Common Thread Coaching

Nancy is a wonderful coach with a very different approach than other coaches I have had.  She gave me  many opportunities to reflect deeply on the topics we covered in our coaching. I love her reflective  approach as opposed to the action coaching I have tried previously. Her fieldwork was very challenging, yet it brought me to insights about myself at a deep level, and gave me the opportunity to consider myself,  and my behavior, in a different light.

Nancy has a wonderful style. She is very compassionate and has a strong coaching presence. I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to be coached by her. —Ros Lee, coach and IT expert, New Zealand

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Nancy is a superb coach. She used poetic insights to help me reach deeper inside to find some things I had lost and to build on some gifts that I love to use. She was patient attentive, helpful, and challenging at times. She taps into resources that you have but may have forgotten were there. She builds on your gifts and utilizes effective coaching techniques to help you achieve much more than you thought you could alone. I can’t say enough good about the experience I had with Nancy as my coach.  —Dennis Meyer, CEO Non-profit, Indiana

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Nancy was able to listen to where my needs were even when I wasn’t sure or aware of them myself. She has a unique ability to know the exact poem, quote or prose that would mirror/support what I was puzzling about, something that I had had a revelation about or just anything she felt to be significant. She could somehow listen to what was really being said, teasing out the essential threads that lay hidden behind a lot of words and/or pauses, and trust that together we could sew an image, creating a deeper understanding. I found her strong sense of her own spirituality sustaining and grounding. She has a wonderful capacity to see, listen and understand from the Meta level as well as the profoundly personal. –Dolly Kary, artist, England

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Nancy supported and encouraged me exceedingly well, and the feeling of the intimate support and encouragement of another was empowering. She resisted nothing, didn’t try to control the process, listened deeply, and reflected my desires and ideas back to me in such a way that they were profoundly clarified. I enjoyed the writing of poetry, and bringing reading and writing poetry more into my life. Through these creative assignments, I have integrated creativity as a positive, constant companion that has transformed my perspective of career, family life, and spirituality. —Sarah Heick, technical writer, California

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At the time the life-coaching opportunity was presented to me, I was at a major crossroads in my life and needed new tools for dealing with life challenges. Through careful listening Nancy responded with kindness and compassion, asked pointed questions and challenged me to listen to myself and answer my own questions with firm direction, while offering new perspectives and creating new tools. Her ability to discern what was truly being said and respond accordingly was extremely effective in helping me unearth deep, unconscious patterns that had defined and shaped my responses to my world.

Bringing those things to light put negative patterns into proper context, so that I could see for the first time how these currents shaped my reality and could be changed to help me create and sustain the kind of authentic life I want to live. This has been the most profound inner work I have ever done, and by far the most effective. Nancy’s keen sense of humor keeps things in perspective when the going gets tough and her crystal clear feedback is invaluable. —Shelly Ravera, holistic health care provider, Wyoming

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Nancy is a masterful listener. She is an example for me, that a coach’s contribution doesn’t need to be lengthy to be effective and efficient. At the end of each session, Nancy required of me a fieldwork or written essay that always hit the bull’s eye. I was surprised to be so eager to get on with the request with such ease and having great fun in the process. Her tools are very simple but never simplistic, eliciting great insight and energy.

After each session, Nancy was sending a very insightful summing up of the session that I am glad to review at times for strength gathering. In addition, she freely shared resources of high caliber. Nancy coaches with high positive regard, patience, empathy, generosity, astuteness, curiosity, maturity and more.—Michal Skelker, teacher, Israel

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My coaching experience with Nancy felt tailor-made. Based on my own measurements so to speak, my love of literature and writing, Nancy designed the garment to shape my healing process. While it included traditional poetry, haiku, and short descriptive essays, Nancy also encouraged me to explore my attraction to particular words. A chore transformed into an opportunity. An overwhelming event became an exciting one. I learned of each word’s authority as it defined my experience.

Nancy’s great gift, among many, was to guide me to recognize a suitable fabric and cut for my process. In addition to her deep listening, perceptive questioning, and terrific laugh, we used etymology: a history of a word and the study of the sources and development of words. How cool is it to be healed by what we love? Way cool. —Nancy Borris, writer, Texas

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By creating a space of trust, encouragement and support, with skillful questioning and creative assignments, Nancy midwifed me into a higher version of my own life. I gained deeper appreciation of the power of language to shape reality, and I am more conscious of negative self-talk. Nancy has the ability to perceive unconscious, chronic patterns of limited thinking, and skillfully shines the light on them.

With trust in your ability to heal yourself, she supports movement and change that previously may have seemed formidable. I was surprised at how quickly I achieved insights, got unstuck and was able to move unambiguously forward at a time in my life when I was nearly paralyzed by self-doubt. This is transformative work, which Nancy offers out of the authenticity and understanding achieved through deep self-exploration. —Bonnie Brooks, social worker, West Virginia

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Nancy is an excellent coach.  When Nancy and I started our sessions, I was navigating through a rough patch which left me feeling like a powerless bystander in my own life.

Nancy was a beacon of clarity and support.  She was a wonderful listener and brought fresh perspectives.  Through weekly homework assignments and tools, Nancy helped me to transform the way I viewed my problems, which made them much more manageable.   She has an adaptable approach dealing with matters that span the gamut from personal to professional.  By the end of our sessions, I felt empowered and capable.  I continue to carry the insight from our sessions with me every day. —Chow Poppler, law student, California

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When Nancy and I began working together, I had a pretty good idea of my goals and what I needed to do to reach them. I was, however, disorganized in how I should go about working on them. Nancy helped me get my ideas organized and create a plan to implement them. This got me past the procrastination stage of my writing a book proposal. The weekly accountability also helped me as I would ensure that the week’s objectives were completed before we talked.

The fact that she is both a life coach and a writer was a huge bonus for me. She understood what I was going through as a writer and could give me coaching in that area as well. I highly recommend Nancy as a life and as a writing coach. —Doris Gallan, writer, traveler, photographer, Costa Rica