
Thomas March
Sometimes, feeling stuck is a sign that we’re ready for what’s next. As a Certified Integral Coach, I empower clients who are readying themselves for change, whether in life or in work, or want to renew their purpose and direction. With decades of experience as a writer, educator, and performer, I offer a creativity-based approach to identifying and nurturing each client’s most powerful essential quality. The work we do creates space for this quality to emerge in your daily life.
Life Coach, Certified Integral Coach, Transformational Coach
New York, NY and Virtual
SERVICES
FREE 15-MIN. CONSULT CALL
The purpose of this call is to give you a chance to ask any questions you might have about the coaching process, Integral Coaching's methodology, and which plans or packages might best meet your needs. We can also discuss meditation methodologies and how we might explore these together in specialized sessions and/or as part of the coaching process.
IN-DEPTH COACHING OVERVIEW CONSULT
Either as a standalone or as a follow-up to a free 15-minute consultation, this session offers you a chance to learn more about the coaching process to determine what the best approach would be for your life and schedule as they exist now—before committing to the full assessment and plan design process or a coaching package.
ONE INTEGRAL COACHING SESSION
Please schedule this only after having completed an Integral Coaching Assessment and Design package. Single sessions are offered for those who would rather pay as they go, as opposed to purchasing session packages in advance, which do offer some savings.
MEDITATION CONSULTATION
If you want to explore what it would mean to engage in a meditation practice--or deepen a practice you already have--this is the session for you. We will discuss your personal goals for meditation and explore which practices might best suit both your aspirations and the reality of your life as it is right now. What seem to be the barriers to engaging in a meditation practice? How might you work within those, in order to gently transform them? Practice and reflection will be part of this session as well. If you prefer, consultation and practice packages are available in the “programs and classes” section.
MEDITATION PARTNER
If you want to work on maintaining more consistently, whether you're just starting or already on your way, this service aims to assist you in developing greater ease and regularity in your practice. It would be most beneficial (but not required) to purchase a one-hour meditation consultation before arranging for meditation practice accountability sessions. The session includes time for introductory questions and goal-setting, as well as a brief debrief at the end of the sit. If you prefer, consultation and practice packages are available in the “programs and classes” section.
WRITING CONSULTATION
A free 15-minute consultation can precede this call, to ensure that the project is a good fit. A one-hour writing consultation could focus on general organization, plot, line editing, grammar and style—or any other general or specific question you have about the piece you’re composing. This is an especially good fit for fiction, literary nonfiction/essays, and poetry.
CLASSES AND PROGRAMS
FREE 15-MIN. CONSULT CALL
The purpose of this call is to give you a chance to ask any questions you might have about the coaching process, Integral Coaching's methodology, and which plans or packages might best meet your needs. We can also discuss meditation methodologies and how we might explore these together in specialized sessions and/or as part of the coaching process.
INTEGRAL COACHING: ASSESSMENT, DESIGN, AND 5 INITIAL SESSIONS
Integral coaching, in particular, focuses on building stronger foundations in the areas of competence that will best support you in developing a new way of being in relation to your coaching topic. After an initial 90-minute intake call, I will identify an essential positive quality that motivates and informs your sense of purpose, along with a metaphorical narrative for the way you currently relate to your coaching topic. A powerful alternative narrative, describing a future state in which you have developed a new way of being, will provide an ongoing context for our work together. The activities and practices that comprise your coaching program (“Individual Development Plan” or “IDP”) will be designed especially for you. Their purpose will be to enable you to recognize and be more fully present in moments that offer opportunities for re-examining your behavior or your way of thinking about yourself or situations. Over time, the work you do in this program should create more and more space for your essential positive quality to emerge in a more open and fulfilling way, influencing how you relate to others and to the important work of your life.
How is coaching different from therapy?
Many people wonder how coaching differs from therapy. Unlike mental health therapy, coaching does not diagnose or treat mental illness or provide mental health counselling, as such.
INTEGRAL COACHING: ASSESSMENT AND DESIGN PHASE ONLY
I highly recommend that you follow the Assessment and Design phase with a course of 5-10 coaching sessions, to guide you through the Individual Development Plan (“IDP”) and maximize your growth. However, if you’d like to experience the process, receive your IDP, and then take some time to decide whether to proceed with coaching, this package might be right for you. This phase begins with a 90-minute intake session, based on which I will develop your customized IDP. A few weeks after your intake session, we will have a second session, for 60-minutes, in which we will review he program design and recommended activities and practices.
How is coaching different from therapy?
Many people wonder how coaching differs from therapy. Unlike mental health therapy, coaching does not diagnose or treat mental illness or provide mental health counselling, as such.
INTEGRAL COACHING: 5-SESSIONS PACKAGE
After you have completed the Assessment and Design phase, you can purchase session packages on an ongoing basis, for $250 overall savings over purchasing them individually via the “Services” menu.
How is coaching different from therapy?
Many people wonder how coaching differs from therapy. Unlike mental health therapy, coaching does not diagnose or treat mental illness or provide mental health counselling, as such.
MEDITATION JUMP START
This package includes a meditation consultation and 5 practice sessions. There is a saving here over purchasing these individually via the “services” menu.
The services I provide
I am a Certified Integral Coach, trained by New Ventures West, and I hold the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coaching Federation. As a coach, I have worked with individuals across disciplines and professions—academics, creatives, educators, entrepreneurs, and executives. I am the coauthor of Assimilating New Leaders: The Key to Executive Retention (AMACOM), as well as the author of the prize-winning poetry collection Aftermath (The Word Works). My work as a coach is inevitably informed by my life as a poet, essayist, performer, and educator. For five years, I was the host and curator of Poetry/Cabaret, a bi-monthly “variety salon” performance series in New York City that brings together poets, comedians, and cabaret performers to share their responses to a common theme. With painter Valerie Mendelson, I am the co-creator of A Good Mixer, a text and visual hybrid project that imagines a virtual cocktail party in the form of paintings of people’s cocktails and poems representing the thoughts and desires of their drinkers. With PEN America’s Prison Writing Program, I have served as a judge for the Prison Writing Contest’s poetry panel and for the inaugural L’Engle-Rahman Award for Mentorship. A past recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship in Poetry, from Millay Arts, I also received an Artist/Writer grant from The Vermont Studio Center.
Why choose to work with me?
