Group Coaching Starting Up

Are you a Boundary Crosser?

Boundary crossers include:

• Tama Kieves, a Harvard Law School grad and now an author, speaker, and coach who teaches individuals how to listen to their inner voice
• James Haensly, an American in Singapore who speaks fluent Japanese and bridges the gap between marketing and sales and engineering in a technology firm
• Atsuko Horiguchi, a World Bank executive and committed yogi. These individuals have all crossed the boundaries of domains as part of their creative genius.

In the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND, Daniel Pink describes boundary crossers as individuals who “develop expertise in multiple spheres…and find joy in the rich variety of human experience. They live multi lives—because that’s more interesting, and ….more effective…. Boundary crossers reject either/or choices and seek multiple options and blended solutions.  They lead a hyphenated life filled with hyphenated jobs and enlivened by hyphenated identities.”

Does this sound like you?

• Literate in multiple cultures
• Move between different groups, effortlessly and with the finesse of a diplomat
• See relationships between disparate things that most people never notice
• Is both analytical and intuitive
• Delight in working in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Defy traditional gender role stereotyping. (Great minds are androgynous!)

If so, you may be a boundary crosser. 

Where Boundary Crossers Get Stuck

As a boundary crosser it’s not always easy. What you might experience as a boundary crosser:

• You travel among many worlds and belong to none. 
• While others may see you as graceful in dealing with a variety of people and situations, internally, it doesn’t feel that way to you.
• Being open to a wide variety of experiences and having a number of angles with which to approach an issue, you can get distracted. 
• You feel awkward when the markers of success for other people don’t do anything for you.

You are not alone. 

Boundary Crosser Group Coaching (BCGC):  Being More of Yourself in All Worlds

In this program, you’ll meet by phone to learn how to:

• Embrace boundary crossing as an asset. Develop your personal brand on being a boundary crosser.
• Increase the richness of your experiences. It’s not about achieving more. It’s about experiencing more.
• Manage the attention you get as a boundary crosser. Boundary crossers are attractive to others. 
• Be more of yourself, naturally.

Groups are limited to 8 people to provide a rich experience.

Benefits of the BCBG

Group coaching is led by a professional coach, who shapes the environment for a thriving group.  This includes “laser coaching” an individual on an issue that the rest of the group is grappling with and asking the group powerful questions. Participants describe group coaching as a:

• Whine-free zone
• Circle of caring advocates
• Harbor of honesty in a confidential setting
• Comfort zone in times of difficulties
• Reservoir of wisdom

Participants experience more from their everyday lives and transform their businesses and relationships. They see more of themselves through the eyes of others.

About Your Coach

Carol Ross has been a boundary crosser all her life. She is Asian-American, growing up in a Midwestern town of 250,000, where the only other Asians in town were her cousins. Carol worked as a chemical engineer in the male-dominated world of nuclear power, as a Bell Labs engineer, and now is a coach, team development consultant, writer, and podcaster. She specializes in working with whole brain thinkers—helping intelligent, analytical professionals power up their creativity and energy.

Carol is certified by the Coaches Training Institute and credentialed by the International Coach Federation. Visit her podcast, Live Action Coaching, www.liveactioncoaching to hear her playful and insightful coaching style and her blog, www.blog.carolrossandassociates.com to read her musings.

Investment in Time and Money

Two 75-minute calls per month. Three-month commitment.

Dates and Times:

Sept 6, Sept 20, Oct 4, Oct 18, Nov 1, Nov 15. 

All calls take place at 10am PT, 11am MT, noon CT, 1pm ET.  If you are in other parts of the world, click here to figure out the time difference.

Be a part of the pilot program starting on Sept 6 and get a special discount: $100/month.  Only 8 slots are available at this special price. The next program will start in January 2008.

To Register 

Click here to schedule a 15-minute call with Carol. The purpose of the call is to ensure that there is a fit between your needs and what this program has to offer. Yes, there is a selection process on BOTH sides so that the experience for the participants is truly one of being in an affinity group--like-minded individuals on a similar journey.   

Still not sure? Join Carol for a free teleclass, "The Life of a Boundary Crosser: More Interesting, More Effective."