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THE COACHING RELATIONSHIP
Someone chooses to have a relationship with a coach to help them find and achieve the best moves for them.
Professional coaching focuses on the positive, the whole person and moving forward. It does not depend on knowledge of specific areas of expertise or of the person. It does not give treatment or advice (unless it's asked for). The coach works sensitively and respectfully in all areas of life to help each person generate their own unique ideas and solutions, each person being their own expert.
The coaching alliance can help people who really want to move forward and make changes achieve their own goals faster, with greater confidence and commitment.
MY PRACTICE
I believe everyone can find their own direction and solve their own problems, according to their unique experience and skills. I use questioning techniques and exercises that stimulate thinking, self-awareness, self confidence and understanding. This increases each person's capacity to identify and achieve realistic goals, tuned to their specific needs and through which they move forward successfully.
I have substantial working experience of the private, state and voluntary sectors: in personal development coaching, consultancy, mentoring, tutoring, teaching and education, social and healthcare and as Criminal Justice System practitioner, supporting people of all ages and backgrounds.
Penny Ann Budgen
Dip.PPC., Dip.Med., Cert. ETP., Cert.ART., Dip.PS., BA Hons CJ., Dip.FPS., BA Hons.HAA.
FEEDBACK
"I wasn't sure what I'd get from coming for coaching but it's opened me up and got me to think differently about so many things. I feel like I'll never go back."
"Coaching has got me into thinking more carefully and responsibly. I used to 'shoot from the hip' but now I follow lines of thinking and connect them up to make proper sense of the problem. I feel proud of myself. I now actually believe I will achieve my main goals!"
"It's not like counseling or treatment. Coaching got me to believe in myself again after months of feeling depressed and useless. I feel like I'm back in control of my life "
"I feel like I understand myself better and that makes me feel so much better about myself and that means I'm actually doing the things I need to do and facing up to my responsibilities to myself and to other people."
"I feel as if my boiler has been re-lit after years of it just being on pilot."
I really didn't think I could sort things out, that I was a failure. I couldn't see how to convince myself I could move forward and be successful. I used to cry all the time. Coaching has let me see what its all been about and how to take action that works for me."
"Everyone should have a coach!"
"I really feel like I can believe in myself now and make a difference in the world."
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