Coaching
let’s get to the heart of the matter
Captains Courageous coaches know that you already have within you all the wisdom and guidance you need to find your own answers, directions, solutions, inspiration, and courage to address whatever issues or opportunities are before you. We call that your heart. We also know that sometimes the heart’s voice is hard to hear, so we act as advocates for your heart, assisting you to more consciously engage your heart as well as your mind, emotions, imagination, and actions.
With greater access to your heart, you are able to effect greater personal awareness and lasting change. You coach will support you both from the inside/out and outside/in to:
recognize what is working and what is not in terms of your attitudes, belief systems, and behavioral patterns;
increase your awareness of the choices you are making or could be making; and
design and integrate specific developmental action steps toward your highest and most noble goals and desires.
As you take more action guided by your heart, you will find your awareness expanding along with positive, productive changes in your life. You’ll begin to find more heart in all parts of your life.
The Captains Courageous approach to coaching is highly flexible - we work with individuals, families, groups, as well as business leaders and teams. We coach in many formats such as multi-session life coaching or executive coaching programs, “touch-up” sessions for previous clients in coaching or workshops, weekend intensive retreats, open-enrollment coaching conversations, activity-based learning. Most are offered in online, in-person, or hybrid settings. Read on to learn more, and contact us to see if we’re a fit for your needs.
Touch-Up Coaching
If you have already worked with Martha in the past, either through coaching or through participating in Moments of Connection or a workshop, seminar or learning adventure with her, you are welcome to schedule a single coaching session to explore a current issue or opportunity in your life. Several slots are available each week - just click the link for more information and to book online.
Life Coaching Short Series
If you have already done some work to engage the wisdom of your heart, and you want some extended support for a current challenge or opportunity, the Short Series may fill the bill. You’ll have 3 one-hour Zoom or in-person sessions over the course of 1-2 months, coupled with reasonable access to your coach between sessions to help you integrate your insights and intentions.
A free exploratory conversation can help you decide if this is right for you.
Life Coaching Strategic Support Series
If you are ready to make a quantum leap forward in your life - whether in work, relationships, or any other aspect, this highly personalized and challenging program will support you to do it with greater satisfaction, balance, meaning, and joy. We will engage the deepest wisdom of your heart to inform and assist the brilliance and power of your mind, emotions, imagination, and spirit. You’ll use your focus on the nature of your heart - and the heart of your nature - to align and refine your dreams and aspirations, to recognize and utilize those qualities and actions that most support you, and to surface and heal those assumptions and patterns that have held you back. Although you will no doubt feel deeply challenged along the way, you will be supported with acceptance, respect, love, and laughter as you go.
The program will be designed specifically to meet your individual objectives and typically includes assessment, 10 coaching sessions, assignments between sessions, and ongoing reassessment and tracking of results. Unless you live locally, you'll meet with your coach on Zoom, and you'll also have reasonable text or email access to your coach as needed.
A free exploratory conversation can help you decide if this is right for you.
Coaching Intensive Retreats
Coaching Intensive Retreats are custom-designed to jump-start the Courageous Captain within you. If you are experiencing a gnarly issue, or you're wanting or facing a change in your life or your response to your life, a Coaching Intensive Retreat may be the ideal next step - or first step. A retreat is also ideal for couples who want to reconnect and bring their relationship to new levels of depth and commitment, or who want to start off their lives together on the right foot.
In a vacation setting - here at our Blue Ridge Mountain retreat or in a location of your choice - we’ll interweave our coaching conversations with vacation-like activities, giving you the opportunity to test and integrate your learning and changes as they emerge. You will be supported and nurtured inwardly and outwardly as you are invited to ever-greater levels of awareness and heartfulness through our conversations, activities, and quiet reflections. You will come away refreshed and renewed, with clear choices and steps for moving forward.
Your retreat will be a 2-1/2 day immersion, specifically designed for you and your intentions. A free exploratory conversation can help you decide if this is right for you.
Group Coaching
Sometimes the most powerful insights can come from observing yourself reflected in the words and actions of others - and vice versa. Small group coaching is a dynamic, safe, and even fun way of deepening your heart connection with yourself and with others as together you explore the gifts and challenges - and gifts in the challenges - of life. Four weekly Zoom sessions with facilitated group chat support between times. No groups are scheduled at this time, but reach out if you’d like to get one started.
Executive Coaching
If you are challenged by issues such as increasing engagement, building trust, empowering teams that really work, creating a workplace atmosphere of respect and commitment, or experiencing higher levels of happiness, peacefulness and satisfaction in your worklife, you may be ready to bring out the Courageous Captain inside you. Your custom-designed program will entail highly challenging personal and professional development that will bring more heart to you, your team and customers, and your family. The program will be designed specifically to meet your individual objectives (for yourself and your organization) and will include assessment, 10-12 coaching sessions, integration assignments between sessions, and ongoing reassessment and tracking of results. If desired and appropriate, colleagues and/or direct reports and or family members may be engaged in assessment, goal-setting and feedback. Unless otherwise arranged, you'll meet your coach online or via telephone, and you'll also have reasonable text or email access to your coach as needed.
By now, you know that no consultant, no 4-square model nor 5-step process is going to create the lasting changes you want. It is you who must commit and you who must follow through. Your coach will be there to support and inspire you as you set your goals, take your steps, stumble and regroup, and come home to your heart.
Executive Coaching may be coupled with a Coaching Intensive for maximum and lasting impact.
Team Coaching
For intact teams who want to maximize their effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction – not only in terms of results, but also processes, relationships, and individual contribution. Using the team’s current work on business objectives, your coach will facilitate the team’s real-time meetings while also providing stop-action coaching to help the team recognize and address processes and issues that can impede or enhance effectiveness. The team will learn how to plan and conduct their collaborative interactions to maximize productivity and commitment, how to address conflict and turn it into creativity, and how to surface and address individual concerns that affect progress. Topic-specific learning sessions and individual coaching are provided as needed. Coaching is delivered via online interactive session.
Team Coaching is particularly effective as follow-through support after a Captains Courageous Business Adventure. Alternatively, your coach may work with your team onsite as a kick-off to the online coaching program.
Coaching is an educational process, not intended to address any psychological or medical condition, nor serve as a substitute for counseling, therapy nor any other type of treatment.