My tag line for new habitus is life coaching for critical thinkers.
Why?
The quality of your life depends largely on your reasoning patterns. Your mind is powerful.
I aim to serve a coaching niche for intelligent, reasonable people who are afraid that coaching will be mindless cheerleading or magical manifesting.
That is not the kind of coaching I align with.
As a retired professor, my coaching is grounded in research in the sciences and social sciences. At the same time, I understand that much of “living liveable lives” (Butler, 2024) is a skilled art.
So who are critical thinkers? They are typically grounded in logic, experience, and vetted, established knowledge. They are good at evaluating, synthesizing, analyzing and creating information. They examine assumptions. They look at things from multiple perspectives, and see things as context bound and historically situated. They know things are dynamic and subject to changing conditions of power and relationality.
They are usually really, really good at what they do.
Yet, critical thinkers often overthink, and are unaware of how emotions may be affecting their decision making and quality of life. They may experience analysis paralysis, which crowds out the actual doing. And they may struggle with reaching out for help; this isolation whips up a lot of self-doubt and second guessing.
This pattern may bring out frustration and other BIG emotions, which is totally normal, but may need expression, attention and regulation. Neurobiology is at once cognitive and emotional.
My coaching honors the intellectual parts of my clients, but also aims to help them see that emotions are a part of every human and provide critical information. Cognition is embodied so emotions are always on board, come from thoughts, and are thus playing a role in sense of self and decision-making processes.
For you: I stay attuned, and acknowledge that you are already whole, wise and resourceful, but need a coach. My methodology includes intentional questioning strategies; mapping out the players, problems and power relations; and figuring out what is and is not in your control.
And then we come up with a plan to solve problems skillfully and elegantly. All in a safe, confidential space.