What is Coaching?

Coaching is a one-on-one process that uses conversation to help the client, team and/or organization develop a shared vision, uncover goals and strengths, overcome obstacles, enhance focus, create plans and remain in action.

What Types of Coaching does Unlocked Box Offer?

Unlocked Box offers several types of coaching:

Individual/Personal Coaching - whole life coaching

Organizational & Team Coaching - for executives, emerging leaders and companies that wish to create high-functioning teams

Creativity & Innovation Coaching - for creative professionals, as well as individuals looking to explore and enhance their creative firepower

Marketing & Branding Coaching - for organizations and entrepreneurs who want a stand-out, sticky brand and forward-thinking marketing

Group Coaching (via The Neuron Exchange and a variety of workshops) - topic-specific coaching in a group setting

Click on the links on the left for an in-depth look at each type of coaching.

Why Choose Unlocked Box?

Coaching is either directive or non-directive. The non-directive model places more emphasis on the learning process with the coach acting as a catalyst for your growth.

Unlocked Box uses the co-active coaching model developed by the Coaches Training Institute of San Rafael, CA and is a non-directive approach.

The co-active model shares many characteristics of other non-directive methods, but what sets it apart is the strong emphasis placed on relationship - an emphasis that stems from the four cornerstones of co-active coaching, as well as the designed alliance of the model.

What's So Great About Co-Active Coaching

Co-active coaches take the stance that you, the client, are naturally creative, resourceful and whole. You are not broken, you do not need to be fixed. Instead, you are amazing, unique and completely capable of finding the answers to absolutely anything. You only need a coach to shine the flashlight in places you might not be looking, to point out holes you may not see and to offer truthfulness, relentlessness and support.

In co-active coaching, the client creates the agenda. This allows you to focus on development that is meaningful to you and, therefore, more likely to have lasting impact.

Co-active coaching addresses your whole life. You are a multi-faceted human being, with a whole life that must be fulfilling if you are to be truly satisfied. So, no matter what you come to coaching for, you can bring anything you want - and it can change from session to session.

The co-active coach dances in the moment, which may sound odd but is a very powerful technique that encourages and supports thinking way outside the box, taking you to creative, surprising and fruitful places. Unlocked Box's Designed Alliance

The designed alliance is the co-created relationship between coach and client. It is a shared commitment between you and me. The designed alliance is important because coaching balances support with creating sufficient challenge for learning - and a deep level of trust is needed for this dynamic to work. When this type of alliance exists, individuals are able to stretch beyond their current level of capability. In her research of highly creative partnerships, Vera John-Steiner (2000) refers to this co-created relationship as the emotional scaffolding that provides "...the gift of confidence, and [allows] creative people [to lean on that gift] during periods of self doubt."

Brave Coaching for Brave People

Co-active coaching takes guts. As your coach, I will throw rocks through your windows of reality in the service of revealing the possibilities that lie just beyond. I expect my clients to bring a lot to the table, be willing to be challenged and to stretch themselves. The pay-off is immense: increased fulfillment, a greater sense of purpose and a powerhouse of creativity.

Source: "Organizational Impact of Co-Active Coaching" Arthur Shirk, PCC, CPCC - June 2005