Employee Assistance professionals can learn Intrinsic Coaching® and also potentially partner with Totally Coached, Inc. to create cultures of Intrinsic Coaching® organization wide. 

Become an Intrinsic Coach®: Choose an Intrinsic Coach® Development Series that is right for you by going to www.intrinsiccoach.com/english/enroll/.  New series start almost every week and meet via teleconference for two consecutive hours a week, once a week, for twelve weeks. If you have to miss a session, you can listen to an audio file of your missed session. Upon completion of this Series, you will be able to elicit people's best thinking, including your own, so they and you can accomplish important outcomes. You'll also be able to identify yourself as an Intrinsic Coach®, use the Intrinsic Coach® logo, wear the Intrinsic Coach® pin, have access to the Intrinsic Coach® community, and have a readily available way to develop your coaching in any direction you choose, through www.IntrinsicCoach.com.

Integrate Intrinsic Coaching® with your counseling: Integrate the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology into your counseling practice by selecting an Intrinsic Coach® Development Series that's right for you, for example, for Health and Wellness professionals, for Organizational Coaching, or for Executive Coaching.  To talk to someone, click on contact us.

Add Executive Coaching to your services: Add executive coaching to your services by selecting an Intrinsic Coach Development Series focused on Executive Coaching. 

Train your staff in Intrinsic Coaching®: We'd be happy to train your staff and also talk about creating in house Intrinsic Coach® Development capabilities. To take a first step, contact us for a conversation. 

After learning the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology, Employee Assistance professionals have the potential to be invited to advanced Intrinsic Coach® development and even partner with Totally Coached, Inc. to create cultures of Intrinsic Coaching®, organization wide.

An Intrinsic Coaching® conversation is really rewarding because I’m now able to find out when a person’s stated goal isn’t what he or she really wants. It’s something that happens a lot in my field and, with the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology, I can now bring people’s real goals forward and then help them think better about their choices toward that goal. For instance, I had a coachee who said her goal was to have a cleaner house. In the past, I would have offered suggestions such as hiring a housekeeper, thinking my suggestions could help her. However, now that I am an Intrinsic Coach® professional, I was able to listen like an Intrinsic Coach® as she talked about what she wanted. She started out saying her goal was about her house, but when I engaged her to think intrinsically, she realized it really was another pressure she was focusing on and she thought that having a clean house would relieve that pressure. This was a very significant realization for her and, as a result of our Intrinsic Coaching® conversation, she began to take steps directly toward what, really, was the outcome she wanted to work toward. So the goal she presented was a small window to what she truly wanted and, as an Intrinsic Coach®, I was able to help her see through it. It was really neat how she got that insight and it changed everything for her in terms of what she was going to do. I didn’t expect the conversation to go where it went and neither did she, but that’s the beauty of an Intrinsic Coaching™ conversation -- the coachee leads the way and the conversation becomes filled with unlimited resources!

A recent example of applying the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology with a group involved a federal guideline that has gone into effect and to which we have to adjust. I was with a group that was complaining about how terrible it was going to be. They kept asking, “How are we going to handle this and how are we going to tell the employees?” Because of my Intrinsic Coach® training, I knew how to work toward shifting the group from being problem-focused to being goal-focused. Just that one shift in thinking lifted the energy and created the possibility of thinking forward, together, in a situation that, really, was a tough situation. With the shift, members of the group started saying, "Oh, all right, if this is what we are going to do, then how about we do this, or what about we do that?" By shifting from being problem-focused to being goal-focused they shifted from complaining to moving forward.

We have all kinds of issues to address in our City and, of course, we address them on a daily basis. Integrating the Intrinsic Coaching® approach, including as a part of everyday conversation, makes such a difference. So I just imagine expanding Intrinsic Coaching® little by little until this wonderful methodology gets more and more momentum and becomes the skill that everybody knows about and wants – because everybody wants to have those more powerful kinds of conversations.