Life business coaching

Francesca Laidlaw

Hello and welcome to my listening space.
Are you in a moment in life where you feel a strong need for change, or perhaps you have taken a first step towards a new beginning, but you don't know how to move forward?

As a life business coach, I am here to guide you to find your place in the world, to give you clarity, so that you can feel fulfilled and in alignment with your talents and values.
My name is Francesca, I am a life business coach with a great passion for new beginnings.

Through ICF-certified coaching techniques and tools, I support women who wish to follow a path of evolution and growth, helping them to connect with their talents and overcome what stops them from feeling truly fulfilled.

I live in England, but thanks to technology I have the chance to work with women anywhere in the world. This allows me to be flexible, and to welcome you in a safe and protected space, wherever you are.

WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU

Do you feel the need to have more clarity and support to achieve what you really want in life?
I've been there too and I totally feel you: I'm here to reassure you and tell you that these are all excellent signs.

It means it's time for you to really listen to yourself, get clear on what you want to be, and begin a new path of your journey towards what you feel is calling you.

During our coaching sessions I will create a secure space where you can feel welcomed, safe, free to be yourself, light-hearted, deeply understood.
Without external judgment and without fear of making mistakes.

At the end of our journey, you will feel more confident, more aware and serene, satisfied for having trusted yourself.

About me

Coach for new beginnings

Hi, my name is Francesca, I am an online life business coach with a great passion for women’s new beginnings.

If you don't feel fulfilled, I can help you to learn how to listen to your inner self, rediscover your true self and identify the steps you need to take so that you can get to your goal.

Typically, women who come to me are driven by a desire for clarity on their purpose, their talents or their path.

They wonder how to understand the career they really want to pursue, how to find the right path for them, and how to make that change in their lives, even when apparently nothing is missing.

Deep down, they dream of a new beginning, but often cannot admit it to themselves, or they don't know where to start.

Where can we start?
By getting to know each other, reflecting on your goals, and understand if I am the right fit for you.

Book your free discovery call.

Coaching services

My method

Sometimes finding our place in the world is possible by starting to live differently from what we already have in our hands. Other times, a change is needed.

With my coaching services I provide a safe space, techniques and tools to help you achieve your goal, whatever it may be.
In my journey as a Coach I met those who wanted to revolutionise their lives, alongside those who wanted to stay where they were, looking at the present with new eyes and a rediscovered serenity.

With my coaching services I can help you put your talents to good use and feel deeply useful to others and to yourself.

MY COACHING METHOD

The method I apply to my coaching services is bespoke and takes into account each individual's pace.

However, I can certainly identify four key points:

1. Define your goal together

We will start with moments of free sharing, where you can tell me the goal you want to achieve: it could be a job change, the desire to invest in a passion, or simply to find your purpose.

My deep and non-judgmental listening will then translate into specific questions, to help you dig deep, understand, explore and challenge some of your blocks . These can be thoughts, emotions, beliefs that hinder your path and prevent you from getting where you want to be.

We will start to give them a name, and look at them together, in our safe coaching space.

2. Identify resources

After addressing blocks and fears in one or more sessions (remember, it's bespoke coaching), we will explore the resources you need to achieve your own goal.
We often discover that we already have them within us, while other times we need to look for them outside.

Even in this case, however, they start within you: I won't tell you what to do, but I will guide you, so that you can create your personal solution, in line with your values ​​and your true self.

3. A solution that comes from you

Solutions and advice suggested from outside (or worse, imposed) are rarely undertaken with enthusiasm.
However, when we find a solution to a problem, we take action with enthusiasm and passion.

This is why my method works, through ICF-certified techniques and tools, to ensure that the solution comes from you.
This type of solution, in coaching, is called "inspired action".

4. Walk independently

The purpose of my coaching services is to allow you to acquire all the tools you need to be able to walk independently, implementing actions and strategies, and following the way that can get you where you want to be.

Of course, I will always be available to support you, but my aim is to ensure that you can proceed on your own path knowing full well where you want to go and how to do it.

Bespoke programme

A coaching journey that starts with you

“Start with you” is the coaching programme I offer to women who want to have more clarity within themselves and start a journey to achieve a totally personal goal.

This is a 6-session individual online coaching journey, which will allow you to (re-)discover and (re-)know yourself.

There was a time in my life when I felt out of place .
I had a good job, but I wasn’t totally fulfilled.
At the same time I felt confused and didn't know what I really wanted to do.
I bought books and signed up for lots of courses, workshops and masterclasses, hoping to find clarity.
Yet, there was always something missing .
If this is what's happening to you, trust me: I know how it feels.

If you want to change something in your life but you don't know where to start, if you want greater clarity and want to give yourself permission to really look inside yourself, I have personally proven that there is only one way to do it: starting from yourself.

“Start with you” is a 1:1 online coaching programme in which I help you to look inside yourself.

As a ICF-certified coach, I will help you to listen to yourself and we will work together towards a goal, whether it is tangible, such as a new job, or an internal change, such as the serenity you are looking for.

PURPOSE, PRICE AND DETAILS

The purpose of the “Start with you” programme is to:
• Explore and rediscover your true needs (not those imposed by others or society)
• Discover and explore blocks and obstacles
• Value your dissatisfaction as a symptom of a desire for constructive change
• Have confidence in valuing what you want to do in your life
• Bring order to your thoughts, emotions, needs
• Find the resources and solutions you need to move towards your goal
• Regain confidence in your abilities and resources
• Understand how to move to get where you want

“Start with you” is a 1:1 coaching journey which includes 6 sessions of 1 hour each. The total cost is £800.

Here the details of “Start with you”:
•the 1:1 coaching programme will last between 6 and 12 weeks
•6 sessions of 60 minutes each, on a weekly or fortnightly basis, depending on what comes out from our sessions and how you prefer to work
•2 extra follow up sessions (to be used in 6 months)
•you will have support from me via email between one coaching session and another, if needed
•each session will be held online - a stable internet connection is required

“Start with you” coaching programme is available at a cost of £800, with the chance of paying in 2 or 3 instalments.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

1. COACHING PROGRAMME: WHAT IS IT?

A 1:1 coaching programme is a series of sessions between a client and a coach like me, a certified professional coach capable of supporting and guiding you in a protected and safe listening space. Through focused questions and techniques, as a coach I will help you explore blocks, emotions, desires and needs.

My approach is based on non-directive coaching. This means I won’t tell you what you have to do: I will help you and guide you to understand it on your own.

2. IS YOUR PROGRAMME FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO CHANGE JOB?

“Start with you” is a journey of awareness, with the aim of re-discovering yourself. It is possible that during the sessions you will be able to identify a new career path that you wish to undertake.

But it is also possible that a greater awareness of your talents and values ​​will lead you to reconsider the workplace you already are in, and the role you already hold, with new eyes and with a new serenity.

3. DOES THIS COACHING PROGRAMME HAVE A SPIRITUAL PART?

Not exactly. In my work as a coach I do not refer to any particular religion or spiritual practice.

However, this is a process of introspection involving creativity, confidence, perception of self, others and the world.
For this reason I might invite you to try tools and techniques aligned with you and your needs (e.g. meditation, writing, reflection exercises...).

Similarly, it does not include a purely physical part, but I could suggest breathing exercises, stretching, or walking surrounded by nature.

4. WHAT DOES THIS COACHING PROGRAMME INVOLVE?

During my coaching programme you will have:
•1:1 sessions
•as a coach, I will be totally dedicated to listening to what you have to say without any kind of judgement and with confidentiality
•I will welcome you in a secure online space where you can speak with freedom, honesty and feeling safe
•I will be able to tune into your language and the ways of expression that are most spontaneous and natural to you.

5. ARE ONLINE COACHING SESSIONS AS EFFECTIVE AS IN-PERSON ONES?

This is a question I answer often, and it's a totally understandable concern.
The answer is: yes, online coaching sessions are as effective as in-person ones.

Clients I have worked with have found that the presence of a screen does not prevent strong empathy and deep connection between us

Contact

Book your free discovery call

If you’re wondering whether a coaching programme would be the right fit for you, don’t worry.

We can have an free discovery call where you can tell me about your starting point and what you’d like to achieve.

I’ll explain you how my coaching programme works and we can decide if this would be a good fit for you.

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