Michelle entered Visual Coach Certification with a solid background in team, executive and retirement coaching, as well as course development and workshop design.
Contracting with global coaching companies, she coaches executives and leaders in improving effectiveness, time management, and communication, identifying underlying issues, patterns, and challenges, and supports them to develop actionable plans that drive results.
As one of the first Accredited Coach Supervisors in North America, Michelle helps Coaches from around the world reflect on, and deepen, their work so that they can see from additional perspectives.
In her mentor coaching, she supports coaches to meet the requirements for ICF credentialing and renewals. Her approach emphasizes ethical awareness, uncovering blind spots, and renewing a coach’s commitment to their personal growth and professional path.
Given she did her PhD dissertation on ‘suffering the image: literacy and pedagogic imagination’ she was very intrigued with learning how to augment her work with individuals using specific visual techniques and tools and wanted to add my 40+ Visual Tools to her process toolkit.
“I’m a visual thinker myself. I have a diversity of clientele, who think and process in different ways. As an assessor of models and tools, I gather useful methods that help me support the range of people in my practice.
My clients like a challenge and to be supportively encouraged in building even greater courage. Having a growth mindset, they are flexible and open to trying different things and are passionate, not only about their work, but about life and humanity too.
Working visually helps me walk with them to open, and widen, portals to their imagination, helping them locate and ‘see’ options and solutions in enhanced ways, rather than just speaking things out which more conventional coaching does.
With the SHIFT-IT tools at my fingertips, I quickly access and cherry pick a tool that serves my client and our alliance in that moment. They help me to help my clients break out of their usual patterns, in order to make more resonate contact to their deeper being, and this supports them to gain confidence and peace of mind – and body!”
Michelle Bastock
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
www.michellebastock.com
Happy that my tools have found a comfy place in your toolkit Michelle.
Thanks for adding Certified Visual Coach to your list of credentials.
All the best as you assist your clientele during these shifting times!
