A Guide to Our Coaching Partnership
1. MY APPROACH TO COACHING
Our coaching sessions are a dedicated space for you to gain clarity, tap into your existing resources and design a life that feels aligned with who YOU are. My role is to facilitate your thinking, by asking questions that help you see your situation from new angles and identify the small steps that lead to big shifts.
Our work together is built on two powerful, complementary frameworks, to ensure our sessions are both deeply insightful and practically effective:
Solution-focused
We focus on the future you prefer rather than the history of a problem.
We focus on what is working to build immediate momentum.
We assume you already possess the resources you need. Our job is to uncover them.
Life design
Life is a creative project. We approach your way forward with curiosity, prototyping and radical collaboration with your environment.
We view life holistically and use bias to action to safely test new ways of living and working.
The goal: A custom-built lifestyle
Define exactly what GOOD looks like for you
Shift from reacting to your circumstances to designing your days
Gain momentum through small, safe experiments that lead to lasting change
Sustain the flow
2. WHAT TO EXPECT
To prepare for our journey, here is how we will show up in this space:
I provide the process and the tools, yet you are the expert and authority on your life. I merely help you navigate the terrain.
Our sessions are a judgment-free zone. We treat every outcome (even the ones that don't go as planned) as valuable data for your next design.
We don’t aim for overnight transformations. We look for the small, 1% shifts that are easy to start and impossible to ignore.
You will often leave with a small action or observation to test in the real world between our sessions.
3. FAQ: OUR FIRST SESSION
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Think of this call as a judgment-free conversation, to explore what you’re hoping to unlock and see if I can be of help in you getting to where you want to go.
Feel free to bring any questions that help you decide.
By the end, you’ll know whether my approach feels like the right fit. Either way, we’ll make sure you leave the call with new insights to help you along the way.
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Yourself, exactly as you are that day, and an idea of what you’d like to be different in your life moving forward.
You don’t need to bring a detailed history of everything that’s ever gone wrong. In our first session, we will spend a little bit of time looking at where you are now, but most of our energy will go toward defining your preferred future.
And a notebook, if you like capturing insights.
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That is okay. Actually, it’s an exciting place to start! You don’t need a perfectly defined goal. Sometimes, people come to me only knowing what they don’t want: less stress, less overthinking, less friction in their week. Wherever you are, we start there.
You just need the willingness to take the first step and see what happens. Clarity comes when we use curiosity as our compass, look at what is already working in your life, even in a small way, and use those clues to figure out what small step you want to take next.
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While a standard conversation with someone you know can be great for venting or getting advice, this type of coaching is entirely different in 3 ways:
1) Rather than staying stuck looping in the details of a problem or dissecting the past, we acknowledge where you are and then point the conversation toward where you want to go.
2) I won’t tell you what I would do – or what you should do, for that matter. Instead, I help you uncover your own strengths and design your own strategies that actually fit your unique wiring.
3) You maye leave our session feeling lighter, but you especially leave prepared. With a concrete, low-barrier next step to test out in real life before our next session.
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Absolutely not. I see coaching as a temporary partnership for problem solving and skill building.
You don't need to endlessly overanalyze the problem or flip your whole life upside down to take meaningful steps toward your goals. If you already feel the pressure, piling on even more of it is the last thing you need!
Instead, we work on bringing about the most relief, clarity and momentum — one small, practical step at a time. We look for the smallest domino that will knock over the rest. Like finding the moments where things are going even 5% better and doing more of that.
Many clients with a clear goal feel a clear and sustainable shift in just 5 sessions.
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Then you’re in the right place. Most mainstream advice is built on a one-size-fits-all framework that ignores your unique nervous system and daily realities. They expect you to force your life into their system and, when that creates friction, you’re left feeling like you are the problem. (You are not!)
Here, we look at your life as it actually is, find your hidden strengths and resources and build a bespoke strategy around your unique wiring and natural energy flows. It’s about making the system work for you, not the other way around.
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A 1:1 online coaching session with me costs € 100 (incl. VAT)*.
Coaching packages are discounted if paid in advance: 6 sessions for € 550, and 12 sessions for € 1000, to be used within 6 months of purchase.
When it comes to in-office coaching in Utrecht, a coaching session costs a maximum of € 120, depending on the location.
* If you live in a country where the exchange rate differs significantly from the Netherlands, please reach out for custom pricing.
** These are personal rates. Contact me for more info about corporate rates.
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Curiosity is where all good things start. Reach out directly via the Contact page or send me an email at contact@flow-ahead.com. I reply to all emails.
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The first step is often the most important design choice you’ll make.
I am here to hold the space, provide the tools and support your momentum, as you build your way forward. Let’s see where your curiosity takes us.
See you soon,
Laura Petrescu