Portage Transition Coaching

A Career Change
Balance and Integration
A New Business and/or Business Development
Better Relationships
A Lifestyle Change
To Be More
Clarity
Focus
Fun
To Explore New Ideas and Perspectives
Adventure!!

I Can Help You:

* See your brilliance and hone it.
* Slow down, look at your transition from all angles, enjoy the process, and make great choices.
* By reflecting back to you, in a nonjudgmental way, what's going on in your life so you can let go of ways you might be judging yourself.
* Customize a plan of action that is just right for you, which makes it more effortless.
* Change something you don't like doing/being or change your attitude about it.
* Let go of perfection and discover what's perfect right now!
* Explore the many paths that are available to you and take the one that's just right for you.
* Live your life fully engaged in what excites you.
* Change the struggle in a situation to insight and action.
* Narrow the gap between where you are now and where you want to be and, at the same time, dare for more.
* Learn the coaching style of communicating so your relationships can be more.
* Have fun and enjoy the treasures.
* Take care of yourself very, very well so you can meet others' needs more naturally.
* Give up what you can't/don't want with grace.
* Ask for what you're worth and get it.
* Position yourself to play a bigger game.
* Integrate who you are and what you do.

Deborah Martin is a graduate of Coach University and a Coach University Professional Mentor Coach. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is an ICF Master Certified Coach. Deb holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Education and a Masters Degree in Career and Technical Education. 

In March of 1996, Deb began her coaching business, Portage. She has attracted an international clientele of leaders, high achievers, entrepreneurs, coaches and visionaries. Deb is extraordinarily intuitive and passionate about all things wild. She spends as much time as possible getting to know herself better and testing her limits in the wilderness. She gives Mother Nature credit for being her first coach. Her style is to guide clients toward their own truth using compassion and fun. In addition to her regular one-on-one coaching sessions, Deb combines her intuitive abilities and her passion for nature to offer what she calls Wilderness Adventure Coaching. Deb maintains a practice of approximately 15 clients.

One of Deb's favorite back-county activities is portaging her canoe from one lake to another. She loves the discovery process. "The portage itself is as much fun as getting to the next lake." Thus, Deb believes any transition must be driven by a value that reflects the core of who you are. "When you get to the who, the what and how happen naturally. Once you've set your sites on an outcome, hold it very, very lightly and focus on the process instead. Gratitude for the process may take you down a path you can't yet envision and leave you much more open to the insights that will come your way."

Deb says you can still make plans, but be curious and also make space for surprises. "Intuition is blocked when we practice traditional either/or thinking when setting goals. These surprises and insights will perhaps move you away from the original goal but can lead you to something much richer."

Deb believes that we all can significantly simplify our lives. She says that many clients come to her wanting to do something, in order to have something, in order to be somebody. Deb says, "Be somebody first and the doing and having are natural outcomes. The more you discover your truth about who you are, the more you'll get what you want."

I think exploring oneself while in nature is one of the most powerful things we can do. That commitment has led me to offer Wilderness Adventure Coaching Trips. Some of my adventures, usually with larger groups, offer a very specific theme or topic. Other adventures, usually with smaller groups, are designed so you can get your specific coaching requests addressed. In either case, with Mother Nature as the inspirational background, you're moving forward at lightening speed effortlessly!

Do you want to put a trip together for your group? Or do you want to do a solo trip, just you and me? I'd love to talk about it.


The 3rd Annual Cool Coaching Campout
For anyone wanting to be coached on anything
On the Mighty Manistee River, Northern Michigan
More pictures here

The Annual "What Are You Doing With the Rest of Your Life!?" Retreat
For anyone in transition
Maho Bay Camps, St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
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An Adventure Outing
for Coaches who want to start offering their own coaching adventures
South Manitou Island, Lake Michigan
More pictures here

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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers