Tomorrow's Life Coach
Volume 8 Issue 2 – February, 2009

In This Issue:

• Pat's Ponderings ~ Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
• Monthly
  • ILCT-CPH Teleconference - Business Insurance Needs
  • Pat's Coaching Forum - A New Direction for Health Care
  • Introduction to Coaching Calls
  • Free Coach Referral Service for CLC's
• News & Features
  • Global Warming of the Human Kind
  • The Puget Sound Coaches Association 2009 Conference
  • Informational Call: Body-Mind Life Coaching - February 24th
• Upcoming Classes at ILCT
• Where in the World is Pat Williams?
• What Pat Recommends - Change the World by David Bornstein and Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

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 - Coaching and Social Action

Connection...collaboration….co-creating….These are words that come to mind when I think of the power of the coaching process.  And I think it also applies to what the world needs more of. We are connected globally more than ever but mostly by electronics (cell phones, email, iPods, chat, texting, and online social networks), yet we hunger for real human connection and a sense of community that seems to be lacking in many people’s lives.  I believe we need human connection now more than ever. The more high tech we get, the more high touch we need.  (See my article Global Warming of the Human Kind)

Coaching and Social Action
Given the incredible results that I have witnessed from coaching (as both the receiver and the coach) I had a vision in 2005 to find a way to bring the power of coaching to the underserved and remote locations in the world. That vision became my non-profit corporation, Coaching The Global Village (www.CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org).

We have gone through a founding board of advisors, creation of a coaching curriculum, three pilot studies and one paid training, collected research and have now formed a new official Board of Directors. Our new board in multicultural, trilingual, and international in scope (more details are forthcoming).

I am very excited about Coaching the Global Village in 2009. We are looking for ways to partner, collaborate, and connect with other non-profits, nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) and communities around the globe. We will have a newsletter soon so if you want to be kept informed of what we are doing, please sign up. And we need your help in donating and in finding donors, grantors and organizations that would benefit from our training and coaching.

We are now accepting donations via our CoachingtheGlobalVillage.org website. These donations will help us continue this vital work. Coaching The Global Village, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (application pending). Our needs for this year are funds to cover the costs for training leaders in our coach approach curriculum and to begin setting the infrastructure to partner with international NGO’s. We have targeted many potential partners but need funds to begin replicating our training worldwide and to have a group of CGV certified trainers and coaches. Please go to www.CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org.

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

ILCT-CPH Teleconference - Business Insurance Needs

Please join Dr. Patrick Williams, President and CEO of the Institute for Life Coach Training, author of Law and Ethics in Coaching, and Sara Duiven, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates on January 15th for a discussion focused on Business Insurance Needs.

During this 60-minute conference call Pat and Sara will be discussing the the points below, plus fielding specific questions submitted during registration:

1. What kinds of insurance coverage do you need when starting up a private coaching or mental health practice?
2. What is the difference between Professional Liability and General Liability?
3. Things to think about when credentialing on insurance panels, or contracting with agencies.

Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009
Time: 2:00 p.m. Eastern/New York/Toronto time

Fee: no charge (long distance charges may apply)

REGISTER NOW

Pat's Coaching Forum - A New Direction for Health Care

Join Dr. Patrick Williams and Jim Strohecker, CEO and Co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net) to learn more about coaching and A New Direction for Health Care.

The topics to be discussed are:

1. How can wellness coaching and health coaching support a new direction for health care?
2. A look at the relationship of the coaching and treatment paradigms.

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern/New York/Toronto time

Fee: No charge (long distance charges may apply)

REGISTER NOW

Introduction to Coaching Calls:

Join us for a 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 to help you decide if life coaching is for you!

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

• 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

February 6th: REGISTER NOW

February 20th : REGISTER NOW

Times: 2:00 p.m. Eastern/New York/Toronto time

Free Coach Referral Service for CLCs
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 have not registered — Sign up now

News & Features

Global Warming of the Human Kind: Emotional climate change is needed now more than ever
By Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
(reprinted with permission of Choice Magazine, www.choice-online.com)

The world needs global warming – not the environmental kind, the relational kind! Throughout the news media, we see the quickening of global warming and its disastrous effects on the environment. What we are also beginning to see is a quickening of global warming in the way individuals, families, communities and countries relate to one another.

That this could grow so fast is a surprise to all the experts. What if the walls that separate us from truly cherishing and honoring each other came crashing down, just as the icebergs are doing in Antarctica? What if the measurement of warmth in all relationships began to rise? I have had the good fortune to travel to many countries around the globe in the last 10 years in my role as an ambassador of life coaching, both for the Institute for Life Coach Training and for the profession at large. I have always noticed how people everywhere respond well to human friendliness despite the politics of individual countries. If you act friendly, you are treated as a friend, and if you are courteous, you are treated with courtesy. If you ask people about themselves with nonjudgmental curiosity and really want to know, they respond with openness and glee.

My graduate training in psychology in the 1970s was in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology. I pursued those fields of study because I believed in the possibility of learning and applying wisdom and tools that allowed people to pursue happiness and overcome life stressors that lead to the antithesis of peace. Yes, of course, I was an idealist of the Love Generation, but what’s wrong with idealism? Ideals are what we need to pursue more often, but through a sense of global connection and people-to-people experiences – not the disconnection that seems so pervasive in our governments and political leadership.

The new EQ age
Given the research today in the areas of Positive Psychology and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), we have evidence of techniques and outcomes that improve relationships, embrace diversity, strengthen our ability to be open-minded and less judgmental, and improve the honest, clear communication that is necessary to foster good relationships. Shouldn’t this research be applied to global relations and community challenges so that we can bypass the typical political efforts among the leaders of countries?

Martin Seligman, in his introduction to the Handbook of Positive Psychology (Snyder, C.R. and Lopez, S. editors, 2002) states, “I believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise that achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families and communities. You may think this is pure fantasy that psychology will never look beyond the victim, the underdog, and the remedial. But I want to suggest that the time is finally right.” He goes on to say, “I predict that Positive Psychology in this new century will come to understand and build those factors that allow individuals, communities, and societies to flourish.”

I would add that the timing could not be more crucial. Global warming of the human kind needs to erupt in surprising and multiple places on Earth . . . Read the full article.

The Puget Sound Coaches Association 2009 Conference -
Coaching: Creating Conscious Choice & Change
February 5, 2009, WaMu Leadership Center at Cedarbrook, SeaTac, WA

This exciting event will be kicked off by Key Note and industry leader presenters: Sandra Anne Taylor, New York Times best-selling author of Quantum Success, Secrets of Attraction, AND Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and responsible for the Global Village initiative. There will also be a full day of workshops, exhibits, networking and MORE! Earn CCEU's - 5 Separate Learning Tracks and 18 Breakouts.

Dr. Williams' Topic: Coaching and Social Action: Creating Choice in Challenging Times, and his breakout session will be Transpersonal Coaching: Mind Body and Spirit.

Click for more information / registration

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

Join Dr. Lauree Moss, MSW, Ph.D., PCC to learn more about this exciting certificate course, which starts on March 24, 2009 for 16 weeks. Using Body-Mind Life Coaching™ tools, coaches will learn ways to work with the powerful messages of the body. It is said that the body never lies. Through habitual ways of thinking, acting and feeling, there is often a disconnection between the mind and body. Coaches, in any niche, who are interested in learning more about how to integrate non- verbal dimensions into their coaching, will gain invaluable skills and tools.

Lauree will discuss:

• What is Body-Mind Life Coaching™
• Skills and tools taught in the class
• Ways to use (2) specific tools that are integrated throughout the class: Breath & Mindfulness
• Case examples
• What you will gain personally and professionally by getting this certificate.

Date: February 24, 2009
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Eastern

Fee: No charge (long distance charges may apply)

REGISTER for this call

If you have questions you may contact Lauree at Lauree@lifecoachtraining.com

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?

February 5th
Cedarbrook, SeaTac, WA
Puget Sound Coaches Conference 2009
Keynote Speaker - Coaching and Social Action: Creating Choice in Challenging Times
Breakout - Transpersonal Coaching: Mind Body and Spirit

What Pat Recommends

	How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition by David Bornstein How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against land mines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers.
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.
	Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez 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. 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. From Resource Reviews - With Ruth Harper: The word “coaching” is now a buzzword among helping professionals, yet many may not fully comprehend this trend. “Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential,” according to the International Coach Federation, an organization that boasts more than 15,000 members worldwide. Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez have written a seminal work on this subject with Becoming a Professional Life Coach. Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach training, is a Master Certified Coach as well as an author of the paradigm-shifting Therapist as Life Coach. Menendez works for two coaching organizations: Leadership Mastery Coaching and Convergys Global Talent Development. She, too, is a Master Certified Coach. The question foremost on most readers’ minds is likely to be what, specifically, is the difference between therapy and coaching? One major difference is emphasis, the authors explain. While psychotherapy often focuses on the past, coaching directs clients to create and design their futures. Critics and skeptics may relegate coaching to the realm of fads. These authors, however, argue that coaching is both a viable career and a bona fide profession in the 21st century. As they explain, “Coaches are now in schools, probation departments, churches, nonprofit corporations and other community agencies.” Click here to read the full review.

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