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INDIVIDUAL COACHING
We may have faint yearnings of the spirit, or know we want to reach specific goals, yet we seem largely paralysed when it comes to implementing personal change. Amidst the chaos and complexity of big questions, we need navigation, provocative questioning and support. Big Stretch coaches will guide you to self-knowledge, self-confidence and success on your own terms. You may come to Big Stretch coaching in several ways: coaching at home, leadership coaching, and Pathfinder - a special programme for people facing redundancy. STRETCH AT HOME It may not work for you to go on a Big Stretch Holiday. You want impetus now. If it’s your personal life that’s in transition, we’ll take you through a Stretch process of clarification, looking at the whole picture. Your coach will support you to uncover your real ambitions, building your self-belief and illuminating any limiting habits as they arise. The heart of The Big Life Stretch holiday is tailored to suit your needs. If it’s time to start doing work that you love, our coaches, and Rosie Walford, creator of The Big Stretch, can lead you through elements of The Big Career Stretch in a one-to-one career change programme at home. This has proved suitable, too, for Career Shifters who are already underway in their project – e.g. you have recently begun a freelance practice and want to make it work much better for you.
The charge for Stretch coaching at Home is £290 per month, which includes two scheduled sessions per month, and e-mail support as required between. To get you started, we offer a free 30 minute discussion focused on you and what you want to create in life and work. Confucius said wisely that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". contact us now to fix a time. “Masters in the art of living know no sharp distinction between work and play, labour and leisure, mind and body, education and recreation. They simply pursue their vision of excellence through whatever they are doing and leave others to determine whether they are working or playing. They always seem to be doing both.” — Peter Wallman LEADERSHIP COACHING
Rosie Walford, founder of The Big Stretch, brings broad experience at the sharp end of commercial and nonprofit organisations. Rosie’s leadership coaching is designed to help you diagnose what’s happening in the system, and live the art of purpose creation – visualising and sharing desired results, engaging others in the meaning of their tasks, staying resourceful yourself. Nothing is more demoralising than stale relationships, or a team who together are less than the sum of their parts. We've also noticed that trusted leadership styles sometimes need to evolve - the kind of leadership that was appropriate in the freebooting 1980’s and 1990’s is very different from the kind of leadership that is appropriate to the multi-layered commercial, social, spiritual and environmental challenges we face today. Of course Rosie brings creative leadership frameworks to the conversation too, so whilst you’re growing personally and enhancing your emotional presence, you’re also creating conditions for a radically heightened flow of collaborative creativity among others. Your coaching proceeds at a pace which suits – often once every three weeks over a period of months for achieving a specific outcome, or monthly over a year for professional progression on every level. For an exploratory conversation about your needs, contact us. “When we quit thinking primarily about our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” — Joseph Campbell PATHFINDER COACHING AT REDUNDANCY Though it’s an alarming change in status at first, redundancy can be a positive turning point. After the shock, it can afford you the rare chance to step back and choose your next direction – one which rewards you not just financially, but through and through. There’s no point in stepping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
If you have ‘baggage’ or a lack of confidence, our coaches help you put the past behind you so that you don’t let it run your future. Your pathfinder coaching is typically funded by your employer as part of your outplacement package. It takes the form of four extended (75 minute) coaching sessions, and costs £1000. Make contact directly, or ask your employer to contact us. KEEP ON STRETCHING Change isn’t an instant process. After a Stretch in the Picos, you know how coaching helps you move forward and you want to keep on expanding your possibilities. You may be encountering new territory as you implement your Stretch plan, or be ready to bring Stretch creativity to another area of your life. Developing the relationship you built on the trip, you can pick up momentum in a couple of sessions, or enter into a high impact 3 month programme with your coach. "The road to success is always under construction." — Lily Tomlin
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Individual coaching is a phenomenon sweeping the western world. Management Today recently reported that 73% of British senior managers were looking for more meaning at work. The field of positive psychology is signalling that, beyond a certain point, financial success no longer determines lasting happiness. 
Our coaches typically work with clients twice a month for six months. Each session lasts one hour and deals with a specific issue, goal and set of actions. The first couple of sessions are big-perspective explorations of your values and dreams. Your coach will support you to see the dynamics at play in your world and, where called for, suggest some practical ways of thinking, communicating, and behaving with others so you successfully take charge of your life, career and relationships. 
If you are leading others, you need a coach who can engage with your particular issues in a challenging and creative way – right at the interface of your personal and professional worlds. 
Pathfinder coaching will help you explore your possibilities before you get stuck into focused job search. We don't do recruitment or cv writing - but the deeper work that precedes it. You remind yourself of the gifts, talents and reserves inside you – maybe ones you haven’t been using in your latest job. You surface your values and priorities, your potential value in wider society. You uncover fields of interest you hadn’t considered, and how a person of your experience might step (sideways, and creatively) into it. You may emerge with a couple of enticing options you want to research, or a single path you are ready to pursue.