What Happens in a Crossroads Consulting Session?
A confidential conversation focused on the decision in front of you.
Every session begins with your situation.
You may arrive with a specific decision you need to make, a situation that feels increasingly complicated, or simply the sense that something isn’t quite adding up. You don’t need to have everything figured out before we begin.
Together, we will:
1. Define the Crossroads
We identify the decision, transition, challenge, or question that brought you here. Sometimes the question you arrive with isn’t the question that actually needs answering.
2. Separate Signal From Noise
We look at the facts, circumstances, relationships, assumptions, and emotions surrounding your situation. The goal is to distinguish what genuinely matters from everything competing for your attention.
3. Identify Patterns
My work with symbols, intuitive information, and pattern recognition can reveal connections that aren’t always obvious when you’re immersed in the situation. We explore recurring themes, behaviors, opportunities, and potential blind spots.
4. Explore Your Options
We consider the possibilities in front of you, and the possibilities you may not have considered. Sometimes there is another road between the two choices that initially seemed to be your only options.
5. Ask Better Questions
The right question can change the decision.
I’ll help you examine assumptions, clarify what you actually want, and consider questions that can give you a different perspective on the situation.
6. Bring Intuition Into the Conversation
Your experience and analytical thinking matter. So does your intuition.
One of the tools I use is the Real World Decisions Cards, designed to help you access the intuitive and problem-solving skills you already possess. By working with images, symbols, and unexpected connections, the cards can help bring new perspectives to the surface and reveal possibilities that may have been difficult to see when you’re looking at a problem from only one angle.
Together, we use those insights alongside your experience, knowledge, and practical considerations to help you move forward with greater clarity—and put your best foot forward.
7. Leave With Greater Clarity
You won’t be handed a prescription for your life or your business.
Instead, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of your situation, the options available to you, and what matters most as you decide what comes next.
What You Can Bring to a Session
Bring the decision that’s keeping you up at night.
Bring the opportunity you’re not sure you should take.
Bring the conversation you don’t know how to have.
Bring the career move you’ve been contemplating.
Bring the partnership that doesn’t feel quite right.
Bring the question you haven’t been able to ask anyone else.
Or bring nothing but a feeling that something needs to change.
We can start there.
What You Won’t Get
I won’t tell you what you must do.
I won’t pretend there is a single formula for making complicated decisions.
And I won’t replace your professional advisors when you need legal, financial, medical, or other specialized expertise.
What I offer is different:
A confidential, independent perspective that helps you see your situation from a different angle.
Because ultimately, the most important decision isn’t mine to make.
It’s yours.
