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We have a process for lasting transformation from the ground up.
This is not psychotherapy. This is not “feel good” coaching. This is an interdisciplinary-based approach that tackles the root cause of issues to generate lasting change.
Our Approach to Personal and Professional Growth.
We have an inborn drive to flourish — to prosper, experience joy, and vibrantly navigate the world with others.
At AoP we pull from different disciplines, studies, and practices to find a consilient approach to achieving genuine and authentic thriving.
To illustrate this approach, imagine yourself as a big oak tree. The canopy of your tree represents the skills and attributes you may want to develop in your life. For your tree to have a full, lush canopy, all parts of your tree need to be healthy and connected — from the trunk and all the way down to the roots.
Executive Coach Amy Eliza Wong
Amy has a passion for helping people thrive and live into meaningful joy and satisfaction from living, leading and communicating without fear and false perception. She thrives on helping others live and lead on purpose.
For more than 20 years, she has devoted herself to the study and practice of transformation. As a certified Executive Coach using expertise in transpersonal psychology, design thinking, interpersonal neurobiology, and Conversational Intelligence®. Amy has provided thousands of transformative experiences for individuals, executives, teams, and organizations.
Amy graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A in mathematics and has an M.A in transpersonal psychology from Sofia University. Today, she instructs at Stanford Continuing Studies and UC Berkeley Extension and works with the biggest names in tech, offering transformative leadership development and communication strategies to executives and teams around the world. When she’s not writing, researching, and speaking, Amy spends time in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.
The Fundamentals of Thriving Model
THE CANOPY
Represents Your Skills & The Effects of a Solid Foundation.
THE TRUNK
Represents Your Relationships & Ability to Build Trust with Others.
THE ROOTS
Represent Your View of Self & The Foundation of Thriving.
The roots represent the relationship you have with yourself and forms the basis for how you create your entire experience of reality. If we want to thrive, we have to shore up the foundation, or “roots,” and go straight to the source of your beliefs, interpretations, thoughts, and actions.
Real transformation starts at the roots.
Most people turn to professional coaching or development programs to focus on the appearance of their canopy, assuming that pruning the leaves to a state of “full” or “lush” or “balanced” equates to a state of thriving.
We commonly hear things like, “I want to work on my confidence,” “Help me change my habits to get higher self-esteem,” “I want to be more compelling,” and “Give me techniques to stop procrastinating.”
At AoP, we don’t want you to waste your time just “pruning leaves” without minding the health of the whole tree. For a tree, for you, to really thrive all parts of the tree need to be healthy and connected – from the roots (relationship to self) to the trunk (relationships with others), to the branches and leaves (results and attributes). When we address the totality of your experience, from self-perception to the resulting effects – we will to achieve real, long-term transformation.
This is what Amy & AoP Programs Address.
Most organizations work on leadership development expecting solutions that “prune the canopy.” That is, they look for ways to achieve specific goals such as:
- Effective feedback (giving and receiving)
- Active listening
- Better delegation
- Inspired storytelling
- Stronger executive presence
- Compelling presentation skills
- Next-level innovation
- Authenticity
- Greater influence
- Increased emotional intelligence
- Quick thinking and better decisions
While techniques “that prune” may satisfy the need for a time, they’re ultimately limited.
Starting at the “roots,” our clients will gain the courage to be honest with themselves about the fears they may hold or don’t want to acknowledge and with heightened self-awareness, they embody the art and science of trust, and sustain authentic relationships. From this foundation plus the right tools, processes and frameworks pulled from the appropriate disciplines we produce desired “goals” and results. This holistic approach produces stronger, lasting change and is the cause of a greater transformation.
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