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Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez

With his bestselling Therapist as Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coaching. Now, Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, senior trainer at ILCT—both master certified coaches extraordinaire—reveal all the basic principles and crucial strategies that they have taught to thousands of coaches over the years. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and strategies for being an effective, successful life coach, including:

Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with;
Establishing a client’s focus;
Giving honest feedback and observation;
Formulating first coaching conversations;
Asking powerful, eliciting questions;
Understanding human developmental issues;
Reframing a client’s perspective;
Enacting change within clients;
Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more.

REVIEWS:

Being a truly effective ally of another person requires us to know both what to do and how to be; Becoming a Professional Life Coach gives us both. While the task of creating a comprehensive training text on the broad field of life coaching is quite daunting, Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez take it on with what appears to be real joy and they master it. The reader is both instructed and inspired cover to cover. The challenge of doing more than producing another coaching "cookbook" is met and exceeded with an excellent integration of both practical technique and well grounded theory.

Becoming a Professional Life Coach integrates what is sometimes missing in much coach training, such as Prochaska's Stage of Readiness For Change. The book takes terms which have become well-worn catch phrases, such as fulfillment and empowerment, and infuses them with new life, helping the coach to truly understand their meaning, importance and their use. Becoming a Professional Life Coach will become the touchstone in the field of training life coaches. Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, author of Wellness Coaching For Lasting Lifestyle Change.

I highly recommend Becoming a Professional Life Coach for both new and experienced coaches, and for anyone interested in learning the "coach approach" in their lives, business and communities. Today coaching skills are an invaluable resource, both in the workplace and for personal fulfillment, yet there are still millions that don't even know what coaching is or how to become one. Pat and Diane deliver an easy to read, comprehensive guide offering history, theory and practical application of the most potent skills used by professional life coaches worldwide. This book addresses a great need in the marketplace. . .

Since Patrick Williams is the founder of his own coaching school, I expected a cookie cutter curriculum from his own school's teachings. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly they integrated and referenced the best disciplines from a variety of coaching schools, as well as useful and distinguished models from the field of psychology. It is no wonder that Patrick Williams is known as "The Ambassador for Life Coaching." As a veteran life coach, I applaud Patrick for inspiring thousands more to integrate a "coach approach" in their everyday lives and/or become a life coach themselves. The world could use a few more life coaches, and this is a perfect place to begin. Mary E. Allen, CPCC, MCC, Author of "The Power of Inner Choice"

New coaching books are appearing with greater frequency but they vary significantly in quality. Many are poorly written re-statements of what has appeared in other books. Few bring fresh perspectives.

Very different is Becoming a Professional Life Coach by Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez. The authors draw on their broad coaching backgrounds and experiences in training others through the Institute for Life Coach Training. Their book is practical, informative, clearly written and sensitive to values even though the writing is not from a distinctively Christian perspective. This is a good overview for anyone new to the coaching field and a helpful update for experienced coaches. Gary R. Collins, EVALUATING COACHING BOOKS Newsletter

Pat Williams has been a pioneer & innovator in wholistic life coaching. After traveling and sitting around the fire with Pat in Africa, I was inspired to re-read the book that I had already wholeheartedly endorsed. I was astonished in my second read at the wealth of new insights to be uncovered, even for a seasoned life coach like me with 33-years of experience! Becoming a true professional requires us to profess our "anthropology"- our point-of-view on the "life" side of coaching. This book is ripe with the wisdom to help us do that. The evolution of our purpose, values & beliefs must continue through all seasons of our coaching lives. And this book is an essential guide for the journey. I am confident it will help shape the life coaching agenda for decades. —Richard J.Leider, Founder & Chairman The Inventure Group, bestselling author of The Power of Purpose, Repacking Your Bags, & Claiming Your Place At the Fire

Law and Ethics in Coaching : how to solve and avoid difficult problems in your practice
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Sharon Anderson

Law and Ethics in Coaching co-edited by Patrick Williams and Sharon Anderson. With contributions from a dozen academic, legal, and coaching professionals, this book is a must for anyone in the field of coaching or whose organization uses coaching as a service.

"Filled with a dynamic blend of case studies, discussion questions, illuminating quotes, and other examples, Law and Ethics in Coaching is both a trailblazing professional reference and an unparalleled textbook for coaching programs."

Total Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice.....and Your Life
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Dr. Lloyd J. Thomas

Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your authentic being in action. Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and psychologist/colleague and writer of more than 1600 newspaper columns, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented here.

Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 52 life lessons, and is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's processes on the "message and lesson" level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.

Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book. It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients [or can incorporate in your own life]. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal.

Pat Williams, Ed.D., is president and founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program. He is a licensed psychologist, a Master Certified Coach, as well as the co-author of the highly acclaimed Therapist As Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice.

Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D., has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Southern California and Albany Medical College, and is currently on the faculty of the Institute for Life Coach Training and the International University of Professional Studies. He is a certified life coach and licensed psychologist, and for more than 23 years has written a weekly newspaper column, "Practical Psychology.

REVIEWS:

Life Coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are--it is your authentic being in action….shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching....Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these 50 important lessons.... Total Life Coaching is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Adolescence

Thank you, Pat Williams, for writing Total Life Coaching. It is a wonderful resource book that every coach should have at their fingertips, whether they have been coaching one year or many years. It is not just one of the many books on general coaching philosophy and techniques. Total Life Coaching is written with a “how to” approach. It is organized into a wide rage of categories of coaching topics. Each category contains a rich menu of information, exercises, creative coaching approaches, and examples of coaching conversations. I know I will be using the wisdom of Total Life Coaching for every client I have. Diana Kilinski, LPC, CEAP, Business and Life Coach, Savvy Life Skills, LLC

Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis

A book for mental health professionals considering a transition into the new and dynamic field of life coaching! Therapist as Life Coach explores life coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals considering either a transition into coaching or expanding their practices to include coaching.

This book is one-stop-shopping for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching field. Every chapter in this second edition has been revised, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to therapists and all helping professionals. New material includes an overview of recent coaching developments, updated liability concerns, new business opportunities, and a new section on the research about coaching.

The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching: Insights and issues for a new era by David B. Drake (Editor), Diane Brennan (Editor), Kim Gørtz (Editor) - Dr. Patrick Williams, Contributor

The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching will help to advance the global conversation about the future of coaching.

The book is organized into three key sections: Foundations for Coaching, Applications of Coaching, and Organizations and Coaching, and the focus is on enabling the reader to astutely link theory and practice.

As coaching continues to grow, there is a need for a deeper conversation about its current state and its future directions. This book makes an important contribution to this conversation in provocative yet grounded ways. The authors are internationally recognized coaches, educators, researchers and writers. The book offers a unique opportunity to look inside their minds and practices as a guide to reflect on and advance your own work.

Innovations in Clinical Practice: A 21st Century Sourcebook by Jeffery B. Allen (Editor), Eve M. Wolf (Editor), Leon VandeCreek (Editor)

The next generation of Innovations in Clinical Practice combining the best features of both the old Source Book series and the newer Focus series to bring you the latest techniques and innovative strategies for your clinical practice.

NOTE: SECTION IV: Community Interventions contains a chapter on Developing a Life Coaching Practice by Dr. Patrick Williams, Ed.D. MCC.

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