Coaching with Gwendolen
Coaching in Spiritual Maturity,
Soul-Growth and Self-Leadership
1:1 Coaching with Gwendolen
Confidential Complimentary Coaching 1 hour Clarity Call
Start your coaching journey here! Receive this powerful gift from Gwendolen designed to provide real value working with a real live aspect of your life AND help you decide on whether coaching is the best way forward and if Gwendolen is the right coach for you.
Group Coaching Programs with Gwendolen
Gwendolen has four Group Coaching Programs in the pipeline. The first to be launched is Alone 2 Alive. You are invited to pop your name on the Priority List and be the first to hear when launch is announced and be part of cohort and community.
- Alone 2 Alive
- Slave 2 Sovereign
- Monochome 2 Magnificence
- Dying 2 Live
Speaking Engagments with Gwendolen
Return 2 Life
A powerful talk on integrating existential aloneness and essential aliveness. The story of separation and healing the wounds of separation. 10 keys to shift from spiritual malaise to spiritual health.
Hole 2 Whole
An inspiring talk about the “HOLES” in our lives: where they come from, how we fill them, fix them and break free of them. Notions of home, happiness and wholeness. What it is to be fully human.
Invite Gwendolen as a Guest Speaker on your Podcast.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is YOUR Role as Coach and Guide?
My role as coach and guide is to
- Create a confidential, non-judgmental, safe space or growth container and to continue to build trust and rapport with you
- Be prepared for our sessions and fully present during them
- Engage in deep listening
- As your “thinking partner” to ask incisive and powerful questions that result in you identifying new ways of thinking, feeling, doing and being
- Facilitate your learning and help you integrate your learning and develop your awareness, mastery and inner leadership
- Champion and challenge you
- Communicate openly, sharing and reflecting back observations
- Be honest and strive to work with integrity; to maintain the highest professional standards
- Give us both permission to be real and vulnerable, brilliant and imperfect
- To own or be responsible for both time and process
- Hold you accountable for your goals and actions
- Make explicit any observations or issues that are more appropriately explored by a counsellor or therapist and to refer you where necessary
- Be available to you for contracted periods of time between sessions.
What is MY Role as your Client?
Your role as my client is to
- Engage in a contracting process both prior to and during our coaching
- Understand that the coaching relationship is a co-partnership
- Give yourself permission to be brilliant and imperfect
- Arrive to our sessions on time and avoid last minute cancellations
- Come prepared for our sessions and to ensure there are minimal distractions during sessions
- Commit fully to the process making this one of the best investments you have made for yourself
- Be committed to spend time in reflection
- Develop calibrated practices that enhance awareness of self, others and your environment
- Build on the momentum that coaching will bring, moving into consistent action and showing up fully
- Appreciate that adult learning is a process and involves change; resistance is par for the course
- Provide feedback and communicate where or how you wish to do things differently
- Be accountable to self and for the decisions taken during the coaching process
- Consider what you wish to get out of each session and communicate what you are taking away at the end of each session
- To send a testimonial and / or feedback to Gwendolen at the end of your sessions.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a powerful, collaborative, future-focused co-partnership in which the coach supports and empowers the client in moving from an existing state or reality to a desired state or reality.
Coaching can happen one-on-one (face to face or via Zoom), or in a group or as a team. There are numerous coaching “niches” with coaches specializing in Business, Leadership, Executive Coaching, Health Coaching, Wealth Coaching, Life Coaching, and Transformational, Transpersonal or Spiritual Coaching.
The coach facilitates a process enabling the client to do, accomplish and become more than they would have done on their own by identifying limiting assumptions, shining a light on new and fresh perspectives, mirroring back, amplifying, sponsoring and challenging the client where necessary and holding the client accountable. This is done in a confidential and non-judgmental, powerful “growth container” which creates the opportunity for the client
* to extend awareness, explore, be curious and act on his/her own unique insights
* to learn to respond rather than react and make more empowered choices
* to think, observe, reflect, focus attention and make meaning
* to develop new, calibrated practices, set up action plans and check in with goals
* to learn to shift thinking patterns, mindsets, limiting self-beliefs and ways of being
* to check in with feelings, thoughts and practice greater mindfulness
* to foster greater resilience, brilliance and presence.
Ultimately, coaching is a “thinking partnership”. As an individual, leader or team begins to challenge and change their thinking, or shift their mindset, so they begin to change and influence the various systems around them. This is very exciting and deeply empowering.
Coaching is not mentoring, training, teaching, fixing, consulting, advising, being the expert, counselling or therapy.
The definition of the International Coach Federation (IFC)
“Professional coaching is an on-going relationship that helps people (and teams) produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their relationships and enhance the quality of their lives. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. Results are a matter of the client’s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach’s efforts and the application of the coaching process.”
What is the difference between Coaching and Therapy?
According to the International Coach Federation (ICF), the difference can be described as follows: “Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.”
What is the difference between Coaching and Mentoring?
In a mentoring relationship, the mentor plays far more of an advisory role. Often the mentor has had substantial experience in the business or field in which they are now mentoring. Based on their experience they are able to nurture the growth, development and expertise of the client in that particular field.
The coach, on the other hand, is there to support the client to find answers for themselves, whilst fully believing that the client is creative, resourceful and whole and able to find the solutions that work for them, as only they are the experts in their own lives. Coaches, as such, are catalysts; they are process facilitators of new learning and awareness, inspiring individuals to think and to stretch.
What results do you guarantee?
Re-calibration. A fresh take on reality. A new way of being. A sense of freedom. In short: transformation.
What makes you eligible to coach me?
I distill the answer to this question on the About Gwendolen page by summarizing the SIX main advantages that make me the real deal. Check it out.
Why do I need Spiritual Coaching?
Ultimately I can’t really answer this question for you. But, that you are asking this question points to a curiosity and openness to the spiritual, right? In these crazy times, there are impulses, without doubt, reaching “down” or “in” to us, from different or higher, invisible realms, impulses that we can learn to attune to. Many of us are hungry for something more substantial. The purely material no longer satisfies. Many of us are no longer settling for the status quo. We are are shifting, asking questions and awaking. We are looking at life through a different lens. This is not always easy. If this sounds like you, it is likely you are already on a spiritual path. Coaching can be an incredible support on this journey. I am deeply called to contribute, to take up my OWN spiritual leadership, grow my OWN spiritual maturity and therefore I am ready to be your coach if this is what you think you need.
If you really want the answer to this question feel free to book a Complimentary Clarity Call with me.
What is Spiritual Intelligence?
There is an Eastern parable that says LOVE is a bird with two wings. One wing is wisdom and the other wing is compassion. If either wing is broken the bird cannot fly. Cindy Wigglesworth, a leading expert in the field of spiritual intelligence, uses this in her definition, saying that “Spiritual Intelligence is the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion (which is love) while maintaining inner and outer peace regardless of the situation”. Over the years, I have asked this question to many, many people and have collated their responses. What I can tell you is that Spiritual Intelligence is intimately interconnected with other “lines” of intelligence. I truly believe cultivating this intelligence is one of the most valuable things we can do in these times. I believe, too, that it is the next frontier in leadership.
What is Spiritual Maturity, Soul Growth and Self-Leadership?
For now, think of this as personal development on a quantum level together with a steady growth of wisdom and understanding, self-awareness, inner strength and stability, plus healthy self-concepts. Look, its a big question and maybe not such a frequently asked question, come to think of it. If you are curious, why not come along to Alive Wire Wisdom Circle and hang out with us for a bit.
Do you have a personal / professional Code of Ethics?
Yes I do. My personal code of ethics is based on the high priority I place on integrity, humility and confidentiality together with my view of my client as whole, creative, resourceful, not flawed or needing to be fixed. I have access to Supervision and value this resource.
Coach Fit and Coaching Readiness Self-Assessment.
If you fancy doing this self-assessment please go ahead. Just tick appropriate answer to questions below
(Yes, No, Maybe)
If you answered “yes” to between 1 and 10 of these questions, it is POSSIBLE that coaching with Gwendolen would be helpful for you. If you answered “yes” to 11 or more, it is VERY LIKELY that a coaching course or group coaching program would be a powerful support structure to add to your life. Please note that your life doesn’t have to be falling apart for coaching to be helpful. Even the most successful people can benefit from coaching. You are invited to book a complimentary and confidential, 1-hour Clarity Call with Gwendolen.
