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:

Who am I?
Where do I belong?
What do I care about?
How should I contribute?
Where do I belong?
What do I care about?
How should I contribute?


