CLIENT: Paulina D
SERVICE: Leadership and Career Development Coaching
Achieving More Ease, Power, Creativity and Confidence Through A Life Transition With A Mexican-American Sustainability Leader
Paulina was looking for support strategically planning out her career in the long term and establishing progress towards near term milestones. As an immigrant, Paulina had encountered workplace cultural and interpersonal challenges. These were affecting her ability to lead and progress in her field of environmental policy. She wanted to build the capacity to hold stronger boundaries, build stronger work-life balance, and find a job that she loves.
How We Helped
We designed a coaching program of six 90 minute sessions to develop a personal strategic plan, career development plan, and somatic embodied coaching techniques. We engaged her nervous system to replace limiting narratives with empowering narratives, establishing new habits to help her sustain deep shifts.
Intake & Intention Setting
We assigned Paulina a writing exercise to deeply reflect on her culture, family of origin, career history, relationships, and strengths. During the first session, we identified patterns that were holding her back across her personal and professional relationships and how those showed up in her body as emotions. We also got very clear on the desired outcomes for the program, including how the sessions and at home activities work in harmony to shift Paulina into her new growth trajectory.
Somatic Tools and Career Visioning
Using a theoretical foundation of neuroscience, we explored how stories live in the body as nervous system patterns and cultivated some core somatic skills to help Paulina reframe from limiting patterns to empowering patterns using breath, and other grounding techniques. Jyoti guided Paulina through a meditative career visioning exercise to build an embodied connection to her future self.
Career Reflection and Purpose Statements
Jyoti guided Paulina through a deep reflection of her previous career roles, and the accomplishments, struggles, and learnings from each one, providing Paulina with a clear sense of her career journey and a narrative she could use to share her professional story with others. Jyoti guided Paulina to create a series of purpose statements to serve as her compass, including the problem she is here to solve and how she wants to show up and contribute in service to others through her work. Jyoti also guided Paulina through some career decisions, interviews, and job applications.
Ritual and Habit Design
To close out the series, Jyoti designed a ritual to help Paulina mentally, emotionally, and physically commit to the changes and behaviors we had designed together, and to symbolically release the outdated patterns that no longer served her. We designed a habit together to ensure that the new plan and learnings had a place to be adopted into Paulina’s life moving forward. Paulina received a custom designed grounding kit as a gift to help her practice her new habit.
Our Results
Jyoti and Paulina created a series of purpose statements, crafted a career narrative and vision, and practiced a multitude of tools to help Paulina navigate challenging emotions and interpersonal scenarios.
01. Paulina developed more creativity, wellbeing, power and confidence in her body, career, and relationships.
02. Paulina learned habits and developed a ritual to help her manage tough emotions, and experience joy and pleasure more consistently.
03. Paulina interviewed for and declined her previous dream job in Mexico, realizing that it wasn’t what she truly wanted, and was left empowered to pursue a more values aligned career in the US.
“I recently completed a 6-session program with Jyoti, and the transformation has been profound. Before I began coaching with Jyoti, I felt lost and overwhelmed while navigating a significant transition in both my personal life and career. Now, after our sessions, I not only have clarity and direction during this pivotal moment but also possess tools and techniques to understand and navigate my emotions better. The detailed notes Jyoti prepared and shared after each session were key in helping me stay organized and maintaining focus.
Beyond the tangible outcomes, the intangible growth I've experienced is invaluable. As I embark on this transition phase and delve into new professional endeavors, I'm learning to embrace an elevated sense of ease, embodiment, well-being, power, creativity, and confidence.”
—Paulina D