Integral Coaching - Balancing your Life, Business & Career

Larry J. Fontana
Facilitator, Coach

 

Our work together is sorting out the life-giving and life-draining elements and identifying where and how our natural strengths, passions and abilities are being effectively applied to our Life and Business objectives, or not.  

Once we identify what we are most innately and naturally wired for and how we might best communicate, observe and act in the world, we can then begin to develop and adapt business plans and activities that stem more deeply from our inspirations, desires, strengths and callings.

 

Practice, Patience, Persistence

We have spent many years learning to act the way we are now. It may take some time and trial and error to unlearn and relearn. Executive Life Coaching offers you an environment of compassionate support in which to learn, experiment, succeed and sometimes fail. Practice, patience and persistence are a key to success, as Napoleon Hill states in a famous quote: 

"Their greatest success came just one step beyond the point in which defeat had taken them over" (Hill).

 

Strengths vs. Weakness

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, teachers, managers and psychology's obsession with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. - D. Clifton

That being said, this is not meant to take away from the value of overcoming challenges and obstacles, however I view this in the same vein as the quote 'picking ones battles carefully.' 

In the larger view we may be of much greater service to ourselves and others by excelling at our strengths and talents rather than becoming mediocre at our weaknesses and limitations. 

As your facilitator, coach and advocate we will identify and untangle these misconceptions and misguided efforts and reestablish the essence of your clarity and enthusiasm on your journey to greatness!

 

The Conative Element

The idea of Conation (instincts) is still new and cutting edge although I presume not for long. It is defined as action derived from instinct; purposeful mode of striving, volition. It can help us derive the types of opportunities, environments and situations to best position us for success and fulfillment.

Once we can understand more clearly our MOs (Modus Operandi) in regards to how and why we take action and what drives us we can gain great assistance and validation in understanding our behaviors and choices.

 

Language and Listening

Language is central to the expression of the human soul. Our deeply felt concerns and what is deeply meaningful for us is contained in our listening. As interpretation, our listening informs us of what is and is not possible, and how to respond to the world. 

We seek to understand ourselves as the observer and to learn to use communication as a "creation vehicle" not simply a reporting tool.  

Developing the capacity to listen to our own listening and to intervene and shift our listening is a central aspect of true learning. Ontological Coaching tools such as: Assessments, Assertions, Promises and Declarations can greatly impact our wellness, effectiveness and success.

 

Truth Loves a Witness 

Last but certainly not least I offer what may be the most compelling element of all. The absolute magic that is often revealed through authentic inquiry and conversation with an objective and compassionate witness.

I recall the statement that even more than being loved, people wish to be known. On a provocative personal journey such as Knowing Ourselves we will most assuredly uncover fundamental questions and beliefs in regards to our Truth in the context of a greater purpose, passion or calling.

 

Contact me for a FREE consultation.

 

We move beyond the paradigm of "the end justifies the means", to one as David Hawkins wrote:  "Society needs Visionaries of  Means, not Dreamers of Ends"