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"Co-Active Coaching: A powerful alliance designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of human learning, effectiveness, and fulfillment. Co-Active Coaching is a unique, proactive alliance with coach and client, working together as equals in meeting the needs of the client. Fervent curiosity is more important than specialized knowledge." (Coaches Training Institute)

Co-Active Coaching is a term coined by The Coaches Training Institute to specify the particular principle and methodology applied to their coaching and training. Active Choices, Inc. follows this model.

The Four Cornerstones of Co-Active Coaching:

• The client is naturally creative, resourceful and whole. Nothing is broken or needs fixing. The coach has the questions, clients have the answers.
• Co-Active Coaching addresses the client's whole life and focuses on fulfillment, balance and process (moving through life).
• The agenda comes from the client. The client is in charge, the relationship is focused on the client getting the results they want.
• The coach dances in the moment with the client. The client and coach address what shows up in the moment rather than from a rigid plan. There is a fluid give and take in the lead between the coach and client. Everything that happens is an opportunity for learning and movement.

"Co-active Coaching is a thought clarification process. It's different because of two of its underlying assumptions. The first is that no other person can ever know enough about you to decide for you more effectively than you can decide for yourself. The primary need of most people is not for the advice or direction of others. Rather, the primary need of most people is for clarification of their own thinking. That's what co-active coaching does.

Co-active coaching's second underlying assumption is that you are intrinsically creative, resourceful and whole. Coaching is a way for you to discover, with the aid of a trained coach, what you value, what you need and what you want out of your life. This form of coaching is called "co-active" because it is a customized "designed alliance" between coach and client to maximize the benefit of coaching to each client.

Properly trained co-active coaches utilize a toolkit of skills to enable you to clarify your thinking. Your coach need know virtually nothing of the specifics of issues with which you are grappling. Rather, he or she is the guide who enables you to clearly assess your situation and then deal with it in the manner best suited to you. Coaching is clarifying, is balancing and is fulfilling."  

-  Quote from The Advocate, January 200 0

Active Choices, Inc. Coaching & Training 630.443.5137  info@activechoicesnow.com