Tomorrow's Life Coach
Volume 7 Issue 6 – June 2008

In This Issue:

• Pat's Ponderings ~ Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
• Monthly
  • Free Introduction to Coaching Calls
  • Pat's Coaching Forum - ILCT's Corporate & Leadership Coaching
    Program Announcement
  • Free Coach Referral Service
• News & Features
  • Coaching the Whole Person: 2-Day Retreat in Las Vegas, NV
  • Introduction to Body-Mind Life Coaching Call
  • In Case You Missed It: Avoiding Liability: Common Claims in the Mental Health Field
  • Announcing A Fireside Chat with Dr. Patrick Williams
  • New Book: The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching - featuring Dr. Patrick Williams
  • Take Aways: Life After ILCT by Toni Clark
  • Coaching the Global Village: Pilot Project Update
• Upcoming Classes at ILCT
• Where in the World is Pat Williams?
• What Pat Recommends

Tomorrow's Life Coach (TLC) is a monthly online journal from the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) that nourishes the intellect, intuition and inspiration of the personal and business coaching community.

Pat's Ponderings - Expansion

I am preparing an article and a keynote address on the state of the coaching profession – where we have come from, what we have accomplished and where we are going. As I began to reflect on the profession at large, I realized that ILCT is now in its 10th year of operation. We have trained thousands of professionals: therapists, counselors, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, human resource professionals, and even lawyers, business executives and others who found that our course curriculum enhanced their professional lives.

We are in the process of greatly expanding our offerings to a more diverse and specialized audience in the area of coaching specialties or "niches."

1. We are increasing our Health and Wellness track to include special coach training for those who coach recipients of Bariatric surgery for weight loss. Those persons can greatly benefit from coaching in redesigning their new life and their new body. I believe this will also be an applicable specialty to other life changing conditions that give one the opportunity for "lifestyle redesign coaching." (We have trained over 90 occupational therapists in Hong Kong with a hospital district in Life and Wellness Coaching so that they can continue to serve their clients who have experienced life changing illness, accident, or disability.)
2. We are adding at least one course on coaching the post-addicted person in recovery and life design, using models of change from Gestalt philosophy, positive psychology, and adult transformative development theories of Robert Kegan and others.
3. We are expanding our corporate leadership and executive coaching specializations and will be launching a new entity, The Institute for Leadership Coach Training. Dr. Doug McKinley, Dr. Michael Lillibridge and Candia Dye will be co-creating some very special classes to grow this new niche. Watch for upcoming details and announcements, and be sure to sign up for my monthly forum calls where these will be discussed.
4. I continue to grow my efforts at bringing coaching to the less fortunate or less reachable through my Coaching the Global Village effort. See more at CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org

I continue to be extremely proud of the high quality of our faculty, administrative staff, and graduates who are impacting people's lives in big ways.

If you are reading this newsletter and want to let us know what you think of our training or have suggestions please write to questions@lifecoachtraining.com or submit comments on our LifeCoachingBlog.com.

Pat

Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
Chief Energizing Officer, ILCT
Department Chair, Professional Coaching, International University of Professional Studies
Author: Becoming a Professional Life Coach. Therapist as Life Coach, Total Life Coaching,
Law and Ethics in Coaching
Recipient of Global Visionary Fellowship for Non Profit www.CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org
Biography

Monthly

Introduction to Coaching Calls:

Have you lost the passion you had when you entered the profession of being a therapist? Are you on the fast track to burn-out or are you already there? Do you want to add another income stream to your existing practice? Do you want to set your own fees and get paid what you are worth? Do you want to revitalize your work, reclaim your passion, and find joy in doing what you love? Join us for a free one-hour class that will introduce you to the wonderful career of Life Coaching. We want to share our excitement with you and give you information that you can use to help you decide if Life Coaching is for YOU.

Fee: No charge. (Long distance charges may apply).

Topics to be discussed:

• What is Coaching?
• Origins of Coaching
• What Research Says Good Coaches Do
• Current Status of Coaching
• Why is Coaching Becoming So Popular and Needed Now?
• Benefits of Adding Coaching to Your Business
• Helping Professional to Coach: 7 Success Factors
• Some Similarities and Differences Between Coaching and Therapy
• Questions and Answers

Dates: June 6th: click to register or June 20th: click to register
Time: 2:00 p.m. Eastern/New York/Toronto time, which is:

• 1:00 p.m./Central/Dallas/Winnipeg time
• 12:00 p.m./Mountain/Denver/Calgary time
• 11:00 a.m./Pacific/San Francisco/Vancouver time
• 10:00 a.m./Alaska time
• 7:00 p.m./London time
• 8:00 p.m./Paris time

Pat's Coaching Forum - ILCT's Corporate & Leadership Coaching Program Announcement

The June 24th Coaching Forum will feature Pat Williams' announcement of the fall launch of ILCT's Corporate & Leadership Coaching Program. Dr. Doug McKinley, ILCT's Director of Corporate Coaching, will be interviewed by Pat. Dr. Mike Lillibridge, President and Founder of The Peoplemap™ System and Candia Dye, ILCT's Director of Program Development for EAP & Corporate Coaching will also be on the call.

Who Should Attend: This teleforum is beneficial for anyone who intends to provide coaching services to corporate or business clients or anyone interested in learning more about how to become an executive, corporate or leadership coach.

TeleForum Topic: Doug will introduce us to ILCT's new corporate & leadership coaching program including an overview of required courses and how the new corporate & leadership track is being designed to equip coaches with the skills needed to address the changing 21st century workforce.

Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Eastern/New York/Toronto time, which is:

• 3:00 p.m./Central/Dallas/Winnipeg time
• 2:00 p.m./Mountain/Denver/Calgary time
• 1:00 p.m./Pacific/San Francisco/Vancouver time
• 12:00 p.m./Alaska time
• 9:00 p.m./London time
• 10:00 p.m./Paris time

Click here to register for the June 24th Forum Call.

Coming later this Summer — Pat's Coaching Forum:

July 22nd, Dr. Mike Lillibridge will explain The Peoplemap™ Personality-Type System and its potential to enhance communication, team effectiveness and leadership skills. The Peoplemap™ will be an integral component of ILCT's corporate and leadership coaching track and is a valuable tool for both the coach's development and for use with your coaching clients.

August 26th, Candia Dye will bring her expertise in the areas of business planning and development and will explain how courses in the corporate coaching track will address your needs for marketing coaching services to business and corporate clients.

Free Coach Referral Service
ILCT provides a listing of Certified Life Coaches and graduates of our Accredited Coach Training Program. These are coaches who have completed at least 60 to 130 hours of coach training. This is a value-added service for those ILCT students who have reached this high level of excellence!

This list is being offered as a free service to assist individuals in identifying and selecting coaches best suited for their particular need.

If you have your Certified Life Coach credential, and haven't yet signed up or click here for more information.

Sign up now

News & Features

The Institute for Life Coach Training & The International University of Professional Studies
Present
Coaching the Whole Person: 2-Day Retreat in Las Vegas, September 13-14, 2008
with Patrick Williams, Ed.D., Founder and President, and Irv Katz, Ph.D., Chancellor

An inspirational event that will impact both you and your clients in becoming more physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and more spiritually evolved. Participants will be taught advanced skills to utilize in inspiring their clients; how to use apply those skills internally; how to reconnect with one’s deepest sense of purpose and how to stay connected. ICF Credit Pending.

The seminar will provide training in the following areas:

	MENTAL	Symbols, archetypes, metaphors, future pacing, stories, humor
	PHYSICAL	Breathing practices, body talk, the relaxationtension continuum
	EMOTIONAL	Trust, forgiveness, radical acceptance, shadow side, deep heart state, love
	SPIRITUAL	Non-duality, meditation, transpersonal states,

View the printer-friendly flyer for more details, and/or contact LasVegas@lifecoachtraining

Body-Mind Life Coaching™: Using the Body to Deepen Awareness and Forward the Action

Fee: No charge (long distrance charges may apply)

Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM Eastern/New York/Toronto time, which is:

• Introduction to Mind-Body Life Coaching begins July 22, 2008.
• Body-Mind Life Coaching™ Specialist Certification Class begins on October, 2008

Join Lauree E. Moss, Ph.D., CLC, PCC to discuss these advanced courses designed to provide coaches with tools to work with the powerful non-verbal messages of the body. Whatever your coaching niche, these courses will teach you how to access the wisdom of the body.

Read more / or register via e-mail Lauree@lifecoachtraining.com or call Lauree at 310-828-0234.

In Case You Missed It: Avoiding Liability: Common Claims in the Mental Health Field
Teleconference with Dr. Patrick Williams and Sara Duiven, Marketing Manager, CPH & Associates

This was a 60-minute teleconferencel where the discussion centered on the the points below. Answers to specific questions from the audience were also addressed.

• Learn common liability claims
• Strategies to reduce claims
• I'm being sued! Now what do I do?
• Insure LLC and myself?
• Hiring a former client
• Bartering with a client
• Responsibility for actions of supervisees
• Grievances and how to deal with them

Download the printer-friendly .PDF file of the presentation or Listen to the recording of this call.

Announcing: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Patrick Williams
Blogging about Life Coaching and It's Impact on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

I invite you to join me in the blogosphere! Share the power and practicality that life coaching and the coach approach to living, learning, and loving can be in the world. Come as often as you like and invite others to join us.

Pat

View Blog: A Fireside Chat with Dr. Patrick Williams

New Book: The Philosophy and Practice of Coaching by David B. Drake (Editor), Diane Brennan (Editor), Kim Gørtz (Editor) - featuring Dr. Patrick Williams

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.

Click on the book image at Amazon.com, and pick the excerpt link to read part of the first chapter written by Pat: The Life Coach Operating System: Its Foundations in Psychology

Take Aways: Life After Graduating ILCT
by Toni Clark, Executive and Life Coach, Alexandria, VA

It was one of those days I wanted to do cartwheels. A coaching client had begun to just get a kick out of being alive. Yes, we had worked on strengths and purpose, values and goals. She had "moved forward". But at the heart of all her success was a renewed sense of "joy de vie" flowing in her life.

I started with ILCT in 2003, thrilled to be coaching and intent on coaching as many people as I could. I wanted to discover the elusive niche that brings focus to a coaching practice. Recently, as I designed my website, I realized four areas where I coach regularly: career, leadership, transition, and retirement. I guess my niche has four heads! That's me, and so be it for now. That's one big "take away" from becoming a coach through ILCT: my best work reflects me and not a formula.

I asked other ILCT graduates to tell me about what they have taken away and how their work as coaches has developed after graduating from ILCT. I came away with the following stories and an appreciation for the unique ways coaching evolves, coach by coach.

The ILCT program helped me self-reflect and create movement in my life. Professionally, I was able to incorporate a lot from the training into my executive coaching work. Kathy Ollearis, HR Consultant, Chicago, Illinois

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I'd been a licensed psychotherapist for 30+ years and was engaged in my work. But, since I discovered coaching and did the training through ILCT, I've been struck with how exhilarated I feel about my work. Everyday is a new day and a new opportunity to introduce this kind of relationship to people I meet all over the place.

It took me a while to hone in on a specialty niche. Now I see that my energy is going to the niche of Third Age life planning, a demographic that makes most sense for me, as I'm in that age group, an old Baby Boomer. Karma Kitaj, PhD, CLC,Life Coach and Psychotherapist, Chestnut Hill, MA

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After I finished the Foundational Coach Training, I fulfilled a life-long dream and went to Ukraine as a Peace Corps volunteer. When I returned I completed my certification with ILCT. I work as an Early Childhood Consultant and most of my work with teachers, childcare center owners, directors, and parents is coaching. Many of them participate in a support group that I lead, using the life wheel and values exercises to improve their management skills. Last year, Pat Williams and I trained 28 child care directors and owners in the Coach Approach as a pilot project for Coaching The Global Village.

I love coaching and find it to be the most rewarding part of the work I do. I enjoy seeing people become energized, empowered, and have more fulfilling lives. Sydney Frymire, LCSW, CLC, Life Coach, Bethesda, Maryland

Coaching the Global Village: Pilot Project Update

• October, 2007: A group of 28 business owners and managers in Montgomery County, Maryland participated in a highly successful two-day training on the Coach Approach. They learned specific, practical ways to integrate the skills they learned into their daily routines with their staff and each other. The training was designed to bring an international cross-section of participants together in a small group to maximize interactive learning and collaborative efforts.
  
  March 12, 2008 Followup Training: The participants used the circle process to reconnect and reflect on the progress they've made in the last four months since the training in 2007. They participated enthusiastically in two exercies to practice their listening skills and ask powerful questions. In closing, they used the circle process to create a plan to continue meeting as a group to coach each other. The group consensus is that the Coach Approach training was the most effective training they've had in their careers.

• January 28 - 29, 2008: A two-day training helped build a network of Michigan nonprofit professionals who use the coach approach to support and help others as they work toward their goals. The 22 participants, who were directors of Michigan's AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve - Michigan programs, were introduced to coaching philosophies and developed basic coaching skills such as listening, asking powerful questions, motivating, and offering accountability. The training was sponsored by the Michigan Community Service Commission.

• February 20 - 21, 2008: The Third of our pilot trainings was completed in Glenwood springs Colorado, where we trained 20 staff of Youth Zone, a youth services nonprofit that works with "at choice" Youth, training them in the Coach Approach. The was very well received. The staff made some tremendous applications and are excited to carry this training further into their work. We may be invited back to train the Youth in the future.

Expand Your Business! Deepen Your Coaching Skills!
Register For Upcoming Classes at ILCT

Additional classes, details and online registration at our course section. Some schedules may change; check listing or contact Edwina Adams, Administration/Registration, at edwina@lifecoachtraining.com.

Where In The World Is Pat Williams?

July 14-18
Stephens Point, WI
National Wellness Conference

Thursday, 07/17/08/: Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
The Importance of Wise Elders in Maintaining Cultural Wellness: Lessons from the African Bush

Have you outgrown your practice? What's next? What's calling you in the second half of your life? This session helps address these questions and find new callings. Based on lessons learned on Pat's recent walking safari in Africa, and interactions with tribal elders, this session offers new ways for veteran wellness professionals to renew themselves and revitalize their practices for the second half of life. Using the "Four Flames of Vital Aging," this session will help participants: learn why it's essential to go "back to the rhythm"; learn new ways to grow whole, not old; learn why purpose is good medicine; learn what it means to be a "wise elder coach"; and learn new lessons for coaching "new elders". This highly interactive "fire circle" session provides a framework and essential conversation for vital aging, understanding ones personal anthropology, and coaching/mentoring in the second half of life.

Thursday, 07/17/08/: Lauree Moss MSW, PhD, PCC and Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
Total Life Coaching: Body-Mind-Spirit

Life Coaching involves supporting clients in discovering and creating what they most want in their lives. The coaching process calls forth the best in both practitioner and client-eliciting information from previously un-accessible places deep inside. Body, mind and spirit are one. This workshop will assist participants to deepen awareness by turning attention inward to listen to one's inner voice and messages from the body using breath and mindfulness. This is of paramount importance for whole person wellness. Engaging body, mind and spirit creates a deeper sense and experience of our authentic selves to forward the action toward achieving one's goals.

July 28 – August 9
Cape Cod, MA
New England Educational Institute
Therapist As a Life Coach: Transforming Your Practice with Dr. Patrick Williams
Part of the 25th Annual Cape Cod Summer Symposia.
This symposium has been designed to provide participants with an understanding of the theory, historical perspective, and practical methodology of the profession of personal and professional coaching and how it has evolved.

What Pat Recommends

	Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute In this fictional tale an executive learns the great secret of leadership effectiveness: to get out of the self-deceptive box of narcissism and start connecting in empathic and respectful ways with others. We're in the box when we treat others as objects or focus on what's wrong with them instead of what we can do to help. Without discounting the value of strong managerial direction, the story reasserts something we know but don't practice--that people are more likely to be enthusiastic and effective when they know we care about them."
	Lean Forward Into Your Life: Begin Each Day As If It Were on Purpose by Mary Anne Radmacher Founder and owner of the Word Garden, Mary Anne Radmacher makes her art her life and her life an art. And in Lean Forward into Your Life she invites us to do the same. Or as she says, Lean Forward into Your Life is a commonplace book for leading an uncommon life. An uncommon life need not include fame and fortune. An uncommon life means living with intention, paying attention, celebrating, taking care of yourself, risking love. To live an uncommon life is to live large from the heart. Beautifully written and full of "coaching wisdom." Pat Williams
	Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition, by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions. The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices into life coaching. Pat Williams and Deborah C. Davis have revised their classic practice-building book for today's therapists and future coaches. Every chapter in this second edition has been updated and rewritten, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to not only therapists, but all helping professionals. There is new material throughout, including: an overview of recent coaching developments updated liability concerns new business opportunities a new section on the research about coaching

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