FAQS (Frequently Asked Questions)
Who am I?
Why do I coach?
Playing Huge?
What is Life Coaching?
How does my coaching work?
Who are my ideal clients?
What is the cost of my coaching?
What is the Play Huge Notebook?
What is CairnBLAST?
Who am I?
I love spending time with young people. I am currently laughing, playing, reading books, and enjoying every day while raising my two young children. I believe that this is the most important and joyful work I have ever done. For 12 years prior to spending time with my own kids, I learned with teenagers about communication and increasing self-esteem. I spent time as a high school teacher, an adventure trip leader, a personal growth program facilitator, a mentor, the Dean of Students, an advisor, and a friend. These experiences and a Master’s degree from Northwestern University have helped me understand that at the heart of our success as people is confidence in our selves and support and love from other people. It is with the passion to make a difference in people’s lives that I coach my clients to sustainable and long-term success.
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Why do I coach?
I love working with people like you and supporting you in your pursuit of a more powerful life. I believe that you have ways you want to live your life, but for whatever reason you have trouble executing these hopes and dreams. It is incredibly rewarding for me to work with people like you as you find the courage and commitment to create a way of being that generates meaning and fulfillment for you.
Why do I coach?
I love working with people like you and supporting you in your pursuit of a more powerful life. I believe that you have ways you want to live your life, but for whatever reason you have trouble executing these hopes and dreams. It is incredibly rewarding for me to work with people like you as you find the courage and commitment to create a way of being that generates meaning and fulfillment for you.
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Playing Huge?
One of the people that I consider a teacher is Patch Adams. He loves the word Huge and challenges people to be Huge. To love life. To be courageous. To laugh and share laughter. To connect to people authentically. I am taking on his challenge to cherish every single day and every moment.
When I am Playing Huge, I am powerful. I am connected to people. And I am making the kind of impact on myself and hopefully on the people I interact with that I believe will create a more peaceful and meaning-full world.
Playing Huge?
One of the people that I consider a teacher is Patch Adams. He loves the word Huge and challenges people to be Huge. To love life. To be courageous. To laugh and share laughter. To connect to people authentically. I am taking on his challenge to cherish every single day and every moment.
When I am Playing Huge, I am powerful. I am connected to people. And I am making the kind of impact on myself and hopefully on the people I interact with that I believe will create a more peaceful and meaning-full world.
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What is Life Coaching?
Coaching is an opportunity to acknowledge your dreams. You know in your hearts that you want more from your life, but for whatever reason have trouble creating the way of being that you want. Coaching will help you deal with the “whatever reason.” When you are ready to act on the feeling inside or understand these deep desires, coaching provides a place to explore and create ways to change your life. If you are ready to create sustainable and long-term success now, contact me.
It may be that you are ready for a significant life change. Or you may want to focus on a specific project. Your work may be professional or it may be personal. My coaching is based on creating an environment of authenticity and trust in which you can explore and get in touch with this part of your core being. This environment allows you to discover, unleash, explore, uncover, empower, and invite this most powerful part of yourself to come to life.
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How does my coaching work
My clients trust me. I want you to create lasting change. I am not interested in quick fixes. One of the ways this happens is holding you whole, capable, and resourceful of creating your own solutions. I do not have the answers for what will work in your life. I will support you in discovering solutions that work for you. When the ideas and solutions come from you the chances of you sticking with them and feeling great about them are significantly higher.
Like my other clients, you will feel you are supported and encouraged to make changes in your life, but not pressured to do so. My coaching is intimate and challenging, and based on what is up for you in your life. You set the agenda and I come along, providing reflection, clarity, acknowledgement, and alternative perspective. Ready to get the support and encouragement you need to create sustainable and long-term success? Contact me.
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What is Life Coaching?
Coaching is an opportunity to acknowledge your dreams. You know in your hearts that you want more from your life, but for whatever reason have trouble creating the way of being that you want. Coaching will help you deal with the “whatever reason.” When you are ready to act on the feeling inside or understand these deep desires, coaching provides a place to explore and create ways to change your life. If you are ready to create sustainable and long-term success now, contact me.
It may be that you are ready for a significant life change. Or you may want to focus on a specific project. Your work may be professional or it may be personal. My coaching is based on creating an environment of authenticity and trust in which you can explore and get in touch with this part of your core being. This environment allows you to discover, unleash, explore, uncover, empower, and invite this most powerful part of yourself to come to life.
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How does my coaching work
My clients trust me. I want you to create lasting change. I am not interested in quick fixes. One of the ways this happens is holding you whole, capable, and resourceful of creating your own solutions. I do not have the answers for what will work in your life. I will support you in discovering solutions that work for you. When the ideas and solutions come from you the chances of you sticking with them and feeling great about them are significantly higher.
Like my other clients, you will feel you are supported and encouraged to make changes in your life, but not pressured to do so. My coaching is intimate and challenging, and based on what is up for you in your life. You set the agenda and I come along, providing reflection, clarity, acknowledgement, and alternative perspective. Ready to get the support and encouragement you need to create sustainable and long-term success? Contact me.
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Who are my ideal clients?
My coaching focuses on teenagers, young people, and their parents. It focuses on any of you who are interested in feeling more confident, making more friends, figuring our your future (post HS, what to study, post college or instead of college, what kind of job fits your talents and passions, etc.), or if you want to communicate/connect more with your friends, family, and yourself.
My coaching focuses on you, regardless of your age, if you are at a point in your life where you know that you want more from your life. You are ready to do what it takes to create more happiness and meaning in your life.
My coaching focuses on you if you are at a life transition, such as a graduation, a new school, a choice about what to do next, a new relationship, the end of a relationship, the end or beginning of a job, a loss, or significant life event. You may be confused or lost or simply ready to get in the game that is your life.
My coaching focuses on you if you have gifts to share with the world that are stuck inside and you want to let them free.
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What is the cost of my coaching?
Our initial meeting will be a two-hour Find Your Path Session, where we will begin our coaching relationship and set the foundation for your coaching. There is an intitial Find Your Path Session and administrative fee of $250. From there, my fee is $250 for three one-hour coaching sessions. Each of the three sessions must be completed within a six-week period. I ask for an initial commitment of 3 months.
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What is the Play Huge Notebook?
The Play Huge Notebook is a collection of quotes, images, songs, stories, articles, acknowledgements, that Blast us into a resourceful state. I use my Play Huge Notebook when I want to focus myself or when I want to have some reflective time.
What is the cost of my coaching?
Our initial meeting will be a two-hour Find Your Path Session, where we will begin our coaching relationship and set the foundation for your coaching. There is an intitial Find Your Path Session and administrative fee of $250. From there, my fee is $250 for three one-hour coaching sessions. Each of the three sessions must be completed within a six-week period. I ask for an initial commitment of 3 months.
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What is the Play Huge Notebook?
The Play Huge Notebook is a collection of quotes, images, songs, stories, articles, acknowledgements, that Blast us into a resourceful state. I use my Play Huge Notebook when I want to focus myself or when I want to have some reflective time.
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What is CairnBLAST?
I had a friend during my years working for Learning Forum/SuperCamp who would walk around during our days and any time he sensed a need for energy and enthusiasm, he would say BLAST! His idea in sharing this was to jolt us into a more powerful state.
The idea of CairnBLAST is similar. It is a place for us to go when we feel we want an infusion of energy and enthusiasm. My intention for CairnBLAST is that it will be a resource for all of us to Blast us into a resourceful state. Click here to view the CairnBLAST resource page.
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What is CairnBLAST?
I had a friend during my years working for Learning Forum/SuperCamp who would walk around during our days and any time he sensed a need for energy and enthusiasm, he would say BLAST! His idea in sharing this was to jolt us into a more powerful state.
The idea of CairnBLAST is similar. It is a place for us to go when we feel we want an infusion of energy and enthusiasm. My intention for CairnBLAST is that it will be a resource for all of us to Blast us into a resourceful state. Click here to view the CairnBLAST resource page.
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