CCoaching is becoming one of the fastest growing professions on the market. While there are handfuls of styles or “coaching niches”, outside of sports coaching the main types of coaching include:
• Life coach
• Personal coach
• Health coach
• Executive coach
• Business coach
• Leadership coach
• Relationship coach
• Sexual coach
• Spiritual coach
• Performance coach
• Creativity coach
• Success coach
Each one of these coaching styles has a various techniques, skills, ideologies, methodologies, and parameters they work within. There are many coach education programs and schools found across the world with varying degrees of training and reputation. The International Coach Federation (ICF) is the largest global governing and accreditation regulatory body for coaches.
While there are sometimes additional educational opportunities, along with many suggested adjunctive programs for enhancing your coaching capacity, sometimes it is necessary for you to work with another coach to improve your coaching practice. Being met and held within the fine-tuned practice of a fellow practitioner can be one of the most liberating and inspiring moments in your own personal practice. When you find yourself not taking your clients as far as you’d like; when you aren’t as creative, profitable, energized, or focused as you’d like; or when you want to deepen your own commitment to the art & science of coaching then it is time to connect with The Wayfinder.
Integral Coaching Canada’s (ICC) Integral Coaching® certification program is the most extensive coaching program within the ICF. ICC’s Integral Coaching® program has been said to be “the most sophisticated professional application of integral theory in any discipline”*, creating the “most complete and the most comprehensive”* coaching application available anywhere. James is an ICF ICC Certified Integral Coach®, and one of ICC’s top coaching instructors. He has been an ICC certification board member, and has introduced Integral Coaching® methodology to many audiences worldwide.
As Integral Coaching® is innately designed to hold the meta-views and meta-capacities of other coaching methodologies, James is highly skilled to work with coaches from any school, philosophy, or application. He will be able to help you move to the next level of your own coaching capacity, and delve further into the creative maturation of your own coaching style. As a coach who has clients in many cultures and domains James can take you towards any direction you wish to evolve into within your coaching practice. When you acknowledge that you need to step fuller into your chosen career as a coach, and are ready to evolve your commitment, creativity, and capacity within your practice, then contact The Wayfinder to cultivate your “What’s Next”.
Coaching is a dynamic profession. The fast-pace of 21st century life, coupled with the ever-changing experiences that most clients are involved in requires a coach to both hold solid ground and be sophisticatedly responsive. To continually provide significant and valuable coaching services coaches must discover how to hone their skills and their personalities, while maintaing the precision of the program they’ve designed for a client. A static and substantial coach will not last as long nor provide the depth that a more dynamic coach can deliver. Yet, being too dynamic without an ever-growing capacity to hold genuine ground will also not provide the greatest service to a client. Coaches need to develop the means to tune into, tighten, and tweak their own game.
Tuning, Tightening, and Tweaking provides that for you. In this session we review how your coaching process and style is currently showing up, and then we create the ways to fine-tune, tighten the reins, and calibrate your coaching practice with some personalized tweaking. You obviously are aware that something is not flowing as well as it could, therefore, this is a good time to tune, tighten, and tweak before you feel really washed up, burnt out, or unable to provide.
In this fast-paced session, I lead you to understand the situation you find yourself in and solutions that will shift it. I will make suggestions for you to take forward, yet no formal practices are designed in this session. These are often one-time stand alone sessions with no formal follow-up, with plenty of substance to get you moving again. Subsequent sessions every few months is a great way to stay in the evolving groove of your coaching practice.
When you desire a third-party review of your coaching praxis, when you realize it would be helpful to have a sympathetic and objective coaching colleague’s appraisal of your coaching approach, or simply want to discuss some refinements towards your coaching mastery, then contact me for some Tuning, Tightening, and Tweaking.
- Phone, Skype, In Person
- Session time length 1.5-2 hours
When working with a client over a long period of time it is easy to get stuck in a rut and become unsure where to go next. In working with a challenging client we can sometimes miss opportunities because of the intensity we feel in relation to the client. With some clients, try as we might, nothing seems to stick, there is just some reason that the program or practices we design simply aren’t clicking in. Over the course of your coaching career there will come a time when you just can’t seem to make it happen for a client. This can become a very frustrating time for a coach – which is why there is the Client Case Review.
Working together, we go over the client case program you have created. You fill me in on how you’ve assessed your client, what progress you have made and where you are stuck, the processes you’ve used, how you are measuring success, what the client is experiencing, as well as what you are experiencing. Through an objective integral analysis (also known as IMP) of your client’s case, I will tease out any gaps I see, incongruences, or missed moves. I’ll make some suggestions and see how they land with you. We’ll keep going through, over, and into your client’s case until we find the missing links you are looking for. The end result is that you feel both satisfied and ready to create the next steps for your client.
If you have more than one client case you’d like to review and we can fit it into the time period, then we’ll dive into the next one as well.
Having another coach on your team can be very satisfying and relieving. As more people enlist your services and the scope of your clients expands, having support, motivation, and camaraderie in your personal coaching process is both wise and beneficial. Know when to reach out – a Client Case Review is always worthwhile.
- Phone, Skype, In Person
- Session time length 1-1.5 hours
After you have been coaching for a while and have a decent clientele base built up you may find yourself wondering – what’s next?
You may also find yourself asking…
- Where do I go now with my coaching practice?
- How do I make more money?
- How do I impact more people?
- How do I become more well known as a coach?
- Do I engage in more training or do I invest further in my own personal development?
These are all very necessary questions. If you are a coach who is doing well, you will eventually plateau, and then start feeling the desire to grow. This is the domain of The Wayfinder – helping you find your way and assisting you to grow into what’s next.
The Integral Growth Coach Program is a series of six sessions that will lead you to your next expression as a coach. A mixture of advanced coaching methodology, client case reviews, personal Integral assessment, psycho-somatic-energy work, personal practice design, with inquiry into your coaching style and process, the Integral Growth Coach Program provides the mega-vitamins necessary for your coaching growth.
This is a serious dive into your maturation as a coach. When you are at the point in your coaching practice that you realize that this is going to be your “career” the Integral Growth Coach Program is a worthwhile investment. You will receive the deepest and widest developmental overhaul of your coaching work and persona such that you are able to create new meaning, expression, and engagement as a coach.
- Know yourself more fully as a coach – your strengths and weaknesses
- Gain clarity about how you want to evolve as a coach
- Discover domains of practice and potential that you did not realize was possible
- Obtain a personalized growth program and practices to work with
- Experience new insights and feelings that will enhance your relational capacity
- Develop greater embodiment as a coach
Utilizing cutting-edge research and praxis modalities from the various domains within the evolutionary human potential movement we will collaboratively advance your current state as a coach into one of more substantiality and significance. The Integral Growth Coach Program promises to set the foundation and provide the personal induction such that you will be ready to create, claim, and communicate your next evolution as a coach.
- Six sessions total
- Session time length 1-1.5 hours
- Time between sessions has variance
- Skype, In Person
To coach another you really need to be on top of your own personal growth process. The ultimate in developmental cross-training, the patented Integral Life Practice (ILP) design is the most all-inclusive platform for personal growth available. Through a comprehensive review of your coaching motivations and ambitions a unique ILP program will be designed specifically for you.
• How do you consciously and effectively coach people as unique individuals in a fast-paced life of the 21st century without reducing everybody to a simple program in your client base?
• How do you develop the capacities needed to create larger possibilities for yourself and your clients, while also staying healthy, in relationship with those you love, and maintaing awareness within this ever-expanding and increasingly complex world-space that you find your self in?
• How do you continue to cultivate yourself in the many domains that interests you, make money, cultivate deep intimacy, and serve your clients in profound ways?
The answer – with an Integral Life Practice for Coaches.
With access to an abundant array of domains including physical fitness, diet, emotional intelligence, shadow work, spirituality, relationship work, sexual intimacy, ethics, cognitive development, business management, conscious parenting, artistic expression, subtle body development, systems integration, right livelihood, community service, worldview expansion, communication skills, and much more – the design of your ILP for Coaches will take into account where you currently are in your coaching work, what you want to achieve, and how you desire to get there.
This dynamic design will provide you with a progressive pathway to a more fulfilling life of conscious coaching praxis and a more enjoyable way to participate with your clients. An ILP for Coaches program is perfect for a coach who is self motivated to dig deeper into her or his work as a coach and desires a comprehensive holistic plan that will take them a good distance further. Designed specifically for the enhancement of your coaching work you will walk away with a plan in how to start working within the domains of a Life Practice that are important to you, the knowledge in how to measure and feel your progress, and the insights in how to continue to ever increasing levels of possibility.
- Two 2 hour sessions
- Phone, Skype, in person
- See HERE for more information on Integral Life Practice
Being a good coach is relatively easy. Know what you’re doing, be a nice person, and you are on your way. Being an excellent coach requires more significant commitment to the practice of coaching, understanding your clients more throroughly, the nuances of the methodology you are using, and how to continually craft impactful growth for a wide-range of clients. However, becoming a profound coach requires much more.
The Pathway to the Profound is the ultimate coaching program for coaches. This six-month individualized curriculum is based on the Integral developmental framework created through the Integral Institute’s top scholars and practitioners. Utilizing Integral-based assessments, methods, and practice we thoroughly enhance your cognitive, emotional, somatic, interpersonal, moral, sexual, cultural, and spiritual capacities for the purpose of your coaching evolution. You also are aligned with practitioners that will help you grow in specific domains that will serve you into becoming a profound coach.
You must already be a well established coach in order to take this program. Having successfully worked as coach – in any niche of practice – for at least three years, you will have the foundation necessary to support the growth you will experience in this program. You will also need to be stable financially, relationally, and psychologically in order to initiate this program. Meeting weekly, we also include your current coaching client case work into the mix, for evaluation and inclusive development.
Consider the Pathway to the Profound as your entry into Jedi coach training. A portal designed to establish the embodiment of your wisdom, awareness, and creativity for the sake of your coaching process. This Juilliard inspired program will draw you deeper and fuller into the art & science of coaching. Through precise personalized rigor and expansive multi-faceted intuition you will be provided with the Pathway to the Profound, the entry way into your coaching mastery. Contact me for more information.
- Skype, In person
- Session time length 1-1.5 hours
- Weekly for Six months – with variance for holidays and personal schedules
