Working with a coach is a great way to gain outside perspective on the challenges you’re facing in life. Sometimes our vantage point to the problems we face is so intimately close that we can either feel overwhelmed by them or we miss the bigger picture altogether in our efforts to start the process of actually solving them.
Most of us are accustomed to the idea of using a coach when working toward performance goals in sports or the arts, but when it comes to other areas of our lives — stress management, emotional regulation, interpersonal communication, relationship management, career guidance — we often feel as if we’re meant to find direction and maintain progress on our own.
coaching vs. therapy
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Humanistic Coaching is rooted in the tenants of positive psychology with a focus on developing self-efficacy. It prioritizes incremental performance goals and general competency goals over results goals, with happiness and self-actualization serving as guiding indicators. Simply put: Where are you now in relation to a specific challenge, what is your ideal end-state goal, and what are the steps we can take to get you there?
what is humanistic coaching
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