How Stoan Method works
Whatever your circumstances and wherever you’re starting from, Stoan Method is a 4 step framework to help you think and get clearer about the possibilities for you.
Stoan Method helps you see your life in a way you’re not used to seeing it. And then it asks you questions about what you can see. Your answers are the signposts to where you might go next.
Whatever your circumstances and wherever you’re starting from, Stoan Method is a framework to help you think and get clearer about the possibilities for you.
I send the questions before each session. There are 4 sessions - one a week or we can do two a week if that suits you better. Each session has a different theme. We meet again for a fifth session 6 months later. It’s a non judgemental, entirely supportive, reflective session.
You don’t need to send your written answers to me. We talk them through in the video call.
Writing is important. Keep your written answers - digitally if not physically. You will write observations that will be useful to you in the future.
I still have mine from nearly 30 years ago. I’m not a hoarder - honest! I knew that I was uncovering important things that I would want to remember. I didn’t realise how important some of them were until years later. When that happens it gives you a rich feeling of trust in your life.
Where it comes
It’s based on researched backed thinking about making and managing change more comfortably.
It comes from Manchester!
Well that’s where I first encountered this way of thinking.
Two counsellors and trainers – Celia Hindmarch and Veronica Morrell – ran an experimental weekend course called Women in Transition. It was cutting edge, researched backed thinking about making and managing change more comfortably.
The weekend was 24th and 25th April 1993. It really doesn’t seem that long ago to me. I remember the specific dates because it was my birthday weekend.
Over the years I used the techniques with friends and colleagues in and out of work.
While running a group in 2015 I had a glorious ‘I should be doing this’ moment. Stoan Method was born.
What followed was a process of developing, testing and refining it to make Stoan Method accessible and affordable.
Life coaches use similar techniques, and many more, in a longer and typically more expensive coaching relationship.
My priority is sharing these very effective techniques quickly to give you fast insight and to get you off to a great start getting on with things you want to change, things you want to do.