What Is EMPOWERMENT COACHING?

Empowerment Coaching is a dynamic, action-oriented communication relationship and process that propels you to begin naturally and easily manifesting the life you want and deserve through the full integration of your mind, heart, body, and spirit, without limits (true spirituality). It leads to self-discovery and understanding, connecting inner purpose with life goals (congruity), wholeness, higher emotional intelligence, increased self esteem, and conscious awareness, identifying and releasing limiting beliefs, and exploration of human possibility . It can be effective motivation for Individuals, Couples, Families, Businesses and Community Groups.

How Is Empowerment Coaching different from traditional counseling?

Counseling tends to focus on understanding what happened in the past, while Empowerment Coaching puts your attention on what you can do to create the future you want, while creating a relationship with a coach who can help you actually get there within a real time frame. This is done by helping you find your inner purpose and passion and connect that to outer goals and tasks.

How Is Coaching different from consulting or friendship?

A consultant is an outside expert hired to find solutions for specific problems. In coaching, the client is the expert and is held as capable, resourceful and responsible for creating their own future. In friendship, friends operate from a place of judgment, offering opinions and advice. Coaching creates a safe space for client's to be and explore wherever they are currently without judgment, opinions or advice.

Is it Confidential?

Yes, absolutely. Coaching is a profession with its own procedures, technology, standards, ethics, and certification process. Confidentiality is a tenet of the coaching profession. To view ICF Ethics & Standards Click here.

How Does an Empowerment Coaching Program Work?

Each program is developed specifically for you, based on where you are now and where you want to be. Just as every person's life visions are different, every Empowerment Coaching Program is unique. An initial series of questions and evaluations helps to understand where you are starting from, and your identifiable goals and desires for Empowerment Coaching. Based on your objectives, a program and time schedule is developed to move you toward rapid optimum success. After the initial consultation and program evaluation, a three-month commitment is recommended to achieve optimized results.

How Are Coaching Sessions Scheduled?

This will vary depending on the services you desire. Individual coaching sessions are usually done via telephone. Four 30-minute sessions are usually provided each month. Also included is unlimited e-mail access and emergency call check-ins. Group or private coaching sessions for small business clients can be in person and structured to fit the needs of the organization.

The process will allow you to discover and clarify, uncovering and solidifying your personal vision for what you would like to achieve. You will have an awareness and understanding of who you are and what has held you back. You will then be able to release the limiting beliefs and behaviors that have kept you stuck, as release occurs on all levels of the body/mind/soul connection. You will then take conscious action on your goals from a place of empowered strength, which turns you from scattered action to conscious action. This is the process of allowing versus pushing which allows you to enjoy the process as well as the achievement.

What makes the coaching relationship work?

Coaching is a professional collaboration between you and your coach that helps create and focus your momentum toward success. Better, stronger goals are set. Strategies are created and implemented to reach those goals. Weekly coaching sessions provide support and accountability. This type of structure allows you to take bigger risks than you normally would, which leads to greater success and enhanced performance.

What does business or career coaching involve?

Business and career coaching assist you in discerning where you are in your life and discovering your personal vision for where you want to be. You will be able to uncover your values, what drives you in your life, and determine how you can make the changes you need to live by your values. You will understand how to find balance in your life, what "out-of-balance" feels like and how to get back on track when you need to. You will learn and use the time management techniques that work for you so that you can live your life instead of spending your time planning for it or chasing it. You will gain awareness of any limiting beliefs or habits that are holding you back in your life and release them, while taking the steps you need to get to where you want to be... in an enjoyable, challenging career that fulfills your personal vision for success. Resume creation, interviewing skills and job search methods are also available.

If you are an entrepreneur with a vision for your company we can help you take that vision from ideas to reality. We also assist in clarifying your ideas and determining how to execute and/or market them.

If you would like to work with someone who is an experienced business consultant and a professional coach who can truly assist you not only in creating the structure for your business but also in successfully manifesting your vision and releasing any fears that have been holding you back let the founder of the Empowerment Line be of assistance to you.

Deborah Connors, B.S., M.A., Certified Empowerment Coach

  • A strong business background to assist
    all aspects of developing your business
  • Effective marketing and technical/web
    development strategies for developing
    strategies for developing your business
  • Executive coaching, as needed, to assist
    you in developing a motivated staff that
    fits the requirements of your business
  • A sounding board for discussing your
    ideas in a safe, confidential environment
  • Holistic practices for developing
    resiliency on the entrepreneurial path
  • Constructive feedback on the feasibility
    of business ideas and a forum for
    brainstorming new ideas
  • Access to additional resources when required
    to ensure your total success in creation
    of your business
  • And, an open mind and expansive vision to take
    your ideas to implementation & beyond