LIFE COACHING

The MBTI provides insight into your thinking style, communications approaches, and personality development pattern. There is an abundance of research associated with the MBTI for use with harmonizing interpersonal relationships, making team dynamics more effective, managing diversity-multiculturalism, and attaining career satisfaction. Dr. Robin particularly likes MBTI for understanding deeper type dynamics and career coaching. Please call and have a conversation with Dr. Robin about how you’d like to focus your time and attention if you wish to have an MBTI coaching session. In many cases, one session will be sufficient. Dr. Robin also has audio CD’s covering aspects of MBTI type development, type dynamics, type and careers, and international/multicultural uses of the MBTI.

CAREER BY DESIGN INTERESTS, SKILLS, VALUES
Interests motivate and predict career satisfaction. Values must be met for you to sustain effort and be happy. Your skills enhance your effectiveness. With the Career by Design matrix you take charge of your career, decide what things to delegate, how to make room in your work-life for the interests with greatest growth potential, and when to work with others to cover those energy-draining work activities that nonetheless must be done.

With Career by Design Coaching Dr. Robin guides you through the CbD system helping you identify your interests, skills, and values with probing questions and a series of questionnaires. Together you come up with the career management matrix you will use to be more strategic in managing your career options by focusing on jobs-assignments that use your best work skills, delegating and developing others to do those things you do well but would rather not do, set a plan in place for developing those skills that have the potential to enhance your career satisfaction, and get rid of or team with others to handle necessarily energy-draining tasks. Clients tell Dr. Robin that they use the Career Design Matrix to focus their attention on the most satisfying aspects of their work, increase their motivation, and manage performance impressions with their bosses and co-workers.

Dr. Robin also helps you clarify your values and craft your personal mission statement building on your motivating interests and values. This helps you keep your work in perspective given your entire life. There is an associated decision matrix that many clients use to decide which job-career direction to take that keeps you in your values integrity.

You then review your reviews and write your career contribution statement based on the use of your best work skills. Clients seeking new assignments / jobs, or mentors tell Dr. Robin that the career contribution statement is one of the most valuable things they do to prepare themselves to give a short, focused, verbal account of what they’ve contributed to their organizations, what they’d like to continue doing, and how others can help them in their careers. 

Career by Design coaching in truly a workshop – you do a lot of the work with Dr. Robin’s guidance and tools. And it’s a GIGO process – garbage in, garbage out. So plan to do at least 4 sessions with Dr. Robin, and to spend at least 8 hours of concentrated time doing the various activities associated with the Career by Design system. The Career by Design coaching experience includes the workbook with audio CD and the coaching conversations. You can pay for your coaching using Mastercard, Visa, or Discover.

WORK OF BYRON KATIE
Sometimes life sucks. But we don’t know how to change things. The work of Byron Katie is a process that will help you identify what you CAN change to make your life happier. 

Judge your neighbor.
Write it down.
Ask 4 questions.
Turn them around.

The little rhyme summarizes the transformational process called The Work of Byron Katie. 

The Work is a powerful process for helping your chart your own mental belief map - to see what ideas and beliefs you have that may be blocking your growth, contributing to the resistance from others, and affecting your decisions in your life. Have a coaching session using the Work of Byron Katie when you’re feeling that someone, something, or life in general is not as it SHOULD be. You’re unhappy with someone or something and you’d like it to change. Maybe the someone you’re unhappy with is yourself. The key is that you’d like things to be different than they are.  When you find yourself upset with they way things are because they're not the way they should be, see that as an invitation to explore the ideas and feelings underneath the idea that your life, experience, work, mother, father, the government, God, children, boss, co-workers, etc. SHOULD be different.

When people ask what techniques or processes have made the most difference in Dr. Robin's life and happiness, she always mentions the Work. Dr. Robin has been doing the Work for more than a decade to heal and transform relationships and lead a joyful life. We really can’t change others, but we can change ourselves, and we can change our minds. We do it all the time when it suits us. The Work guides us to change our thoughts and change our lives so that life suits us. 

In preparing for the Work session you will complete the work sheet – in writing. When that is completed you will go through the process of answering 4 questions about all the things you wrote on your Work sheet with Dr. Robin. Those questions are:

One: Is it true? 
Two: Can I really know that it is true? 
Three: How do I react when I attach to that thought? 
Four: Who, what, or how would I be without this thought?

Through this process you will identify and modify any disempowering beliefs. Question 4 and the last step – the turnaround - will help you strategize about how to deal with what is bothering you. You are welcome to watch Katie do the work with others on a variety of topics before deciding whether you’d like to do the work one-on-one with Dr. Robin.

Sign up for this session when you have to deal with someone or something you can’t stand, you boss or coworkers have disappointed or angered you, or you are generally not as happy, empowered, or effective as you would like to be.  Change your mind.  Change your Life.  Be Happy.  It's possible if you're willing to do the Work.

LOMINGER VOICES 360 FEEDBACK
High quality feedback is essential for career growth. The Lominger system gets you that feedback.  But doing a 360 feedback with Dr. Robin, rather than through your organization,  keeps you in control.  You decide who gives you the feedback and how you use the feedback for your own professional-personal growth. Dr. Robin helps you decode that feedback with attention to your social identities and personality information.  Together you come up with SMARTER (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious but Realistic, Timed, Enjoyable, and Results-Oriented) goals and a peronalized action plan. 

WORK-LIFE BALANCE WHEEL
Work life harmony requires us to consider that all the aspects of our lives are interconnected. What happens in our relationships affects our professional-career life and our health. What’s going on with our bodies, affects our interactions with our friends. Money issues can make it difficult to work out relationship challenges, or to have fun and relax. Harmonizing all the aspects of our lives can be a challenge. With the Life Balance Wheel you assess your degree of satisfaction with All the areas of your life, and Dr. Robin guides you towards actions that will harmonize them. Work-Life Balance sessions start with your subjective satisfaction rating for 12 areas of life we must all manage – Health, Body, Friends, Family, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Rest & Relaxation, Career, Significant Others, Finances, Home, and Environment. We discuss what complete satisfaction would be for you – and then explore actions to help you attain greater, harmonized satisfaction in all 12 areas. Work-Life Balance coaching usually requires pre-work and at least 2 telephone sessions with significant home work and email contact between the 2 phone sessions.

INTUITIVE LIFE COACHING
Intuitive Life Coaching sessions are done on the phone. Recordings are done by request and sent via email as an Mp3 file.

DANCE OF LIFE COACHING
This is a psychology-based consultation that is good for exploring issues you want to deal with in depth. In the session you frame your concern, explore the surface and deep issues, past experiences, expectations, and your attitude toward the issue.  Then you brainstorm ways to handle any challenges that are evident, and end with action steps you might take given what was discussed during the session.

CRYSTAL ALLY CARD INTERPRETATION
This consultation provides insight into the life lessons you are learning, how to manifest what you want, key relationships to help you move forward, your source of creative solutions, how to communicate what’s happening, and your spiritual strengths and weaknesses. We then move into the second part of the consultation where we explore the emotional, physical, and spiritual lessons involved, the challenges, and what aspect of Self is the driving force and energy source for what you are doing. You can then adjust and adapt your approach to things in order to maximize your probability of success while ensuring holistic growth. 

ARCHETYPE LIFE WHEEL 
It’s your wonderful life. Written, produced, and starring you - in 12 different roles. In this consultation we will select 13 archetypes (from 80 or so), and use an intuitive system to place each of those aspects of your personality into the 12 areas of life in which they are most active. We look at persona, money, communication, home, fun, health, partnerships, intimacy, philosophy, career, hopes-fears, and your unconscious. The roles range from Actor, Bureaucrat, Clown and Deva to Trickster, Vampire, Visionary, and Warrior. Sometimes these will match your occupation, sometimes not. Sometimes they will be expressing in a healthy way in your life, sometimes not. The 13th archetype is the Nexus, the integrating force for keeping the other 12 archetypes working together to maximize your growth potential.

ASTROLOGICAL HOROSCOPE
Many people read their daily horoscope but have never had a complete astrological chart done. With accurate time, date, location of your birth, you can have your personal chart, a computerized report, and a consultation that prioritizes the core life themes described by your heavenly life map.  Charts are done only at the request of, and for the person actually getting the astrological coaching session.

MULTICULTURAL COACHING NETWORK