Focusing Coaching.
Coaching: Private Focusing & TAE Sessions
Do you have an issue that needs attention or feels stuck? Maybe you have an idea you’re not getting into action on. Or noticing a pattern in yourself that feels ready for transformation. Together we can unpack your topic with Focusing during private sessions. In one-on-one sessions with me you’ll receive my deep listening and heart-felt presence. We can also explore with Thinking At the Edge, especially if you’re working on a creative project where your body has some wisdom to carry you forward, but you’re having trouble articulating it. My coaching services also dig into what results you’d like to achieve, and then we use your felt sense to inform the action you’ll take.
I invite you to explore the coaching package offerings I have below or to book a 1-hour session to have a first-time Focusing session with me. You can also book a low-cost Focusing session with our PUPA Trainees.
5 Week PUP2A Journey.
Spend five weekly sessions exploring an issues or issues with Focusing or Thinking at the Edge. You can chose to do a mini-PUPA journey and stay with one issue, or work on whatever topic arrises for you during each session. The mini-PUPA journey includes pausing to get to know an issue, understanding it in an embodied way with your felt sense, allowing it to shift (permutation), noticing what we need to do to prepare for action, and finally taking action.
8Cs Journey.
Take one full PUPA journey privately. This entails unpacking one large issue in your life with Focusing and/or Thinking at the Edge over a period of eight one-hour sessions. Each session begins by getting in touch with a C quality of the 8Cs of Self-leadership. We then proceed to our Focusing session, bringing in the 8Cs qualities as needed to help catalyze your transformation. You can also explore this material in course format, with the Transform Yourself with the 8Cs of Self-Leadership course.
Your Story Journey.
In this private journey, we get to know some of your parts, creating a felt sense body card for each. Then, together we map your story: options include as a timeline of parts, mapping your nervous system, or an art project. Taking place over eight one-hour sessions, this is a private version of the Understanding Who You Are course.
Bespoke Journey.
This offering is a container to receive a customized journey to help you move from your current situation toward your desired life. Gain clarity about what you’d like to create in the world, unblock what is getting in the way and have support to find your “just right next step” as your experience carries forward into action. In addition to Focusing coaching, you can also receive some business advice. After our twelve sessions we can assess if you’d like to keep working together to work on new goals.
Book a Focusing Session with Annette.
Not sure if Focusing Coaching is for you? You can book a 1-hour first-time session with Annette. Experience Focusing with me, and have some time to determine what would be best for you and your journey. You can then choose either a journey package (as above) or to continue with follow-up 1-hour sessions as needed.
Need a low-cost way to have one-to-one Focusing sessions?
You can book a low-cost Focusing session with our PUPA Trainees.
FAQs
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No. I will guide you through the Focusing process and no prior education in the practice is required.
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I mostly do Gendlin’s classic six steps Focusing. I also will use empathic reflections if it feels helpful and you consent to it (this is a form of Janet Klein’s Interactive Focusing). If we work with a difficult part, then I will use some Presence Language, from Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin’s Inner Relationship Focusing. Finally, I quite like to ask the felt sense for action steps. Some of this is inspired by Robert Lee’s Domain Focusing, but also from Otto Scharmer’s Theory U.
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Yes, absolutely! Focusing can help process many issues, including trauma. It really comes down to if you feel safety in my presence and within yourself (via the Focusing attitude) to welcome what wants to come forward and be felt. I am a trauma-informed Focusing professional, having trained with Jan Winhall and her Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ In some cases, I will recommend that you also work with a therapist.
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The main tool we can use in Focusing Coaching sessions are the felt sense body cards. This is a tool I created to record the felt sense in a non-linear way in addition to using words/phrases to capture a Focusing session. We can also use my PUPA process if we are working on an issue that requires multiple Focusing sessions. Finally, I like using Power Point as a way to map dialogue or timelines of parts.
Other Services
Embodied Leadership with Private Focusing and Thinking at the Edge
Dive into your embodied leadership and creativity one-on-one. By having a session (or more), we arrive at your creative edge and move your project forward.
Embodied Communications
Communications strategy, message development and media training, to find the exact right words. So you can be authentic to your voice and your endeavour, while speaking confidently and calmly.
Facilitation & Speaking
In addition to working one-on-one, I also provide facilitation services for teams. Learn about creativity and strategy sessions at pupa.ca/services/facilitation.