CORE COACHING PHILOSOPHY

One’s journey is filled with repeating attempts to find wholeness. Together we will search for connections and inadequate strategies that have you stuck.

Underlying Assumption

The strength, insight, and resources needed for the journey ahead reside within you. Together, we’ll identify and trace those threads as they have surfaced in your life so far. Those themes leave little breadcrumbs that we’ll follow to bring you back to the table of belonging, purpose, and peace.

Tools of Self-Discovery

Writing, poetry, art, dreams, re-telling, tears, and laughter are the places stories are told. They provide us with a set of tools we can use to recover your sense of belonging, purpose, and peace. These tools prove to be a place of healing.

New Path for the Future

From this framework of identifying themes, tracing them through your story, and equipping you with a set of tools to facilitate healing, we will begin to see a clear roadmap emerge - moving you through the crossroads of your life’s journey.

This approach will equip you for future crossroads and enable you to do the same for others.

Footings


by Mike Wright

My body can’t see
What my soul has caught glimpses of
That Spirit speaking to spirit has seen,
Deep movement,
Below the water’s surface
Sloppy wet cement
Slides under the choppy surface
Guided into forms of my true self
A hardening foundation is laid

What might rise from these
Deep, strong footings?

“Mike asks insightful questions in a way that causes your soul to pause, reflect, and find in yourself an answer you didn’t realize you could come to.”

— Maxwell Mooney, Founder of Narrative Coffee

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WHAT EVERY MAN NEEDS

There are times we can’t articulate what we need but when we see it laid out in front of us, something clicks and it just falls into place. In my journey these desires and needs have proven essential to vibrant, meaningful living.

  • An holistic paradigm of the life journey.

  • Meaningful, intimate relationships that are non-sexual.

  • Permission and encouragement to be honest with those closest to us.

  • Someone with the capacity to hold our fears, hurts and uncertainties.

  • Self-awareness of our needs.

  • Space for self-discovery beyond other’s expectations.

  • Language to describe what we are experiencing within.

  • Acknowledgment and affirmation of our complex emotional life.

  • Models and guidance through transition.

Coaching the Crossroads