Sometimes the hardest person to lead can be yourself!

Do you want to feel stronger, more organized, capable, optimistic, healthy?

Do you want to feel good about the quality of your relationships?

Do you want to feel greater possibility, and the satisfaction that Life is going your way?

In today’s world, with its complexity and surprises, it’s not always easy to feel these things.

Dr. Howard Thurman, a spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, once advised: "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. What the world needs is people who have come alive."

Seven Centers' Leader of Your Life â„¢ program is committed to your aliveness and enhanced capacity to self-lead.

This is the greatest challenge of our life - and meeting it to the best of our ability brings the greatest reward: the sense of our life being well-lived. Our leadership coaches partner with you to: 
 

• Articulate and actualize your professional and/or personal goals
• Articulate and actualize your business/project goals
• Strengthen your professional and personal relationships
• Overcome challenges to performing your best
• Deepen your spirit and connection to life
• Fully claim your right to fulfillment and joy
   

Generally, coaching commitment is made for a 3 to 6 month period. This facilitates a strong coaching alliance and accountability relationship to assure that the goals you set are achieved and sustained.

Coaching can be accomplished over the telephone, via email, and in personal meetings. Your coaching sessions may occur every week or every other week, depending on your schedule and needs. For example, if you have chosen to work primarily through the telephone, you and your Coach will decide on the timing and length of calls (generally 30 t0 45 minutes).

Before your first Coaching session, you may be asked to complete a number of worksheets that will assist your Coach in understanding your perspectives and expectations. You may wish to used some leadership assessment tools if your goal is to improve professional performance.

We highly recommend that you have an opening Discovery Session that generally takes about two hours to review your worksheets, assessments, do a guided visualization, and set out initial goals for the coaching alliance. This is followed by six to twelve half-hour coaching sessions where we review your goals, examine gains and blocks, problem solve, and set accountabilities for the next call.

At the conclusion of your coaching alliance, you will be asked to complete a feedback form to help us continually improve our coaching services. You may also choose to continue your coaching relationship with you Coach, which you may arrange at that time.
 

A Coaching Experience

I sought the guidance of Seven Centers jsut before I turned 48 when I was leaving a life-long career and feeling stuck in a transition job that I couldn't figure out how to get out of. I was dealing with a lot of personal and professional "shoulds" and was constantly comparing myself with others whose paths looked so much more blessed than mine. Martha Hopewell asked great questions, such as "How can you test that assumption?" and "How are you already great?"

Martha insisted that I guide this process and define my goals and interim steps. She guided me through a priceless tool to discover my satisfaction level with many things. She had an amazing adeptness at moving from the concrete to the intuitive, from the exploratory to the suggestive. She gave great assignments ranging from the visionary to the concrete. During one session she gave me the homework to spend the next two weeks in the perspective of my ancestors - what would they want me to do? During another session she asked me to commit to taking 3 hours every week, at a designated time as if I were getting paid and people were counting on me, to go to the library to deeply and thoroughly research my professional options.

This process has been an important one for me. I entered this relationship with openness and curiosity. Martha's encouragement and concrete suggestions have been the background for much growth. I left the demoralizing job I was in and have found a wealth of new possibilities. I did just what my coach said, was open to her suggestions, and have grown in my understanding of myself and my deepest aspirations. I have also seen opporutnities that have opened up for me because of that clarity and focused effort. I am truly grateful.  

A. Waisman
Adult Educator