Gut Wisdom Coaching Model

1. Invite the client to go inward and listen to their gut wisdom to co-create self-awareness through coaching with powerful questions and exercises to gain self-awareness.
2. Through coaching we facilitate the elevation of self-confidence by internalizing the new discovery  empowering the client to move forward toward their goal.
3. Validation and celebration of the clients success  launching them forward on their own wings  of self-assurance as they practice self-awareness  driven by internalized self-confidence.

This is a lifestyle-coaching model to support finding and working with your authentic center for living a more empowered life of self-awareness, self-confidence, self-assurance and JOY!

Clients come to coaching because they want to effect change in their lives.  They want more fulfilling and meaningful work, transitioning to a new role, dealing with work related stress, or to find better lifestyle-career balance, financial prosperity, time management, better relationships, less suffering, love, creativity, clarity, health, well-being or to find accountability.  They come for specific goals whether that is to get a job, make a career change, transition in or out of a relationship.

Coaching is about creating self-awareness and self-confidence to make better choices and gain the self-assurance to put it into action to affect the desired result.  Getting in touch with your center is important to this process as what you do to the center you do to the whole.  When your belly center leads you into action, your whole body moves easily, gracefully, and effortlessly.  The whole of you moves as one into the flow and in total alignment with your authentic self, allowing you to live your true purpose.

In today’s culture we tend to rely exclusively on our mind, logic, brain in our heads to drive our lives.  What we often don’t realize is our mind can lie to us.  How do we distinguish the truth from the prevalent negative chatter constantly going off in our heads?  I ask m clients to get in touch with their gut wisdom for their truth and direction.  Your belly – physically, emotionally, and energetically – is the center of your life.  Your belly contains the vital organs that orchestrate your digestion, respiration, reproduction, immunity and more.  Your belly is a wealth of emotional intelligence, container of your core issues and your procreative power.  Your belly is a cauldron of life energy storing your life force and sending it through the entire body.

My approach to coaching is to create a safe space for the client to touch into their gut wisdom – that place where deep down, you just know.  We will focus on tapping into that inner wisdom through powerful questions, and practices that facilitate finding or reclaiming your center of intuitive power.  We will then focus on specific behaviors that can be implemented to help them get to their desired goal.  Replacing negative self –beliefs with positive.

What is your purpose here?  To finally reach some frozen state of perfection and paste yourself there, unmoving, un-breathing, unchanging?  Life is about enlarging our experience, expanding the scope of our self-awareness.  We experiment, we make mistakes, we go overboard, we lose our balance, and we leave home and lose our way for a while.  We return.  We return again and again, to our center.  Through Gut Wisdom Coaching I partner with my client to make changes that enhance and nourish, amplify, magnify, illuminate and celebrate who they already are.

Coaching Commitment

In order for the coaching to be effective, the coach and client must work together to create an effective working relationship that speaks to their working and learning style.  Having a clear agreement defining the process, expected outcome and mutual responsibility of client and coach is essential to creating a space of trust and safety.   It is also created through the assurances that all conversation takes place in a confidential and non-judgmental way.  A holding container where clients can tell the whole truth of what they have done and not done, without worrying about what the coach will say.  It is a space where clients can count on honest and objective interaction from a coach that is not muddied with emotion, judgment and or personal agenda.  The Coach holds the space for exploration, experimentation and dreaming the seemingly impossible dream.

Coaching will only work when there is a commitment on both sides.  On the part of the client, commitment to exploring, changing, learning, embracing vulnerability, taking risks, persevering despite challenges and an investment in time and energy is a must.  The Coach in turn, needs to be fully committed to their clients and their ultimate goals without attachment to any particular course of action or outcome the client may achieve.

Coaching Process

Self-Awareness

As we deepen our self-awareness in a compassionate way, we increase our receptivity to our gut feelings – the images, sensations, and intuitions arising in our body’s center.

Through Gut Wisdom Coaching, clients gain self-awareness.  The client gives their best by getting in touch with their center of higher intuition and understanding by exploring their unique sense of purpose in order to achieve that which is beneficial to themselves and the whole of

Society.  Starting with who am I?  What is my heart’s desire for the future whether that is a new job, new or improved relationship, an abundance of money, time, creativity, improved skills or creating more balance in lifestyle and career.   When a client finds clarity about what they truly value in their life, what their natural talents are and what brings them joy, they are able to see and release their inner/outer blocks opening to more opportunities to live their highest potential.

Getting in touch with your gut wisdom means bringing more vitatality to your body’s center, evoking sensation, stimulating awareness.  It is common for most of us to have cut ourselves off from sensing what’s happening within our core.  The longer we’ve abandoned this world inside us, the more mysterious – even daunting – it may seem.  Developing and directing your procreative power means returning to this long forgotten place, investing in your awareness there, and claiming it as your own.  Celebrating and affirm what the client has done to get them to this journey of discovery.

Celebrating wins – affirming what the client has done or accomplished so far.

Questions to reveal inner knowing – that inner wisdom of who you really are.

• What do you know already about what you were made to do?
• What ‘s been most meaningful to you in your life?  Where have you found real purpose in living?
• Sometimes we have a deep, intuitive sense of what we want to do or be in life, without even knowing exactly where it came from.  What would fall in that category for you?
• What kinds of roles or responsibilities do you enjoy and feel good at?  What leaves you exhausted and empty?
• Of all the roles you’ve been in, which ones was the best fit?  Why?
• If every experience of your life were planned to groom you for your destiny, what would you say your whole life has prepared you for?
• What experiences have you had that gave you an unusual sense of purpose?
• What has your life experience told you about your destiny?
• What valuable experiences can you draw on to accomplish your dreams?
• When have you been greatly affirmed in who you are and what you were born for?
• What have you done that has been the most successful or beneficial to others?
• What relationships or people have influenced your sense of destiny? How?
• What do you feel has been revealed to you about your own destiny or call

Self Confidence

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.– E.E.Cummings

Through Gut Wisdom Coaching clients will gain self-confidence remembering times in their lives when they demonstrated courage and a can-do attitude.  When was the last time you acted energetically in a purposeful way?  Through active listening, intuitive questions and mindful breathing and/or guided imagery practices we will find intuitive ways to locate and mobilize that source of strength, with the objective of going further and deeper than sheer willpower that can often wane from exhaustion.  When self-confidence is gained through touching into and owning our inner wisdom we can then trust ourselves to make choices that will serve our higher self and the higher good. Our partnership will invite Clients to gain access to a wider range of perspectives and therefore, allow for more choices that may otherwise be hidden or obscured. Gaining self-confidence to be open to more opportunities by shifting perceptions and long held beliefs that may no longer be serving the client.  Empowering the client to make choices that are in alignment with the client’s authentic vision, values, passion, strengths and purpose through validation.

Validation – Positively articulating whom this person is at their core being.

Questions to explore clients source of inner-confide

• How will you make that decision?
• What do you need to know to make your best choice?
• What would a great decision look like?
• How do you usually make decisions?
• How well does this decision align with your passions, your values, your purpose?
• What fears or inner drives are influencing your response?  How could you remove those things from the equation so you can make a better decision?
• What is the payoff for each option?  The risk? Can you live with the worst-case outcome?  What steps could minimize the risk if you went with this?
• What is your gut saying?  What feels right to you?
• Who are you becoming through this decision?  How is it shaping your identity?
• What do your emotions in this decision reveal about the inner you?  How do you want to respond to those insights?
• What future do I see for this person that s/he may not have the confidence to see for him or herself?  How can I believe in this person where s/he most needs to be believed in?

Self-Assurance

Nothing can dim the light which shines within– Maya Angelou

Through Gut Wisdom Coaching we will co-create self-awareness and self-confidence by exploring and connecting to our center (our true nature).  As the client gains self-assurance they will enjoy that deep, unshakable knowing that they are capable of taking risks, meeting new challenges and take the necessary steps to manifest their dreams through intuitive action.  Together we will explore effective tools and behaviors to support their journey.   Through Coaching we will strengthen and empower the client’s own authority and accountability for living a purposeful life.  To carry on and thrive in a natural way, no matter what comes up in the way of uncomfortable thoughts or situations.  Coaching will continue to serve the client on their quest for change and or transformation though listening, observation, validation and empowerment by inviting them to listen and trust their own gut wisdom.

Expressing Belief by sharing your confidence in what the client will do in the   future.
Reflections as a Coach to celebrate, express belief and validate your client

• What has this person accomplished that should be celebrated?
• What specific progress has been made since we’ve been working together?
• How am I affirming the small steps forward that this person is taking?  How can I do better?
• What do I want to affirm about this person’s efforts or commitment?
• What skills, habits and abilities does this person have that I see leading to future success?
• What is this person truly capable of in life?  What potential is present here?
• What character qualities do I admire in this person?
• What is the true value of this individual?  What inner greatness and incredible potential have I seen in him/her?
• What is the hidden treasure inside this person that maybe others don’t see?