Coaching Philosophy
As your coach, I see you making your own holistic path to address your dreams, opportunities, and challenges. We do this by walking side-by-side in a holistic coaching partnership that supports you in uncovering your way. We use curiosity, embodiment, humor and self-awareness to gain insights into how you will craft and traverse your path--and how you will adapt to the forks along the way. Through coaching, we utilize your contextual identities, environments, experiences, and values so that you can create your holistic and intuitive learning journey. As a trained holistic coach in the International Coaching Federation (ICF) standards, I practice the ICF’s Code of Ethics, Core Competencies, and Values. I am also an active member of the ICF and ICF Oregon is my local chapter where I coach on Cowlitz, Sieletz, Grand Ronde, Clackamas, and Cascades Lands in Portland (source: native-land.ca).
Coaching Focus & Practice
I am a holistic coach with a focus on career transitions and balance, and I have a particular interest in coaching with workers in higher education, or workers who are transitioning from higher education into other sectors. While career transitions and balance is my focus, I enjoy coaching with a variety of people and on a variety of topics through a holistic approach. I enjoy talking with people who are curious about coaching, and I have a network of passionate and skilled professional coaches who focus on a wide range of topics. Even if I am not the coach for you, I will likely know a few coaches you would like to meet next!
My career transition went through the winding path of figuring out if I wanted to continue working in academia. While working in a full-time non-tenure teaching position, I had a sense that something else was going to be a better fit for me. Once I knew I wanted to do something else, I began to figure out what else I would like to do, and how I would go about making my transition. My experience being coached through serendipitous networking experiences helped me significantly in this process, and my experiences with coaches made me want to become a coach myself.
Experience & Training
I am a Certified Holistic Coach through the Holistic Coach Training Institute (HCTI), which is an ICF accredited provider of coach training. For 12 months, I trained with the HCTI in holistic coaching at the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) levels. I passed a performance evaluation for both the ACC and PCC levels. I am working toward my ACC experience hours to apply for the ICF ACC credential with a long term goal to reach a PCC and MCC (Master Certified Coach) level.
On a regular basis I work with coaches. Being coached, mentored and trained by coaches is one of the best ways I further my coaching practice.
I am an International Coaching Federation (ICF) member and I volunteer with my local ICF Oregon chapter.
This is my LinkedIn profile where my experience and eclectic academic studies can be found. Most of my working experience orbits around education, learning and teaching. I have worked in higher education, nonprofits and the private sector. My academic studies were in music performance (BM), environmental studies (BS), geography (MA) and education (PhD).
Coaching Containers & Cost
A coaching container is the way coaches offer their services over a set period of time and with a particular number of sessions within a container. For my containers, I meet every other week (or weekly if that suits the client) for 60 minutes for typically 6 sessions. A 6 session container is $600 USD and takes place over 3-4 months. Longer containers are also possible if that suits the clients goals.
Coaching Container Process
Before starting a coaching container, we will first have a no-cost conversation to see if coaching together is a good fit for us both. Email or use the Contact Form to set up a time to talk. This conversation is an opportunity to get to know each other. We will talk about what you want to work on and what might be getting in the way of your goals. The intention of this call is to have you gain more clarity about what your next steps will be, which might be coaching or something else.
If a container is your next step, investing in the container is next. There are also some on boarding materials to review and complete before our initial session. These materials include answering some questions that help set up the coaching container. There is also some materials to review that set you up for getting the most out of the coaching experience.
In our first session, we set up the overall coaching agreement for the container and the initial session is similar to a general coaching session but with a bigger picture in mind. The initial session will be referred back to throughout the container as a reference point. In the middle of the container, there is an opportunity to have a midway check during a coaching session.
The coaching sessions between the initial and final sessions follow a common pattern. This is described on the About Coaching page in the “Coaching Containers & Sessions” section of the page.
Our final container session will be a wrap up session to look back, determine next steps, and conclude in a way that aligns with your process. Next steps after a container might be moving on, setting up a followup container, or something else that best aligns with your next steps.
Next Steps
Email or use the Contact Form to set up a no-cost time to talk about coaching and coaching together. To know more about what holistic coaching is and the benefits of coaching go to my About Coaching page.
I coach from within Cowlitz, Sieletz, Grand Ronde, Clackamas, and Cascades Lands in Portland, Oregon (source: native-land.ca).
