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INDIVIDUAL COACHING
LIFE AND CAREER COACHING AT HOME If it’s your personal life that needs new energy, your coach will take you through The Big Stretch process. You look at the whole picture of who you are and what you long for (what would you ask for if you had all the self-confidence and resources you might need?). With strong, regular input, you uncover your ambitions, invent ways to transition, and get practical about pursuing the most exciting options. If you get stuck, we overcome unhelpful habits that are limiting your success. Self-belief grows and we hold you accountable for making actual positive change. If you want to find work that you love we lead you through The Big Career Stretch, a powerful career change catalyst, at home. Through our proven exercises and extensive experience with careershifters, you uncover what drives you, what difference you want to make in the world, what natural talents you might bring to bear - for these are the ingredients of a meaning ful and joyful career. When you've found the new field and role that will fulfill you, we help you go forth and take charge of finding your niche. Our coaches typically work with clients twice a month for four months with structured assignments and e-mail support between. Each session lasts one hour and deals with a specific topic. To get you started, we offer a free discussion. Contact us now to fix a time. (Confucius said wisely that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"). THE BIG STRETCH ONE DAY INTENSIVE, WAIHEKE ISLAND, NZ
Waiheke island is just 35 minutes from central Auckland. You have a consultation session and some expansion exercises before the day and can continue with one-hour sessions afterwards - if you like continuity and support to make change happen. Read more about why we think better outdoors. Your transport and food on Waiheke are included. . Email Rosie to discuss your needs, and when you might like to begin. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver. PATHFINDER COACHING AT REDUNDANCY Though it’s an alarming change in status at first, we've repeatedly helped people make their redundancy into a positive turning point. After the shock, it can afford you the rare chance to step back and choose your next direction – one which rewards you not just financially, but through and through. There’s no point in stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Pathfinder coaching is typically funded by your employer as part of your outplacement package. It takes the form of four extended (75 minute) coaching sessions, and costs £1000. Make contact directly, or ask your employer to contact us. LEADERSHIP COACHING Rosie Walford, founder of The Big Stretch (and formerly director of an international ad agency), has experience at the sharp end of organisational life. Through her leadership work in business schools and with board-level coachees from Telecom to the Human Rights Commission, Rosie’s coaching is well placed to help individuals re-energise as visionaries, engaging others in the purpose of their tasks, whilst staying resourceful and strategic themselves. Nothing is more demoralising than stale relationships, or a team who together are less than the sum of their parts. And of course, leadership styles need to evolve - a mindset that was appropriate in the 1980’s and 1990’s needs to adapt for the commercial, social, spiritual and environmental challenges of today. Coaching is largely by phone or skype, at a pace which suits. For an exploratory conversation, contact us. “When we quit thinking primarily about our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” — Joseph Campbell THE HIGH GROUND - LEADERSHIP BREAKTHROUGH, WAIHEKE ISLAND NZ.
For the intensive day, you exchange your complex environment for the singular focus of coaching on Waiheke’s peaceful beaches and hills. Our starting point is your integrity - grounded in your values and priorities. From here, looking at your organisational conundrums in nature ( with some pretty incisive prompting), the big forces come into view – connections between disparate elements of your situation, transgressions of leadership values, the organisation’s wider world and long term context. Where once there was doubt, you 'see the wood for the trees'. With ruthless compassion (and humour), you're coached to see critical areas differently, to dissolve unhelpful habits, relationships or obstacles in your path. You work the ‘creative gap’ between your higher vision and tricky felt realities. New strategies are born, decisions are made or pathways defined...ready for tackling with focus and resolve.
‘Reflective action brings people in touch with other human beings & a deeper purpose in life. What’s really important is that it results in ‘good instincts’. Leaders who’ve tapped their instincts are able to sense the truth amid chaos & make judgement calls with such breathtaking clarity that everyone knows, snap!- that’s it” Brian Bacon, Oxford Leadership Academy LIVING PASSIONATELY - RETREAT WEEKEND In April 2010, there will be a 5Rythms Dance and Big Stretch weekend at Te Moata retreat, Coromandel Peninsula, NZ. Expressive 5 Rhythm movement sessions will connect you with your body, your desires, your emotions - your very core, and remind you what it is to be free of self consciousness. Stretch exercises will put you in touch with your passions, values and worldview - the building blocks of life purpose. Walking in the 800 acres of beautiful land, disparate insights have time to integrate into a strong sense of self and direction. This relaxing, playful and profound time is designed to tap into your passion and strengthen your direction in life. You will express both your natural physical identity and your sense of purpose in the world. Email us to arrange a chat about participating in any of the NZ coaching programmes. KEEP ON STRETCHING Change isn’t an instant process. After a Stretch in the Alpujarras, you can re-boot momentum in a couple of sessions, or enter into a 3 month programme with your coach. "The road to success is always under construction." — Lily Tomlin |
Often we are strangely paralysed when it comes to implementing personal change. Amidst the doubts and complexities of big decisions, we need new angles, provocative questioning, faith in our possibilities, sometimes a kick up the backside. And always, support. Stretch coaching is a way to get clarity and impetus, fast.
In the right thinking environment, it's surprising how many important insights you have, what life-changing decisions you can make in a day. 
Pathfinder coaching will help you explore your possibilities before you get stuck into focused job search. We don't do recruitment or cv writing - but the deeper work that precedes it. You remind yourself of the gifts, talents and reserves inside you – maybe ones you haven’t been using in your latest job. You surface your values and priorities, your potential value in wider society. You uncover fields of interest you hadn’t considered, and how a person of your experience might step (sideways, and creatively) into it. You may emerge with a couple of enticing options you want to research, or a single path you are ready to pursue.If you have ‘baggage’ or lack confidence, our coaches help you put the past behind you so that you don’t let it run your future.
The one-on-one intensive with Rosie Walford enables leaders to open up to a whole-system vision of them in their sector, and recognise how they need to lead for substantially greater effect. The work starts with a diagnosis session, which leads into a specifically facilitated day of fresh thinking outdoors. New perspectives are then carried through to impact in the organisation with coaching. 
Two sessions of follow up leadership coaching ensures that insights convert to implementation and tangible results.