First Time Ever!

Two of the pioneers and masters in coaching are offering a workshop together! They will draw on their expertise in narrative approaches and shadow work to create a powerful learning experience for intermediate and advanced practitioners. Click here to find out more about the Shadow & Narrative Coaching Workshop, STORIES, SHADOWS AND SELF-DISCOVERY. Register early to ensure your place in this workshop!

"Are you giving clients what they think they can get or what they really want?"

When times are tough, clients have to make tough choices. One of those choices is how they choose their coach, or whether or not they choose to work with a coach at all. Tough economic times brings a world of impatient people. Clients want to hone their skills, become amazing at what they do so they stand out from the crowd and make sure they stay up there. Do you have the coaching skills in your toolbox to help them get there fast and make those changes stick?

You can be one of thousands who give clients what they think they can get or one of a select few who can not only coach them, but coach them on the fly…go faster, deeper and more to the point so they get out of their ruts, or at the very least draw a roadmap to get there and start the journey in real time. As a Shadow Coach, you can partner with them to help them dig out and look down at the view from the top.

"Ignorance is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it" - Shakti Gawain. That's where laser  Coaching® comes in...coaching within the coaching.

As a coach yourself, if your clients aren't asking YOU for this methodology of coaching, perhaps it's something to share with them so they know they can get it. In the past clients have been asking for what they think they can get, not necessarily what they want.

“This is a course you won’t want to miss! Donna Karlin brings wit, wisdom, skills and knowledge based on years of experience to her Shadow Coach™ Training. Your intellect will be challenged, you will have fun and you will acquire skills you can immediately use in your coaching.” - Adria A. Trowhill, MA, CPCC, MCC, Toronto, ON. Canadian coach of the Year 2008; www.positrakcoaching.com

What do clients want?

• They want change now

• They want it fast

• They want the change to be sustainable

• They want to bridge gaps between where they are and where they want to be and know how to do that

• They want coaching in real time where they can process things on the fly and have a witness to their worlds.

• They want a 'partner in crime', a thought partner... someone to dance with in real time.

• They want to maximize what's working especially during a time of cutbacks

What do coaches want who take my program?

• They want to be able to go deeper with their clients

• They want to be able to keep up to the hectic pace of their clients' worlds

• They want to learn a more powerful way to language their coaching

• They want to see the truth of situations and not coach on clients' perceptions

• They want to learn what they don't already know, now add training in bits and pieces to what they're already doing.

• They want to be in a learning environment and grow along with their clients.

• And they want to be able to hit the floor running with what they've learned.

• They want to raise the bar on the value they give

Shadow  Coaching® is a real time learning approach in developing a refined self-awareness and capabilities in the workplace as a result of reflection on practice. It enables people, not only to benefit from the continuous presence of an observing coach over an extended period of time in a typical set of workdays, but also develops their own role as self-observer for the long term. It teaches clients to become reflective practitioners.

This type of coaching is ideally suited to organizational leaders who must make decisions and act adaptively in intense work environments. Shadow coaching involves partnering with clients in their work environments and brings another experienced and fresh perspective that helps to identify problematic dynamics, work habits and assumptions that impede effectiveness. Within Shadow  Coaching® is the competency of Laser  Coaching® which involves being able to provoke the leader’s awareness of these problematic features in ways that they can be addressed immediately. It goes beyond support to problem solving.

Shadow  Coaching® attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of the client's ‘world’. The Shadow Coach coaches all sides of a person's personality, what clients are aware of and what they aren't paying attention to including their 'Shadow' personality.

It creates seismically altering change. 

Our program is intensive. Our training is designed to meet current needs being expressed by the community of graduate coaches and to bring forward our latest models, frameworks and Shadow Coaching® material in support of integration and evolution of graduate learning.

This training will be challenging, will stretch you as a coach and help you grow in your field of practice.