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ELEVATED CONVERSATIONS
Are you an individual, partnership, or organization seeking to fulfill your potential, transform conflict, or optimize your results? If you feel stuck in an important aspect of your personal, professional, or organizational reality, wanting to transform an area of conflict that is not easily resolving, or desiring to make a transformational breakthrough that has been put on the shelf too long, I would love to journey with you!
ABOUT ELEVATED CONVERSATIONS
I am Erik Hokanson, an ICF-certified coach (PCC), conflict resolution specialist, and founder of Elevated Conversations. I serve others as a catalyst for generative conversations and an agent for strategic peacemaking so that they may realize increased abundance in their lives.
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I created Elevated Conversations to engage people in the conversations that matter most, elevate their relationships, negotiate solutions, and cultivate a felt sense of renewal, power, alignment, connection, and resolution as they commit to purposeful action. I believe in looking at life’s situations from various angles to avoid shallow thinking and small living.
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As we work together, I think you will find me to be an attentive, intuitive, engaged, diplomatic, and helpful partner supporting you in the realization of your essential goals. My professional background includes a breadth of experience since 2007 in the field of Human Resources and Talent Management, operating in Fortune 500, higher education, and international contexts. I hold a master’s degree in HR Management and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois, and advanced certifications as a professional coach, mediator, and conflict coach.
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As a local of Evergreen, Colorado, I love to spend time steeping in nature and pursuing mountain adventures. I value literature, third-world experiences, playing music, listening with a keen ear, and asking thought-provoking questions.
Our Services
Positive momentum and change unfold when we are given space to advance our self-awareness, explore how to best engage the minds and hearts of others, and amplify our effectiveness in leading ourselves and others with vision and inspiration.
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Executive Coaching
As a PCC-level certified coach through International Coach Federation, I help leaders think through how to do something differently in the future through a creative, dynamic learning process which brings forth their wisdom, knowledge, intuition, and skills to realize their desired results. Executive coaching facilitates progress towards enhanced communication, improved outlook on work and life, optimized leadership presence, increased stakeholder engagement, resolved conflict, heightened emotional intelligence, and advancement to the next level. I provide a supportive atmosphere to raise awareness, cultivate fresh ideas, experiment, and hit your target.
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Conflict Coaching
As a certified conflict coach, I utilize a set of skills and strategies to support your capacity to engage in, manage, or effectively resolve conflict you are encountering with another person. Conflict coaching provides a powerful context for you to talk about and explore the conflict in-depth with a neutral third party (the conflict coach), view the conflict from broader and different perspectives, consider options for managing the conflict, and design an optimal approach to work out the conflict with the other person.
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Mediation
As a certified mediator, I facilitate enhanced relationships and rapport by discussing differences, identifying parties’ concerns and interests, and negotiating mutually beneficial agreements. I provide structure and process for dialogue, act as a neutral intermediary, establish ground rules, help parties clarify ideas and concerns, ensure they have opportunity to hear and be heard, and help them discover effective mutually agreeable solutions to their differences. Mediation manages and resolves conflicts at an informal level with an emphasis on dialogue, shared interests, reconciliation of differences, and an improved future state.
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Effectiveness Coaching
As an effectiveness coach, I partner with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your potential and effectiveness. I honor you as the expert in your life and work with you understanding that you are creative, resourceful, and whole. Standing on this foundation, it is my responsibility to:
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Discover, clarify, and align with what you want to achieve
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Encourage your self-discovery
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Elicit workable solutions and strategies
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Hold you responsible and accountable
Benefits of working together
Through your engagement with Elevated Conversations, you can expect the following results:
ï‚· Expanded satisfaction, positivity, and engagement in your relationships and partnerships
ï‚· Clarified insight to navigate and transform challenging interpersonal and organizational conflicts
ï‚· Increased ability to collaborate with strong personalities in contexts charged with emotion
ï‚· Minimized stress and enhanced work-life balance
ï‚· Progress towards important personal development goals
ï‚· Elevated leadership capacity, conflict management and communication skills
ï‚· Enhanced self-awareness and recognition of “blind spots”
ï‚· Refreshed and systematic perspectives and strategiesï‚· Renewed focus, creativity, and alignment
ï‚· Enhanced navigation of change while adapting to new situations and roles
ï‚· Movement from where you are to where you want to be
HOW WE WORK TOGETHER
I utilize the following process in my work with clients:
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Meet with you for a complimentary 30-minute conversation to build rapport and understand your unique needs.
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Identify your current reality and desired results, and develop a plan with specific and meaningful goals.
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Meet with you on a bi-weekly (or weekly) basis, in-person, via phone, or outdoors, for one-hour coaching sessions over a period of approximately three to six months (longer as needed). If you are local to the Evergreen area, I offer coaching walks as an option, in which we meet and walk in a natural area while conducting coaching sessions, thereby integrating kinesthetic movement and natural beauty into the conversation.
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Each session we will focus on what is important to you right now, moving you from your current reality to desired results through attentive listening, powerful questions, direct communication, observations, and accountability. We will examine old methods and strategies, develop new ways of thinking, and challenge limiting mental models.
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After each session, I will help you design meaningful actions, experiments, and strategies to move towards realization of your stated goals.
MEETING OPTIONS,
PACKAGES AND DURATION
I offer several packages which I can discuss with you in person.
Here are example packages, which may be customized based on your goals.