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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 - Are you reserving parts of you?
There are 13 BioGems throughout the Americas, but this is the first time that an entire country, instead of a region, has received this recognition. So while that is impressive and should be a model to countries everywhere in the world, how does that relate to the world of life coaching? Here's how: How much of yourself, your energy, your resources are you protecting? How much of YOU are you wasting, misusing, or depleting? We are a system just like a rain forest, and we also coach our clients to move toward optimal living that requires a commitment and an understanding of the value of personal reserve. Coaching is a service industry and you must have the resources to serve. We as coaches must engage in and value self-care as way of life, and encourage our clients to do the same. We cannot live fully if we are living unconsciously and wasting the resources (from our SOURCE) that are God given. But my ponderings are not intended to be a commercial for Costa Rica. I have traveled to many beautiful places of nature around the globe; but this one left me inspired in a new way – seeing the earth as it was centuries ago – alive with volcanoes, rich soil from earthquakes, and a land that breathes spirit and inspires me to do the same. I am not the same person as I was before these ten days in Costa Rica. I encourage you to pick a place where you can be so rejuvenated. It could be near where you live – a state park, a preserve, a botanical garden – or maybe it's many miles away. Wherever it is, go there – be unplugged from cell phones, computers, television – and listen to nature, it has much to teach us… As always.Dr. Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Monthly ILCT-CPH Teleconference - Credentialing as a Coach: Pros and Cons - Part 2 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 - Part 2. This proved to be such a "hot" topic we decided to continue it for July! You can listen to Part 1 via the link below. Date: Thursday, July 30, 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:
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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 Developing a Life Coaching Practice When I started my coaching career, people would often ask, “What sport do you coach?” This is not surprising, given the history of the word coach and its tie to athletics. Now, when I say “life coach,” people still look at me curiously, but I no longer need to discuss “what sport.” Our profession is receiving more and more public awareness and attention. Coaching and mentoring have been common terms in the corporate environment for decades. Executive coaching has always been accepted as a perk or desirable form of consultation and support for high-level management. A new distinction today, however, is mentoring, which is a service provided formally or informally in order to train those employees who might be moving up the corporate ladder internally and who are mentored on the manager’s ways. Corporate coaching today is provided both internally (by coaches who work for the company) and externally (by coaches hired by either the company or the managers themselves). Life coaching has now become desirable and accessible to those outside the corporate environment, and many corporate and business leaders understand that, ultimately, it is all life coaching. However, many people in the helping fields are still unaware of what coaching is and how to become a coach. As a way into looking at how one might develop a life coaching practice, it might be useful to first take a look at the history of coaching as a development out of traditional psychology. Psychology and coaching share a similar history, and each can learn much from the other. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF LIFE COACHING Psychological theorists in the early part of the 20th century set the framework for life coaching’s “whole and healthy person” view. The shift from seeing clients as ill or pathological toward viewing them as “well and whole” and seeking a richer life is paramount to understanding the evolution of life coaching. Life coaches view clients as whole and brilliant people and focus not on pathology, but on wellness. Most people would agree that Sigmund Freud (1933/1965, 1982) had a dramatic influence on society’s view of mental illness and stimulated a deeper understanding of behavior. Although much of Freud’s theory has little applicability to life coaching, he did profess that driving influences in people’s lives were not conscious (ego-driven) but unconscious forces the id (libido) and the superego (social conscience), which he believed provided rich opportunities for analysis and dream interpretation. It is this emphasis on symbolic thinking that is relevant to and beneficial for life coaching. Life coaches help clients discover their brilliance, which often lies masked or buried in their unconscious mind and can be accessed when they begin to design their lives consciously and purposely. A few colleagues from Freud’s inner circle, including Carl Jung and Alfred Adler, broke away from his theories of neurosis and psychosis, positing theories that were more teleological and optimistic about human potential. Although there remains a significant distinction between therapy approaches and coaching, many of Adler’s and Jung’s theories are antecedents of modern-day life coaching. Adler (1927/1998; H. L. Ansbacher & R. R. Ansbacher, 1956), for example, saw himself as more of a personal educator, believing that every person develops a unique life approach that shapes his or her goals, values, habits, and personal drives. He believed that happiness arises from a sense of significance and social connectedness (belonging), not merely from individual objectives and desires. Adler saw each person as the creator and artist of his or her life and frequently involved his clients in goal setting, life planning, and inventing their future – all tenets and approaches in life coaching today. Similarly, Carl Jung (1933, 1970, 1976; Read, Fordham, & Adler, 1953) believed in the power of connectedness and relationships, as well as a “future orientation” or teleological belief that we create our future through visioning and purposeful living. Many of Jung’s writings focused on life after the age of 40. This focus is particularly appropriate for life coaches, because we work primarily with adult learners. Jung often coached adults through a “life review” and encouraged his clients to consciously live their lives by expressing their natural gifts and talents, moving toward greater fulfillment by living life “on purpose.” Jung’s theories and approaches also emphasized spirituality and the values expressed as one goes though the process he called individuation – the progression and development of the spiritual self. This is particularly prevalent in the second half of life, a time when life coaches are most likely to experience individuation themselves and support their clients to do the same. Jung also described the importance of myths and rituals, which are increasingly becoming important components of our life coaching clients’ lives. I believe therapist-trained coaches are particularly qualified to assist clients in these important stages of adult development. . . Read the full article (.PDF) 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:
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My wife and I just returned from a ten-day trip to Costa Rica, spending five days at an eco-lodge in Montezuma (
Countries, national parks, and cities often have places called preserves. Think about that word. Preserve in coaching could mean the act of pre-serving – or creating a designated way to save your energies and human resources so that you are ready to serve when you are called. So preserving is actually preparation for serving in whatever way you are called to in the life you live.
You may be inspired to visit Costa Rica because it is very unlike anyplace else. There are no high-rise hotels, none of the cookie-cutter resorts you see elsewhere. Every eco-lodge and hotel is unique to Costa Rica (with few exceptions) and the country is not being ruined by traditional tourism, yet it's tourism that supports the biodiversity preserves. Costa Rica tourists must see, feel, smell and touch the beauty by being willing to be wet, hot, drive on bumpy roads, and hike trails in the middle of jungles, waterfalls, rainforests, and beachside villages. They must be willing to tour places that are often not easy to get to – yet this is the only way to witness nature's majesty in this unique country
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