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Coaching is a service that offers you support, outside perspective and insights, feedback, and just the right amount of nudging and challenging to help you achieve your goals. It is often human nature that we help those around us, fulfill our family and employment responsibilities, and we put our own personal growth or other needs on the back burner. Through coaching you can continue to balance those responsibilities while making progress toward those things that, deep in your heart, you want to accomplish in your life.
Through partnering with a coach, and taking action toward your goals, you are likely to find that you
- do more than you would on your own
- take yourself seriously without losing your ability to find humor in your life
- become more consistent in taking action
- find more balance and fulfillment in your life
Coaching can be a valuable tool to work through life transitions, develop new skills, find more life satisfaction, start or change careers, or find more balance.
As a Life Coach with significant disabilities-related experience, Coach Peg offers a unique perspective to help you make the most of your talents and abilities. If you are a person with a disability, she will help you to identify and manage your disability-related needs while maintaining a focus on what you can do in your life, and a focus on your strengths.
Through coaching we will celebrate who you are and what you have to offer this world, and we will explore together what you want from this life and how to get it!
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About Coach Peg
Peg Ball has worked in human services and as a human rights advocate for over 25 years. She lives out her passions for equal access, equal opportunity, personal development, and nurturing of the spirit in each individual. She has worked for justice for people with disabilities and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered persons, and for the rights of animals.
Peg has served numerous nonprofit organizations as board member, staff member, and active volunteer. She currently serves on the boards of The Leaven Center (www.leaven.org) and Partners in Personal Assistance (www.annarborppa.org). Much of her work has been through Centers for Independent Living in Michigan and Arizona, organizations committed to quality of life for people with disabilities. Peg’s life experience as a bisexual woman with a significant physical disability has provided her with insight and compassion for a broad range of human life challenges, and has cultivated in her a spirit of hope and an ability to find creative solutions. Peg’s love for nature and awareness of health issues has also instilled in her a commitment to advocate for a toxin-free environment both outdoors and inside public spaces.
Channeling her experience and concern for others into the development of a Life Coaching practice, Peg assists her clients in goal-setting and achievements that bring joy and a sense of accomplishment into their lives.
Peg has a Master’s in Social Work, has done graduate work in counseling and rehabilitation and is a Coach Training Alliance Certified Coach (www.coachtrainingalliance.com). In addition to an active professional life,
she has an array of interests including spiritual development, camping, horses, word
games, accessible housing, and internet research. Peg and her partner of fifteen years
share a home in Ann Arbor with Peg’s service dog and their two cats.
Coach Peg and partner Brandie are introduced to Elgin, Arabian horse
belonging to friends just outside Louisville, Kentucky,
while service dog Deniro peeks out from behind.
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Coach Peg and partner Brandie are introduced to Elgin, Arabian horse
belonging to friends just outside Louisville, Kentucky,
while service dog Deniro peeks out from behind. |
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Coach Peg's Disability
Coach Peg’s disability is called Spinal Muscular Atrophy SMA. As a result, she uses a power wheelchair for mobility, needs extensive personal assistance to accomplish personal care and other daily activities, and uses a BiPAP machine for night time breathing support due to weakened respiratory muscles.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/sma/sma.htm
http://www.fsma.org/booklet.shtml
http://www.fightsma.org/index.php?what_is_sma
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The Coaching Process
The first step in exploring coaching is sign up for a free sample session. If you're ready to do that now click here.
The sample session is a 30-to 45-minute phone call. During the sample session, you will get a taste of what coaching is like. You will have an opportunity to discuss what you would like to accomplish in your life and what some of the barriers have been that have prevented you from moving forward. We will discuss the different coaching programs that might work for you as well as the associated fees.
After the sample session, if you feel that working with Coach Peg is right for you, you will sign an agreement outlining the parameters of your coaching program and payment amount and method. If your coaching services are covered by a third-party payer, the agreement will also specify that.
Your coaching program may be 3, 6, or 12 months long, depending upon your goals, preferences, and needs. Generally you will have three coaching calls per month, each lasting 30 to 45 minutes. In addition, you and your Coach may e-mail back and forth occasionally. If you experience a particular challenge between coaching calls, or you'd like to share a victory, you're welcome to contact your Coach by phone for a brief chat.
If you prefer a group coaching experience to individual coaching, or you'd like to supplement your individual sessions with group work, there are several different teleclasses and group coaching opportunities from which to choose.
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Fees
Individual Life Coaching, payable monthly in advance
3-month coaching series – $300 per month
6-month coaching series – $225per month
12-month coaching series – $195per month
For individuals with very low incomes, a sliding fee scale can be negotiated.
Includes three coaching sessions per month, unlimited e-mail contact, and occasional brief phone calls between sessions to celebrate a success or process a challenge.
Employment Coaching, payable monthly in advance
3-month coaching series – $350 per month
Includes three coaching sessions per month, unlimited e-mail contact, and daily brief phone calls for the first week, three brief phone calls the second week, and occasional brief calls thereafter, to monitor progress, resolve any workplace challenges, and celebrate successes. Also included is participation in monthly employment coaching teleclass.
Group Coaching and Teleclasses
Coaching group fees and teleclass registration fees vary. Some are FREE! For a listing of current groups and teleclasses and their associated costs, click here.
Speaking Engagements
(begin at) $500 per hour
plus travel expenses for Coach Peg and her Personal Assistant
For a list of some of Coach Peg’s previous speaking engagements and topics, click here.
Individual Consultations on Assistive Technology or Independent Living
$100 per hour by phone
$150 per hour in person (plus travel expenses if outside of Ann Arbor)
$75 for written report
Person Centered Planning
$375 plus travel expenses for Coach Peg and her Personal Assistant Includes:
- up to one hour of pre-meeting phone consultation
- two-hour PCP meeting facilitation
- detailed written plan
NOTE: Third-party payment currently accepted from Michigan Rehabilitation Services, Washtenaw Community Health Organization, and Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living. Please inquire here if you have another funding source that you’d like to have cover your coaching fees.
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