People hire personal trainers to help them get their body into shape. You hire a life coach to help you get your life into shape.

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Type Coaching
Coaching is like a series of custom workshops focused entirely on your personal goals. In 45-minute phone calls we explore the areas of your life where you want to make a difference, and develop a plan of action to move in that direction. You come to the calls on a regular basis with no other purpose than your own personal growth.

What is Type Coaching?

I'm glad you asked!  Type coaching is identical to regular Coaching, with one major exception:  we will use the model and language of type to support the work we do.  Type provides us with a strong basis to tap into and leverage our time together.  It also gives us an advantage – a shortcut, if you will – for understanding how you're "wired."  Thankfully, this means I won't expect you to "be like me" – or like anyone else, for that matter!  It also means we won't devote as much time to learning how you're "put together" as other coaches might – we already have the blueprint.

This assumes, of course, that you already know your pattern – otherwise, you would benefit most by undergoing my self-discovery program.  This program teaches you the type models and allows you to "discover" yourself in them.  I alternate between teaching and coaching you until you feel comfortable embracing your pattern.

By now you may be puzzling about why you would benefit from type coaching if you already know your code and I'm not asking clients to change who they are.  Good question!  Following are three reasons why anyone would benefit from type coaching:

First of all, I'm able to verify your type preferences through multiple models.  The various "tests" available are far from foolproof^* and, using the skills I've developed over the past decade, I can help you to ascertain whether or not you have been accurately "typed."  This may seem minor, but is of singular importance since type is only useful if your code is right.

Secondly, we will assess how effectively you are deploying your preferences.  Are you honoring the gifts you were born with?  Are you using them to the best of your ability? Do you feel satisfied and fulfilled with your life?  Are you living your life's purpose?  The answers to these questions may indicate areas worthy of further examination.

Third, we will take a look at where you need to develop – what is the Universe trying to tell you is in need of adjustment?  One's type pattern explains what the preferences are, and yet we also have an inner drive to identify, claim, and integrate ALL of who we are.  Every one of us has areas of potential growth that must be addressed in our effort to achieve wholeness.  This typically requires some effort, and some development that wants to happen in order for you to realize all you are capable of being.  I am trained to help you with that exploration, and support you during the difficult process of development.  (See “What to talk about with your coach” to give you an indication of the kind of exploration we will undergo together.”)

The best aspect of this process is that I don't do anything "for" you – I'm a co-active coach, so these are elements we'll be working on together.  I'm not wondering what's wrong with you -- I'm wondering what's right with you!  Imagine how awful it would be if I tried to "fix" you instead.  Beyond the fact that no one can be "fixed," the truth is that you aren't not broken.  So to even attempt such a feat is an insult – it assumes you aren't capable of knowing what's best for yourself, and of course you do.

So the real question is, what kind of fabulous transformations could we help you to achieve by teaming up and working together?  And you certainly could use some help -- as e.e. cummings put it so eloquently,

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

With type coaching, you may count on me being in your "corner" and helping you fight the good fight to be just who you are, and also to support your becoming everything you were meant to be in this world.  

I hope to meet and work with you soon!

"Coaching isn't therapy. It's product development, with you as the product."
–FAST COMPANY magazine

"98.5% of all coaching clients are satisfied with the work done together."
–ICF Survey

"Life coaching with a professional life coach is a transformative experience."
–Steve Mitten, past President of ICF

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*Dr. David Keirsey states, "My guess is that the various Jungian instruments — MBTI, (Keirsey Temperament) Sorter, Singer-Loomis, Gray-Wheelwright, MMTIC — are wrong about half the time, which is to say they misclassify about every other person."  The MBTI Manual states that the assessment is never more than 70% accurate.

The Self-Discovery Process
The comprehensive 10-week program of the Self-Discovery Silver Package takes you through a series of online assessments, informative telephone sessions, intriguing experiential exercises, and life coaching aimed at revealing your true personality type preferences using a number of different models. Understanding yourself is the first step toward enriching your life, both in your personal arena and your business directions. This package includes over 11 hours of telephone feedback and coaching.

If you are already familiar with some models of personality type, you may opt to enroll in individual programs dedicated to each model.

These include the Self-Discovery Green Package which uses the Interstrength Temperament on-line assessment with a printed workbook and over 2 hours of telephone feedback and coaching.

Then there's the Self-Discovery Red Package which covers Berens Interaction Styles, including an on-line assessment, workbook, and over 2 hours of telephone feedback and coaching.

If you'd like to explore Jung's theory of psychological types in more depth, consider my Self-Discovery Blue Package which also has an on-line assessment using the Personality Type Inventory and includes two printed workbooks with over 2 hours of telephone feedback and coaching.

Once you're comfortable with these models, consider a deep dive into your psyche by signing up for my Self-Discovery Yellow Package which explores the way Jung's archetypes can be mapped to your cognitive processes. (This is leading-edge work, based on the theories of renowned Jungian psychologist, Dr. John Beebe.)