Coaching and Counseling

Dr. John W. Gibson has over two decades of experience as a counselor, coach, consultant, mediator and facilitator. He combines extensive experience and broad skills with a coaching model in providing personal, couples, family, executive and corporate coaching and counseling. He is a graduate of Peer Resources, Inc. Personal Coaching Program, Corporate Coach University, a certified mediator and mediation trainer and a behavioral scientist certificate holder from the Family Firm Institute, and holds three graduate degrees.

Coaching

John counsels and coaches adults of all ages on adult development and self-improvement and personal and workplace skills development. John has a unique set of skills, experience and expertise on coaching at the intersection of work and personal life. He is especially effective with families and multi-generational families who have businesses around the love, power, money, relationships, complexities they face. Assisting family members understand and excel within these complex dynamics is familiar territory for John. Part of his practice focuses on issues of the second half of life. We often live the first half of our life with the personality and values that were given to us. Mid-life and the second half of our life provides a unique opportunity to discover and shape our own personality, choose the values we wish to live this half by, and to find deeper meaning and fulfillment in our work and our personal life. I will assist you in these activities along with facing the changes, challenges and opportunities that normally bring people to me. My goal is to make your life richer and more fulfilling chapter after chapter after chapter. For over ten years he taught the popular televideo seminar "The 5 Rs of Successful Retirement" to Boeing Employees. Because so many of those attending have gone on to create several more meaningful chapters in their lives the seminar was renamed "Life by Design: Making the Next Chapter the Best Chapter" a few years ago.

John also provides "next chapter" coaching for people in all sorts of planned and unplanned transitions. Individually, as a couple, or in a group here are some of the benefits of next chapter, retirement and second half coaching.

• Prepare for and live well your retirement or "next chapter"
• Improve communication and interpersonal effectiveness for improved friendships
• Deal with conflict and difficult people constructively
• Change thought patterns, assumptions and modify core beliefs
• Align thinking and action with values and goals for successful second half living
• Alter or let go of old habits while developing new habits and more effective life strategies for your "next chapter"
• Stretch yourself, your visions and aspirations to a better fit in work, play and relationships
• Develop greater flexibility and more creativity for the second half of your life
• Expand your capacity to collaborate and partner with others toward common work, family, and community goals
• Establish and maintain more harmonious relationships in all segments of your life
• Bring out the best in yourself and others through values clarification, vision and goal setting, powerful communication tools, "giving back" and mentoring
• Clarify your expertise, wisdom and many accomplishments and life lessons to share and pass on

Increasingly our work life and home life impact each other. I provide expert coaching with couples and families around major life changes, illnesses, transitions and challenges.

Counseling

John works with clients around a wide range of concerns and has special expertise around transitions and changes, personal and work relations and in skills development. He draws upon additional advanced training in conflict resolution and mediation and both personal-focused and corporate-focused coaching training to help clients and families be more successful in both their personal and their work lives. He draws on all of the above plus years of advanced study as a behavioral scientist through the Family Firm Institute in working with the family side of family business.

John views life as a classroom where we can grow stronger and wiser if we learn from our own experiences and from others. He especially likes to help clients develop the skills to function more effectively and enjoyably in complex personal and work life settings.

Finally, John likes to form a working partnership with you. He can describe what and why he does what he does. He helps clients come to understand themselves and others better and the dynamics of people interacting. Clients end up becoming much more conscious, intentional and effective in their communications and relationships.

Personal Development and Personal and Business Relationship Enhancement

John draws upon years of experience and extensive knowledge and training to offer coaching and counseling to individuals, couples and business partners. His goal is to assist you in improving your relationship with yourself and your relationships and effectivness with others. John helps his clients remove blocks, change patterns and old habits, learn new skills and awarenesses. John is described by his clients as warm, creative, knowledgeable, involved and effective.

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