What is Life Coaching?
Life Coaching enables you to make changes and achieve positive goals in your life. The life coach will talk with you and ask questions to help you get clear on personal goals that you will be happy with and find ways to reach them. The coach will help you think positively and build the confidence that you need to make decisions that are right for you. You will also identify any issues which are holding you back and be given the skills to manage your fear and beliefs to help you get what you want out of your life.
Whilst it is not the coach's responsibility to make the change for you, the coach will be an objective listener and provide the support you need to keep you motivated throughout the coaching relationship.
Life coaching sessions last one hour each and are usually arranged fortnightly, at the same time each fortnight. Sessions can be carried out either through face to face or telephone coaching. In between each session the coach will maintain contact with you via email, to make sure that you keep up the momentum that you need. If you choose to receive face to face or telephone coaching, the email service is free of charge.
Coaching can help you:
- Get clear on personal goals that you will be happy moving towards.
- Plan for a life which inspires you and puts the bounce back into your stride.
- Build the confidence that you need to make decisions that are right for you.
- Learn how to think positively and watch the goals come to you.
- Manage your fear and beliefs to help you get what you want out of your life.
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Life Coaching can be applied to various areas in people's lives:
- Personal Development
- Career Advice and Development
- Health, Fitness and Weight Loss Objectives
- Life Planning
- Building of Confidence and Self Esteem
- Management of Stress, Fear, Phobias and Anxieties
- Relationship Management
- Better Work/Life Balance
What will happen in a coaching session?
The life coach will listen in a non-judgmental and objective way and will skillfully take you through a series of leading, and sometimes challenging questions, to help bring clarity to your situation and help you identify the goals that you want to reach at this time in your life.
A life coach is particularly skilled at helping you establish a clear direction for yourself and will open you up to new possibilities to getting there, using skills and knowledge which you probably didn't know you already had.
At the end of the session, you will agree together a set of tasks for you to complete to help you move forward before the next arranged session.
You can expect to receive the following services:
- Life Planning and Goal Setting:
- Know what is important to you, what you want and what you don't want
- Establish your own life direction (5-7 years strategies)
- Find your hidden strengths, skills and talents
- Open your mind to other possibilities
- Develop strategies for life planning and transition management
- Ongoing coaching and support to get the results you want:
- Motivate yourself to move your life in the direction that you want
- Overcome perceived obstacles and deal with fear and anxiety
- Adopt a simple and practical approach to deal with change and overwhelm
- De-clutter your life to get the work/life balance that you want
- Become aware of changes required to move you forward
- Attain life changing tactics to deal with stress
- Use of numerous tools and techniques which have proven results to help you move forward with your life:
- Planning and goal setting
- Visualisation techniques
- Relationship clarification
- Motivation techniques
- Project management
- Value clarification
- Strategy illicitation
- Dreamboarding
- Timeline work
- Brainstorming
- Braindumping
- Meditation
How many sessions will I need to begin making changes in my life?
The number of sessions you decide to receive will depend very much on your individual situation. Depending on the issues you are dealing with, you will usually leave a session, with a different perspective on your life. Having a different perspective is usually enough to kick start you into doing things differently and making positive change in your life.
If you engage in several sessions you will experience the cumulative effect of several small step changes, which is usually long lasting positive change. The amount of transformation will depend on the amount of time and commitment you are willing to put into the tasks which you agree with your coach at the end of each session.
If you are trying to decide whether to choose counselling or life coaching have a look at this article: What is the difference between counselling and life coaching?
Our Life coaching service is delivered by our associate Kathleen Lee Roberts. To read more about Kathleen click here