Our Vision
At the Pivot Coaching Collaborative we envision a world where anyone, regardless of their personal histories, past decisions, financial situation, or current circumstances, have every opportunity to build and lead a healthy, purposeful, and fulfilling life.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reduce recidivism by providing individuals who are incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, or who have struggled with homelessness or joblessness, with life coaching tools and skills. Our organization aims to help program participants use coaching tools as a part of the journey to rebuild their lives post-incarceration. Our aim is to help individuals focus their time, energy and personal resources on who they want to be in the future - not on whatever circumstances they’ve had with in the past.
Our Work
Our work is rooted in the belief that life coaching provides tools and skills to help people manage their thoughts and feelings so that they can build their lives exactly as they want them - regardless of circumstances, past choices, or current situations. Our work emphasizes:
Accountability and taking personal ownership of your actions;
Learning from the past, but not leaning on it as an excuse to use in the future;
Managing your mindset is the key to creating the results you want;
Anything is possible.
Our work is customized to meet each partner’s needs, and can be structured as 1:1 coaching, small group coaching, in-person coaching, and remote coaching. Each session is focused on. a key topic or theme, with apx. 25% of each session designed to teach participants about a life coaching tool or concept, and 75% of the session designed to coach participants through how to apply the tool or concept in “real life”, and how to handle the challenges that may arise in doing so. The coaching work and techniques utilized include tools from The Life Coach School, and all coaching is done by a trained and certified life coach.
I don’t remember when I first heard the term “life coaching” but I am sure I thought it was some kind of joke when I did. Life coaching was not for me - a practical, sensible woman with a good head on her shoulders and no interest in any woo-woo way of “healing” myself. I was (and honestly, still am) much more of a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps and keep marching forward” kind of self-help person. But that all changed when I was running with a group from the non-profit Back on My Feet one cold winter morning in Washington D.C. As I ran loops around the U.S. Capitol Building with a Back on My Feet member, Bo, he told me about getting a life coach through the non-profit and how helpful that had been for him in his journey. In a true Oprah Winfrey Ah-Ha moment, I thought, “That’s what I want to do, be a life coach for people like Bo.” Fast forward a number of years and I was coaching Back on My Feet members 1:1 and in small groups in both D.C. and Boston, with the kind of results I’d only hoped we’d see: repaired personal relationships, improved credit scores, updated resumes, new fitness goals…..The coaching tools were as useful to my clients as they had been in my own life, and all I could think was, “We need to get this out to more people”.
Since then, The Pivot Coaching Collective’s mission has shifted slightly to focus on people who have been, or are currently, incarcerated. Choosing to serve an often overlooked and under-resourced population of citizens has allowed this work to take on even more meaning and purpose, and I am thrilled to be expanding this organization’s reach and impact.
Thank you for your interest in our work, and I do hope you remain in touch through our email list, or through a message to info@makeyourpivot.co.
Sincerely,
Stephanie
