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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.
I became excited in 1996 about the prospects of coaching by phone, which allowed me to live where I wanted, how I wanted - and have paying clients who lived somewhere else. I had been coaching executives since 1990 in their offices as part of my psychology/consulting business. But the convenience of telephonic coaching was exciting and was a service I could not ethically provide to therapy clients in my psychology practice. . .at least that is what I thought. Now there is a growing edge in counseling and therapy delivered online and asynchronously. At Wikipedia.org, online counseling generally refers to the provision of professional mental health service concerns via Internet communication technology. Often called e-therapy, etherapy, e-counseling, online therapy, or coaching, services are typically offered via email, real-time chat, and video conferencing. Some clients use online counseling in conjunction with traditional psychotherapy, and others use it as an occasional check-in tool for their lives. There are ethical standards, practice standards and several books about online counseling. Check out the Online Therapy Institute created by my friend and colleague DeeAnna Nagel. I also recommend Online Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners by Gill Jones and Anne Stokes and Online Therapy: A Therapist's Guide to Expanding Your Practice by Kathleene Derrig-Palumbo and Foojan Zeine So given the cutting edge growth of online therapy and counseling, is the prospect of online coaching far behind? Most coaches of course communicate with clients via email, between sessions, but not as the primary method of communicating or coaching. However, the younger clients are used to chats, twitter, text messages, so it’s possible online coaching can be quite helpful and strategic. Online counselors charge either a monthly retainer which places a limit on the number of message responses, or they charge by the transaction response. Online coaching is a relatively new way to deliver coaching services to a larger population. Some businesses are seeing the value of providing online life coaching as a cost effective benefit to employees. This is a cutting edge model and has its origins in health care coaching which is more prescriptive than life coaching. One advantage employers find is they can provide services to a population who may be reluctant to see a therapist/counselor, but who would like a confidential ally to discuss topics like job-related stress, work-life balance, life purpose, etc. The online asynchronous communication provides anonymity to clients and is viewed as an easy relationship. As reported by A former student who works in this area: She admits she was the world's biggest skeptic and now is an advocate of this approach, assuming it's done very well. She finds employees come to coaching with the same interests that otherwise bring people to coaching. Many are able to maintain a longer term relationship because because they aren't paying the fee themselves. The Internet has become more ubiquitous since I started full-time coaching, but the use of social networking protocols like Twitter and Facebook make it risky and unethical to have confidential and asynchronous or real-time “conversations” with coaching clients. But we at LifeOptions have web secure and private space where that problem is solved. What do you think? Do you do online coaching? Have you increased your presence with clients with distance coaching? We do monthly calls with CPH Insurance and had two calls to discuss this subject in the Fall of 2009. We had over 550 people register for them. However, our bridge maxed out and many people were unable to participate. If you would like to listen to the calls they are listed on our ILCT / CPH call archive page under September and October 2009. We will also have a expansion of this subject in our call on April 22nd. We hope you will join us. Some recently published articles on this topic are listed below:
We coached for several months, then she became one of the early students at Coach U and ILCT, and eventually co-taught with Chris McCluskey as he created the ILCT Christian coaching track. Judy was a fabulous teacher, a great coach, and a good friend. I finally met her face-to-face in Seattle in 2008 while I was there for a keynote address. Even though we had known each other for 12 years, we had never met in person; yet we felt so close to each other. That was the time she was recovering from her first bout with cancer and things were looking better, but as happened her cancer finally ended her life here on earth in March. Judy has left a big impact in her clients, her students, the coaching profession and especially those of us who had the privilege of being her friend. God bless(ed) Judy and she blessed all of us. With admiration, Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Monthly ILCT - CPH Teleconference: Online Therapy Join Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and Director of the Institute for Life Coach Training, author of Law and Ethics in Coaching, and Sara Oberg, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates for a discussion about Online Therapy.
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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 Remembering Judy Santos The Christian coaching world knows by now that Judy Santos, one of the true pioneers in this field, went to be with our Lord on March 2nd after a battle with cancer. The emotional hole and the spiritual & professional legacies she left behind are difficult to express. Judy was the second person I met upon entering the world of coaching, having been connected by our common coach, Patrick Williams. It would be several years before we met face-to-face but we found in each other a common passion for integrating our faith with the new field of coaching, and we spent the next twelve years joyfully laboring side-by-virtual-side toward that end. Judy had launched the Christian Coaches Network only weeks before and asked me to serve on her advisory board. I launched the Christian Track at the Institute for Life Coach Training and asked her to be my co-facilitator. Anytime either of us had an idea for a way to reach more people with a distintly Christian approach to coaching, we roped the other into our plans. And God prospered the work. When Judy stepped from this life into the arms of the Father, she had personally trained and mentored more people in professional-quality Christian coaching than any other person in the world. The Christian Coaches Network she nurtured from 18 struggling newbies had grown into several hundred members and a readership of several thousand worldwide. She had hosted the world's first distinctly Christian coaching conference, two subsequent conferences, and a thoroughly 21st Century 3-day virtual world conference. She had provided nearly 5,000 hours of private coaching to clientele around the globe. I knew Judy well enough to know that she wouldn't allow me nor anyone else to focus on these accomplishments for long. Judy was a visionary and a leader but she was humble and preferred to lead quietly from a position far less conspicuous than those in which her work frequently placed her. Judy loved Christian coaching because she loved her Lord and she loved life. She did what she did because her life purpose was simply "to make God smile". Her vision statement was almost passive - "To be soft clay in the hands of the Potter, reflecting the largeness, the love and the grace of God." But that vision drew her daily to serving others, and drove her to fight through five years of cancer and the effects of its treatment to keep serving in the field to which she knew the Lord had called her. Judy was a wonderful coach because she was a wonderful person. She lived intentionally, making time for the things that were most important, especially for her children, Scott & Kristie, their spouses, and her "grands" as she called them - Abby, Katie, Jasmine, Gracelyn & Joshua. Her memorial service on the 14th will be packed with people from her church and community. She was so well-loved by even the staff at her local Starbucks that several are attending and the store is providing free coffee for the guests. Judy impacted the lives of thousands but was at her best on the most intimate plane of one-on-one relationship. We both developed life-threatening illnesses at nearly the same time and many times she covered my back and encouraged me during the darkest days of my lyme disease. Many days I was privileged to do the same for her as the cancer threatened to claim her. How many times I heard her wince out a laugh in the midst of terrible pain and say, "Oh, I am SOOoo not done yet!" I miss Judy terribly and I still expect to hear her voice on my machine or see her chipper emails pop up in my IN box. But I rejoice in the knowledge that she is home now, that her suffering is ended and her joy is complete. Her work on earth is over - she is, indeed, done - and she has heard those precious words, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord." She has seen God smile. Those wishing to honor Judy's life and her legacy are invited by her family to make a donation to a fund for the Judy Santos Award for Excellence in lieu of flowers. The self-perpetuating fund will be used for an annual award to be presented for exceptional contributions to the field of Christian coaching. Checks should be made out to Christian Coaches Network, 142 Pratt Crescent, Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, P1P 1P5. The family will be notified of your gift so they are aware of your kindness. CCN will handle your funds with great care before the Lord and a full accounting will be made. I will be chairing this committee, working closely with the new president, Gary Wood. (CCN is not a charitable organization and is therefore unable to issue receipts for charitable giving purposes.) Those wishing to send personal notes and cards to the family should direct them to Kristie Hubbard, 4633 Bedford Avenue, Bellingham, WA 98226. The family regret to report that they have been unable to retrieve emails sent to Judy during her final hospitalization and/or since her passing. They have been accidentally deleted by her access provider. Email notes may be sent to Kristie at kjh741@aol.com I encourage all whose lives have been touched by Judy to express your love and gratitude in some way as suggested above. Her family has only a small notion of the magnitude of the legacy she leaves behind in each of us. Her last words to me, spoken with that smile in her voice, were, "Ill see you on the other side!" What peace, what joy, what blessed assurance. May we all live life so well and so fully as Judy did.
Coaching is about co-creating a future for your clients. And while coaching does not focus on a client’s past as psychotherapy might, the client’s personal history is part of who they are and will impact who they want to become. Whether we like it or not, all the experiences we had in the past have resulted in who we are today as individuals. Certainly some of our past experiences may have been painful, even tragic. Some of them may have been highly pleasurable. Regardless of the nature or quality of our past experiences, they are all contained in our memory. Some behavioral scientists believe that every informational message sent through our five (or more) senses are recorded somewhere in our memory. Everything we’ve ever felt, thought about, learned, read...it all lives on in our conscious and subconscious mind. Both conscious and subconscious memories impact and influence who we are and how we function today. Memories are like physical scars. Some of them are exactly the same as they were when we first had the experience. Some scars heal perfectly and disappear. Some of our memories, however, have been modified by the intensity of the initial experience, by our perceptual abilities and habits, and by further experience subsequent to the initial one. Some scars heal differently than the original tissue and remain visible for the rest of one’s life. Regardless of how we have healed (or not healed) from past experiences, the memories contained in our unique personal history continue to influence how we experience our current situation or state; our current reality... In case you missed it! How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints - Part 2 w ith Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and Director of the Institute for Life Coach Training, and Sara Oberg, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates. Listen now. We hope you will also join Pat and Sara for Online Therapy on April 22nd! Pat's Coaching Forum: 5 Steps to Coaching for Wellness and Optimal Living with Dr. Patrick Williams and Jim Strohecker, CEO and Co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net)
I was a student in one of the 2009 Foundational Classes. Through one of my classmates (and buddy group members), I took on a pro bono client. For the past few months, I have worked with this twenty-five year old college graduate around issues related to her career path (e.g. What should I do with my life? Why doesn’t my current situation feel right?). Happy with our sessions and how far she has come, she has shared with her also “struggling” twenty-something, post-college friends who would like their own coaches. At my suggestion and with some guidance, she is doing some investigating on her own. However, I wanted to ask if students in any of the ILCT classes (or perhaps any practicing coaches) would be interested in working with any of these young adults on a pro bono basis. I have have pretty substantial information on each potential client – two females, one male – which will help me match them with the right coach. Their main interests are around career issues. However, they come across as being less concerned about finding the right job now and more concerned about getting where they are supposed to be ASAP. They are anxious about living full lives and maximizing their potential. I can be reached at darakerkorianphd@gmail.com or by phone at 310-451-2538. Thank you! Dara Kerkorian - Utility Cost Management LLC REVIEW OUR FULL CURRENT CLASS LIST Some schedules may change; check listing or contact Edwina Adams, Administration/Registration, at edwina@lifecoachtraining.com.
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