Type an Overview of the Life Coaching Process

Type an Overview of the Life Coaching Process

Introduction

Coaching is a facilitation process that aims to instruct, inspire, develop, mentor, and motivate individuals, teams, and organizations to produce the best possible results within the specified context. At the helm of the coaching process is a coach who acts as a facilitator or catalyst using a range of techniques, abilities, or skills in the coaching process. This paper discusses life coaching process in the light of the below interview.

Type an Overview of the Life Coaching Process

According to her bio “Michelle James is a pioneering creativity catalyst who has been using universal creative principles and the process of emergence as the basis for her work with thousands of people - individuals, corporations and communities - for the past 14 years. Michelle's passion is infusing creativity and imagination into current knowledge and information systems for individual, organizational and social transformation. Her commitment is to 'mainstream' creativity, engaging the creative potential in organizations and other human systems.” Wow, that is one heck of an intro.

Michelle founded The Center for Creative Emergence almost 10 years ago and is serving clients at companies such as the World Bank, NIH, GEICO and NOAA to name just a few of the long list that doesn't do this paragraph justice (Stoltzfus, 2005). I was able to spend some time with this fascinating entrepreneur recently and here is a transcript of our interview:

Steve: How did you get into doing life coaching?

Michelle: Actually, it was a confluence of several elements coming together at once: my passion to unite the worlds of business, purpose and creativity (after seeing people completely split off from their creativity on the job); my previous experience in marketing, organizational development and various dimensions of creative process; and business brainstorming/ideating sessions with colleagues that turned into what I started calling Emergence Sessions because outcomes would emerge where “the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.” Referrals started gaining momentum. I began noticing patterns in the sessions and observing certain universal principles at play when engaging creative process. I then started consciously shaping and structuring my work into an accessible format, and Creative Emergence coaching was born. My coaching practice itself was a creative emergence (Stoltzfus, 2005).

Steve: For those not familiar with this type of service, what is coaching?

Michelle: Coaching is a process that enables learning, creativity and development to occur. The coaching relationships creates the conditions for an entrepreneur to be successful. A good coach has tools and techniques to help his or her a client access the mindset and skill set to become successful in work and life. Instead of advising a client, a good coach draws information and creative resources form the client. It is a collaborative partnership which involves a series of conversations, often with agreed-upon activities to do in between sessions. It is different with each client as each client has different needs.

Steve: Why would someone use a coach?

Michelle: For many reasons…

* New work directions and strategies

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