The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”.

In addition, coaching aims for me:

• to empower people to identify their blockades and transform limiting assumptions and beliefs,
• to reconnect them to their values and needs,

and from this point of alignment,

• to support them to solve their challenges, to discover and actively create the life they wholeheartedly consciously choose.

I have chosen to use the approach of Transformational Coaching in my work.

The distinction to therapy, counseling, and mentoring is summarized here.

How I coach

When coaching is right for you

As soon as you realize that you can't go on like this, and you are ready to take responsibility for your life, fully committed and without reservations. If you choose coaching as your path, it is up to you to actively shape it.

What taking responsibility in coaching means

Coaching is successful when you:

• set the aim of your coaching
• take responsibility for the content of the sessions
• prepare and follow up the sessions
• request what is essential for you
• be honest with yourself

Coaching is your journey, and your coach is your partner who will accompany you on your path. The coach asks specific questions to help gain more clarity, challenges, reflects, and enables new perspectives and insights. He suggests ways and challenges to help you reach your aim. You decide which way to go. With that, the answers to your questions will emerge within yourself.

Working with me

Whom I coach

You, if a topic is so close to your heart that you want to bring this topic to life and the world.

• Maybe you want to start a business, or you're already managing a company.
• Maybe as a mother, you're still looking for the one topic that really fulfills you. Or perhaps you're already in the middle of balancing family and calling and wondering how it can all work out.
• Perhaps you're supporting your neighbors, getting involved in the community, or contributing to even bigger topics.
• Or you may want to give your career a new direction and finally muster the courage to dedicate yourself to what feels right for you.
• Maybe you're finally retired and now have time to do what you've always wanted to do - and can't quite remember what that was.
• Who knows, maybe you want to grow bees, support children, write a book or put a play on stage.

Whatever the theme, you clearly feel that it's time to get going. Claim your life! I'll support you in releasing blockages, reigniting your power, and starting your journey with clarity, energy, and enthusiasm.

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What my coachees are saying

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Transformational Coaching

I work with Transformational Coaching as a coaching approach. Instead of focusing on what you can DO, it is about a profound shift in your inner attitude towards yourself and the world around you.

Transformational Coaching starts at the roots of a challenge. It is focused on who you are and, more importantly, whom you choose to BE. It does not offer solutions but looks at your blocks and finds other perspectives. Your essence transforms, which inevitably changes how you act, and you will intuitively know how to solve your challenges.

This is based on the firm belief that we already carry everything within us that helps us overcome our challenges. Every individual experience, every emotion, and inner voice are precious parts of us that point to what is essential for us. My task is to ask you the appropriate questions and thus guide you to your answers.

A distinction of Transformational Coaching from Transactional Coaching can be found here.

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Ethic

In my work I follow the „Code of Ethics" published by the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

My coaching metaphor

For me, being a Coach is like being your hiking guide to the destination of your choice.

First steps

Strategy session

It is easy to start. Contact me to schedule a free Strategy Session. This session will last about 45 minutes, and like all other sessions, will take place online. We will talk about how coaching may support you and how we might work together.

Discovery Session

If the chemistry is right and we decide to work together, we schedule a Discovery Session, the kick-off for your coaching. This session aims to gain clarity on goals and expectations and create a solid foundation for our coaching.

Welcome package

You will receive my welcome package in preparation for the Discovery Session. Among other things, it contains our Coaching Agreement and some questions that will help you - and me, if you share the answers with me in advance - to prepare for our Discovery Session.

This is how it continues

We will schedule the following coaching session at the end of our Discovery Session.
From this point on:

• Duration: 60 minutes each
• Location: online (e.g., via Zoom or Teams)
• For questions in between: I am here to help via email if needed.

Investment

Our 45-minute Strategy Session is complimentary.

Discovery Session: 110 EUR* (75 min)
Coaching Session: 110 EUR*(60 min)

Coaching is support for you, and my goal is to empower you so that you quickly no longer need my help. If we focus on one topic, experience shows that it takes around six coaching sessions to enable sustainable shifts.

Given that coaching is very individual, the decision on the amount of time you need is, of course, entirely up to you.

That's me, Claudia Weiss.

I am a Certified Professional Coach, wife, mother of two children, bonus mother of one. Currently based near Hamburg in the “Alte Land” and after two exciting years in Singapore with my heart still at home in both worlds. I am a former Human Resources professional, always motivated to empower people to grow consistently and be the best at what they do.

While working in Human Resources, I analyzed needs, advised colleagues, and implemented structures. As a Coach, I can now dedicate solely to what I am passionate about: empowering people to create a life they consciously choose actively.

My personal path

I never believed in something like vision or purpose in life.

My life path was clear: after graduating from high school, I studied, worked, got married, started a family. For me, that was the purpose of life. I could adjust my behavior up to a point. However, at the core, I was who I was; I was convinced of that. The self-doubt and the limits I regularly hit were part of that. I got along with it quite well.

Then this wonderful, unique adventure family started.

With whole heart, I plunged in. And yet, from one moment to the next, I no longer knew where to start in all the hustle and bustle and who I actually still was. And I was no longer that important; after all, there were many and much that I had to take care of. I functioned. And somehow got lost over time.

The longer I lived like this, the more clearly I felt this desire: I wanted to be more than just the one who fueled our family life and kept it running. However, what? And when and how?

Singapore changed everything.

The offer to relocate to Singapore came. We packed a few things and our children and started into this entirely different, exciting expat life. I suddenly experienced something previously unthinkable for me. With courage and confidence, I suddenly consciously crossed boundaries that I had obviously set for myself. This courage was rewarded with many new impressions and the opportunity to completely redesign my life.

What remained was the desire for this "more". I searched further and found: My coaching training and, in the process, my life's purpose. As I said, I never believed in it, and here it hit me out of the blue and in all clarity while I was observing a coaching session. I experienced that even people who courageously already move great things in the world face their blockades. And that I have the ability to support the release of blockades to enable these people to continue to place their themes in the world. Suddenly it was completely ok for me not to be a classic career type, and the place in the "second row" has felt precisely perfect for me since then.

So much has changed since then. I have learned that everything is possible and that we ourselves set many limits. That there are many ways of looking at a situation, and that it helps to change perspective now and then to be able to take essential steps. That every part of us is precious and helps us if we allow it. That we carry the resources within us to solve whatever challenges are offered to us by life.

My vision is clear now.

Building on this insight, I want to support people in re-igniting their power to follow their path and live a life in balance and full of passion. And the beauty of it is: Every person I support to live aligned with themselves will radiate that and spread it. This is how I contribute in small steps to make the world a more lovely place.

My professional path

Fifteen years in human resources and marketing took me into various industries, including publishing, shipping, digital media, and bioanalytical services.

I completed my professional coaching training in 2019 with the ICF accredited institute Leadership that Works. Since then, I have been working online as an independent coach, first from Singapore, now from Germany.

More about my professional background is available on LinkedIn.

Certificates

Certified Professional Coach

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Please send me an email to c.weiss@desire2grow.com and I will get back to you soon.