"This past year was extremely trying and unstable. Many aspects of my life collapsed in on each other leaving me deadlocked. I had no idea that this was often the source of my anxiety. You helped me separate and identify the individual issues and deal with them in a orderly progressive way. I never would have followed through with grad school applications, or redesigning my promotional materials in such a rocky period. You helped me stay on track. You also helped me sort out and exit from a damaging relationship and keep a good one healthy. Coaching saved me last year. I am living the exciting results right now."

- Kate Foley, Choreographer, Teacher, Graduate Student

"I came to work with Art at a time when I simply felt lost. So lost, in fact, that I couldn't begin to know where to start getting myself back on track. Art's coaching process helped me regain focus on what I wanted in life, most importantly by getting me back in touch with the core values I had lost track of, the ones that I had always wanted to drive the course of my life. I thank you for your help, and look forward to working with you again in the future."

- Mark Wilde, Performer

"One of the most helpful aspects of the coaching process for me was being prompted to be pro-active. I tend to feel helpless when the circumstances of life or career don't go my way. The coaching process helps me transform feeling victimized into being empowered. My coach's pointed questioning forces me to get out of denial about how bad my situation is. He prompts me to research solutions to the problems I'm facing and helps me evaluate the appropriateness of each one for me. Having to be accountable to my coach once a week keeps me focused on what I can do to make my life better instead of letting myself passively soak in a puddle of woe. My coach's consistent support somehow gives me courage to make changes. The result is that I feel more powerful and in charge of my life."

- Marsha Scarbrough, Writer

"Coaching trimmed away the fat and put me on a straighter path to my individual wants, desires and needs. It got me to the heart of my career objectives. In the process, I felt supported and encouraged to succeed while staying focused and on track. It has given me the tools to reach goals I felt were unattainable. Your coaching held me learn to be accountable to myself. Harsh as it sounds, if nothing's happening, you've got no one to blame but yourself. If you're truly into the "coaching" process you don't want to be caught lying to yourself! What's the point!"

- Ken Millen, Musician

"Thank you for being the great coach and friend that you have been and will continue to be. Your willingness to put yourself out there and leap into the great unknown is a very rare and powerful gift that drew me to your coaching style. I knew that if you were willing to go there, then you would be there for me on my coaching journeys. As you know, I have a problem with 'woo woo' language. I wanted a coach who wasn't going to give me catch phrases or new age rhetoric. Instead I wanted someone who would communicate in 'regular speak' and help me forward my own action.

Art, you made it so easy for me. Knowing that you understood where I was coming from made the process so smooth and enjoyable. How many people can say that they actually had fun facing their gremlins and instituting life changing systems into their soul? I can! I still use the inquiries and perspective wheels we worked on to continue moving forward. Such great and powerful gifts from each and every phone call. The greatest gift that you gave me as a coach is just being Art."

- James Wong, Business Owner

"In the past, accomplishing for others has never been a problem for me, but realizing even my own smallest goals and wishes was an almost impossible task. Even several months after finishing up my weekly sessions with Art, I am most amazed at how often I continue to remember to sort through the day's constant barrage of incoming thoughts and demands to find my own one, true voice; the one that has my best interest at heart.

Though the need to please others often still figures into my decision making process, I am now more able to stop and analyze the cost of doing so, and then to decide to do things I want to because it is best for me, not because I am afraid to disappoint others. And it has been amazing how often my friends and co-workers are not offended at all my decisions, but rally around to help me as I have so often done.

Though there is work ahead, I have begun to learn to differentiate between my life and my fears. For the first time in years, I am excited by the prospect of realizing some of my plans for myself now that I have been introduced to effective life skills that let me bring myself back to my life at those time when old habits try to take me away."

- Linda Horner, Administrator