What does coaching offer? Coaching offers a safe space to focus on issues that matter to you. It’s about taking time to grow in awareness, notice patterns, open up new perspectives, and choose between possibilities. Being accompanied by a coach can make this even more fruitful. Frequently, you not only address what matters to you, but also find yourself growing in confidence and capacity.
What might I hope to accomplish by working with a coach? Just a few examples, out of many possibilities:
- • Clarifying – e.g. a good way forward (or what I could have done instead)
- • Growing – e.g. in effectiveness, fruitfulness and freedom
- • Making sense – e.g. of a complicated situation, or ourselves, or others
- • Unsticking – when we feel stuck or blocked in some way
- • And anything else which routine thinking isn’t progressing
Will you tell me what to do? We will work together to find ways of growing your awareness – of your situation, your priorities and your options. Then I’ll help you discern which choices you want to make, and support you to step forward with confidence.
Session length? Typically 90 minutes; sometimes 60.
Frequency? Monthly is a frequent option. More or less frequent is also possible – including the occasional one-off session.
How can I explore working with you? Email to arrange a preliminary no-obligation chat (jk@jkimber.co.uk). We can talk about the sort of territory you’d like to explore, and how many sessions you might want. And we’ll both get a feel for whether we might work well together – a ‘chemistry’ check. If not, that’s fine. If so, we’ll put some dates in the diary.
So what might happen next? You might sign up for a number of sessions – typically 6 or 10. Meeting several times makes it possible to explore more deeply, celebrate and strengthen progress, and explore unanticipated challenges and opportunities. Alternatively, you might start with one or two sessions as tasters, then make a more informed choice.
What actually happens in a coaching session? We start by clarifying what you hope to accomplish, in order to focus most effectively. Then we invest time in exploring perspectives and possibilities, before ending well, including gaining clarity regarding next steps.
Or, from another angle: we both work – through questions, pondering, thinking, feeling – to grow in clarity and awareness, helping you choose well.
What drew you to become a coach? I love seeing people tackle challenge constructively, and grow in their ability to do so. It’s a great privilege to accompany others as they steadily come to see more clearly, live life more wholeheartedly, and grow in fulfilment, effectiveness and fruitfulness.
How have you been formed as a coach? My first training was with 3D Coaching (2016), then more substantially with the AOEC in London (2023-4), gaining their Practitioner Diploma in Executive Coaching. (‘Executive coaching’ refers to people in organisations – rather than just to Chief Executives.) I am accredited with the International Coaching Federation (ACC) . I receive regular professional supervision for my coaching.