"Tension is who you think you should be.  Relaxation is who you are."
~ Chinese Proverb

Intrinsic Coaching™ is a methodology developed by Totally Coached, Inc. and is a unique conversation.  It results in action towards results that are important to the coachee.

Coaches elicit; they don’t tell.  In order to do that, they focus their attention on others’ thinking processes to help people figure things out themselves.  The premise is that you have the answers inside of you; your coach helps you tap into those answers.

Intrinsic Coaching™ is about increasing your capacity to think better about your choices so that you can make the best decisions for yourself based on what is most important to you.  To do that, you work with a coach who is trained in the methodology to listen to you fully and completely and ask you questions to help you tap into your intrinsic self and increase your intrinsic capacity.

Consider that there are three ways of thinking:  Intrinsic, Extrinsic, and Systemic.

• Systemic Thinking includes ideas about how things should be and the “perfect” way to fulfill these ideas.  (e.g. “this should be like this;” or “if you do this, then X will happen” – policies, rules).  Systemic thinking has its place.  However, when you think primarily systemically, you are limited in your options.
• Extrinsic Thinking includes how people and things fit together relative to labels, categories, and comparisons.  You identify yourself and others in terms of their roles, jobs, descriptive qualities.  You’re also thinking in terms of what you need to do to get what you want.  (e.g. “I’m going to do X because I know that it will cause you to do Y”); it’s like a strategy you use in your life.  With this way of thinking you also have a limited number of options.
• Intrinsic Thinking includes uniqueness and individuality.  When you think in the intrinsic, you are thinking from your own unique qualities and from what is most important to you.  With this way of thinking, you have an infinite amount of options.

All three ways of thinking are important and serve their function in our lives.  However, the more you can think intrinsically first, the better choices you will make.  Intrinsic Coaching™ is about increasing your intrinsic thinking.  Without the intrinsic, you can only be and become the opinions others have of you; however, with the intrinsic, you are capable, creative, and complete just as you are and can therefore make choices that will move you forward towards your best self and being fully alive.

See results from Intrinsic Coaching™ put into action during a 6-month pilot program by clicking here.

For more information on Intrinsic Coaching™, visit www.totallycoached.com