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Authentic Coaching: an overview

Sangeeta Mayne

Led by Sangeeta Mayne, Authentic Coaching can help you achieve more in every area of life. It combines the fundamental principles of life coaching with the laws of nature to provide a powerful and self-sufficient holistic approach.

We focus on coaching the ‘human being’ as opposed to the ‘human doing’, encouraging you to take effective actions that lead to successful outcomes. This is similar to the practice of martial arts, where success depends on your ability to be in control of your inner state of being.

In an increasingly complex world, Authentic Coaching provides a uniquely simple approach to tap into your natural ability to be instinctively wise, creative and brilliant. It is about creating the life of your dreams by connecting with your authentic Self.

Because Authentic Coaching provides a way of living authentically through daily self-coaching, it's a fantastic approach for would-be coaches or coaching-related professionals who want to progress to the next stage of coaching. Nature's laws provide us with everything we need to live life to the full, and it is because of this that Authentic Coaching is the ultimate humanistic approach to coaching.

Authentic Coaching has had a dramatic effect on thousands of lives over the past decade, and the proof is in the amazing results it produces. Its popularity and effectiveness are due to several factors:

• It recognises that, as human beings, we are all natural coaches –
  we listen, we ask and we solve, every day of our lives. We can all
  self-coach if we harness these natural skills.

• Coach and client connect in a genuinely honest partnership,
  which gives permission for the true Self to emerge.

• It provides a supportive framework for you to move beyond your
  normal limits to a life of instinctive natural flow where harmony,
  balance and fulfilment reside.

• It is a simple process that honours and respects the whole person
  in a way that feels completely natural.

• It is founded on timeless natural laws, such as cause and effect and
  the law of attraction. Even though these are common sense, to most
  of us they're just not common practice.

Why Authentic Coaching works

In this challenging world, it's easy lose track of what's most important. Authentic Coaching keeps you focused. You may have goals you’ve never tried to achieve – perhaps they've always seemed unattainable. A coach can help you redefine your goals into manageable chunks, so that each week you move closer to where you want to be.

Your coach will always give you a straight answer. Talking to your colleagues may be limiting, or worse – it may put you at risk – while friends and family are often too close to be objective. A coach helps you think through your options before making any big decision.

Coaching provides you with technology, resources, structure and personal support to help you reorient your life, improving your performance and increasing your effectiveness in every aspect of life.

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