Services Provided

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What, pray tell, is "life and relationship coaching?" In short, it is equipping people to navigate the questions, confusions, and possibilities of life and relationships so they can live and relate with others as fully, optimally, and in as much overall health as possible.

British team builder and trainer Alan Chapman explains, "The term coaching typically refers to methods of helping others to improve, develop, learn new skills, find personal success, achieve aims and to manage life change and personal challenges. Coaching commonly addresses attitudes, behaviours, and knowledge, as well as skills, and can also focus on physical and spiritual development too."

Executive police coach, consultant and scholar, Dr. Terry Anderson, concludes, "Coaching has now become an established profession that synthesizes the best aspects of business, leadership, psychology, communications, organization development, counselling, consulting, sports, philosophy, theology, health and finance."

Police, justice, and emergency personnel - and their spouses and families - rarely have anyone to help them proactively navigate the unique stuff of their lives and relationships. That's where we come in.

Through our coaching we help our courageous guardians return to or stay rooted in their true identity and purpose. We help them clarify values and stay committed to "true north." We work with them so they stand firm on a solid foundation and remain deeply rooted in what is healthy, virtuous, true, and right.

We employ a 5 point bio-psycho-social-spiritual model as we help you confirm your path, get back on track, or learn where you might be stuck or lost. We explore symptoms and causes and help facilitate practical, holistic, preventative measures, and solutions. We work with you proactively to upgrade life and/or relationship skills, help you develop a plan, then take decisive actions to reorient... so you can enjoy and live out the great adventure that this life and your closest relationships are meant to be!!

If you think we can help, please give us a call or send an email. We would be pleased to connect for a confidential consultation. 

At Scully Consulting, the work we do commonly combines "life and relationship" coaching with "vocational and career" coaching. In fact, when optimizing life/work balance these  become intimately linked.

That said, effective and focused career and vocational coaching helps people explore what might be their "calling" and be an optimal "fit" for them as it relates to work and career.

Maybe you're trying to determine if a certain career or agency is for you? Perhaps you're considering if a transfer or promotion is appropriate or timely? Maybe you've been injured physically or interiorly and have to do something different? Or you might have a boss who is bullying you, or a peer who is discriminating wrongly against you, or a subordinate who is the employee from hell? Or, perhaps you've been in a dead-end position that provides no interest or purpose for you anymore? 

If any of these things apply to you then we should meet. Why should you flounder in uncertainty, guess at next steps, or let others determine things for you? Why should your present or future work be filled with perpetual conflict, or be pointless or purposeless?

Besides our coaching certifications, one thing that makes us unique is the extensive vocational experience we both have. Also, Denys has a vast interdisciplinary academic background with a particular focus on classical historical coaching approaches. You will not find this in many other places. You will not be disappointed if you choose to work with us.

We will conduct formal assessments with you to help you clearly understand your personal style, aptitudes, gifts, values, and more. We will get to know you well and help you clearly define your vocational purpose. We will explore how you can upgrade your vocational skills, help you develop a step-by-step plan, then take decisive actions to get where you want to go, in the context of who you are and what you value. We will help you become the brightest and best you can be...so you can do - and enjoy - what you love.

Why not give us a call or send an email. We would be pleased to connect for a confidential consultation. 

Are you seeking recovery from inner wounds, or trauma? Are you angry or bitter in spirit about something that happened? Is your heart broken, aching, or sad? Do you feel interiorly wounded or even fractured? Perhaps your life has just become a plain muddle? Or you feel interiorly confused or lost? Or you can't figure out why some relationship isn't working?

Whereas our Coaching focuses on skills and future development, the spiritual care we offer helps our clients with regards to ill-health, disruption in clear thinking, relationship problems, pain and the like. This is not to say that the two services must always function exclusively one from the other. They may. Or - as our work suggests - the two may sometimes function collaboratively.

After policing, Denys trained and became a licensed clergyman. He is not a psychologist or a psychiatrist. In his spiritual care work, he seeks to help justice personnel and emergency services workers (and their loved ones) with more than just emotional and behavioural factors or matters of the intellect and brain. He helps them with the health of their spirit, soul, and deep inner heart and in so doing addresses the deepest causes of ill-health, distorted thinking, life imbalance, and bitter relationships. We acknowledge the need to consider the whole person - physically, psychologically and spiritually - to bring optimal integrity, wholeness, balance and health to life, relationships, and vocation. 

It has long been acknowledged in our culture that this type of health-care is particularly needed for those who serve or have served in policing, other justice or emergency-response type jobs, or the military where trauma, grief, moral injury, betrayal, excessive rationalism, legalism, etc. dehumanize and damage - even destroy - these noble servants and their families. And, from personal experience, we know how important this is because there are areas of our inner person that humanistic and atheistic psychology and psychiatry cannot go. 

If this is something you would like to explore with us, why not take a minute and give us a call or send an email? Confidentiality assured.