“The path is made by walking.”

Antonio Machado

What is Carioca Coaching?

Carioca Coaching is a multi-disciplinary coaching practice led by CTI-trained, CRR-trained, and ICF-certified coach, Kristen Silvi, whose purpose is to assist clients in achieving transformational change. Using proven coaching methodologies backed by the leading coaching standards bodies and supported by neuroscience, Carioca Coaching helps clients recognize limiting beliefs and develop greater self-awareness to advance them toward their performance and wellbeing goals. The practice offers personal and leadership coaching for individuals, and team coaching for groups. Carioca Coaching is named after the vibrant and joyful way of life in the city where it was founded, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

I’m so glad we worked with Kristen. I feel better about my team and better about coming into work. Trust is better. Communication is better. It’s had a positive impact on how we feel and how we work.
-Melissa, USA 🇺🇸
Kristen has a sensitivity and presence that comfortably brings you deep. Through different exercises, questions, and techniques, she invites you to a better version of yourself.
-Daniel, Argentina 🇦🇷
It’s the first time my husband and I are consciously working on our relationship and this is thanks to Kristen making us feel very comfortable in sharing and opening up to her. She has the true intention of helping people, which creates a light and unpressured atmosphere in our work together. The coaching has made a real difference in our relationship as nothing ever has before.
-Selva, Germany 🇩🇪
Having Kristen as a coach was a gift that came to me at the most hard time in my life. Coaching with Kristen, sharing everything with her, helped me to feel stronger and better. Kristen brought me back to myself in this moment. It was what I most needed.
-Luciano, Brasil 🇧🇷
It was the anxiety of the blank canvas of retirement that brought me to Kristen’s coaching. My journey with her has been one of enlightenment and soul-searching, of self-knowledge and self-surprises. Kristen’s warmth, perception and communication skills made each session productive, often eye-opening, with actionable takeaways for me.
-Debra, United States 🇺🇸
Working with Kristen has been an enlightening experience. She approaches her sessions with a kind, open mind and a flexibility to mold the discussion to your needs. Without exception I always felt a greater sense of clarity and self awareness following each meeting.
-Phil, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Having Kristen as my coach has been an important experience in my life. Despite the language difference, she was always able to reach the inside me. From this place, I could see the best way forward. Kristen saw the best in me. I am so grateful!
-Alfonso, Brasil 🇧🇷
As a team coach, Kristen has a really nice combination of listening and bringing issues out for discussion. She steps forward and fades back at all the right times, bringing out the best in us. We benefited from her coaching and are grateful for her support.
-Blair, United States 🇺🇸

What is coaching?

Modern coaching is the practice of helping people grow in line with their own aspirations, beyond their current reality, toward a new and evolving vision for themselves. This is done in the context of a secure alliance between coach and client that allows for a vibrant coaching experience to unfold. The coach does not require knowledge, skills or experience in a client’s field. Instead she focuses on the values and beliefs that give rise to a client’s thoughts and behaviors, using these as the starting points for a client’s growth. She uses a technique called motivational interviewing, asking objective, open-ended questions that invite clients to explore their desire for change. A coach helps clients define clear and meaningful goals for themselves, and then get into action with a partnership that provides accountability and support. This work improves wellbeing, relationships and performance. It makes a real and measurable difference in people’s lives.

What coaching is, and is not.

Relevant

Coaching is not concerned with clients’ history, nor the specifics of their circumstances. Coaching focuses on clients’ present experience and present relationship to what they are seeking in their lives.

Empowering

Coaching is not prescriptive. It does not give advice. Coaching facilitates self-directed learning through objective, open-ended questions that allow clients to arrive at their own realizations about what they need to do.

Honoring

Coaching does not diagnose or label people. It does not see clients as broken or in need of fixing. Coaching regards clients as naturally intelligent, with an inborn capacity for creativity, resourcefulness, and change.

Challenging

Coaching is not just a practice of listening, although listening is an important part of what coaches do. Coaching challenges clients to take courageous action and be with the discomfort of change.

What is coaching good for?

Team Building

Consciously build culture around shared team values. Give feedback that builds relationship. Practice transparency and accountability. Develop an awareness of the relational dynamic among team members. Feel good about working together.

Leadership Development

Get clear about the kind of leader you want to be. Fine-tune your awareness of how you lead. Step into parts of your leadership that you want to explore. Lead from your values as well as the organizational playbook. Practice courageous decision-making.

Goal Achievement

Recognize what feels important for you to do. Take stock of the forces that hold you back, and decide what to do about them. Have a partner to belay you as you take your first steps, and to be with you through the setbacks and successes of your journey.

Career Design

Be witnessed for what you love to do and are great at doing. Identify what’s important to you in how you work. Pursue your purpose in whatever ways it is available to you. Act in ways that move you toward the impact you want to have.

Anxiety Regulation

Activate your body’s natural mechanisms for restoring stability and ease. Drop from the head into the heart to experience life with more clarity and purpose. Develop greater resilience to stress through the practice of breathing and meditation exercises.

Health Optimization

Explore your motivations for health change. Develop behavioral strategies that are personally meaningful and self-directed. Decide how you want to show up for your health journey. Identify allies and systems to support you along your journey.

What does a coaching engagement look like?

Coaching engagements are designed around the unique needs of each client. The duration of the engagement and frequency of individual sessions is informed by what the client would like to achieve and over what length of time. Engagements can begin with or without a defined duration. They can involve regularly recurring sessions, or sessions scheduled on an as-needed basis. On average, Kristen observes her clients making progress over a three month period of bi-weekly (once-every-two weeks) sessions, with an individual session typically scheduled for 60 min.

Kristen’s coaching is priced on a sliding scale to account for the number of people involved, number of coaching sessions, any travel required, and the USD exchange rate with a client’s home currency if applicable. Contact Kristen for more information on the pricing package she can offer you.

Online and In-Person

Coaching sessions are available online through Zoom, between 9AM-6PM Eastern Standard Time, Monday-Friday. Kristen can also accommodate in-person coaching sessions in South Florida, upon request.

Meet Your Coach.

Kristen Silvi

Kristen is an American citizen and coach, formerly based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, currently based in South Florida. With certifications from the Co-Active Training Institute and the International Coaching Federation, and training in Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching, Kristen uses globally recognized coaching frameworks to catalyze change for her clients.
Kristen’s motivation to become a coach came from the powerful effect that coaching had on her own performance, relationships, and wellbeing. Kristen felt it important to share this experience with others seeking the same benefits for themselves. Today she is honored to work with clients on their journeys of growth and self-discovery.
Kristen’s coaching style is kind, courageous, and fun, with a rigor honed over a significant career in the technology industry and formal education at Yale (MBA) and Cornell (BS). She is effective in a range of cultural contexts - national, ethnic, and generational - and is proud to serve a global and diverse client base. She is the creator of this website and all of the photography you see in it.

Get going with Carioca.

If you’d like to learn more about Carioca Coaching, or coaching in general, you can send Kristen a message here.