Coaching

What is 3rd Act Coaching?

Through one-on-one sessions for 1 to 2 hours with individual work assigned between sessions, 3rd Act Coaching:

• Honors the client as the expert in his/her personal and professional life with the agenda that provides the direction for the coaching relationship.
• Supports and encourages the client in self-discovery; and exploration of options and potential
• Helps clients to design a plan for a life that has vitality, balance and fulfillment.

How do we work together?

• Core Roles of the Coach: Strategic Partner, Supporter, Expert, Listener, Facilitator, Change Advocate
• Assumptions
  • The client is creative, resourceful and whole.
  • The client is not in need of fixing.
  • The client is capable of taking center stage with the answer.
  • The client is best served if the coach is skilled at staying off stage.
  • The coach’s role is to be supporting cast, without attachment to being right.
  • The coach avoids answers and solutions, relies on intuition, the power of questions and occasional suggested ideas to support the client in writing her Third Act
  • The coaching relationship preparing for the 3rd Act necessarily occurs over time and rests on a commitment of confidentiality.

What the coach brings:

• A process and conceptual framework.
• Spirit of inquiry and appreciation.
• Understanding of and experience in applying behavioral and systems disciplines such a psychology, group dynamics, human and organization systems based on solid training and experience of being coached.
• Assessment methods as appropriate.

What the client brings:

• Emerging goals and desired outcomes.
• Curiosity about the process, the opportunities that await and what can be different or better.
• Willingness to engage with time and energy to meet, do “homework” and give conscious attention during and between meetings.
• Openness to self-exploration and change—the essence of coaching.

What is the Process?

• Establishing a partnership: Explore goals and purpose for 3rd Act Coaching, building the relationship and agreeing on how we will work together.
• Learning the context: What was the Second Act? What is happening now? What is changing? What is the impact?
• Assessment: Depending on client goals, provide opportunities for self-assessment and feedback to gain self-insight.
• Commitment to learning and change: Fostering acceptance and commitment to learning and change—Going on stage for the Third Act—through the identification of specific goals and actions.
• Responding to challenges and opportunities: Supporting and assisting the client to leverage strengths and learn from the dilemmas and challenges he/she is facing.
• Celebrate, Evaluate and Move on: Recognize and acknowledge success, evaluate progress and move on to new goals.

How do we focus?

• We will explore the balance of energy and interest in the Physical, Financial, Emotional, Social, Mental, Professional, Spiritual aspects of life.
• Based on the future that is opening up we will examine these provocative questions: