Coaching + Coffee + Connection

If you live near Cambridge, MA, won't you join me for....

Career Coaching Coffee-Hour
A six-week career transition group, facilitated and led by me, a certified professional coach (CPCC, ACC)

· Are you out of work or in-between jobs?
· Considering a career change or starting a new venture?
· Needing support, structure and focus?

Take advantage of an economy-friendly, low-cost, dynamic coaching program!

Highlights Include:

· Weekly coaching exercises
· Clearing blocks and obstacles
· Creating a compelling vision
· Establishing structure and focus
· Moving forward with confidence
· Connection, networking and support
· One individual, private coaching session

Program Details:

6 Wednesdays 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13
from 9:00 – 10:00 AM
At a local café in Central Square, Cambridge
***ONLY $85.00!!!***

Contact me for more information: erin@innergrowthcoach.com.

Aw, come on! Join us!

Pack Your Bags, Baby!

One of the benefits of coaching is the continued growth process that happens naturally when you are asking others to creatively design their lives. A friend of mine (a wonderful yoga therapist, Rebekah Barry) and I are running an 8-week Integrative Yoga and Life Coaching Program, Mama, Rejuvenated! As part of their visioning exercise, the mamas created collages that answered the question: "what is the BIG dream for my life?"
I had recently created my own version, and decided to use my collage to demonstrate how we uncover our values, or our "must-haves". It struck me, powerfully, how much I am missing the intimacy of friendships that I share with a few women from college. The kind of friendship that was forged through sweat and tears on the lacrosse field and off.
I shared with my husband how seemingly difficult it is to forge those kinds of friendships now, when I am preoccupied with being a mama, or our time alone together is so limited. An hour here, an hour there.
I continued on about how much I missed my dear friend, Kate, who happens to also be Amelia's awesome God-Mama, and who also happens to live in Malaysia. "Pick up the phone and call her, Er." my ever-practical husband urged. "Connect that way."
And so we did. And now, I have two e-tickets to Malaysia with a stop in Dubai. One for me. The other for Amelia.
Kate challenged me. She framed a visit to Malaysia in the most compelling way. If not now, when? People do it all the time. They have no choice if they want to come home and see their families. It's a perspective shift. She will be flying home with Kai, her 11 month old, in June. We could all fly together. "It will be hard and exhausting," she said, "but imagine how you will feel once you do it. You will feel like you can do anything after that!!!"
You see, Kate knows me well. Throw a good challenge my way, and I am like a dog after a bone.
And the bone is 3 amazing weeks barefoot (or at least flip flops) in Malaysia with monkeys swinging in the trees around us, and Kate and I (with babes on backs) palling around together, again. And the bigger bone is really this: Being true to me, and fulfilling my values of adventure, rich experiences, intimate friendships, and a little spontaneity. I am challenging the belief I formerly held that this is not possible with a toddler.
I am now in "strategy" mode of how to travel wisely with an 18-month-old. Stay tuned.