Rethinking Freedom in Coaching: From Agency to Awareness
A client, Kathy, arrives at a coaching session exhausted.
“I know exactly what I need to do,” she says. “I just can’t seem to do it.”
The coaching conversation quickly turns toward goals, accountability, habits, and confidence. Together, coach and client begin strengthening her capacity to act. She leaves feeling clearer, more empowered, and ready to make different choices.
This is coaching at its best. It cultivates agency—the capacity to intentionally direct our actions toward desired outcomes.
But beneath this success lies a deeper question.
Does becoming more effective necessarily mean becoming more free?
The Agency Puzzle
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