BENEFITS:
WHAT CAN COACHING DO FOR ME?
Like an athletic coach who helps an athlete develop athletic skills in order to excel in a sport, a life coach helps people develop life skills and abilities in order to excel in the game of life.
Coaching is a professional relationship that can help you to:
Coaching is a professional relationship that can help you to:
- Clarify, focus on and live in alignment with your values, passions and purpose.
- Identify and achieve your goals and dreams.
- Maintain motivation and make effective life changes.
- See situations or obstacles from a new perspective and think differently about challenges.
- Identify and change the ideas, thoughts and beliefs that are keeping you stuck and blocking your joy.
- Move beyond fears and limiting beliefs/expectations.
- Discover new ways to do things.
- Hear, see and know yourself in new ways.
- Embrace your strengths and enhance areas of desired growth.
- Celebrate your victories and learn from your setbacks.
- Maximize your success, fulfillment and JOY in life:)!
COACHES:
- Are 100% invested in the client's success and offer non-judgmental acceptance, encouragement, positive feedback and support.
- Listen deeply--to the client's words, but also to the energy, emotion and non-verbal communications behind, around and beyond those words.
- Ask empowering questions that elicit clarity about desires and paths to achieve them.
- Provide structure, tools, insights and accountability for enacting changes and accomplishing goals.
- Shine light on the client's abilities and possibilities until the client can clearly see these on their own.
- Foster synergy--helping the client to accomplish more than the client would have accomplished alone.
COACHING IS NOT:
- Coaching is not advice giving. Instead of advising or telling the client what to do, a coach helps the client to connect with the client's own internal wisdom about what action might be appropriate.
- Coaching is not psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. A psychotherapist may explore, analyze, interpret and/or seek to resolve past issues, whereas a coach focuses on present-moment living, shifting perspectives of the current experience and taking concrete actions to create an even better future. In psychotherapy the focus may be on what happened; in coaching the focus is on what's possible. A therapist may see a client as "wounded" or hindered by past experiences, whereas a coach sees the client as fundamentally whole and capable of making any desired changes in the present regardless of past experiences.
- Coaching is also not consulting. A consultant has their own vision of what would be best for the client, whereas a coach elicits and supports the client's own vision and path to enact that vision.