the practice

A phenomenological coaching practice

Attention to what is already there, before any framework is laid over it.

Most coaching frameworks begin with the question what should you become? This practice begins with the question what is already true? and treats the second as the precondition for any honest answer to the first. The work begins with description, not prescription. Conclusions emerge slowly, but they belong to you when they arrive.

People arrive from very different hours of a working life. Some come in the middle of a transition that has not yet found its name, the role they have outgrown still wearing them, the next one not yet visible. Some come early, building a self alongside a career, far from where the family knows the geography. Some come carrying decades, leading people whose relationship to authority and meaning is nothing like their own.

Women in transition.
Early-career professionals, far from home.
Senior leaders across generations.

What is already true in me that has not yet been named?