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Companies call consultants to quickly fix a specific problem. A consultant analyses the problem and tells the people involved what they should do and how to do it. They are usually experts in the ‘problem’ field.

Coaching helps people to develop a wider awareness of the situation reality and their part in it. It empowers people to observe more options from new perspectives in order to make the best choices. Choice improves responsibility and the ability to learn how to unlock their own / group potential in order to generate their own strategies and take full ownership and control of the situation. A coach supports this entire process and teams are left empowered and able to cope with any other situation that comes along with confidence.

Therapy works backwards in order to discover what trauma or issue in your past life is affecting your behaviour today. Therapy is mostly talking things through and remembering details of past problems.

Coaching takes you from today and looks forwards towards your vision and goals for what you want in life. We work positively on strengths, talents, beliefs, habits and ways we can move forwards to your goal and beyond. The coaching process is dynamic. You will be expected to work and carryout the action steps you say you are going to undertake. You will try new things, new ways of thinking and perhaps step out of your comfort zone (with all the support you need). You will actively evaluate the learning opportunities that come from your actions and use this information to design next steps. You will take responsibility for your own success and actively work towards achieving it.

Mentoring is sharing information and the meaning of experience with someone, usually younger and wanting to learn the same lessons. It is helping them to take and understand what you yourself have spent many years learning. Mentors give specific answers to specific questions from one point of view. An apprentice can, therefore, only learn as much as their mentor knows and shares.

Coaching, by contrast is all about seeing the potential in others and using powerful questioning to get the absolute best out of that person. It is actually generally better to have a non-specialist as your coach in order to ensure the answers and solutions are found and owned by you rather than given or than given or led by someone else. That way the responsibility, choice, control and success are also all yours!

Inside-Out ACADEMY is an online coaching facility, available to anybody who wants to further their coaching journey or to develop their training insights. It is also for those who want to develop a coaching culture or to get a taste of what coaching entails. It is designed to keep you motivated, challenged and accountable and aims to help you connect to a life that you love, in all it is different roles and guises.
The ACADEMY acronym incorporates all aspects of what we cover during the modules:-
Awareness
Challenge
Accountability
Development
Exploration
Motivation
You

The main principle of coaching is to get you, the Client, to achieve your goals, bridging gaps and developing your own capacity for successful learning and growth along the way. It is about finding clarity, achieving excellence, creating purpose, authenticity and vision until you are ready to move forwards; fully resourced and confident alone. Private coaching ensures consistent, personal and professional support, motivation and the right level of challenge from a professional coach. Trying to continue that journey alone can soon become lonely and it is easy to get stuck. ACADEMY provides a clear, simple and structured development framework that is flexible enough to suit your needs. Additional support is always available should you choose to take advantage of it.

• If you have previously had coaching, do you miss having that consistent and supportive sounding board that you had with your Coach?
• Do you want to try coaching but feel restricted by the cost and/or time commitment of 1 to 1 coaching?
• Perhaps time and/or money restraints keep you from continuing your coaching journey or attending other inspirational training courses?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these points, then Inside-Out ACADEMY is absolutely right for you. If you are still unsure, then the Inside-Out ACADEMY programme is so affordable that it makes sense to try it and see for yourself. Whatever your reason, Inside-Out ACADEMY’s great structure and support makes it superb value for everyone committed to a personal coaching journey.

The ACADEMY programme is an online platform with monthly modules. Each module contains a coaching video from me, Gillian, where I explain the module’s coaching content in detail. Each themed module is packed with coaching tools and practical resources designed to motivate, challenge and support you step by step on your coaching journey.Join the Inside-Out ACADEMY Coaching Community for peer reflection, sharing and motivational support. Keep accountable and celebrate your achievements in a safe, reflective space.
Inside-Out ACADEMY subscriptions are flexible and affordable. Pay monthly or save even more money with discounted, multi-module packages that reward you for staying on your coaching journey. Benefit from a special, members only, 1 to 1 coaching hour fee with me, Gillian. I am here for you should you find yourself needing extra support to confidently get over any sticking points that come up for you throughout your ACADEMY Journey.

As long as you want it to! The programme is designed to be affordable and manageable enough to work into your daily life and keep you developing authentically and confidently, both personally and professionally.

I will personally answer any simple questions via our Slack community platform. If your question is more complex and you would like to be coached 1 to 1, then I am here for that too. Simply request a face-to-face session and benefit from the priority Inside-Out ACADEMY hourly rate for our time together.

No! Naturally, working personally with a coach delivers more value. 1 to 1 coaching means that exploration and reflection is guided by a professional and highly trained coach. You are paying for their expertise and time and this is why private coaching costs more. However, as a professional coach and coach supervisor and with the experience of coaching many clients, I have designed Inside-Out ACADEMY as the next best thing, especially if you use it in collaboration with a coach, mentor or MBA/Leadership training and other team building courses.
There is a saying that, “We can find a tiny splinter in the eye of others, yet we can’t see the log in our own”, so if you find yourself stuck at some point in the programme and in need of the professional mirror or sounding board that you can only get from working directly with a professional coach, contact me to arrange a special discounted 1 to 1 session. Alternatively, do not forget to check-in with your peers in the Community platform.

An Inside-Out ACADEMY subscription costs CHF 100 per month or alternatively select a longer term package to receive a special discount to reward your coaching journey commitment.

Monthly CHF 100
3 month package -5% CHF 285
6 month package -10% CHF 540
12 month package -25% CHF 900
24 month package -40% CHF 1440 (CHF 60 per month)

Discounted packages of 3 months or more must be paid in advance and are non-refundable once access has been granted to Inside-Out ACADEMY’s tools and resources.

You can choose to stop working through the Inside-Out Coaching ACADEMY Modules at any time. A monthly subscription can be terminated at the end of each calendar month. Discounted package subscriptions cannot be terminated. We do not issue refunds. This means that discounted package Modules will still be accessible to you for the duration of your coaching package whether you choose to work with them or not.

Here is a link to our Terms and Conditions. If you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email.

If so, then feel free to ask it here and I will post both the question and answer in this Q&A section.  It will then be available for you to read and also for the rest of our ACADEMY community.  Coachees ask such thoughtful and probing questions that the answers benefit the wider community too.

If your question is more personal or complex and you would like to be coached 1 to 1, then I am here for that too.  Simply request a face-to-face session and benefit from the priority Inside-Out ACADEMY hourly rate for our time together.  You can do this by using this link here: https://www.inside-out-coaching.com/book-a-session/