Coaching, explored through 3 questions

What is coaching ?

The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as an alliance between a coach and a client through a process that stimulates reflection and creativity to maximize their personal and professional potential.

Coaching is a relationship built together to guide you in achieving your objectives and unlocking your potential, grounding yourself in your individuality and singularity.

I wanted to begin this blog post with the official ICF definition so as to provide a framework. Too often, « coaching » is used to describe situations that have nothing to do with actual coaching: a coach doesn’t give advice or recommendations; a coach doesn’t pass judgement or lectures. A coach is neither a consultant, nor a mentor, nor a professor.

My role as a coach is to create a safe and trusting space used to deepen learning and motivate you to take action.

What is it for ?

Coaching is an amazing opportunity to learn, to grow, to face and overcome difficulties, or to explore new frontiers, while feeling more accomplished and fulfilled.

With a coach, you will benefit from an external perspective, attentive and judgement-free listening at the service of your personal growth, and a professional partner who sees you for who you are and progresses with you, while keeping your objectives in focus.

Getting an outside perspective

If you no longer clearly see the path ahead, an outside perspective can be useful. As a coach, I walk by your side, listen, and reflect on what I see or feel. I provide you with a neutral opinion to create new opportunities or to open new pathways to reflect or grow.

A growth booster

At the beginning of our engagement, I take time to explore with you your objectives and your expectations, to outline a clear image of what successful coaching would look like to you. My role is also to keep sight of your ambitions and to use my external perspective to give you feedback. As we embark on our coaching journey, we work simultaneously on your inner resources, on the activation of your talents and on the impact you want to have in the world, while contributing to your development and self-growth.

A call to action

Grounded in human qualities, coaching is a process that serves as an eye-opener and a call to action. Pondering and progress continue outside of our sessions, and it is the activation of your learnings in the real world which allows you to identify what is useful to progress towards your objectives.

How does it all work ?

Coaching is a complete process, which can touch every aspect of our lives.

When we first meet, we define your areas of interest, your priorities, and the results you expect from the coaching process.

Based on what you bring to the coaching session, I provide you with a space and customized exercises to raise your awareness and articulate the objective you wish to achieve.

You always have the choice to accept this offer, to make a counteroffer or to refuse it.

It is a unique opportunity to experiment and play with growth in action. Who knows better than you do what is best for you?

Coaching will demand involvement, courage, and an openness to reexamine yourself, to test new ways of growing sustainably, with a goal to improve alignment and fulfillment.

I trained to become a coach in 2015 in London and Paris and I am a certified ICF coach. I am committed to welcome my clients where they are and to walk by their side through their realizations, with benevolence, and in a trusting space.

Certified by the Co-Active Training Institute, I fully embrace its philosophy because it encourages the client to experiment and connects the “being” to the “doing”.

In today’s world, focused on achievements, I like to stress the importance of who we are and to reconcile know-how and soft skills; it is not only what you achieve but also how you achieve it.

Coaching is about raising awareness. Exploring. Experimenting. Defining your own personal path. Making decisions. Taking action.

Give it a try, the first session is non-binding!