask more for yourself.

Seeing A Way Through

I love this view out from Dunnydeer Castle, in my father's ancestral village of Insch in Scotland. It holds the promise of greener pastures. As a trained life coach with a background in teaching, writing, and facilitation, I know that stories----the ones we tell to and about ourselves---are central to how we see ourselves and behave in the world. While the facts of our lives don't change, our interpretation of them can. Coaching supports more sustaining stories that lead to more empowered action. Coaching can help you find a way through.

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My support

Listening closely and asking questions about what you mean and want, to facilitate clarity and open new understandings.
Helping you see where you are now and clarifying where you want to be.
Providing a space in which you can explore new options, try new attitudes, and work out solutions.
Highlighting your strengths and holding the vision of what you want and are capable of.
Acknowledging your challenges and encouraging new ways of thinking, so you can take steps toward your goals.
Facilitating your ability to be accountable to your intentions or adjust them for better success.
Celebrating your wins!

Working together

For our coaching sessions, we can meet in person, over Zoom, or by phone. Our coaching relationship may last anywhere from several weeks to several months, depending on the level of support you are looking for. Weekly or bi-monthly sessions are an hour long.

How I came to coaching

It was conferencing with students about their writing when I was an instructor of Freshman Composition at UNH that made me realize how much I enjoy supporting people one-on-one. In this coaching role, I practiced attuning to my students, listening for meaning, and asking clarifying questions.

Teaching writing taught me to love revision, with its invitation to re-see, to think again. Revision means we don’t have to get it right the first time. Revising, in life as in writing, acknowledges that it takes time to figure out what we really want and mean. And coaching offers you support in that process.

Writing got me interested in helping people tell their life stories and speak their truths. Writing is a great tool for self-discovery! It's a tool I'd encourage you to use to clarify what you want, a means to get more in line with yourself. Learn more about what motivates Rebecca.