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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 - What Mental Maps Will You Use in Creating Your Future? Part 2 "The empires of the future will be empires of the mind." — Winston Churchill The Respectful Mind The respectful mind responds sympathetically and constructively to differences among individuals and groups. Those with respectful minds work beyond mere tolerance and political correctness; they develop the capacity for forgiveness. Human beings naturally band into groups — and as soon as such groups form, members start to dislike one another. This pattern appears repeatedly in humans and other primates, for that matter. Group members bond and define themselves relative to "outgroups," which are typically characterized as inferior, dangerous or subhuman. Explanations for this tendency abound, with different scientific frameworks emerging over decades of exploration. Currently, many look to evolutionary psychology for an explanation, though this sociobiological story is probably far too simple. Whatever the reason for outgroups, we must overcome our tendency to create them. With modern weapons, we make the world a dangerous place. The solution is a relatively simple one: Cultivate respect for others. And while it does, indeed, seem like a tenet of Kindergarten 101, it is much harder to achieve. Teaching respectfulness in school is certainly a promising means of fostering tolerance, and many schools put it into practice by requiring students of various backgrounds to work on joint projects with shared goals. With this kind of foundation, students can continue to cultivate tolerance and respect when they graduate to the workplace and political realm. The Ethical Mind Ethically minded individuals abstract crucial features of their roles at work and as citizens. They act consistently with these conceptualizations, striving for good work and ethical balance in micro to global environments. Given a choice, most people would opt for life in an "ethical world," in which everyone focused on doing "good work." If everyone pledged to do the right thing, the world would surely be a better place. Four tools, while not sufficient for good work, are probably necessary: A mission. Without a mission, you don’t know what you’re aiming to achieve. Try to develop a clear, actionable mission statement that embodies your values. One or more good models . Similarly, without models, doing the ethical thing is much harder. Of course, models can be positive ("I want to be like him") or negative ("That’s exactly what I don’t want to be"). An individual version of the "mirror test." Look into the mirror and ask yourself if you like what you see. Do you approve of what you’re doing at work? It’s easy to deceive yourself, so get confirmation from people you respect. A professional version of the mirror test. Look into the mirror and see if your colleagues are living up to their professional obligations. If not, what can you do to improve the ethical fiber of your profession? Doing good work is easiest if you have proper support, both at home and at work. Your peers’ ethical influence is especially important. Peers should include your coworkers and demographic cohort. Our leaders must also remind us of what it means to be a good worker. Without reminders, it’s far too easy to suffer an ethical relapse. The ethical mind is always vigilant. The Future Is Now In reality, many individuals in positions of influence are deficient in one or more of the five kinds of minds discussed here. In the status quo, we’re blind to their importance in our schools and business organizations. Shrewd managers or leaders select people who already possess these minds. They then challenge their employees to maintain, sharpen and catalyze their capacities so teams can work together effectively and serve as role models for future recruits. The critical questions to ask yourself are:
Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Monthly ILCT-CPH Teleconference - Credentialing as a Coach: Pros and Cons 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 June 25th for a discussion focused on Credentialing as a Coach: Pros and Cons. Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009 Fee: no charge (long distance charges may apply) Pat's Coaching Forum - Health and Wellness Coaching: What Do You Need to Be a Player? Join Dr. Patrick Williams and Jim Strohecker, CEO and Co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net) to learn about Health and Wellness Coaching: What Do You Need to Be a Player? Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009 Fee: No charge (long distance charges may apply) Introduction to Coaching Calls: Join us for a one-hour call that will introduce you to the wonderful career of Life Coaching and the ILCT program. We want to share our excitement with you and give you information to help you decide if life coaching is for you! This class will also offer you the opportunity to experience a "‘teleclass," the training format used in our program. Topics to be discussed include:
You will have the opportunity to have your questions about life coach training answered. Fee: No charge. (Long distance charges may apply).
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for CLCs 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 The Coaches Care Success Summit: The emergence of the coaching profession over the past 10 years has allowed a growing community of inspired, like-minded individuals to deliver their transformational gift throughout the world. Coaches now support thousands of clients and organizations in all walks of life, making a living out of their passion and making a difference with their daily work. Yet many coaches are not achieving the true success that they desire or deserve, financially or in service. With a business to build (and a difficult economy to contend with!) many practices would benefit from new, improved models and techniques that are more in line with the collective sense of success both personally and professionally. In a changing world, it seems inevitable that the business of coaching will change too. The good news is it's moving in an empowered, community-centered direction and successful industry experts are ready to share how and why with you. Help (and inspiration) is on the way! This June, Coaches Care is presenting an Inaugural Event: The Coaches Care Success Summit, a 5-day teleconference series with strategic business education targeting individual and organizational coaching practices around the world. From June 22-26, 2009, 15 leaders in the industry will present powerful, timely insight on the latest coaching models, powerful marketing, social responsibility and much more. Participate by telephone from the comfort of your home or office AND get access to all five days of Summit recordings for later listening at your convenience. You don't need to attend live to receive all the benefits. The Summit will seek to expose the valuable opportunities coaches have to achieve greater levels of success while simultaneously serving the global community. It is a strong commitment to service that places the coaching profession prominently in the vanguard of the human potential movement. Our goal is to help you build and sustain your business and deliver broad, community-based support to coaching non-profit organizations. Help us further the long-term sustainability and growth of coaching: an innate human capacity, a developed form of art and a catalyst for positive social change. Join us for this groundbreaking event - June 22-26, 2009 1:00 pm Eastern daily. Cost: $149 (Registration cost includes participation in live events and access to the post-event audio recordings.) ICF CEU credits application pending. All Net Proceeds Go to Charity: Go to www.CoachesCare.org and register today. Group Coaching: Efficient and Effective We are all looking for ways to be more efficient. Both coaches and clients want to make the best use of our time and money. Efficiency requires more than economizing - it must be effective. When coaches need to "work smarter, not harder," we want to serve more clients in less time and generate more income. When clients need to "do more with less," they want powerful results in less time at lower cost. Group coaching meets these requirements. Group coaching has lagged behind as the field of coaching has grown. A quick search for books revealed none - not one - that addressed coaching in the manner in which the ICF and professional coaches define the field. A few titles sound promising but, upon inspection, reveal a model much more in keeping with mentoring or discipling - helpful, to be sure, but not the same as coaching. In spite of the lack of written material, there is much we can transfer from our experience of private coaching to a group format, and there are training classes available in group coaching. To add groups to your business, consider these “Top 10″ logistical recommendations . . . Read the full article at TheChristianCoachingCenter.org Healing or Stealing? When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was “direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful.” No pressure there. Let’s begin with the startling part. Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, civilization needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades. This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food—but all that is changing. There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring. The earth couldn’t afford to send recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done. When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums. You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way. Read / download the full printer-friendly article (.PDF format). The Other Ten Commandments Harvey Mackay, best selling author, speaker and syndicated columnist wrote the following, which was published in the Arizona Republic. I couldn't possibly have said this as well as he did, so rather than try, I present them here to you as it appeared in the paper. To learn more about Mr. Mackay, you can check out his website at http://www.harveymackay.com. Pat Here are The Second Ten Commandments and Harvey Mackay's brilliant comments on each!
Free Informational Calls: Practice Made Perfect: Marketing Your Coaching Business For Maximum Success For generations, people have thought of marketing in traditional terms: having a product or service, advertising and selling it. But times have changed - and so has marketing! Today's consumer is wiser, and knows when someone is simply trying to make a sale. Viral marketing on the Internet, social networking groups, and other new marketing techniques have emerged, and just calling oneself "a coach" has never been sufficient to attract the right type of clients who will enable you to succeed. The Practice Made Perfect course teaches how to market by attraction in these new and emerging marketing arenas. Dr. Jim Vuocolo has built an international coaching practice from his home, and will teach you how to do the same. He says, "There's a hard way to market, and an easy way. The Practice Made Perfect course teaches the easy way that leads to success!" Join Jim for a free call to learn more about effective ways to market coaching. His next class begins on Thursday, June 18 at 6 PM Eastern. Call Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009 Wellness Inventory Join Jim Strohecker, CEO and co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net) and Michele Sutton for an introduction to The Wellness Inventory. The Wellness Inventory is an online assessment and life-balance tool that focuses on the whole person in 12 key dimensions of wellness. A powerful tool for coaches, the Wellness Inventory is an advanced version of the life wheel (coaching mandala), and provides invaluable insight into your client and as well as a framework or "organizing principle" within which to work. The next Wellness Inventory class will be offered September 9, 2009 From this course you will learn strategies for using the Wellness Inventory to:
Call Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 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 new certificate course, which begins on September 8, 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. Dr. Moss will discuss:
Call Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 In case you missed it: Trends in Health and Wellness Coaching with Dr. Patrick Williams and Jim Strohecker, CEO and Co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net). Listen to a recording of this call. Expand Your Business!
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Register For Upcoming Classes at ILCT REVIEW OUR FULL CURRENT CLASS LIST Some schedules may change; check listing or contact Edwina Adams, Administration/Registration, at edwina@lifecoachtraining.com.Where In The World Is Pat Williams? July 7th & 8th Learn the basics of Life Coaching, the PEOPLEMAP personalities assessment, and the skills to coach couples to create a more fulfilling relationship. Coach couples to overcome the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Includes the Peoplemap Personality Assessment, demonstration, skills practice, and practice-building tips. What Pat Recommends
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