"Always the more beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
- E E Cummings"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Claire opened my eyes through life coaching and made realise my indecisions were all interconnected to certain fears, and when I thought about these issues in a different way I realised these fears can be overcome. It feels like someone has turned on the light and I see things a lot clearer and feel great about it. Thank you Claire for turning on that light!"
- Sareeta D.Project Administrator
FAQs
Who uses a Life Coach?
Everyone who is committed to improving an aspect of their life can use, and will benefit from the services of a Life Coach. Our clients vary enormously:
- from committed professional men and women seeking to achieve more balance in their lives,
- to those wanting to create healthier bodies and minds,
- to those negotiating life transitions,
- to those wanting to go to the next level professionally,
- to those wanting to overcome procrastination
- to those wanting to better understand themselves,
- to those seeking to improve their existing relationships,
- to those wanting to find their ideal relationship.
The common thread is that all of our clients are committed to becoming their best selves by becoming more empowered, by generating more self-belief and by clarifying and aligning themselves with their values and life purpose.
What benefits can I experience?
The benefits are only limited by your own imagination and commitment, but to fire up your imagination, here are some benefits you can look forward to:
- Accomplishing goals more easily and rapidly
- Setting goals that truly motivate you
- Reducing the number of ‘problems’ you experience, and handling those you have much more effectively
- Higher level of satisfaction and meaningfulness
- Higher levels of effectiveness and influence in your relationships, both personal and professional
- An empowering and enlarged sense of self-respect, self-love, self-belief and self-responsibility
- More ‘success’ in terms that are meaningful to you
- Overall sense of balance, wellbeing and optimism
- Being of greater service to those you love
- Living more happily
What can I expect in a session?
Unless you have experienced coaching before, you won’t have had a conversation like this before! Coaches are trained to listen and observe closely, and to provide feedback to you that promotes your growth, forward movement, clarity and self-responsibility. Claire will work with you to co-design effective strategies that will put you on your path to personal empowerment and satisfaction.
How do your sessions run?
Sessions typically run for about an hour, although they can vary. Sessions are facilitated either face-to-face, or over the phone.
Your session time will ordinarily be at the same time in the week for the first 3 weeks of every month. The structured regularity of the sessions provides a foundation and a framework for the action based strategies you will develop in partnership with your coach.
Do you offer packages?
Yes, we offer a selection of packages varied to suit individual needs, as well as customising packages where appropriate. In your initial conversation with Claire, you will discuss broadly where you are at right now, and where you want to move to in your life. Based on your overall objectives, Claire will suggest a number of sessions that she considers appropriate; this initial conversation is complimentary, and without any obligation on your part.
Stellar 3
If you want to achieve change in one aspect of your life, this package may be for you. Stellar 3 comprises 3 sessions spread weekly over the first three weeks of the month, plus one free assessment session.
Stellar 6
This package will suit you if you have several focuses for your coaching, including if you want to move beyond old limiting beliefs. Stellar 6 gives you 6 sessions spread over two months – grouped in the first three weeks of each month – plus one free assessment session.
Stellar 9
This package will suit you if you are looking to really move forward in several areas of your life, and are committed to creating lasting change and powerful new beliefs and strategies. Stellar 9 comprises 9 sessions spread over three months - grouped in the first three weeks of each month – plus one free assessment session.
What is the difference between Life Coaching and Counselling?
Whereas counselling tends to look to a client’s past to find reasons for existing issues in a clients life, a coach ‘draws a line in the sand’ and, starting with the present, looks towards the future and how the client wants to shape their life. Coaching is outcomes-focused.
Most clients have already experienced fulfillment and success in various aspects of their lives – and they come to a coach to raise the bar on their own life, or clarify new and meaningful goals for themselves.
Coaches believe in their clients’ essential resourcefulness, and the coaching process allows the true strengths, power and purpose of their clients to surface and be activated.
What are Stellar Coaching’s Professional Standards?
At Stellar Coaching we ask our clients to commit to their own processes of change – in fact we won’t coach you if you are not truly committed to achieving your outcomes. As we require commitment from our clients, we require commitment from ourselves. Stellar Coaching upholds itself to the following standards:
- We provide a safe, judgement-free zone in which are clients are able to be truly honest. The interaction between client and remains strictly confidential.
- We believe in our clients’ essential resourcefulness and strengths, and focus our coaching on expanding self-responsibility, awareness and belief.
- Our coaching is solutions-focused, and possibility-focused.
- We commit to coaching with honesty, compassion and curiosity, so as to bring about the best results for our clients.
- We commit to ourselves growing, learning and improving who we are and what we do.
- We aim to share laughter with our clients: believing that the less seriously we take our selves the more seriously fantastic results we get!
Can you tell me more about Stellar Coaching?
Stellar Coaching is a Professional Coaching Practice founded by Claire Long. We specialise in empowering individuals, and those in business, to create lives they truly love, personally and professionally.
With a wide background of experience, including working in education, the creative arts, small business and the fitness industry, Claire turned to Coaching as a way of integrating her passion for seeing people achieve their dreams, and moving towards their goals, into every aspect of her life, both personal and professional.
Claire is a working parent of three fabulous children and strives to achieve a good balance between family relationships, community and work. She believes that a clear and compassionate self-knowledge provides the best foundation for a life well lived – a life that is both satisfying and enriching on a personal level, and positive on a community level.
Claire’s personal credo for success is borrowed from the American Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote the following: