OUR COACHING BEGINS WITH
OUR CLIENT'S INTERNAL LANGUAGE
DISTRESS IS CONCEIVED, AMPLIFIED AND PRESERVED IN LANGUAGE
DIALOGUE
THE INNER
OUR COACHING APPROACH AIMS TO UNFURL THE STRANDS OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE SELF AND WHERE THE SEEDS OF SELF-CRITICISM & DISAVOWAL IS PLANTED.
ROOTS OF COMMUNICATION
grasping the inner voice
HOW WE ATTAIN IT?
SPECIFIC LISTENING
To apprehend our client's experience
LEVELS OF LISTENING
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Level 1: INTERNAL LISTENING
Listening to your inner voice.
Level 2: FOCUSSED LISTENING Listening intently to the other person.
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Level 3: GLOBAL LISTENING Listening to others in the context of their entire surroundings.
TYPES OF LISTENING
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DISCRIMINATIVE LISTENING
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COMPREHENSION LISTENING
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CRITICAL LISTENING
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BIASED LISTENING
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EVALUATIVE LISTENING
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APPRECIATIVE LISTENING
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EMPATHETIC LISTENING
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DIALOGIC LISTENING
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RELATIONSHIP LISTENING
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THERAPEUTIC LISTENING
HEADSTRIDE BEING A COACHING & PSYCHOTHERAPY FIRM,
WE BRING AN ASSORTED BLEND OF LISTENING SKILLS:
ACTIVE, PHENOMENOLOGICAL, REFLECTIVE
WHAT DOES PHENOMENOLOGICAL LISTENING ENTAIL?
Coachee’s experience is the starting point of the phenomenology that we practice. Neither attending to symptoms, nor labels nor with blistering pace dredging for feelings or picking any specific aspect of experience takes priority for us. We believe in unimpeded lucidity of our coachee's narrative and the initial two sessions are about getting a reasonably enriched descriptive clarification of the coachee’s lived experience.
We remain steadfast upon the coachee's presenting issues, concerns and various phenomena that presents itself in the dialogue. In the early stages of coaching we listen to the twists, turns, vicissitudes, mutations, transpositions i.e. the way our coachee unfurls his/her experience. Further, a combination of Socratic questioning, active listening and reflective paraphrasing helps us extricate our coachee’s present attitudes, beliefs, opinions, convictions, pre-suppositions, biases, prejudices, sedimented stances, malleability, stuckness, possibilities, potentialities, goals, desires and so forth all of which constitute the
roots of our coachee’s internal communication pathways
MANAGING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSETS
Amidst assets such as Financial, Business, Patents, Art, Property, Intellectual, Physical, Social etc., all of which are important, we at Headstride focus upon managing our biggest asset; our MIND
APPERCEPTION
INTERPRETATION
COMMUNICATION
CLEAR & SMART GOAL SETTING
Once we delineate our client’s experience, we co-constitute clear and ‘SMART’ goal setting with the client. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & Time-bound. The task is to lay bare what the client desires to accomplish, in what manner and in what timeframe. These are sub-componentised into end goal, journey goals and session goals and we allocate coaching sessions to navigate towards accomplishment.
NEGOTIATING THE MAZE
People generally have good imaginative ideas about their own life and nurse strong ambitions but at each instance as they prepare for take-off, they are summoned back to daily life and responsibilities which they call reality. The brilliant ideas then remain locked in a maze within the mind and over time these coalesce into mere ‘wish list’. Execution is postponed as one perceives hindrances in goal attainment.
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SURMOUNTING OBSTACLES UPON ONE'S PATH BECOMES TOO MUCH AND ONE BEGINS TO LIVE IN THE COMFORT ZONE
We iteratively keep opening out our client’s experience, set smart goals, locate the hindrances to possibilities, philosophically parse through the existential lens and have within our sight what is to be accomplished. Our sessions subsequently focus upon the challenges faced by our client in its execution. Newer aspects emerge, goal posts may even shift due to emanating clarity, habitual procrastination frequents and thwarts projects all of which are glimpsed and tackled in the sessions.
REINSTATING BELIEF,
RECALIBRATION OF GOALS AND
ATTAINABILITY ASPECTS ARE REVISITED
A GLIMPSE INTO
HEADSTRIDE COACHING IS ABOUT
STUDY OF THE MIND
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THE APPERCEPTIVE
FRAMEWORK
The way we interpret
COMMUNICATION
TO THE SELF
The way we empower/disempower ourselves
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EXISTENCE & WORLDVIEW
The way we perceive the world and our situatedness in it.
LIVING WITH INTENT
GOAL PURSUIT
Propelling desires towards attainment. Learning the process
ACTION CENTRICITY
Understanding risk, freedom, will, fear, certainty & unconditional faith
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MEANING & PURPOSE
Instilling ownership and a sense of mission
USING SYSTEMS
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CREATING LASTING CHANGE
Systematising accomplishment
Not a one time achievement
LANGUAGE MASTERY
Grasping the language of performance
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ALTERING PATTERNS
Behavioural & Psychological patterns
shifting the
playing arena
Human beings are inexorably free but not when they live in conformity mode with others as the limiting belief of others becomes infectious and one acquires it. The idea is not to disaffiliate from others, surely we need a community, rather in order to experience true freedom, one needs to unshackle oneself from conformity, find one’s own unique inner voice, embrace risk in the face of anxiety, manifest courage and become a player in an unfamiliar terrain.
HEADSTRIDE APPERCEPTIVE COACHING FACILITATES THIS SHIFT
THE WAY WE OPEN UP EXPERIENCE
AND ENGENDER LASTING CHANGE, NEW PATTERNS, HABITS & BEHAVIOUR
a glimpse into own mind & stepping out liberated,
with a sense of renewed agency,
towards accomplishment of own goals,
is the service legitimacy that we offer our coaching clients
