“If you always do what you have always done you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”
                                                    ~Anonymous

Be it an individual, partnership or a team, at Marsha Marsh Coaching, Inc., we believe that we must change our current ways of thinking and interacting to affect sustainable change.  We must see how we are responsibile for our lives.

In being Co-Active Coaches we approach all clients from the perspective that they are not needing to be fixed that they are creative, resourceful and whole. Sure they may feel stuck, unable to deal with current situations as they are and yet with coaching they are freed up to take the actions necessary to have the outcomes they say they want. We see and are always looking for the greatest potential and possibility for the client, be it individual or groups. That is our coaching stance. As the coach our job is to get the client to see it, and get responsible to take action. The clients agenda is always what is being coached.

“Conflict is inevitable in a team…in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict.”                                                                                                                              ~Susan Gerke, IBM Leadership Development

What we believe about corporate teams, business partnerships, couples or families is that they are systems that have developed a relationship that is more than just the sum of the parts. A system is defined as a set of interacting players with relationships among them all affecting and creating the whole. The relationship developed is actually another part of the system that is made up of all the members beliefs, past present and future.  

The way the parts effect each other are determined consciously or unconsciously by the systems rules, expectations beliefs, values, approved behavior and taboos.

From the combined beliefs the relationship between the members actually has it’s own beliefs that run the actions of the members of the system; the culture of the system. We coach the relationship that is developed through all the members of the system. Most relationships are created very unconsciously and therefore have everyone’s beliefs running into one another and usually causing havoc in one way or another. Think of two cultures colliding and the dominate one usually wins out. Relationship Systems Coaching™ we show the participants of the system to see how their individual beliefs can actually work together more effectively and in service of what they truly want their relationship to be.  We also support all parties in relationships in creating agreed upon ways of acting together to produce a conscious intentional relationship.  One of their choosing instead of the default from subconscious beliefs. For teams the coaching encourages the valuing of diversity leading to synergistic innovation and producing sustainable results.  For couples much more satisfaction, fulfillment and intimacy.   For families a place to come home to and know you will be supported and safe.

We draw on a variety of philosophies, probably the most foundational is Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman.  His focus is on the emotional skills and abilities necessary in order to relate to others effectively.  An emotionallly intelligent person will perceive, use, understand and manage emotions.  We believe that the ability the gain self awareness, self management, awareness of others, and relationship managment are the cornerstones of our coaching.