Bona Via Coaching

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines coaching "as partnering in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires a person to maximize their personal and professional potential. 

You might think of coaching like going on a road trip with a supportive passenger riding along with you. You are in control of the car and where it’s going – the same way you’re in control of your life, your destiny, your decisions, your future. As you drive, your coach accompanies you, assisting you on your journey to reach your destination.

When you partner with a coach, you are in the driver’s seat. Your coach provides support for accountability and self-awareness and helps you gain new perspectives. Coaches ask questions not to get an answer they desire, but to encourage you in meaningful exploration that can help you reach a new level of depth and performance."

"Coaching is not the same thing as mentoring or therapy. A mentor provides subject matter expertise, wisdom and guidance based on their own experiences. Therapy deals with healing pain, trauma, dysfunction or conflict of some kind, typically with the goal of resolving difficulties that impair an individual’s emotional health and psychological functioning.

By contrast, coaching focuses on facilitating individuals or groups to draw upon their own experiences and capabilities to set and reach their own objectives. The coach is the expert in the coaching process, but you are the expert on your life journey."

Coaches do not diagnose mental health disorders. If you cannot accomplish basic daily activities, need to work on specific mental health issues, trauma, or incidents from the past, you may need to work with a therapist.

While following the ICF standard of coaching within sessions, we strive to help our clients grow in virtue. "The more we learn about the virtues the clearer picture we will have for what we want to aim for in life." Siri-The Art of Living

Every individual is created, fallen, and redeemed. Every person is a body-soul unity fulfilled through vocation and in virtue, possessing dignity and worth. This approach is integral to our accompaniment of individuals in coaching because it sets the stage for understanding the unique creation of each person and how he or she is called. This Good Way or Bona Via advances the goal of flourishing by helping clients discern, respond to, and balance three distinct callings: 

• Called to goodness - to live a value-guided life in relationship with God.

• Called to vocation - to live out vocational commitments to others whether single, married, or through a distinct religious calling. 

• Called to community - to participate in socially meaningful work, service, and leisure. 

As Catholic Christians, Bona Via coaches understand that God is the power behind true, lasting change. Bona Via coaching is faithful to the Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church and is grounded in the best of Catholic teaching and understanding of the human person to guide and inform the coaching process. 

While Bona Via coaches are informed by Catholic teaching, you do not have to be Catholic to benefit from this approach. Thanks to our universal call to goodness, anyone can respond to and create a path to flourishing. 

The time that your coaching process will take depends on your individual coaching plan, and your commitment and openness to the process. If you are just getting started with us, you may see results in 8-12 weeks, however it may take longer or shorter.  After completing the initial program, you may want shorter coaching packages or individual sessions to tackle specific issues. 

Coaching is a non-directive, non-judgmental, safe space that is 100% confidential.

In the case of minor children, confidentiality is forfeited if they express thoughts that they may be in danger or a danger to others.

When working with parents and their teenagers, levels of confidentiality will be discussed in the initial consult.