Creating Your Path: Cultivating your personal wisdom and compassion to empower transformation.

This is a time of powerful transformations and opportunities, and each of us has a choice in how we show up in our personal and professional relationships.

The way we show up, and the choices we make offer us space for alignment and connection. A clear understanding of ourselves, our unique power, and our individual aspirations and mission gives us the best opportunity for the outcomes we desire.
Perspectives, beliefs, and values all contribute to the existing and potential outcomes in your life. As we work together, collaborative discussions provide the space to investigate the situations you are currently experiencing and clarify you responses to them. This information is used to set the path you’ll take to enrich the relationship with yourself and others to attract the growth and success that is meaningful to you.
Working together we will identify your individual responses with curiosity and honesty, in a compassionate one-on-one coaching session that is based on trust and co-commitment to your continued growth.

Exploring What’s Next 

We each have aspects of our life that we’d like to transform, both personally and professionally.
For some of us this shift may mean finding ways to navigate relationships that are less successful than we’d like, or discovering ways to maximize our time and energy when the challenges we face seem to exceed our current capacity. Maybe it’s expanding our ability to better understand our goals and reach further, with the confidence in ourselves to understand the stretch.
One of my strengths as a coach is my ability to connect with you and explore the challenge at hand. We then work together to define the steps necessary to organize and achieve the solution you seek and the future state you envision. 
An objective point of view is crucial when defining a goal. By seeing other angles of a situation, opportunities are revealed that we may not have considered or anticipated. Working together, we will define and prioritize what you seek to accomplish and create a new path forward.
The process of converting opportunities is escalated by both short and long-term strategic planning, informed by continuous discussion. I deliver this type of planning by applying project management skills and motivational goal setting that I have personally developed as a successful 30-year small business owner and competitive athlete. 
Through our work together, a consciously developed strategy is merged with careful planning to move ahead with purpose, clarity, and compassion.

Your emotional wellbeing plays a vital role in this process.
My coaching guidance will provide the pathway towards a wiser and more compassionate you; one who is emotionally intelligent and better positioned to achieve your desired outcomes. I believe emotions offer us vital information. Delving into that information with awareness offers us deeper insights into our patterns and conditioning; from there we can transform our reactions into compassionate and wise responses. From this newly informed dynamic we will co-create new possibilities moving forward.

What is Future Framing?

Future Framing is an exercise that is used to identify the things you value as an individual, the challenges that you may have identified in yourself, and the place you’d like to be in a future state. It’s a framework for your desired outcome, and you see yourself in that outcome.

Initially, ask yourself these two important questions to begin the process:

What aspects of your life are you seeking to transform? What is your overall intention for working together over the next 6-12 months?

How would your life be better when that situation/aspect is transformed?

What are the current obstacles to fulfilling such an intention?

Who do you see yourself becoming in this process?

How I Show Up

As an ‘objective confidant’ in this important and fulfilling process, I hold your forthrightness and intentions with deep respect and confidence.
For the past 20 years I have had a passion for witnessing and facilitating people’s personal growth. My ability to offer space, empathy and guidance has always come naturally for me. In 2011, I was certified as a professional coach by the highly regarded Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching.
I will offer you my calm discerning presence allowing you space to explore and integrate your own wisdom and compassion.


How We Collaborate

Typically we will converse twice monthly for 50-minute sessions, connecting through Zoom or by phone. In person coaching is also available for you if you are proximate to Damariscotta, Maine. Walks in nature or conversations over a cup of tea are welcome for our sessions together. I highly recommend that you plan to invest at least six months into this valuable process. Billing is on a monthly basis.

Let’s Connect


I warmly invite you to reach out to me at 401.500.5990 or [email protected] for a free 45 minute consultation to ensure that our working connection feels comfortable.
This is an opportunity for you and I to get to know each other, clarify the process and choose whether moving forward in our work together is desired. Your well-being is our focus. I look forward to connecting with you. Peace, Don