HOW BREAKTHROUGH WORKS

Breakthrough: Remove What is Getting in the Way

Breakthrough is a structured process for identifying and releasing the interference between where you are and where you are capable of being.

That interference can take many forms: unresolved emotional responses, limiting beliefs, recurring patterns and the effects of experiences that still influence how you think, feel and respond.

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What happens?

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Sometimes you know exactly what is getting in the way.

Often, you don’t.

You simply know that something isn’t working as well as it should.

Breakthrough is about finding out what that is — and releasing it.

It isn’t about fixing you.

It is about removing what is interfering with the person underneath.

Why Breakthrough comes first

Coaching can help you think, challenge assumptions, consider alternatives and decide what to do next.

But you cannot simply think your way out of something that is influencing the way you think.

The distinction

Breakthrough works on the interference first.

Sometimes that is enough. Where further guidance would be useful, coaching follows — from a different starting point.

CEO coaching

How is Breakthrough Leadership CEO coaching different from other CEO coaching?

Much CEO coaching can be described as performance coaching. It helps an already capable CEO improve performance from where they currently sit developmentally — often through feedback, behavioural insight, reflection and learning to manage themselves more effectively.

At Breakthrough Leadership, the primary focus is different. We work first on what may be preventing the CEO from moving to the next stage of their development.

The distinction matters. Improving performance at the same developmental level can require increasing effort. Development changes the perspective from which the CEO leads. What previously required considerable conscious effort can become a more natural consequence of seeing themselves, other people and the organisation differently.

Breakthrough first removes what is interfering with development. Coaching then helps the CEO explore what becomes possible from the new starting point.

What are we looking for?

Patterns.

The things you repeatedly do even when you know they aren’t helping.

The situations that produce a reaction disproportionate to what is actually happening.

The things you avoid.

The things you need from other people.

The things you keep telling yourself.

And the experiences that may have taught you those responses in the first place.

The preparation deliberately looks across significant experiences, relationships, family influences, recurring behaviours and negative self-talk because the obvious problem isn’t necessarily the underlying one.

You don’t need to arrive knowing the answer.

Finding it is part of the work.

What happens?

Prepare

As we begin, I ask you to do some thinking and writing.

You’ll look at your life, significant experiences, recurring patterns and what you say to yourself about yourself.

This isn’t administration.

The preparation is part of Breakthrough. It begins surfacing useful material before we start working together.

Explore

Then we start looking.

Some things will be obvious. Others won’t.

We look for connections between experiences, emotional responses, beliefs and patterns that may have been operating for years without you consciously recognising them.

And we don’t force the process.

If one route doesn’t work, we find another.

The obstacle is information.

The principle is simple:

Don’t force the process. Release the blockage.

Release

Once we find the interference, we work through it.

The objective isn’t to erase memories or pretend things didn’t happen.

What happened remains part of your history.

We keep whatever was useful to learn from it and release the emotional charge and limiting conclusions that no longer need to come with it.

Integrate

We test what has changed.

If something hasn’t fully shifted, we go back.

The objective isn’t simply to feel better at the end of a session. It is for the change to remain useful when you return to your life and leadership. Testing and integration are therefore part of the process.

As a rule of thumb, allow around 16 hours over one to two weeks for Breakthrough.

Some people need less. Occasionally it takes longer.

We follow what we find rather than the clock.

What does it feel like afterwards?

People often describe feeling lighter, calmer or simply different.

Some describe an unfamiliar sense of emptiness. Others have described feeling “lighter and empty”, or describe a vacuum where struggle had previously existed.

That isn’t necessarily surprising.

Something that may have occupied a great deal of mental and emotional space is no longer demanding the same attention.

There is another reason the territory can feel unfamiliar.

A different starting point

You may have very little experience of being your true self without the old interference.

That is where a different kind of development can begin.

What happens next?

For some people, Breakthrough is enough.

They don’t need ongoing coaching.

Others value some guidance as they learn to operate from a different starting point.

Decisions can feel different. Relationships can change. Possibilities that previously seemed unrealistic can become visible. And the old reasons for doing things may no longer have the same hold.

This is where coaching can become particularly valuable.

Not to help you manage the interference.

To help you discover how to live and lead with more of your true self available to you.

Investment

Breakthrough: £4,000 + VAT

The first step is a conversation

We’ll talk about what is happening, what you would like to change and what may be getting in the way.

You can ask anything you want to know about Breakthrough.

There is no assessment to pass and no assumption that we will work together.

The purpose of the conversation is simply to establish whether Breakthrough is the right next step.

If it isn’t, I will tell you.

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