The 4 Gateways Coaching Model
The 4 Gateways Coaching is a comprehensive human operating system upgrade that allows you to become more creative and inclusive no matter what issues you are working with. The 4 Gateways process provides a systematic approach to address an enormous variety of issues, within yourself, with family and friends, and in your business.
How it works:
A gateway is an entry or portal from one place to another. The 4 Gateways operating system uses four basic modes of accessing the wisdom of the human soul.
At their simplest level, they are:
Thinking
Feeling
Doing
Being
Using this model, you can access all your innate wisdom and bring that to bear on any issue or change you want to make in life. When you honor all four gateways to wisdom, you get a much more complete and clear picture of yourself and others. The more we know, the better decisions we make.
4 Gateways Coaching
Coaching is very much a part of our everyday lives. We coach ourselves and others, and other people coach us. Even though sports coaching, business coaching, and life coaching are recognized as specialized career fields, what coaches do is done universally by all of us.
Some of us have had the good fortune to receive great coaching from family members and friends, or specialized coaches, and have internalized healthy coaching models, and sometimes not. In either case, we all need periodic operating system upgrades.
4 Gateways Training
This four-quadrant model creates new possibilities in the moment and provides opportunities to try them out. In the end, you determine how to bring new possibilities into your relationships, your career, and the world.
Our coaches have found this process easy to access and incredibly valuable in working with individual clients and with groups. We use it to co-coach one another and also find it very powerful when used solo as a personal meditation.
The 4 Archetypes
By Archetype, we mean a fundamental identity that exists in the collective human psyche and that is accessible to everyone. Archetypes are incredible storehouses of knowledge that help us access wisdom.
The 4 Gateways Coaching model uses four archetypes that embody the four wisdoms listed above. They are:
Magician – thinking & reflecting
Lover – feeling & connecting
Warrior – doing & protecting
Sovereign – being & blessing
Attributes of the 4 Gateways
While there is no universal agreement about the precise qualities embodied in these four archetypes, here are some of the qualities that we can attribute to each.
Thinking Wisdom – Magician – The Advisor
Getting perspective, generating options
Thinking critically, using analysis, logic, and intuition
Judging and making assumptions
Getting and organizing information
Creativity and imagination
Doing Wisdom – Warrior – The Protector
Taking action
Serving and protecting, setting boundaries
Using power, working with conflict
Street smarts
Team work
Feeling Wisdom – Lover – The Connector
Feeling and connecting
Empathizing and loving
Accessing bodily awareness and emotional intelligence
Playing and being spontaneous
Making music, dancing, making art
Being Wisdom – Sovereign – The Director
Setting direction and motivating
Making choices from deep knowing
Giving support and blessing
Defining purpose and meaning
Seeing the whole, knowing rank and order
4 Gateways Coaching
4 Gateways Coaching is a dynamic, easy-to-learn method to work with everyday problems at home or at work, as well as to grapple with life’s deepest soul questions.
4 Gateways Coaching taps into the four fundamental ways we all have of processing experience - thinking, feeling, being, and acting.
These are our natural hard-wired gateways to wisdom. When we open all four of these gateways and engage their inherent transformational capacities, our opportunities for making real positive change are increased exponentially. Contact Tom for information on an introductory session.
Being coached by a certified 4 Gateways Coach, you will:
Evoke your unique genius through:
Exceptional Thinking
Enhanced Emotional Intelligence
Inner Support and Motivation
Right Use of Power
Access support for any aspect of your personal and business life for:
Optimal Health
Business Success
Fulfilling Relationships
Navigating Transitions & conflicts
Spiritual Growth
Using the 4 Gateways Coaching process, you will:
Tap all dimensions of your inner wisdom
Learn from any situation
Find meaning and purpose in any issue
Discover and release unconscious patterns that inhibit growth
Strengthen emotional intelligence
Access love and compassion for yourself and others
Clarify and heal family entanglements
Increase your happiness and joy
Generate the motivation to shift old patterns
Skillfully turn conflicts into assets
Speak hard truths without negative consequences
Set appropriate boundaries
Accurately assess risks and formulate successful action steps
4 Gateways Training
4 Gateways Coaches provide their clients with a powerful and dynamic process for addressing an enormous variety of issues, dilemmas, and problems in their clients’ lives.
“The 4 Gateways is stunning in its ability to create real change at the deepest levels with a huge variety of issues. Every time I use this process my clients are awakened to a new way of accessing their inner wisdom.”
- Rhonda Hess, Business Coach, Prosperous Coach, Inc.
“The 4 Gateways model provides me with a map I can use for any issue and any client. The model offers access to powerful unconscious blocks that drive thinking and behavior. It’s essential to my practice.”
- Brian Gast, Executive Coach, Quadrant International
The 4 Gateways Coaching process teaches you and those you work with to:
Define an issue and a potential outcome
Invite new perspectives
Assess the risks to change
Honor feelings and deep connections
Find meaning and purpose
Create satisfying resolutions and realistic action steps
You and those you coach will access creative potentials for transforming inner dynamics, personal relationships, and ultimately making the world a better place for everyone.
Benefits for you and those you support:
You and those you support find your own uniquely satisfying solutions.
The process is easy to learn.
You bring out the best in your clients.
Deepens as you become familiar with the process.
Integrates well with other healing modalities.
Creates effective self-care and support systems for yourself and anyone you work with.
Find your unique genius for helping yourself and others find their own answers.
Introductory Training
Part 1: Foundational Skills
For both individuals desiring tools for their own personal development and professionals wanting tools for their practice.
Coaching Certification
Part 2: Anchoring the 4 Gateways
Part 3: Integration & Applications
For individuals taking the next steps to become a 4 Gateways Certified Coach.
4 Gateways - Foundational Skills Training
Step One of the 4 Gateways Training Program
This one-weekend collaborative, intensive, in-person Training Program is for both individuals looking to support their personal growth and for helping professionals seeking to enhance their ability to support others. If this sounds like you, then this training is for you — come join us!
Activate your Mind for – Clearest Thinking & Creative Perspectives
Access your Feelings for – Engaged Compassion & Deep Connections
Fire up your Doer for – Courage & Right Action
Evoke your Deep Knowing for – Alignment with Purpose & Generative Leadership
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By joining this course and learning the Basic 4 Gateways Process, you will learn how to actively transform old patterns by tapping into inner wisdom at the levels of thinking (magician), feeling (lover), doing (warrior), and being (sovereign), You will also:
Refine your listening skills and connection.
Understand the beliefs and assumptions underlying the process.
Co-coach with fellow participants with supervised feedback.
Guide others to access the creative opportunities in any issue.
Quickly and skillfully work with resistance and conflict.
Access joy and compassion by working deeply within yourself and with others.
Create effective self-care and support systems for yourself and anyone you work with.
See Curriculum below for full course learning goals.
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October 23-25, Friday evening (6:30-9 PM), Saturday (9 AM-5:30 PM), and Sunday (9:30 AM - 1 PM).
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Boulder, Colorado. (Exact site to be determined by class size).
A pre-course preparation meeting will be done via Zoom.
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The 4 Gateways Training is for anyone (all genders welcome) who wants to learn powerful and effective tools that will support you in accessing your deepest wisdom to meet your current life challenges and to guide you in providing those tools for others.
This course will be taught by Tom Daly, PhD, and a team of 4 Gateways Certified Coaches.
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$895. - $1295. Sliding scale. Payment plans and scholarships are available. Contact Tom directly.
Includes:
A Pre-Course Preparation Zoom call.
The 4 Gateways Training 100 Page Guidebook
Paired practice coaching sessions between participants with supervision by 4 Gateways Certified Coaches.
6 to 8 Week Post-Training support with 4 Gateways Certified Coaches.
Curriculum - 4 Gateways Foundational Skills Weekend Training
The Weekend Training course will include:
A Pre-Course Preparation Zoom call.
The 4 Gateways Training 100 Page Guidebook
Paired practice coaching sessions between participants with supervision by 4 Gateways Certified Coaches.
6 to 8 Week Post-Training support with 4 Gateways Certified Coaches.
Have questions? Contact Tom here.
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The course begins with the Training overview and personal introductions. You will share your call to take this Training, your strengths and gifts you bring, and name your desired outcomes for this course.
We provide an overview of the course:
Benefits of coaching using this model for yourself & your classmates.
Learning the fundamental beliefs and assumptions underlying the process.
Becoming familiar with the 4 wisdom perspectives.
Learning the basic 4 Gateways model to use with yourself & others.
Applying the model in practice for issues of personal self-care.
Establishing personal goals for the course and making the best use of our time.
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In this block, we will look at the 4 Gateways model in more depth, its history and development as a coaching tool, and its foundational beliefs and assumptions. Understanding the philosophy of this coaching model will help you more fully understand how to coach yourself and others moving forward. The foundational beliefs and assumptions will inform all areas of this course and its coaching methods.
During this block, you will experience the 4 Gateways process modeled in its entirety in order to understand how it works and how to use it effectively.
Together, we will answer how the 4 Gateways utilizes effective coaching through:
How to prepare yourself as a coach and prepare the client for coaching?
What is needed to help a client clarify an issue and an outcome to be addressed?
How to address the issue from the 4 Gateways and listen to a client intently?
What integration and closing is necessary for clients to leave the session empowered?
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After we have introduced the foundational beliefs and assumptions and experienced the process in its entirety, we will then address how to create a safe container for coaching to occur successfully. We will discuss how effective coaching integrates trust and safety in the coaching partnership, as well as respect for the process and the work to take place. You will work in pairs to integrate the learning at this stage of the process.
During this block, we will focus on:
Opening and closing coaching sessions.
Preparing ourselves to coach and be coached.
Clarifying an issue and outcome.
Addressing the issue from the 4 Gateways Round 1.
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During this block, you continue to deepen into the model as coaches and clients. There will be more clarification on how to guide effectively as a coach. This block will include more fine-tuning of the method and more time to discuss challenges. You will have the opportunity with your classmates to:
Experience the model in more depth, including the second round of questions.
Work with each other to coach and be coached on issues of self-care.
Discuss any issues as they arise in the coaching relationship.
You will have the opportunity with your classmates to:
Experience the model in more depth.
Ask questions to clarify how to address challenges.
Work with each other to coach and be coached on issues of self-care.
Discuss any issues as they arise in the coaching relationship.
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This block will continue our focus on self-care and our personal relationships with how we meet our own needs and ask for support. We will focus on the Integration Round and how close a session.
Together we will experience and discuss:
How self-care and support create effective change.
The underlying beliefs most resonant with you during the process.
How integration is key to effective coaching.
How self-care and self-relationship guide each coaching session.
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In this final block, you will have the opportunity to review all the coaching basics of the model, ask any additional questions about how to use the process for yourself and others, and share the insights and takeaways with other participants. We will discuss the next steps of how to integrate 4 Gateways Coaching into your everyday life and further training possibilities.
Together we will:
Set up coaching practice sessions with fellow Training participants.
Set up supervision sessions with Certified 4 Gateways coaches.
How to incorporate this coaching model into issues in my life moving forward?
Discuss options for Part 2 of the Training Program.
Bless and ritually close the weekend.