Coaching is especially effective and popular in the professional arena of corporate environments where it is used to re-orientate and guide the organization towards it’s strategic objectives. On the sports field it can support teams and individual athletes in achieving their specific goals and at a personal level, it can ensure a successful resolution when going through difficult times.

Perceptive Coaching® promotes the application of key models and principles that support the process of developing the capacity for grounded intelligence in vital decision making, as well as the ability to make positive choices arising from a sense of heightened awareness.

The definition of the term ‘Mentor’, has its roots in ancient Greek origins. In Homer’s Great Work, “Odyssey”, ‘Mentor’ was the name of the wise protector, Ulysses assigned to guide and educate his son, Telemachus.

Since that time, the term ‘Mentor’, in the context of the arena of personal growth, has evolved to describe one who is able to guide and educate another in the ways of personal growth. A bond of trust and safety is essential between mentor and client. This bond is integral in establishing a secure foundation upon which a positive and effective working relationship can be built and maintained between mentor and client, and one that ultimately results in the achievement of the client’s overall objectives, goals and vision.

Mentoring has its foundations rooted in the wisdom of ancient culture and traditions. At its core is a powerful, yet simple, mantra, one which has echoed through the ages; “Only The Truth Can Set Us Free.”

“The map is not the territory”

Alfred Korzybski. Philosopher, Scientist and creator of the General Semantics Model

This modus operandi leads us into a place where we quite literally forget who we truly are. We lose connection with ourselves, acting not from authenticity, but from a position of defence, closed off to ourselves and others. In such moments, we disconnect from our ability to create a life that reflects our capacity to meet our deepest needs as well as manifest our dreams. As we think, so we create!

CHANGING PERCEPTION AND LIVING A HEALTHY LIFE

We tend to translate the external issues we are challenged by and confronted with as ‘problems’, and in so doing, are already creating a block to living a healthy and balanced life.

A problem is more often than not a ‘misperception’.

What lies behind misperception?

Let us look at an example of how we translate a misperception into a problem in the arena of a relationship breakdown. A good place to start might be to ask, “What are we telling ourselves when we experience a painful separation?” For example; are we telling ourselves that we need to feel pain and if so for how long? What length of time do we tell ourselves we should continue to suffer the symptoms that arise from a separation, such as feelings of emptiness, abandonment or anger? To what extent are these feelings truly ours and to what degree is the ‘reaction’ we experience in response to a separation, simply an inherited pattern of behaviour, role-modelled by the culture, religion or family system that we have been raised in? For how long are we prepared to risk further loss, only this time of wonderful opportunities, experiences and adventures, and more crucially authentic relationship with ourselves, if our perception is clouded, overshadowed by events of the past?

How beneficial is it to our overall wellbeing if unresolved anxiety and misperceptions cause us to lose sleep, our jobs or other relationships?

If we are to begin to live our dream life, we must recognize the difference between mis-perceptions and perceptions. For, mis-perceptions, if unchecked, have the potential to sabotage our attempts to create healthy, balanced and successful personal and vocational lives.

There is a significant difference between what actually occurs in the events of our lives and the accompanying emotional issues that arise as a result of our mis-perceptions.

HOW CAN PERCEPTIVE COACHING® HELP YOU?

Perceptive Coaching® identifies, targets and seeks to resolve mis-perceptions, and the accompanying associated emotional ‘charge’ encouraging a shift of focus towards ‘perceptions’ that are life-serving, rather than life-denying.

Consulting a Perceptive Coach, can help you to achieve living a life sourced from self-confidence, self-value, self-respect, self-knowing and self-belief. It encourages you to ‘Know Thyself’ and ‘Love Thyself’. There needs to be a sense of ‘readiness’ within you, this is a pre-requisite for the transformation of mis-perceptions and allows us to re- establish a sense of equilibrium in your life. When we are ‘ready’, we can successfully negotiate the fundamental transformation of mis-perceptions into healthy and intelligent perceptions, thus transforming our lives.

Perceptive Coaching® can allay the doubts of even the strongest sceptic! As long as you desire transformation, then you will experience transformation.

FREEDOM

We all hold a deep, inner desire to feel ‘free’. Free to have fulfilling relationships; to experience life to the full. Yet, remaining unattached to the past or to projecting into the future, requires a good degree of self-knowledge. To live in the Now, this moment, and to experience all that life has to offer us, is true freedom. Perceptive Coaching® offers us a fundamental skill set to achieve the true freedom that we each seek. It encourages us to ask ourselves, “How authentic are the motivational desires and drives that influence our life choices?”, “What are the ‘drivers’ that influence our decision making processes?”, “How much integrity do we invest in the relationships we believe to be essential to our sense of well-being and happiness?”. Furthermore, ”How necessary is it for us to include all the things in our lives that we do, in order to control and meet our needs for wellbeing?”, “To what degree are the choices we make, through mis-perception, the cause of our discontent”?

Perceptive Coaching® does not claim to have all the answers to life’s problems, however, it does offer effective, proven methods, which enable us to re-evaluate and re-align our perceptions and beliefs with its unique formulas and sophisticated life-map models and techniques. Perceptive Coaching® can support the transformation of those aspects of our lives that we feel limit our sense of freedom, identity, achievement and authentic self-expression.

Perceptive Coaching® is not a therapy. It does not lay claim to curing pathological conditions.

Instead, it supports existing medical approaches by placing an emphasis on the discovery of personal inner resources.

Perceptive Coaching® empowers you to reach personal goals and encourages you to take responsibility for your own sense of emotional, mental and physical wellbeing.