Feeling stuck can mean a lot of things. You’re frustrated with your relationships. Struggling with your ability to communicate. You’re uncertain about whether the path you paved still serves you, or you’re sitting in a profound, prolonged, seemingly unchangeable drought of joy.
Every individual version of stuck has its own texture. But to shake that lingering sense of dread, you need to understand where it came from. And it always comes from something simple but universal: your way of being.
A person’s way of being informs how they see the world and their place in it. It drives what they do, and it puts the results they get in motion.
So seeing your way of being—recognizing it, understanding it, willingly and completely—is how you start to shape new actions, new results, and a path toward the full, authentic, unstuck you.
That’s the goal of the ontological framework and tools. That’s The Ontological Experience.
How We Work Together
Coaching With Newfield Certified Ontological Coach (NCOC) and formerly ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Mark Robertson
Life coaching is a collaborative, ongoing conversation between me and the coachee. Since every individual is unique, every personal coaching process is unique. But my role, as your coach, is to open up and sustain the kinds of deep, meaningful conversations that lead you to the answers you’re looking for.
A life coaching arrangement typically includes an initial six-month commitment, with three one-hour or two 90-minute sessions a month, either remote or in person (along with unlimited access to email support). But we’ll shape your specific engagement based on your needs.
The first part of our work centers on expanding awareness. I help you see your challenges in a new and different way. In that clarity, new actions that are more aligned with your goals reveal themselves. Focused practice makes new actions become new habits, and new habits deliver results.
What to Expect
OUR PERSONAL COACHING CLIENTS:
- Start with themselves, reshaping how they communicate internally and strengthening the most important relationship we all have
- Become more aware of how they see and experience their world, and how that impacts relationships and results, both positively and negatively
- Start and sustain powerful conversations, including the “hard” ones that create trust and strengthen relationships with other people
- Listen more actively and intently
- Learn to confidently manage and shift moods
- Sustain a greater sense of power, purpose, and well-being
- Make more powerful choices to design the life they want
Do We Fit?
The Ontological Experience doesn’t feel like traditional life coaching. It’s not aligned with or adapted to complement “hustle culture,” more-equals-better methods.
So by design, The Ontological Experience isn’t right for everyone.
Centered in self-awareness and driven by deep and directed introspection, ontological coaching is more about learning who we’re being and why, so we can start to consciously design the life we want.
It’s about understanding ourselves well enough to eliminate the unnecessary suffering that gets and keeps us stuck.
So if you’re looking for a more human-centric, connection-driven kind of coaching, the ontological framework and tools will meet you where you are.
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Make the decision to move forward. We personalize coaching engagements for every client and can offer sessions virtually and in person (in the Nashville area).