Transform Your Life Today
Coaching is a process
What does an Executive Thinking Partner do? I will help you uncover your unique strengths and talents, so you can achieve your goals and live your best life. This is a step by step process that is learnable, repeatable and teachable. You will leave with a skill set that is as much for you as it is for your team, organization or family.
What does the journey look like?
Focus
Reflect
Reflect
It all starts by learning to focus on what you want, what you don’t want, and what you have and want to raise to the next level.
What is your vision for your future and what are the drivers that propel you forward or obstacles that trip you up.
Reflect
Reflect
Reflect
Next, you’ll reflect on what may be blocking you from the change you desire at a conscious level and a subconscious level. We will use the latest in neuroscience and relational research to overcome these obstacles.
The fully validated Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool (TPRAT) will give us a unique look into your character structure.
Refine
Reflect
Refine
The last step? We learn how to sustain and refine what we’ve learned about ourselves; this is our growth journey.
Be it personal change, relational change or performance change, we go there together.
Durable, sustainable, life altering results.
The clinical behind the townsend charachter capacity growth
Character Structure Basics And How The Fruit Is Produced
Character is the set of capacities required to meet the demands of reality. The interior life, the makeup of a person, is described as character structure. The interior life is manifested in the exterior life.
Research and clinical experience have delineated four domains of character structure: attachment, separation, integration, and adulthood. Each of these are definable capacities and capabilities that develop at different points along the developmental life cycle for each person.
Just as a tree bears fruit, character structure bears "fruit" in three areas referred to as "The Three P's" (Townsend, 2019, People Fuel).
- Personal: Aspects that pertain to the individual. This includes emotions and behaviors.
- People: The relating aspects of life. Friendships, family, dating, marriages, and colleague relationships.
- Performance: The "doing" aspects of life. These would include the individual's career and finding one's place and potential.
When a person's internal character is strong and adaptive, the fruit does not tend to cross an ineffective threshold, and the person experiences the normal ebbs and flows in life. Deficits in character structure occur when the crucial developmental needs go unmet, are purposively injured, or a traumatic event happens. Character structure deficits such as distorted thinking and ineffective behaviors fall on a continuum from mild to severe, resulting in "symptoms."
Dr. John Townsend (2021, Townsend Institute Concordia - Irvine)
Ancient Character Philosophy
Dr. Townsend sites;
"Jesus frequently used the metaphor of a tree and fruit in his teaching. In Matthew 7:16-18, he says",
By their fruit, you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
We cannot be one thing on the inside and expect something different to appear on the outside, spiritually or scientifically, it just doesn't work like that.