Celebration Coaching: What Is Coaching? What Is Celebration Coaching?
What Is Coaching?
According to the International Coach Federation, the largest coaching association, coaches:
Help people set better goals and then reach these goals.
Ask their clients to do more than they would have done on their own.
Focus their clients better to more quickly produce results.
Provide the tools, support and structure to accomplish more.
Coaching is different then consulting, therapy, sports coaching, a best friend:
Consulting: Coaching is a form of consulting, but the coach stays with the client to help implement the new skill, changes and goals...to make sure they really happen.
Therapy: Coaching is not therapy...doesn't work on "issues" or get into the past or deal with understanding human behavior. This is left up to the client to know and figure out, while the coach helps the client move forward, and set personal and professional goals, that give them the life they want.
Sports Coaching: Coaching includes several principles from sports coaching, like teamwork, going for the goal, being your best...but unlike sports coaching, most professional coaching is not competition or win/lose based. Coaches strengthen the client's skills v.s. help them beat the other team. It's win/win.
Best Friend: A best friend is wonderful to have, but may not be a professional who you will trust to advise you on the most important aspects of your life and/or business.
When you hire a coach:
You take yourself more seriously.
You take more effective and focused actions immediately.
You stop putting up with what is dragging you down.
You create momentum so it's easier to get results.
You set better goals that you might not have without a coach.
What is Celebration Coaching?
In addition to working with you on creating a more fulfilling personal and professional life, I work with you particularly on creating a more fulfilling life of celebration. When we begin to work together we will reflect on your level of satisfaction in your whole life, as well as the parts of your life where you create celebration. Our focus on your celebrational life will also support life changes you are making. Changing the way you celebrate can truly change the way you live your life! One can support and grow the other.
My 7 Steps to Creating Celebration, Creating A Life Program include: 1. Learning about what celebration is. What is missing in the way we celebrate. What it means to live a fulfilling life and create fulfilling celebration. How to bring balance, community, renewal and simplicity to celebrations. 2. Evaluating whole life and celebrational life for satisfaction. Looking at what's working, not working, missing. 3.Setting Priorities for celebration and life. 4. Designing and planning celebration. 5.Creating celebration. 6.Celebrating successes. 7.Continuing to learn, evaluate, design, plan, create and celebrate.
I can work with you on a wide spectrum of your celebrational life including:
Daily And Weekly Personal Ritual: Morning and evening ritual that nurtures your self-care, and supports changes you are making in taking better care of yourself. These rituals could include meditation, spiritual practice, journaling, yoga, walking, reading, quiet alone time, music, candles, warmth, slowing down, relaxation, etc. Weekly rituals could include a date with yourself, a hike in the woods, gathering with a spiritual community, group singing or dancing, etc.
Mealtime Ritual: Ritual that slows you down to connect to yourself, friends and family, where you take time to create and eat food that serves you well and brings you deep pleasure. Ritual where you are present with yourself and those you share the meal with, a time to share words of thanks, a song, moments of silence. A time to share your life with those that mean so much to you. Ritual that holds life changes you are making, in the way you feed yourself and nurture your relationships. A simple and effective ritual that can reduce teen substance abuse risk by engaging parents in teens lives.
Relationship Ritual: Frequent ritual that connects you to important people in your life, in addition to mealtime ritual. These could include daily and weekly family ritual such as: Family Night, Good-bye and Hello Ritual, Bedtime Ritual, Religious Community Gathering as a Family, Dinner with a friend, Spouse/Partner Date, Parent and Child Ritual, Letter Writing or Phone Call Ritual to a friend or family member, etc. Ritual that holds and supports the changes you are making in your relationships.
Birthday and Anniversary Celebration: Celebration of birthdays and anniversaries, including rites of passage such as turning 13, 16, 18, 20 and 21, as well as turning a new decade, becoming 30, 40, etc. Creating celebrations that support and hold the changes you are making, and celebrate who you have been, who you are now, and who you are becoming.
Holiday and Seasonal Celebration: Celebration including religious and national holidays, the beginning of a new season, the end and beginning of the year. Celebrating what you believe, what you value most, the turning of the wheel of time.
Beginning and Ending Celebration: Celebrating a new relationship, marriage, birth, a new home, new job, career, life direction. Celebrating the end of a relationship, a life, fertility, a school or college education, a job, a lifetime of work. Acknowledging and supporting the many significant beginnings and endings of your life.
Workplace Celebration: Celebrating holidays, birthdays, beginning and ending of work relationships, organizational changes, successes and challenges, lunch and coffee breaks. Creating more intentional celebration during the work day, that uplifts your work life.
Community Celebration: Neighborhood celebrations that build stronger neighborhood relationships, welcome new neighbors and say goodbye to neighbors who are moving. Celebrations that strengthen and enliven local communities. Alternative initiation rituals for joining a new group, for high school freshmen, college sororities/fraternities, college sports teams, the military. Reunions for high school, college, family. Celebration that builds relationships and communities, and strengthens your connectedness to your neighborhood and larger community.
For further information about Celebration Coaching, click on the Programs and Services page link, or contact me by phone or email. I would be happy to talk with you.
