Since coaching was adapted from sports to business back in the 1980s, the field of business and personal coaching has become extremely wide and versatile. There’s business coaching, NLP coaching, health coaching, life coaching, spiritual coaching… There is coaching for everything and with lots and lots of different methods. It might be pretty difficult to know what to expect from a coaching, and to make sure if it will be worth the investment.
So let me tell you a little bit of my coaching methodology, Systemic Coaching.
Understand Your Hidden Logic
The shortest description of Systemic Coaching is: methodologically guided self reflection. It means, that what your goal is and what the path to that goal will look like is always your decision, but as your coach I will ask you questions and use methods that help you broaden your horizon, look at your situation from new perspectives and set goals.
The systemic way of thinking stems from family therapy where it is widely used today. The therapists and coaches that have a systemic background think of their clients as a part of a bigger whole – a system, be it a family, a company or a team that they are a part of, or the internal system that they form as an individual with a history, identity and ways of thinking. As a Systemic Coach, I try to understand why you function the way you do (there is always a good reason why we do things the way we do), in order to “disturb” your system in the right way that brings about changes.
Monday Should be the Best Day of the Week
My coaching toolkit consists of the so called systemic questions and different excercises (in coaching language “interventions”) like system constellations, hypnotherapeutic methods, genogram work, working with metaphors, reframing, working with the internal team, timeline and so on. Whatever the method, the systemic way of thinking is always resource and solution oriented.
And why do I coach? My vision is that Monday should be the best day of the week for all of us. I think that we all have something we can give to the world with our work, something that we also want to give. That something isn’t necessarily tied to a specific job description (although it can be), but it is something that we naturally do anyway. Getting to give our energy to the world and the people around us in this way that doesn’t feel like a burden, but a joy.
People who feel happy about what they do, do it well. They feel good and energetic and have more strength to be good colleagues, parents, friends and citizens of the world. As a Systemic Coach I know that finding your clarity and joy brings many benefits to an enormous system around you.
Once You Have Clarity, Change is Easy
I have experienced it time and again in my coachings – and for that matter in my own life as well – that when a person gets clear on what they actually want, things start to happen almost on their own. Or at least it seems like that, but in reality I think that finding clarity opens us up to see all kinds of possibilities that surround us and to take the first steps to the right direction.
The real hard work is getting clear, after that it’s just about doing what you need to do in ordert o get where you want. Easy, right?