4 Gateways 

The 4 Gateways Coaching Model

The 4 Gateways can be seen as providing an operating system upgrade that allows you to become more creative and adaptable no matter who you are, or what issues you are working with. The 4 Gateways operating system provides a variety of tools to assist you in addressing an enormous variety of issues, within yourself, at home with family and friends and at work.

How it works.

A gateway is an entry or portal from one place to another.

The 4 Gateways OS uses four basic modes of accessing the wisdom of the human soul, at their simplest level they are:

Thinking * Feeling * Doing * Being

Using this model you can access all your innate wisdom and bring that to bear on any issue or change you want to make in life. When you honor all four gateways to wisdom, you get a much more complete and clear picture of yourselve and others. The more we know, the better decisions we make.

4 Gateways Coaching

Coaching is very much a part of our everyday lives. Every day we coach ourselves and others. Other people coach us. Even though sports coaching, business coaching, and life coaching are recognized as specialized career fields, what coaches do, is done universally by all of us.

Some of us have had the good fortune to receive great coaching from family members and friends, athletic coaches, or business coaches and have internalized healthy coaching models, and sometimes not. In either case we all need periodic operating system upgrades just as our phones and computers do.

4 Gateways Training

This four-quadrant model creates new possibilities in the moment and provides opportunities to try them out. In the end, you determine how to bring new possibilities into your relationships, your career, and the world.

Our coaches have found this process easy to access and incredibly valuable in working with individual clients and with groups. We use it to co-coach one another and also find it very powerful when used solo as a personal meditation.

The 4 Archetypes we use

By Archetype, we mean a fundamental identity that exists in the collective human psyche and that is accessible to everyone. Archetypes are incredible storehouses of knowledge that help us access wisdom.

The 4 Gateways Coaching model uses four archetypes that embody the four wisdoms listed above. They are:

  • Magician – thinking & reflecting

  • Lover – feeling & connecting

  • Warrior – doing & protecting

  • Sovereign – being & blessing

Attributes of the 4 Gateways

While there is no universal agreement about the precise qualities embodied in these four archetypes, here are some of the qualities that we can attribute to each.

Thinking Wisdom – Magician – The Advisor

  • Getting perspective, generating options

  • Thinking critically, using analysis, logic, and intuition

  • Judging and making assumptions

  • Getting and organizing information

  • Creativity and imagination

Doing Wisdom – Warrior – The Protector

  • Taking action

  • Serving and protecting, setting boundaries

  • Using power, working with conflict

  • Street smarts

  • Team work

Feeling Wisdom – Lover – The Connector

  • Feeling and connecting

  • Empathizing and loving

  • Accessing bodily awareness and emotional intelligence

  • Playing and being spontaneous

  • Making music, dancing, making art

Being Wisdom – Sovereign – The Director

  • Setting direction and motivating

  • Making choices from deep knowing

  • Giving support and blessing

  • Defining purpose and meaning

  • Seeing the whole, knowing rank and order