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"I'm
not
funny. What I am is brave."
Lucille
Ball
"Go
into life and work
thinking, 'hit
the ball to me!'"
Bruce Larson
"Keep dreaming."
Glen Burgin
81 years old
“Sometimes
change
is glacial! That is, big, cold and slow!
But
Patty, your coaching is helping. I’ll still
be grateful when I’m seventy!"
From a great client
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I
can’t
say I’ve ever been the cartoon image of a traditional
therapist/mental health counselor, with lots of listening, nodding, and
shrewd interpretations
of my clients' “issues.” I have
always been a very collaborative and interactive, using lots of
different methods to help my clients improve
and live
happier, healthier lives.
Now that experience contributes to my effectiveness as a coach. I’ve
learned to direct my curiosity and intuition, and to listen to what’s
going on inside the lives of
my
clients as well as to what’s influencing them from outside—to
the joys
and pressures and possibilities of their relationships at work and
personally.
I am
trained both as a Coach and a Therapist & Mental Health Counselor .
. .
Both practices use
knowledge of human
behavior and motivation,
but there are major differences in the goals and focus.
Thomas
Leonard, founder of Coach University, has made the following
distinctions between Coaching and traditional Mental Health Counseling:
Coaching
is about achievement and satisfaction, therapy is about healing.
Coaching
is about momentum, therapy is about safety.
Coaching
is about intuition, therapy is about feelings.
Coaching
is about peak performance, therapy is about progress.
Coaching
is about synchronicity, therapy is about timing.
Coaching
is about attraction, therapy is about protecting.
Coaching
is about creating, therapy is about resolving.
And I would add . . .
Coaching
is about the challenges of the present and the future, mental health
counseling is about
the challenges of the present and the past.
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From a note
following a
recent leadership workshop
"An
awesome boost
for our teams--great confirmation and support for me
having Patty facilitate training, meet key staff and observe my
leadership."
From this team's
awesome CEO
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