Successful coaching depends fundamentally on a collaboration between equals – you, and the coach. What is so unique about coaching is that this partnership of equals is solely focused on you - your life, your aspirations, and your personal and professional development. And coaching keeps your attention focused on you, and your goals for yourself, for probably the first time in your life.

Normally, you think about these things every few weeks, for a few minutes, maybe an hour, and then weeks pass by. If it takes 24 hours of your undivided attention to create change, this haphazard, catch-as-catch-can method could take you years. At Art of Parenting we know this, because, like everyone else, we've made change the inefficient, unfocused way. But coaching offers a better way for you to keep your intention before you for weeks at a time. Change simply becomes inevitable.

How Successful Coaching Works. It’s deceptively simple, how coaching works. But work it does, over and over, like the best of simple designs.

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The Relationship. Coaching is powerful precisely because it is a relationship, so we stay in touch all week, week after week (though you can take breaks too). That way, you remain mindful of your focus on yourself, keep your eyes on your goals, and have support and a sounding board, throughout the week. This concentrated focus, which you may have never experienced before, is one of the keys to coaching's success. We coach via telephone sessions, email, and even Instant Messenger. Emergency calls too.

The Medium. We do phone coaching. Virtually all coaching, anywhere in the world, is via phone coaching. Coaches in the UK or Ireland serve clients in Australia, Canada, and the U.S., and American coaches have clients as far-flung as Wales and New Zealand as well as clients in Dallas, San Francisco, and Chicago. In our east and west coast offices, we can just as easily provide coaching in Sydney and Melbourne as in London and Oxford.

There are several reasons for coaching by phone: coach and client often live too far apart to meet in person; by reducing even relatively short travel time, we keep costs down and your efficiency up; face-to-face meetings, while more lively and pleasurable, are actually more distracting and less efficient in getting to the heart of the reason for the session, and too often can devolve into fascinating, and cost-ineffective, chit-chat; and, last but not least, the benefits of meeting by phone are not outweighed by the benefits of meeting in person. Clients also appreciate being able to receive coaching in the familiar comforts of home or office. Read more about a phone coach.

You will have unlimited email access to your coach, as well as occasional, substantive instant- or text-messaging (for example, when you have pressing questions from work or want to celebrate something and can't wait). Because we also want to be available to you in times of crisis, we do not charge for helping you out in anything that would reasonably qualify as an emergency.

The Phone Sessions. You purchase packages of weekly coaching. A week of coaching can include sessions of 30 minutes or 60 minutes. We recommend the longer sessions at least in the beginning; there will be more material to cover. Later, if you and the coach have developed a knowing routine and familiarity with each other’s style, 30 minutes can be quite efficient and effective. But it's up to you.

The Coaching. In each call, we will discuss your wins from the prior week, what slowed you down, how to design solutions, and your goals for the next week. We’ll try to break past mental barriers. We’ll point out perspectives you may not have considered. We’ll reverse your patterns of negative self-talk or passivity. You’ll get whatever advice or insight the coach can offer. And much more.

Action for Change. And at the end of the session, you’ll commit to action items that will continue to move you forward, inexorably, week after week. You may do personal exploration ranging from free-form journaling to the exercises in our Strategic Life Planning Handbook or career assessments.

The Power of Accountability. Between sessions, you'll feel accountable to your coach, which will keep you focused and on track. Some clients choose to notch it up a bit and report to their coach periodically by email – once or twice a week, or even every day. The more contact, the more mindfulness of your goals, and the more progress.

The Backing. Your coach, between sessions, will read and respond to your emails and instant messages, offer advice and encouragement, tell you to forgive yourself more often, and review any exercises or assessments you’ve done.

Some of our greatest advances come here. Clients who stay in touch with their coach between calls usually have better results - partly due to the additional coaching they receive, and partly because they are keeping their goals at the top of their minds

The Packages. Our coaching rates are $95 per 60 minute session with a minimum of 3 sessions for $285. Our emails and check-ins are included in this fee. We offer a sliding scale for those whose ability to pay is truly limited.

Questions? Send us an email! Nothing will happen if you don’t act.

Increased Likelihood of Tax-Deductibility. Our expert coaches will work with you to structure your life coaching so as to increase the likelihood of its tax-deductibility! Ask for more details in your free consultation.

Support for Those Whose Income Does Not Yet Match Their Dreams. We also believe that income should not separate people from not only each other, but from our services. if finances are a challenge for you now, ask us about our sliding scale.

To start, contact us today.

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