Personal and Professional Coaching with Dale Schwarz
My creativity coaching is based on a broad definition of
creativity. “Creativity” being the power to make the choices that impact
our lives. We work collaboratively to maximize your potential and
regenerate your enthusiasm to achieve your specific goals and vision.
I bring 30 years of experience and expertise as an art therapist, coach,
management trainer and consultant to the unique approach I’ve developed.
This approach is based on systemic change theory and mutual learning,
meaning that we are collaborators in the coaching process. In addition, I
can guide you in expressive techniques to expand your innate ways of
knowing. These interventions can include visual expression and reflective
writing to name a few. Please keep in mind that no previous art or writing
experience is necessary. All that is needed is your willingness to explore
and experiment.
My coaching helps you:
- Clarify your goals, purpose and passion
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Identify and constructive address your obstacles
- Build a bridge to realize your goals
Who
could benefit from coaching:
I work with a wide range of clients, including
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Individuals in career and life transitions clarifying direction and choices
- Business executives and managers, formal and informal leaders in public and
private organizations
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Entrepreneurs starting businesses
- Artists and writers wanting to plumb their talent and stay on track with
projects
What results you can
expect:
With more than 25 years of coaching experience, I have been privileged to
help individuals achieve a variety of results, such as:
- Reconnecting with unique gifts, talents and passions; re-invigorating
professional and personal life
- Enhancing effectiveness as a leader; understanding how personal patterns and
choices impact organizational performance
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Realizing dreams; clarifying vision; developing a step-by-step action plan,
and following through with commitments
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Making life more joyful, balanced and fulfilling by aligning personal and
career choices with values and passions
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Increasing decision-making effectiveness in the workplace
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Developing sound leadership practices and improving management habits
What it is like to work together:
Personal and/or professional coaching is conducted in person or over the
phone. Together we assess your current situation and develop a program to
meet your long and short-term goals.
We meet on a regular basis, usually for 60 minutes, and use a variety of
visual or written expressive techniques designed to help you tap your own
innate wisdom.
We use a variety of visual or written expressive techniques designed
to help you tap your own innate wisdom. Through simple drawings, for
instance, you might access symbols and metaphors in order to identify and
reveal issues that are not easily articulated through language alone.
This approach quickly helps get to the heart of the matter and you can
more readily achieve your goals.
I'll help you distinguish between ineffective coping choices and effective
creative choices and learn how to make successful choices. This decision
making approach is particularly useful during times of transition, when making
significant career and life decisions. I offer you a fresh objective,
perspective and nonjudgmental feedback. My sole purpose is to support you as
you achieve your goals.
To learn more about how this process could
benefit you, please call 413-665-4880 or
email me. I am available to
discuss your individual needs and answer your questions about coaching.
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Here's what others have said about
Dale's coaching:
"I learned that there is such a thing as a compassionate witness, both in
myself and available in others. I am applying this to my work as a therapist
and it changes the way I work."
Suzy Clark, Therapist
"I look forward to every conversation I have with Dale. She is warm,
intuitive, and fun. Her gentle prodding pushes me forward when I feel stuck.
Her bursts of inspiration excite me to reach further than I thought
possible. Her belief in my potential gives me the strength and courage to
seek an alternative path for my life. Through my work with Dale, new doors
are opening in my life."
S.M.,
Employee Development Coordinator
"Dale helped me focus my artistic work by reacquainting me with open-ended
creative thinking, emotional investigations, and the pleasures of
exploration and playfulness that made me want to be an artist in the first
place. Her guidance leads me right to the heart of what matters. Dale helps
me trust myself."
L.P., Professional Artist
"Working with Dale had a kind of value I had not discovered before.
Dale's creative approach allowed me to get in touch with aspects of my
gifts and talents that were untapped. I so appreciate Dale's gentle yet
powerful presence and guidance."
J. H. , Management
Consultant and Coach
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