Why Contra Coaches love Contra Coaching!

"I have had the great fortune to participate in Contra Coaching as a Coach and Client on five rounds. What I love about Contra Coaching is that it is a unique process that makes coaching available to any coach and provides the opportunity to coach other coaches nationally or internationally. It gave me the opportunity to personally experience four different coaching styles and I retained the best of each style… My five international Contra Coaching clients were truly inspirational and the learning experience was mutual. If you haven’t considered Contra Coaching as an option yet, I strongly encourage you for the value you gain and create in the process." Elisabeth Gortschacher, MCC, Australia, www.eeg-coaching.com.au

"I have been through 4 contra coaching rounds… I love contra coaching because I find it so difficult to pick a coach. It is time consuming to pick a coach and I love that contra allows the universe to bring me what I need. I am not a woo-woo coach. I have a corporate coaching business. But contra coaching allows me to get the unexpected and to see what it brings into my life. All the coaches I have worked with have been excellent coaches and I recommend contra coaching to anyone who wants to have a coach for continued development." Melanie Parish, PCC, Canada, www.sageportfoliogroup.com

“Contra coaching allows me to connect with other coaches that I probably would have never met otherwise. I have received some very good coaching and it allows me to do more of what I love so much and that is to coach.” Judith Geiger, ACC, USA www.flyingchangecoaching.com

“Contra Coaching is great. I learnt heaps from both my coaches and client. You can choose whether you want national or international coaches. My last 'client' was in Germany and had 12 years of coaching experience. Still he told me he learnt a lot from me as I came from another country and had a different style of coaching which he really liked. I am still in touch with the 2 people who have coached me so far as we got on really well. My current coach and client are in Australia.” Christie Pinto, Australia, www.clearhorizons.biz

"As a coach myself I am really committed to being coached and growing myself and my business. Contra Coaching offers coaches a fantastic opportunity to walk the talk and regularly put themselves through the challenges, insights, discovery and development that we do with our clients each week. Despite having never met my Contra Coach we built an instant rapport and I was gifted not only her great coaching skills but got to experience a coaching style different from my own and learned from things that she modelled brilliantly. With all the rigour and integrity offered from Contra Coaching I had a great first experience and I look forward to signing up again soon!" Joanna Brill, Singapore

"I really wanted to thank you for the great matching you do. I still wonder how you achieve such great choice ! For both side, coach and coachee, it has been a great adventure since I join ContraCoaching round last march. Paradigm shift happen, both sides ! On going coaching as well, even further coaching development as ‘buddy’ …always both sides ! I couldn’t give more tangible output at that stage since I have the feeling that a very powerful momentum for long term changes has been put in place, ‘just’ with your choice. I can only recommend ContraCoaching, not sure how this work from the website, but surely see how to practice it with a ‘word to mouth’." Elisabeth Legrain, ACC, Singapore, www.banksiacoaching.com

"I thoroughly enjoyed my coaching relationship and I am thankful for the coaching support. My coach helped me mostly in sharpening my business acumen and by doing so, helped my personal relationship with my wife.
Deliverables received from our coaching sessions:
• Kept me focused on the number of clients to obtain.
• Visioning my direction and future.
• Identifying my niche focus.
• Obtained client testimonials to put on my website.
• Identified the many roles that I have.
• Use of a personal genius statement and visual map.
• Realigned my fee structure to obtain more clients at a higher value.
• Create a forecast schedule for financials.
• Helped me to create proposals for my clients.
• Evaluate alternate assessment tools useful for myself and clients.
• Helped evaluate assistants for my business.
• My coach's idea for tracking my progress has allowed me to track my clients progress, as well.
I am grateful also to Contra Coaching for the opportunity to have this jolt to my business career. Rocky Romero, USA, www.profitcoaching.com

"Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity of experiencing contra coaching! I am thrilled with my coach and my client also seems to be getting a lot out of our coaching sessions! This is a very worthwhile experience that I have recommended and will continue to recommend to other coaches!" Odile HBH Williams, Australia

"What you’ve created with Contra Coaching is fantastic – such a brilliant concept. And I feel most fortunate to have connected with such a brilliant contra coach and coachee for my first round!" Jacki Nicholas, Singapore, www.insideout-consulting.com

“Contra Coaching is great and I love it. Thank you for launching such a wonderful initiative!” Irit Brodsky, USA

Anonymous testimonials:

"It is great to experience coaching style from someone who comes from a different training background. Whilst we all use similar principles of coaching, there are some new elements that I am learning and can expand my own coaching with. Mainly the importance and value of being flexible with clients, rather than sticking with a ‘model’."

"As a Coach with a client – I am enjoying coaching someone who I may not normally coach because she may not seek me out. I believe that I am providing challenge for her to move ahead."

"Personally - I have been gently led into questioning deeply held fears and encouraged to take steps to free myself from the habits which no longer support me. Professionally – It is great to work with a coach who is so tuned into where I am in my journey"

"have learned heaps about other coaching styles, been able to incorporate a lot more structure into my own style (without losing flexibility), etc"

"it's [Contra Coaching has] given me a whole new way of viewing coaching, and then trying to incorporate what I'm gleaning from this new view into my coaching to make it even more effective for me and my clients. Oh, and I'm a lot busier, and feeling more confident, and have absolute faith that I will reach some goals that I've thought were out of reach."

"I’m learning different approaches to use, specific tasks and telephone coaching."

"It is stretching me in areas I need to be stretched."

"getting excellent feedback about my coaching"

" experienced new techniques and new perspectives on coaching (from coach and client!). all of which i can apply to my own coaching."

"Fabulously, I’m getting so much out of my coach and enjoy working with my client"

"Fantastic, I’ve had numerous ‘moves, and insights’ and have made some major changes Firstly, I’ve really got to know two more amazing people. From my coach, I have definitely gained more clarity and focus on the way I’m developing myself and my business direction (they are directly related). My thinking was already changing as a result of other inputs, and my coach was able to make a significant contribution to this process."

"Huge impact! I am meandering through my self, facing fear and faith within myself, which greatly impacts on my personal growth. It also impacts on other areas of my life, as I start seeing things differently and creating different results without having a firmly set tangible goal. I wanted to go on a personal journey, and I am doing it with great success."