What is Life Coaching?
Feb 8, 2010
Life Coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals using multiple methods that will help them with the process of setting and reaching those goals. Life Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness and coaches are neither therapists nor consultants. Life Coaching (also known as Personal Coaching) is a relationship which is designed and defined in a relationship agreement between a client and a coach and is based on the client's expressed interests, goals and objectives. Life Coaching is not counselling, therapy or consulting.
A professional coach may use inquiry, reflection, requests and discussion to help clients identify personal and/or business and/or relationship goals, in an effort to develop strategies, and action plans intended to achieve those goals. A coach provides a place for clients to be held accountable to themselves by monitoring the clients' progress towards the implementation of their action plans.
Together they evolve and modify the plan to best suit the client's needs and environmental relationships. Coaches often act as human mirrors for clients by sharing outside and unbiased perspectives. Coaches may teach specific insights and skills to empower the client toward their goals.
Clients are responsible for their own achievements and success. The client takes action, and the coach may assist, but never leads or does more than the client. Therefore, a coach cannot and does not promise that a client will take any specific action or attain specific goals.
Benefits of Life Coaching
Life Coaching can benefit anyone who wants to move forward with their life and is willing to take some action to get where they want to go. Life coaching enables clients to:
- Get to the source of problems quickly
- Balance business and personal life
- Re-design their life to make it the way they really want it
- Enhance self-confidence
- Get past personal blind spots
- Overcome procrastination
- Enhance health, energy and performance
Ideal Client
- Women and Men going through a transition (divorce, want to lose weight, job change)
- Individuals who are motivated to change
- Individuals who need help creating goals and sticking to them
- Individuals who want to get feedback about the issues they have in their lives
How does Coaching work?
The goal of a Life Coach is to provide feedback, guidance, set a goal plan, and hold the client accountable to the goals they have set and the steps that they need to take. Life Coaching sessions can take place in different ways; the most common is via email and telephone. This allows for flexibility and anonymity that many clients in today’s society desire. Email and Telephone coaching can take place whenever, and wherever the Coach and client may be geographically.
Transition Life Coaching is an innovative practice that strives to provide the best possible services to clients. Motivating, supporting and aiding clients with the problems and issues they are faced with, is the primary mandate of Transition Life Coaching. Do you ever wish that you had someone who was unbiased about your life to talk to? Do you ever feel that have a difficult time creating goals and maintaining them? Then Life Coaching may be just the answer for you. Contact Tammy at transitionlifecoaching@shaw.ca to start heading down the path you want to be on.
