Choice: Making Sessions Client-Led
- Cindy Hosea
- Mar 15
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 8
Coaching isn’t about handing your client a pre-drawn picture and asking them to color inside the lines. It’s about offering them a full deck of paint swatches—every hue, shade, and tone—and letting them decide what their transformation will look like.
But how do we, as coaches, ensure sessions stay client-led rather than coach-directed?
The answer? Choice.
When clients have agency over the conversation, they take ownership of their growth. They’re no longer just following a coaching framework—they’re mixing their own colors, blending possibilities, and painting a future that feels like theirs.
Some coaches hesitate to give clients full choice in session direction. Maybe it’s fear—what if they pick a color we don’t know how to paint with? What if their vision stretches beyond our comfort zone? But coaching isn’t about staying in our own palette—it’s about empowering them to create something uniquely theirs.
Let’s explore how to create more choice-driven coaching sessions with real-world examples that bring coaching artistry to life.