Before we start, let's know what coaching is not .....

Coaching is not medical advice, therapy, or counseling and do not expect that it will provide this kind of support. In the event, it is recognize that there is need for medical support, professional counseling or therapy, it would be the client's responsibility to seek a licensed professional.

So you ask why coaching?

This understanding is built around two key questions: “What is it to be a human being?” and “What does it mean to live and work well?” These are no longer questions for philosophers in ivory towers. They are questions that now touch every part of our lives, in times in which the speed of change and the pace of life seem to be accelerating and show no signs of abating. All too often, our experience of daily life can be one of uncertainty and confusion and, at times, bewildering complexity. The net result can be that in our attempts to cope we find ourselves living and working in a manner that is less than we desire. Somehow, the quality of our existence seems to be significantly compromised.

It is believed that we are at a major transition point in the history of Western civilisation, characterised by continually rapid changes in technology, values and key social institutions, which can have a deeply unsettling, even turbulent, impact on how we live and relate. This profound historical shift demands fundamentally different ways of thinking and perceiving. New ideas based on old ways of thinking are not new ideas. Recycling old ideas and dressing them up in new ways will not work. The very question of what constitutes thinking is now “up for grabs”. A substantial shift in thinking is required to effectively navigate the recurrently turbulent waters of everyday living.

Ontological Coaching offers a different way of thinking and perceiving. This approach to coaching provides a basis for generating substantial positive shifts in how we live and relate in our personal and professional lives. In short, the theory and methodology of Ontological Coaching is not only a basis for effective action, but also for building a more meaningful life.

By Alan Sieler, Coaching to the Human Soul, Volume 1