Jack Carroll

I tailor my coaching to who I’m with, so the results can vary widely. Sometimes people cry, sometimes they knock out their to-do list. Below are some gestures at my approach.

One aim I have is helping people be in contact with reality. To see what’s actually happening in the world and in themselves. To do so without flinching away, and to recognize where their reactions or opinions might be coloring things. And then once facing the world, as accurately as they can understand it, I help them in orienting to action. I like this on the macro-scale, of deep purpose and values and the plan for one’s whole life, and I like this on the micro-scale, of how to untangle a particular interaction or relational dynamic. I especially like studying this on the level of repeating patterns, the things that reoccur despite our best efforts, and have an emphasis on how to grow well over time.

My practice is informed by CFAR-style rationality, especially Goal Factoring and Systemization. I’m also deeply versed in Ann Weiser Cornell’s Inner Relationship Focusing, which is a parts-work approach to Gendlin’s Focusing (a practice for bringing unconscious knowledge into conscious awareness), as well as Circling Europe-style Circling (a relational attunement practice).