Why coaching? What is coaching? How does it work? What if I work with you?

What is Coaching and what are Breakthrough Sessions?

Successful coaching has been defined as a formalized relationship between the coach and the client. The coach’s function is to bring all their skills and abilities to enable the client to tap into more of their potential and thereby achieve significant and measurable improvement.

Coaches have studied the process and structure behind success and can use this knowledge to empower their clients to get similar results.

Anthony Robbins gives a useful definition of coaching in ‘Awaken the Giant Within’

He writes that " ... a coach is a person who is your friend, someone who really cares about you. A coach is committed to helping you be the best that you can be. A coach will challenge you, not let you off the hook. They aren’t any better than the people they are coaching, in fact, the people that they coach may have natural abilities superior to their own. They can teach you one or two distinctions that can immediately transform your performance in a matter of moments. They show you how to get measurable results. A coach doesn’t always teach you something new but they remind you of what you need to do at just the right moment and push you to do it ... ".

What is Peak Performance Coaching?

Peak performance coaching is a powerful new paradigm that utilises the latest advances in behavioural and cognitive psychology. Techniques such as Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Time Line Therapy™ (TLT) are used within a proven coaching framework to tackle issues that are raised by the client.

What is NLP?

NLP has been defined as the study of excellence in human performance and behaviour and its translation into practical skills that people can use effectively. A mathematician and computer programmer, Richard Bandler and a linguist, John Grinder, founded NLP. They asked the question, "What makes the difference between someone who excels at a skill and someone with basic competence?" Out of this came another question, "How does someone do what they do?"

As a result John Grinder and Richard Bandler studied the patterns of thought and behaviour of leading experts in the fields of psychology and therapy using the process of modelling. This approach has long been used in relation to the natural world. Engineers for example have often studied natural structures before applying the underlying dynamics to their construction projects.

Although NLP has been around for more than 25 years, many of the techniques now used under the NLP banner have only really been discovered and developed in recent years following further modeling projects and application of the techniques.

Sales, therapy, negotiations, public speaking and sports performance are only a handful of areas where NLP techniques have been used to achieve outstanding results.

What is Time Line Therapy?

Time Line Therapy™ grew out of NLP and was formulated by Dr Tad James. It works by assisting clients in letting go of negative emotions and decisions as well as allowing them to put compelling goals into the future. These processes are used by achievers around the world from Olympic gold medallists to prominent business people. The Money Programme recently ran a feature on the UK Director of Savings from one of the top four high street banks experiencing Time Line Therapy™ to let go of decisions and negative emotions that were holding him back. His employer is grooming him for the top of the organisation and Peak Performance Coaching is seen as an integral part of his development.

What are Breakthrough Sessions?

A breakthrough session is indicated where a clients presenting issues owe much to powerful negative emotions and limiting beliefs that it would not be appropriate to tackle with coaching. They are also useful when a client, to borrow a phrase form somebody who I recently worked with “Can’t see the wood for the trees’ and wants to achieve radical life change.

In a session lasting between 6 and 7 hours, the client removes all inappropriate negative emotions and limiting beliefs from their past, finds out what their deepest unconscious drivers and life purposes are before setting compelling future goals.