One-To-One Inner Empathy Phone or In-Person Coaching Sessions
Jerry Donoghue is available for private coaching sessions in-person, via phone or skype. Rates are listed below. If you would like to schedule a free brief conversation to determine whether we can work together effectively, please call 828-252-0538 or email a request.
Inner Empathy Inquiry Sessions Are A Different Kind Of Contribution
An Inner Empathy inquiry session is not a therapy session. Inner Empathy is a coaching method of inquiry where you learn to hold empathetic and compassionate presence for whatever emerges in your experience. In an Inner Empathy session, there is no need to diagnose, analyze or label you according to some theoretical ideal of what is and is not psychologically healthy or to use diagnostic labels. You will feel a sense of comfort and ease from the facilitator’s non-judgmental care and acceptance of whatever emerges.
Inner Empathy is nonpathologizing because it is not based upon the premise that something is wrong with you that needs to be fixed. Inner Empathy is based upon the premise that empathetic awareness is available to you now to hold presence and connect with all aspects of yourself on a feeling/need-based level. Holding such empathetic presence for the various conscious/unconscious aspects of your inner world can inspire natural, self-corrective shifts. Your well-being will be self-defined and based upon the choices you make based upon your unique set of needs and values. More
What to Expect From an Inner Empathy Inquiry Session
The session is a facilitated open inner inquiry process. After a brief discussion to determine the focus of the inquiry, you will be coached by the facilitator with various prompts which are attempting to inspire awareness of, or deepen your connection with, whatever is spontaneously emerging in the session.
Because our the contents of awareness presents itself as a flowing stream, we tease apart aspects of this stream and call them parts. We do this to facilitate connection with the part, not to diagnose or label. A part can present itself in a variety of ways. Most often as thoughts, feelings, or somatic sensations.
Typically, you might be asked to determine what a part of you was feeling, or what this part was wanting in a particular context. Sometimes our parts have a lot of judgments and we might allow the judgments to heard about someone or something. Or maybe a lot of "figuring out" thinking is happening with a part and you are prompted to listen to this thinking.
Maybe a part will enjoy being heard, maybe it will be terrified to speak up or maybe another part doesn't want it to speak. Maybe you allow the judgments to heard about someone or another part of yourself. Or maybe a lot of "figuring out" thinking is happening with a part and you are prompted to listen to this thinking. Either way, you will experience that any response to these prompts is okay. There is no right or wrong way to do a session! A space will be created where there is nothing you have to know, understand or figure out. There is nothing you have to change or fix. We can compassionately connect to whatever arises in your experience. This is powerful experiential work and is different than "talk therapy."
Some people find this Inner Empathy approach uncomfortable or confusing because they are accustomed to a lot of effort to overcome, eradicate or change something inside. They fear that not adopting their effortful strategies will be a waste of time and ineffective. It might be helpful for new folks to view the Inner Empathy work as coming from a different paradigm and to adopt a "wait and see" attitude to allow the Inner Empathy inquiry to work on a deep level. The Inquiry creates the quality of awareness and connection with aspects of ourselves that stimulate our self-adjusting mechanisms to kick-in so that effortless self-corrections occurs. What we thought was a huge problem self-liberates. And the best part is these effortless self-corrections don't require ongoing effort to maintain, they become permanent changes.
If you would like to experience this different approach, please schedule a session below. For more information about Inner Empathy inquiry work visit this section in the book introduction.
Schedule Your Inner Empathy Session
To make an appointment with Jerry, just call 828-252-0538 or e-mail): When sending an email, or when leaving a phone message, please let me know:
- your preferred dates and times (sessions may be scheduled Mondays through Fridays during the daytime and evening hours (Eastern Time Zone).
- the length of session desired
- your email, phone numbers and best time to reach you.
Money-Back Guarantee
My intention is to support people who are an excellent fit for the work. If you are not satisfied with your Inner Empathy session for any reason, I will refund your money for that session.
Method of Payment
Payment needs to received 24 hours before the start of your session. If payment is not received 24 hours before the session start time, your time slot may be given to another person on my waiting list.
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150 E. Chestnut St. #1
Asheville, NC 28801
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