Elanie J Ward - Personal Coaching

One of the interesting things about coaching is that to be a good coach you do not have to be an expert!
Not an expert, that is, in the area in which you are coaching others.
I have coached people in business while knowing little about the processes they manage, coached people in relationship without ever having met the person they are in a relationship with, and supported people through study and gaining qualifications which I do not hold myself.

My expertise is in the process of coaching, in knowing which questions to ask and which tool to use to challenge and help each client.

Over several years of coaching, however, I have developed “niches,” working with individuals from similar groups again and again.

 I find I mainly work with women. Often these women are middle aged and feeling either directionless or lacking in power and motivation, or are restless and unhappy in the life they presently have. It is so exciting to watch them discover what they want to do and overcome the obstacles which previously they may have put in the way of moving on.

 I have a client who having spent the last 23 years in the same house and job is at this moment travelling the world on her “gap year” working with animals. Yet another client who has given up her teaching job and retrained to work in Outdoor Pursuits. Neither of these clients would want to return to their pre-coaching lives!

In my life I have been single, married, divorced and so am now single again. These experiences help me to relate to others in each of these situations. I have also belonged to Network a group for singles and have many clients who have met me or been to one of my workshops and have then asked for coaching. These clients may be single, divorced or widowed are all looking for a fulfilling future. Coaching individuals from these groups often involves relationship coaching too.