expatcoaching

Try Your Own Wings
Coaching to maximize the expatriate’s experience

This is personal Coaching
What is personal Coaching?
Challenging Uncertainties
About the Coach
How our coaching sessions work

Coaching to try your own wings is a metaphor for those who have taken the chance to step out into a place right beyond their comfort zone. It can be exhilarating to travel internationally and live abroad. One can feel like they are poised and balanced, and ready for something exciting and new. Yet still feel uncertain from the challenge of reaching out into an unknown. To take hold of one’s life and create your future takes courage. Whether you are still planning, have already taken the step, or are returning from international living you have shown that you are a person ready to try your own wings.

Personal coaching for Expatriates:

working for a corporation
on military assignment
with an international humanitarian organization
partners who have followed someone abroad and possibly left their own work, education or future plans behind
someone who has decided themselves to live abroad and are trying to re-develop their life style
returning home and facing the challenges of relocation

Whether you are with family, are single, divorced or recovering from a break-up, now is a great chance to re-create your dreams.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is personal coaching?
Personal Coaching is unique experience. Coaching offers an extraordinary level of support and encouragement for taking action, plus a chance for personal learning as one realizes their goals. A coach is a person who is on your team, fully invested in your success and yet is separate enough to challenge you when it is necessary for developing your goals. A coach has your time and goals at the center of their interest. You do not have to share time and interests as one does with friends. In this sense the coaching relationship is one-sided with the energy and focus all for your development. Coaching is ultimately about helping you hold a big vision for yourself. It is having someone there who catalyses your vision and stimulates your enthusiasm. This makes it possible to get what you want in your life a lot faster and easier than you would on your own. The coaching experience is also a chance for learning more about yourself and having more fun along the way than you ever thought possible.

International and Expatriate Challenges
As a member of the international traveling community you certainly have taken on courageous challenges to shape your own life. This does not mean you must do this alone. Even with friends and family close at hand there are times that it works better to work with someone outside your intimate circle. Working with a coach gives you that additional support needed in examining your options and building on new possibilities. Take this opportunity to get support through a coaching relationship tailored to meet you personal goals and needs.
This is a chance to ask your self; what is it that I want to do with my life now?

Challenging Uncertainties - When personal coaching is helpful

Everyday is a good day for trying something you have never done before!

When you face feelings of stress due to :

uncertain career possibilities and even possible career losses
a life style full of hectic scheduling, travel stress, and constantly meeting everyone else’s needs and not your own
feeling culturally left on the outside and can’t decide which way to turn first
still feel at times like a stranger among strangers

or whether you are:

just beginning the adventure of working outside your country and culture
giving up your job or life structure to follow your partner to a new assignment
returning to your own country and culture after some years of working abroad

and when you have more specific goals in mind to enhance your new life situation like:

Retiring and want to try new life adventures
Looking for a new job
Asking for that promotion
Starting your own business
Developing new or better relationship dynamics
Starting a new education
Starting a new career
Developing a musical, artistic or other talents

Now you have the opportunity to try your wings in new areas you have not previously allowed yourself or perhaps even imagined possible. In other words re-design or invent a new self that better adapts to your new situation. The issues really can cover anything and everything, what is central is your commitment to grasping the chance to create something new for yourself.

About Coach Robin:
I am also the coach of Courage To Fly, a pilot and a therapist. I have lived as an expatriate in both Africa and Sweden and I have worked in Peru and Nicaragua.
I believe a ready sense of humor helps to open up new perspectives and facilitates motivation to create new life adventures.

“My goal in being a coach for expatriates is to share my experience and enthusiasm about the rewards reaped in meeting the challenges one faces in international living. I enjoy sharing what took me years to develop so that my clients can use it as a spring broad to their own life adventures.”

How our coaching sessions work
My role as your coach will be as your collaborative partner. This can initially be to help you get focused on a satisfying goal or direction. As your coach I will continue to support you and help you keep your focus on what is important in developing your goals.

Coaching is a personal relationship and is based upon trust and the feeling that we have a good connection so that our partnership will be collaborative. To assure the best chance for a positive and productive relationship I invite you to contact me to set up a convenient time to discuss your goals for coaching and to determine if and how we will continue.

The first half hour is complimentary and further discussion of fees will be handled at the time of our initial conversation. After our initial introductory session I will have you fill in a goal preparation and personal information sheet so that we will be as effective as possible with our time.

We will develop an over all outline of how you believe I can be most helpful to:

Define your goal
Create a commitment that keeps you motivated
Identify your fears and where they stand in your way
Set realistic step by step goals
Develop guidelines for a personal support team
Reinforce your success
Revitalize your motivation
Identify additional resources- reading, courses, trainings etc.

We work together one on one.
My goal is to assist you in creating the most beneficial and easiest communication system possible. Your schedule and need for support is of up most importance to me. Whether we meet one on one through the telephone or internet, or in person our coaching sessions will be focused on supporting your progress in meeting your goals.

This can happen in sessions over the internet with (VOIP – voice over IP), telephone/or chat. Some clients have expressed a preference for using chat because they can see their questions and my responses immediately and then can also read them later.
We can arrange telephone sessions through a variety of options depending on your location. The use of the telephone and internet communication is very common in coaching. It is often more convenient for people who are moving internationally and who have varied schedules to balance.
In the case of our living within geographic close proximity we can have live sessions.

“My opportunity to join clients as their coach is always illuminating and invigorating for me as well. Anytime anyone experiences someone else’s courage to try their own wings, it stimulates powerful and exciting feelings of one’s own potential”. Robin

“If you can dream it you can do it.”
Walt Disney

Coaching is Not Therapy
Confidentiality

For more information or to register write: rfay@couragetofly.com

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