Coaching -
What, How and Why?
What?
Coaching is supportive, self-directed, gently challenging, and empowering. With a Coach, in a brave, safe environment, people can tackle what they might otherwise unnecessarily work through alone:
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Handling complex and tricky relationships
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Transition into a new role or phase of life
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Decision-making
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Personal and/or professional development
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Improving emotional and social intelligence
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Building confidence
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Alignment/realignment with values
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Influencing/engaging key stakeholders
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Managing oneself under pressure
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Establishing a shared vision
Coaching can be one-to-one, group, team, or form part of the ethos of an organisation to evoke understanding and awareness bringing about behavioural shifts for individual and shared flourishing.
How?
Coaching is fundamentally a relational process; the quality of the relationship itself is key to its effectiveness. Conditions are created for people to do their best thinking, to empower every person or collective as the author of their story.
Challenge is skilful, to elicit the truth of how a person thinks, feels, and relates to the world. When mindset alters, sustainable change and outcomes follow.
Think Being® values human beings for their inherent resourcefulness and inner wisdom that with Coaching expertise can be found and drawn upon.
Coaching focuses on the person and not the subject. It responds to the client’s needs and circumstances, moving between appropriate evidence-based models and tools, or abandoning them altogether. Uninterrupted thinking provides silence for people to pay valuable attention to themselves. The purpose of a Coach is to unlock and engender agile thinking and progress.
Coaching can be online, in person, or outdoors. Coaching Outdoors intentionally invites nature to actively participate as a partner in the process.
First steps:
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Connection & Discovery Call. A 30 min confidential conversation to identify if there is alignment for Coaching work to serve and honour the client.
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The start of the Coaching process includes a ‘contracting’ stage. This is when desired outcomes are first articulated. The relationship is then dedicated to working towards actualising said desires, and flexibility and revisiting the agreement maintain focus.

"Kirsty has a high emotional intelligence and a real ability to understand body language and notice any shift in energy which she would then mirror. She evoked awareness and enabled me to generate ideas and reframe my perceptions/perspectives. I was able to move at my own pace with Kirsty present alongside giving me pause, while being interested."
Charlotte Stewart
Marketing Associate at Ninety One
"Her subtle, supportive and direct approach coupled with structured frameworks and sensible processes enabled me to acquire more clarity and empowerment to take next steps in my personal as well as professional life. The sessions with Kirsty helped me to understand my inner processes and gain a better understanding of what was keeping me from moving forward.”
Bettina Roethlin
MSc Data Science
"Kirsty’s Coaching has supported me to realize the incredible importance of prioritizing the sustainability of a system and its success, and that the most successful organizations are the ones with the healthiest cultures and well-balanced humans. She has helped me to understand and live the value of human sustainability and to encourage the spread of this ethos."
Lynsey Fleck
Owner/CEO of Underdog
Why?
Might flipping the question to ‘Why not?’ be more helpful?
Coaching with Think Being® is a creative catalyst for change, movement and thriving.
Research shows convincing benefits from Coaching. Most importantly, it assists people to find clarity, identify strategies and build confidence for fulfilment in life and meaningful improvement at work.
Coaching embraces differences of thought, it is inclusive, and tailored for each client.
If we bear witness to who we are more than what we do, we celebrate and nurture the ‘being’ rather than the ‘doing’ of humankind. This intention of Coaching is to enable people to prevent depletion, restore what matters, and imagine and identify what is next. Inspired and corroborated by the Neuroscience of behavioural change, Coaching can stimulate a person’s brain to rewire, for a new neural pathway to be created.