At the heart of my coaching process is my ability to weave and deconstruct cloth.
Like cloth woven from warp and weft, your lived experiences and your interpretations of those experiences combine together to form complex constructions of thought. These complex constructions become the way you see yourself, your challenges, and the world around you.
Our work begins when your constructed ways of seeing no longer serve you.
“In the past, ‘this is just who I am’ seemed like something to hold onto, but now I want to get inside the machine and find out how to think differently, to create new pathways for existing.”
— Daniel Brockett, Basketmaker, harvester, business owner
The art of deconstruction
It takes patience and a gentle hand to reveal the layers of a quilt. Learning how to remove a quilt’s stitches without tearing its outer fabric or destroying its inner batting only happens with the right amount of attention and care.
The art of coaching is no different for me.
Coaching is presence and I offer that fully through an individualized process built on my sound belief in your inner strengths and goodness.
When you work with me, we assess your needs, connect to purpose, and bring the inner resources you already possess to light.
Listen to me talk with quilter Zak Foster about time, quilts, and being human. Our conversation goes deep into art and coaching, and how these two roles began to intertwine for me and changed my life.
"Rachel helps me make friends with my fears around risk and success. She helps me recognize that the general cloud of anxiety I frequently experience in relation to my career feeling precarious - is an illusion, constructed to protect myself.
She helps me see things more clearly and gives me the confidence I need to take the necessary steps forward that are important to me. She reveals a bigger picture for me which relieves the pressure I put on myself to have the right answer. She helps me see the nuance in managing my professional relationships, the power in being more vulnerable, and supports me in saying no to things that don’t feel right – and yes to the things that do."
— Sarita Westrup, Artist and contemporary basket weaver