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Providing life, relationship, career, and businees coaching in the office, via telephone, and online
What is Coaching?
A Life Coach develops a working partnership with the client in a creative process that assists them to maximize their personal and professional potential. A Life Coach provides an ongoing professional relationship structured to assist individuals to enhance the quality of their lives. A Life Coach is trained to listen closely to the clients "defeating" internal dialogue, and to the potential within the client to develop successful life goals. Life Coaching is a collaborative effort on the part of both parties to focus on strengths and abilities, and focus these in a productive and effective outcome.
Why get coaching Assistance ? Choosing felxible options: Office visit, Online, or via Telephone, or a combination to meet your schedule.
Have you considered seeking some assistance with your life-goals but you were just too busy to schedule an appointment and still meet your other responsibilities, or you wanted flexible options to receive assistance. Maybe you would prefer the privacy and informality of discussing your life plan in the security your own home, office, hotel or dorm room via chat room, instant messager, or telephone.
Or maybe you are experiencing a medical illness or disability that makes it difficult for you to travel, and you want to take charge of your illness and set your own health goals. If so, see the information below about Illness Self-Management Coaching
Perhaps you are ready to make changes and need some assistance and direction.
Perhaps you would like to define your personal or career goals.
Perhaps your organization is undergoing change and you need assistance and direction.
Perhaps you are on a deeper journey toward self development
Please view my website and make a decision to take that step now to move forward in your life.
Below are the 30 Core Principles of the Dare to Live Fully process. It is not necessary for you to agree with all 30 principles, but they can offer you an underlying framework as we work together to assist you in setting and achieving goals for your life.
Please also view the Help Yourself tab at the top of this page where you will find numerous online resources to assist you on your journey.
I have been assisting individuals for sixteen years, and have been providing online services for the past seven years. I work with adults through individual online development of goals and realistic strategies for achieving those goals. My approach is solution focused, helping you to set practical goals that you can achieve in your relationships, career, and general life issues. We can also work together via telephone consultation or onsite if you are in the Baltimore, Md. metropolitan area. I also provide online consulting services to organizations.
In office coaching sessions. If you are in the Baltimore metropolitan area you are welcomed to schedule an office appointment. Please complete the online Intake form under the Commmunication tab indicating office visit in the preferred session times box. I will then contact you via e-mail to schedule an office visit. You would pay for your office visit at the time of your visit. Office sessions are $80 per session.
Telephone coaching sessions: Please complete the online Intake form found under the Communication tab indicating telephone session in the preferred session times box. I will then contact you via e-mail to schedule a telephone session time to call me. You would pay for your telephone session in advance using the online payment method. Telephone sessions are $60 per session.
Online coaching sessions. Please read the rest of this website which will explain the process for becoming and online coaching client. Online sessions are $60 per hour, $45 per 1/2 hr, and $20 per email response.
My clientele are from all walks of life and I am skilled at providing culturally sensitive services.
Currently, I am the Director of Performance Improvment for a large multi-service medical and human services organization. In my career history I have been a psychotherapist, educator, small business and organizational development consultant, non-profit administrator, and have held leadership positions in mental health, healthcare, and health education. I believe my experience and expertise will be invaluable to you as you "Dare to Live fully"!
Life Coaching is not psychological counseling or psychotherapy, and I do not diagnose or treat mental illnesss or emotional disorders.
Click on the PDF file below to learn more about illness coaching
The Dare To Live Fully coaching process is based on30 core life beliefs. Please read through these beliefs to see if you are able to work within these concepts:
1. There is no such thing as “trying” to do something. Either we decide to do it or not to do it. We can take as long as we like to make the decision.
2. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Change is frequently a process of trial and error, experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.”
3. Our childhood upbringing, and/or other people, are not responsible for our unhappiness as adults. We are responsible for our happiness or unhappiness.
4.Our beliefs, whether personal, philosophical, religious, or otherwise create our view of reality. If our beliefs are not working for us, we can change them.There are many to pick from.
5.Actions (or inactions) really do speak louder than words. It is not what we say, it is what we do (or don’t do) that tells us what our real motives are.
6. Wishing something will happen will not make something happen.
7. Others are merely mirrors of us. We cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to us something we love or hate about ourselves.
8. What we make of your life is up to us. We have all the tools and resources we need; if we don’t think we have the resource and tools we need, we can decide to learn them or get them. What we do with them is up to us. The choice is ours.
9. The answers lie inside us. The answers to life’s questions lie inside us. All we need to do is look, listen, and trust ourselves.
10. “I can’t” means “I choose not to”. We have the right to choose not to, but say so.
11.If we are not willing to change something, we need to stop complaining about it. No one likes to listen to complainers. Others are probably already aware we’re not going to change it anyway.
12. If we wait until we “feel” like doing something to change our life, we may be waiting forever.
13. Change involves risk. If we’re not willing to take a risk, we won’t make a change.
14.Not making a decision is making a decision.
15. Some changes will occur one way or another, whether we want them to or not. We can go through those changes kicking and screaming and make it more unpleasant, or embrace it and go with the flow, minimizing the unpleasantness. It’s our choice. 16. You can always decide to change your mind at any point.
17.When we make a change or set out on a new goal, the people in our lives may not like the way we have changed. Our new “way of being” is unfamiliar to them. They may prefer the security of the “old you” and may attempt to get us to change back to our previous way of being. They will usually do this by trying to make us feel guilty, accuse us of being “selfish”, or other negative reactions and comments.
18.We may have conflicting desires/goals:(ie) the desire to be liked vs the desire to stand up for ourselves, the desire to be taken care of vs the desire to be independent, the desire for security vs the desire for change.
19.Every person is doing the best they can with what the have at any given moment.
20.We are the only ones who can determine if we are a success.
21.What may be a success to us may not be considered a success to someone else. Success is in the eye of the beholder.
22. There are internal and external successes. Sometimes the internal successes are more important than the external ones.
23.No one makes us do anything.
24.We determine what we will think and therefore what we will feel.
25.We live an average of 30,000 days.Separating the figures by gender, men on average live to 72, while women live to 79 in the US.Most of us have already lived 50 to 75% of our lives. The clock is ticking. If we are going to make changes to make ourselves happier, it is advisable that we do it soon.
26.We live under the false belief that there is always plenty of time to make changes in the future.
27.Now is the only time we have, so make good use of it.It determines our future.
28.The grass isn’t necessarily always greener on the other side.
29.Security is an illusion.
30.Life is risky. A life with no risk is generally unfulfilling… and boring.
So
Dare to live fully !
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Ed Geraty has presented nationally and internationally on the integration of Internet-mediated communications and personal growth, and has developed over thirty-five websites and listservs for human services professionals. In addition, he is an adjunct professor in the Human Services Division of Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland and has published in Practice Strategies, and online atPsychCentral, and the United States Food and Drug Administration Consumer magazine.
