A Coaching Model Created by Tonia Jenny
(Life Coach, USA)
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near. —Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Just as there are four seasons to the regenera-tion of our earth, four directions we can face or choice to travel at any one time and even four stages to each and every beat of our hearts, so are there are four stages in the cyclical process of any change or area of growth we wish to make in our lives.
The AXIS approach to coaching defines these four stages.
Assess
X-Plore
Initiate
Speculate
Sometimes the transition between these four stages is clear and defined, and at other times, the transition is subtle—the edges soft.
Within the four stages, there are periods of doing (exploration, experimentation, sampling, research, trying), and there are periods of non-doing (noticing, pondering, listening, being).
Acknowledging the importance and place of each provides spaciousness to allow change to come more fluidly.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T.S. Eliot