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What is Coaching?

Coaching provides the space for you to explore and realise your untapped potential. A good coach uses skillful questioning to help you understand yourself better: your environment, your behaviour, your skills, your values and beliefs and your sense of identity. It provides an opportunity to move beyond the limits you set yourself, to try new behaviours, develop new skills and achieve the results  you want.

Coaching recognises that you are the 'expert' on yourself. Only you can decide how this will work for you. You set the goals; you determine the path forward. The coach is there to manage the process and to keep you pointing in the direction you have chosen. For more details, contact me at b.hope@hopecoaching.co.uk

Who uses coaching?

Coaching is a useful way of 'taking stock' of your life, setting new goals (or re-setting old ones), exploring your purpose in life and re-orientating yourself towards a more abundant and satisfying future.

People like you use coaching for all kinds of reasons. You may be struggling with a difficult issue, you may have specific goals, like finding a job that makes better use of your talents, or you may just feel that something is 'missing' from your life. Coaching can help you focus in on what is important and provide you with the structure to achieve your goals. It can provide you with new perspectives and insights that help you reframe your issues and find your way around the obstacles you are experiencing.

Fantastic Futures

Fantastic Futures weekends bring together three coaches with different styles and approaches within a workshop format.  These are ideal for people considering life coaching or who want to clarify their goals, deal effectively with the obstacles to success and start living the life they truly want. For more details visit www.fantasticfutures.co.uk

Barry Hope

I has been working independently since  1997 after a long and successful carer in local authority social work and national and international voluntary sector organisations. My whole career has been focused on helping people
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rediscover their capacity for change and find new ways of being.

My systemic and creative approaches to individual and group coaching have achieved spectacular results for individuals, organisations and teams. Among a broad span of interests are NLP, Hypnotherapy and Personal Construct Theory.

I am a qualified social worker, experienced trainer and coach, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Master NLP Practitioner.