If you decide to work with me, here are the conditions by which I work - Nancy Kline’s More Time To Think Ten Components of a Thinking Environment:
1. You will have my undivided Attention
2. We are Equal in basic Soul value
3. Ease makes for precise, all-encompassing thinking - I want us to be comfortable: bodily needs first!
4. I aim for mutual Appreciation: human beings are relational
5. Encouragement - it's a smoother route to any change
6. Feelings: feelings are welcome, as indicators to what really matters
7. Information: I will try to give you just what you need
8. Diversity: you can disagree with me -we all see from a different angle
9. Incisive questions - that make you (re-)think, see things broadly
10. The Place we work together in is our sacred space
Coaching concepts from the French International Coaching Federation (ICF):
• confidentiality (unless your safety is at risk)
• mutual learning (yes, me too! :)
• time-limited (boundaries allow for security)
• everything is possible (if you set your mind to it -long enough- then trust)
• ultimate freedom (on both sides)
• taking risks to formulate hypotheses (I will – feel free to, as well)
• taking the risk to succeed (new level, new problems – but we are equipped to face each level we reach)
• truth is multi-faceted (for every truth, the contrary is also true)
• humility is a strength (facing the truth: we are powerful beyond measure, AND we are part of a big whole, co-creating together, and with it)
• feet on the ground, head in the stars (dreaming is fundamental, taking care of bodily needs as well: it’s our vehicle for accessing this world)
• daring to look at truth together (accepting pain and discomfort is OK if we are in this together)
• humor and enjoyment being an integral part of the coaching process (it relaxes us enough to move into creative thinking, to find solutions with our whole emotional-rational-impulse-analysis self!)