Overview

Coaching, counseling and inquiry into what is each hold a particular perspective that informs and defines what we focus on and how we interpret what we are aware of.

Coaching focuses on what we want to achieve and how we can most efficiently accomplish our objectives. In contrast, counseling focuses on our emotional life, which is derived from our individual and relational experience, while inquiry into what is focuses on our intrinsic wakefulness; this aspect of our being that is never separate, or always and already is one with ever-present awareness.

Our psychology isn’t separate, but is distinct from our intrinsic wakefulness and self-driven life. Trying to resolve our psychological issues through inquiry into what is, which focuses on our ever-present awareness rather than our self-identity or the person we consider ourselves to be, is similar to wanting to buy bread from a butcher or flowers from a fisherman.

Insight gained in the context of counseling facilitates resolution; in the context of coaching, it facilitates effectiveness and annihilation or self-transcendence in the context of inquiry into what is. Gaining insight into what informs and defines our psychological, self-driven and self-aware human experience of being is half of our life’s journey; the other half is arriving at our home base, from which we set out.

This web site provides information to help you make a preliminary decision about working with me, Christoph Schaub, as coach, counselor or colleague. I am a trained psychotherapist and coach, and hold a non-dual perspective. You’ll find information about my educational background under the Bio heading and can learn more about my perspective under Coaching, Counseling and Inquiry.