Coaching
A word about Angela’s coaching
A coaching conversation with Angela is 50 minutes in length and costs
R450.00. Sessions take place either at her office in Parkview or over
the road at Zoo Lake, depending on the nature of the session.
Angela is not a conventionally trained coach and does not follow a
prescribed methodology. Her style is influenced by ontology, neuro-linguistic
programming and, most of all, the theoretical and practical teachings of
her intuitive work with thousands of clients.
A distinguishing factor of Angela’s coaching is that it focuses on a
client’s joy rather than directly on his / her success. This critical
distinction ensures the following:
• Clients do not set traditional goals, but are instead guided to free
themselves from over-identifying with personality, situation or other
content-related issues. The being of the person is addressed by means of
the doing and not vice versa.
• Where dreams are authentic and whole, clients will not work towards
these with a to-do list and deadlines, but instead be coached into
greater amounts of permission, learning and non-resistance, allowing the
dream to take form gracefully and not by force.
Some real-life illustrations include:
David is a senior management consultant in a high-performing
international firm. He is bright, driven and knowledgeable about his
industry and clients. Yet, in the high-pressured arena in which he
operates, he finds himself full of self-doubt, constantly ‘freaked out’
and stressed. Besides the impact this is having on his internal and
physical well-being it is also undoubtedly influencing his ability to
produce creative work and to hold his own amongst senior members of the
team.
We did not immediately set goals for David to get promoted or land an
enviable client. We did not simply write out some affirmations or make
him meditate for half an hour before work. While both of those
methodologies can work they are just that – methodologies – and without
deep and unambiguous permission methodologies on their own are a great
waste of time, effort and enthusiasm.
So we set to work to uncover the story behind David’s participation in
that environment. We discovered a profound pattern: David was relating
to his firm in exactly the same way as he relates to his parents (trying
very hard to win approval and attention) and to his peers in the same
way as to his siblings (fearful to play a mentorship role). He had
simply replicated his home life at work and precisely the same dynamics
were of course unravelling.
Without addressing David’s relationship to authority and parenting no
amount of affirmations, exercises, leadership programmes or meditation
would have truly shifted the underlying story and its subsequent effects
on David’s performance at work. Precisely one week after being made
aware of this pattern (just being made aware, no effort, no forcing) he
was moved to the client of his dreams.
Jenny, on the other hand, had a very specific dream of wanting to own
and run a school. She visibly brightened when she spoke about this
vision, and she was not holding any ambiguity or doubt about what she
wanted. Yet she did doubt that she was allowed to have it, and this was
being reflected in the manner in which particular family members were
reacting to her ideas. In one session of coaching, we recognized Jenny’s
clarity of vision and her ability to make it real. Two weeks after that,
she found the perfect premises, as well as the capital, to begin
building her school.
What’s important to recognize is that the promotion, or the dream
getting established, is not the aim of the coaching nor, indeed, of
life. Our purpose is in our becoming and not in our doing. I am
passionate about releasing clients from fears, limiting stories or self
doubt to be enabled to follow their bliss, but the real point of my work
is in supporting the emergence of the wise, creative, joyful being.
To book a coaching session with Angela email Garrick or call +27844608667.
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