through the jungle, llc
Deborah Halvorson
Certified Coach
Create & Experience
Your Well-Being
Well-Being = Life Satisfaction
Most people want to live and cultivate the best version of themselves. To live a balanced and meaningful life from a place of truth, authenticity, and purpose. But what happens when we forget who we truly are? When career, children, commitments and other life situations and circumstances come before our own well-being? We get out of balance. We get restless, irritable, and discontent. We get lost. Well-being coaching is about helping you remember who you truly are – to the core.
Deborah Halvorson is a Certified Professional Coach trained in a specific approach to coaching known as the “Co-Active coaching” model. This model involves the active and collaborative participation of both the coach and the client, making the coaching relationship the source of empowerment for each client. Deb is passionate about helping people create and experience their own well-being. “It’s all about Remembering Who You Are.”
How Well-Being Coaching Can Help You
Well-being coaching can help you create balance, meaning and purpose in your life, identify and achieve your personal goals, get un-stuck from dead-end patterns and routines, create meaningful personal relationships, and identify and challenge your inner critic.
What Is Well-Being Coaching?
There are five basic ingredients needed to optimize your well-being: Connection (positive relationships), noticing (living in today), helping (service to others), learning (continue to expand), spirituality (belief in something greater).
When just one ingredient is missing, we become out of balance.
Well-being coaching will help you discover, explore, and identify how these 5 basic ingredients show up in your life. We’ll ask simple, but powerful questions, like, “What do you need more of?” “What’s working?” “What’s not working?” “What is needed now to create change in your life?”
Together we’ll answer these questions. We focus on more awareness and less judgment. You will remember who you are.
Who Needs a Well-Being Coach?
People from all walks of life and circumstances can benefit from coaching. Coaching can be particularly helpful if you feel like your life needs more meaning, purpose, or balance, you are struggling with a difficult life transition, you feel like you’re stuck in the same old patterns and routines, you feel overwhelmed or empty by your personal relationships, you want more personal power and options in your life, you want more awareness, and less judgment.
Coaching works best if you are willing to be accountable and step outside your comfort zone.
What is The Process Like?
Coaching is about discovery, awareness, and choice. During this process you will be supported and encouraged as you find your own answers and make important life-changing choices. All you need is a willingness to explore and step outside of your comfort zone. You bring the willingness, and together we’ll figure out the rest.
Discovery Session
We will discuss your current life situations and circumstances. We will assess your current state of well-being and determine your readiness for change. We will design our coaching relationship, explore your core values and signature strengths, identify what’s really important to you, discuss your Inner Critic, and explore your goals for coaching. This session is 1.5-2 hours – $250.
Regular, Ongoing Sessions
The coaching process requires a commitment to yourself. A commitment to make some changes. Change happens over time: sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. You will make forward progress in each session if you commit to the process. Each regular session is 1 hour and can occur weekly or every other week – $125.
Closing Session
One final closing session is required so we can assess your progress, discuss your learning, and celebrate your shifts and changes. Together we’ll create an action plan to continue to deepen your learning and forward your action – $125.
Coaching Packages
Through the Jungle is an inclusive organization, striving for equity within its Coaching Packages in order to be accessible to as many communities and identities as possible.
Don’t see a package that works for you? Let’s create one!
Discover Your Path To Well-Being
2-hour one-time coaching session.
More Details
During the 2-hour session we will discuss your current state of well-being, which well-being ingredients are in balance, which are not.
We’ll explore and reveal your core values, your signature strengths, and what’s really important to you. We’ll discuss your Inner Critic and identify those areas controlled by the Critic. We’ll focus on what’s working and what’s not working in your current life situation and circumstances.
$250
Premium Create My Well-Being Coaching Package
6-Month Journey
1 two-hour Discovery Session
12 one-hour sessions for 6 months
More Details
We will begin with a 2-hour Discovery Session, then we will continue regular sessions 2 times each month for 6 months. We will focus on identifying and shifting the 5 basic ingredients in your current well-being. What do you need more of? What do you need less of? We’ll access your signature strengths and core values to implement changes and shifts. We’ll devise an action plan to challenge your Inner Critic and identify the ways your Inner Critic sabotages your well-being. We will create an action plan to continue to deepen your learning and forward your action.
$1,750
Optimize and Transform My Well-Being Coaching Package
12-month journey
1 two-hour Discovery Session (complimentary)
24 one-hour sessions for 12 months
More Details
We will begin with a complementary 2-hour Discovery Session, then we will continue regular sessions 2 times each month for 12 months. We will dive deep into identifying how the 5 basic well-being ingredients are showing up in your current life and what needs to shift or change. We’ll use a tool to identify your current life satisfaction level.
We’ll identify your signature strengths and determine how to use your core values and strengths to shift and change your well-being. What do you need more of? What do you need less of? We’ll dive deep into the Inner Critic and identify all the ways your Inner Critic sabotages your well-being. We’ll devise an action plan to challenge your Inner Critic and shift the way you actually think about your own well-being. We will create an action plan to continue to deepen your learning and forward your action.
$3,000
About the Coach
Deborah Halvorson is the owner and founder of Through the Jungle, LLC which is a coaching business focused on creating and experiencing your own well-being while maneuvering through the jungle of life.
Deb’s personal story involves recovery from a traumatic past. She knows the courage it takes to face your past and the ever-looming temptation to return to what’s familiar, even if it’s harmful. Her story also involves alcohol and drug addiction. She is active in a 12-Step recovery program and has served others like her for over 40 years. She has been through the jungle and knows the way out.
Prior to founding Through the Jungle, Deb received her B.S. in Legal Studies from Winona State University and served for over 30 years as a litigation paralegal specializing in Family Law. The compassion, understanding, and patience gained from working with clients immersed in the emotionally charged divorce process have proved invaluable in Deb’s coaching practice.
In 2016, Deb left the legal profession to pursue the second chapter in her career:
Coaching.
She achieved the Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) designation through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI).
She also earned the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential through the International Coach Federation (ICF) which is contingent upon coaching hours and continuing education credits. Deb’s coaching adheres to the ICF Code of Ethics.
Deb earned the Certified Sexual Assault Advocate and Counselor credential through SOS-Sexual Violence Services in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In 2019, Deb earned a Certificate in the Foundations of Positive Psychology through the University of Pennsylvania by completing a 5 course specialization series on Coursera.
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