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The Coach Within: 28 Big Ideas for Engaging the Power of Your Own Wisdom, Creativity, and Choices
Meet Your Inner Coach
Whether you are familiar with the field of coaching or brand new to it, The Coach Within helps you explore what coaching has to offer from a new angle. While we typically think of coaching as a relationship between two people, coaching is also a collection of ideas and practices. It's a growing toolkit with elements that can be explored, learned, and implemented on one's own, in relationship with oneself. Hence, the coach within.
Coaching is a flourishing and continually evolving field and there's a good reason for that. Not only is it a highly-effective and validating process for expanding one's life and bringing about desired outcomes and new realities, but it is a concept whose time has come--a system of beliefs and approaches so in tune with what the world needs and where we're all heading. Its techniques, underpinnings, and values can be used on ourselves and with others, on concerns small or mighty, and in all fields of endeavor.
Engage your own inner coach with the exercises in this book and start benefiting immediately from improved ways to tackle your problems, fresh approaches to relationships and communication, life hacks for your habits, real movement towards your goals and dreams, and insights into sustaining happiness and overall thriving.
Your thinking, seeing, doing, and being will never be the same once you've encountered the power of creativity, responsibility, being with yourself and not your problems, self-care, getting curious, being right (right now), tipping the scale, playing big, and 20 more big ideas from the world of coaching.
Whether you are familiar with the field of coaching or brand new to it, The Coach Within helps you explore what coaching has to offer from a new angle. While we typically think of coaching as a relationship between two people, coaching is also a collection of ideas and practices. It's a growing toolkit with elements that can be explored, learned, and implemented on one's own, in relationship with oneself. Hence, the coach within.
Coaching is a flourishing and continually evolving field and there's a good reason for that. Not only is it a highly-effective and validating process for expanding one's life and bringing about desired outcomes and new realities, but it is a concept whose time has come--a system of beliefs and approaches so in tune with what the world needs and where we're all heading. Its techniques, underpinnings, and values can be used on ourselves and with others, on concerns small or mighty, and in all fields of endeavor.
Engage your own inner coach with the exercises in this book and start benefiting immediately from improved ways to tackle your problems, fresh approaches to relationships and communication, life hacks for your habits, real movement towards your goals and dreams, and insights into sustaining happiness and overall thriving.
Your thinking, seeing, doing, and being will never be the same once you've encountered the power of creativity, responsibility, being with yourself and not your problems, self-care, getting curious, being right (right now), tipping the scale, playing big, and 20 more big ideas from the world of coaching.
- GenresSelf Help
109 pages, Paperback
Published August 30, 2017
176 people want to read
About the author
Sharon Woodhouse
4 books4 followersAuthor Sharon Woodhouse is a former indie book publisher and current owner of Conspire Creative, a book business agency that offers coaching, consulting, project management, and business support services for authors and indie publishers. She writes about all aspects of creating holistic, income-generating author businesses you love and finding your place in the vibrant ecosystem of books.
Woodhouse has taken an entrepreneurial approach to just about everything since first becoming self-employed as a teenager over three decades ago. She has directly counseled and coached hundreds of authors, publishers, solo professionals, creative small business owners, and job-changers in various aspects of setting up shop, running a small book-related enterprise, publishing, and promotion, emphasizing options, customized approaches, strategic planning, inexpensive and creative marketing, win-win partnerships, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. She has helped tens of thousands of other authors through her teaching, group coaching, and writing.
In 1994, Woodhouse founded her first publishing company and created with a small staff the beloved Chicago brand of Lake Claremont Press. LCP published over 500,000 books of 80 different titles in its 25 years and won 30 small press awards. In 2011, she started Everything Goes Media, LLC, to encompass her growing range of book industry activities, including consulting, coaching, mediation, print brokering, private publishing, and project management.
Sharon’s businesses, and the authors and books she has published, have been featured in hundreds of local, national, and international media outlets, including A&E, the BBC, Business Week, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, Crain’s Chicago Business, FOX, the History Channel, NPR, the National Geographic Channel, the New York Times, the Travel Channel, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Her clients have included all manner of authors, publishers, creatives, business owners, thought leaders, project leaders, consultants, scientists, academics, tradespeople, public figures, corporate dropouts, mid-lifers in transition, students, and retirees. They have come from the arts, the trades, business, academia, law, government, medicine, engineering, science, nonprofits, museums, fundraising, finance, entertainment, media, journalism, and four different continents. Many are multi-passionate, multi-talented, multi-hyphenates!
Sharon received her coaching training from Coach Training Alliance, and is a certified professional coach and a member of the International Coach Federation. She has studied mediation and conflict resolution for 35 years, including with the Peace and Global Studies Department of Earlham College; through NGOs in Geneva, Rome, and Budapest; the ABA; and Mediate.com. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a Graduate Certificate in Mediation and Negotiation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has an M.A. in Communication from UWM, where her work focused on mediation, difficult conversations, and coaching presence.
Woodhouse is a longtime advocate of entrepreneurship, vibrant urban neighborhoods, old movie palaces, public transportation, free speech, science, and civilized civic behavior. Her most cherished win was co-leading a community effort to save the historic Davis Theater in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. She currently lives and works in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood.
Follow her writing on holistic author businesses, entrepreneurship for authors, book publishing, and book marketing on Medium.com and Substack.
Woodhouse has taken an entrepreneurial approach to just about everything since first becoming self-employed as a teenager over three decades ago. She has directly counseled and coached hundreds of authors, publishers, solo professionals, creative small business owners, and job-changers in various aspects of setting up shop, running a small book-related enterprise, publishing, and promotion, emphasizing options, customized approaches, strategic planning, inexpensive and creative marketing, win-win partnerships, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. She has helped tens of thousands of other authors through her teaching, group coaching, and writing.
In 1994, Woodhouse founded her first publishing company and created with a small staff the beloved Chicago brand of Lake Claremont Press. LCP published over 500,000 books of 80 different titles in its 25 years and won 30 small press awards. In 2011, she started Everything Goes Media, LLC, to encompass her growing range of book industry activities, including consulting, coaching, mediation, print brokering, private publishing, and project management.
Sharon’s businesses, and the authors and books she has published, have been featured in hundreds of local, national, and international media outlets, including A&E, the BBC, Business Week, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, Crain’s Chicago Business, FOX, the History Channel, NPR, the National Geographic Channel, the New York Times, the Travel Channel, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Her clients have included all manner of authors, publishers, creatives, business owners, thought leaders, project leaders, consultants, scientists, academics, tradespeople, public figures, corporate dropouts, mid-lifers in transition, students, and retirees. They have come from the arts, the trades, business, academia, law, government, medicine, engineering, science, nonprofits, museums, fundraising, finance, entertainment, media, journalism, and four different continents. Many are multi-passionate, multi-talented, multi-hyphenates!
Sharon received her coaching training from Coach Training Alliance, and is a certified professional coach and a member of the International Coach Federation. She has studied mediation and conflict resolution for 35 years, including with the Peace and Global Studies Department of Earlham College; through NGOs in Geneva, Rome, and Budapest; the ABA; and Mediate.com. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a Graduate Certificate in Mediation and Negotiation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She has an M.A. in Communication from UWM, where her work focused on mediation, difficult conversations, and coaching presence.
Woodhouse is a longtime advocate of entrepreneurship, vibrant urban neighborhoods, old movie palaces, public transportation, free speech, science, and civilized civic behavior. Her most cherished win was co-leading a community effort to save the historic Davis Theater in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. She currently lives and works in Chicago's Lakeview East neighborhood.
Follow her writing on holistic author businesses, entrepreneurship for authors, book publishing, and book marketing on Medium.com and Substack.
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October 29, 2017
This is a practical, life coach type, self help book, designed to help readers work though issues, make decisions and be creative. The 28 'big ideas' are different topics to reflect on, brainstorm and plan about, so this book doesn't have to be read chronologically. You can skip to a topic on stoking creativity, or self care, or gratitude or evaluating stuff. Each chapter has questions, exercises and guided meditations (which you can do sitting or walking). Pretty practical all and all.
I got a copy of this book for free from a Library Thing early review program.
I got a copy of this book for free from a Library Thing early review program.
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