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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.
Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are. It is your authentic being in action within a specific relationship. Who you are, your personhood, is the basis for effective life coaching. Coaching is rooted in your being, not in your personal abilities. You coach because of who you are. If you are reading this, you may have already received training as a "helping professional" (counselor, therapist, coach, pastor, teacher, manager or supervisor). Or you may be simply interested in the profession of coaching. Or you may be someone who wants to make changes in his or her life. This book is designed to enhance your professional practice, satisfy your curiosity, and empower you to change your life! Regardless of your background, we believe you will benefit from reading the philosophy and practical information contained in "Total Life Coaching." Its primary focus however, is on the personal and professional coach. As life coaches and writers, our intention is twofold: (1) to assist you to develop your personal, effective combination of coaching skills that you require to be successful in creating your desired outcomes within your own life; and (2) to enhance your coaching skills so that you become the catalyst for your clients becoming as successful as they genuinely desire to be. As we manifest these intentions in Total Life Coaching, the readers will not only create their own desired outcomes, they will also coach others "from the inside out,"...a coaching style that is much more effective than any other. Life coaching is more about "being a coach" than "doing coaching." Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. We define effective coaching as authentic self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze the clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes. Coach training usually focuses on the learning of "techniques" to influence the behavior of clients. Total Life Coaching addresses such questions as: From whom do these coaching techniques emanate? What makes a good coach great? How can coaches incorporate techniques into their personalities, so they authentically contribute to their clients' well-being? What lessons, taken from human history, can be learned by coaches and clients, to realize their potential as professionals and as people? How might these lessons be effectively and authentically coached? How authentic are you as a life coach? How catalytic of others' development is your self-expression? How effectively do your clients' attain the results they really want? Have you designed your life the way you want? If your deepest desires were fulfilled, how would your life change? Formal education neglects at least seven essential areas of learning:
After our formal education, we spend about 90-95 percent of our time functioning within these seven areas. "Total Life Coaching" specifically focuses on these areas. Life coaching is really filling the void in our formal education.
In other words, we don't teach/coach how to design and implement a fulfilling life! Life is continuously providing us with information or "messages." When we do not listen, the messages become lessons. When we do not learn, the lessons become problems. When we don't address the problems, they become crises. When crises go unresolved, they create chaos in our lives. Great coaches seek to live on the levels of messages and lessons, not waiting for them to become problems, crises and reactions to chaos. They also strive to have their clients live at that same level. Total Life Coaching recommends that you keep life's processes on the "lesson and message" level. It makes living (and life coaching) so much more effective and enjoyable. In fact, coaching on the lesson- and message levels is so important that we have written Total Life Coaching in a format that reflects "Life Lessons" and the "messages" contained within each of those lessons. We want for the life coach: to avoid coaching on the levels of problems, crises, and chaos; to re-awaken his awareness of his own inner identity; to discover his personal/professional vision and purpose; to sharpen his coaching skills; and to live in such an intentional manner that who he is as a person becomes the catalyst for the success and well being of his clients. Doing so will not only enrich the life coach's own life, but also brings the coach's personality directly into the coach/client relationship. Total Life Coaching guides you through the complex process of creating what you want in your life, and then catalyzing the same in your clients. It teaches you sixty time-honored and proven "lessons" people have learned and used throughout history to become successful, no matter how they defined "success." Most people are completely unaware of how they create "what happens" in their lives. This book will lead you down a direct path through the problems, crises and chaos you may often encounter when you choose to take control of your life (and lifestyle). You will be empowered to make the necessary internal and external changes to become not only a highly successful coach, you will also learn how to become the person you want to be. It is written in the "Gospel of Thomas" that "What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you." When you are an authentic life coach, who brings to the coaching relationship what is genuinely within, you will be much more effective at assisting your clients to create their own desired outcomes. When you consciously choose your responses to life, you purposefully create the life you desire. Most of us are not taught to consciously respond to life's events. Rather, we usually react automatically to what happens in our lives. When you only react to the events in your life, you create a lifestyle predicated on external circumstances. When you plan for and choose your responses, you recapture your birthright to design and engineer your own lifestyle according to your individual preferences and desires. In other words, you take charge of the nature and quality of your life. By doing so, you create, or at least powerfully influence, your personal destiny. As a life coach, you need to be intimately familiar with those personal qualities, characteristics and abilities that have been used by the most successful people on earth to fulfill their own lives. You not only need to be aware of these successful life lessons, you need to know how to best coach your clients, so they develop them within themselves. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning 60 of life's most essential lessons, thereby creating what you want in your life. It also provides the professional life coach (therapist, counselor or consultant) with exercises, concepts and practical applications for catalyzing purposeful living in his/her clientele. It teaches you the proven principles people use to become massively successful, however you define "success." We define "success" as the attainment of any state with which you are content. Success brings peace of mind. It is highly individualized. One person's success may not be considered a success by any other person. Success and achievement are different. Achievement is the attainment of any goal. When you reach any desired goal, you may or may not be content--- you may or may not be successful. In any endeavor you choose, two essential factors build your foundation for success:
These two principles for success pervade your personal life, your life coaching, your career, and your creation of circumstances that benefit you and others.
Coaching Exercises are included throughout this book. When your clients engage in these activities, they will facilitate integrating into their own lives the specific life lesson. It is often recommended that as an authentic life coach, you also try out these exercises so you have first-hand knowledge of the impact they may have on your clients. One of the hallmarks of authentic life coaching is being able to ask powerful and evocative questions. Such questions are called "coaching questions." Many coaches know these as "powerful questions," "evocative questions" or "purposeful inquiry." They are questions to which the coach does not know the answer. They are not statements disguised as questions, like "Why did you do that?" That type of question implies a judgment that whatever was done was wrong, stupid, a bad choice, etc. A powerful question is one that evokes new thoughts, emotions, visions, metaphors, and ideas. They are usually open-ended beginning with the words: "What?" "How?" "Where?" "Who?" They rarely begin with the word, "Why." "Why" questions invite the client to defend or justify themselves. Near the end of each Life Lesson, we present "Coaching Questions and Inquiries." These are questions you may want to ask your clients. They are designed to assist clients to focus on issues that will catalyze their creating the coaching outcomes they have set for themselves. Pure coaching lies within the inquiry. There is a distinction in coaching between asking powerful and evocative questions during the session and using a question as a "purposeful inquiry." Questions during coaching are to elicit responses in the moment, whereas purposeful inquiry is a process of leaving the client with a question to ponder and contemplate, a kind of Socratic inquiry. Socrates is probably the first coach. Socrates: "an unexamined life is not worth living." From the introduction, Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance your Practice .....and Your Life Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Monthly ILCT - CPH Teleconference Join Dr. Pat Williams, Senior Vice President and Director of Training of LifeOptions, Sara Oberg, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates and Jay Ostrowski, Director of Business Development of LifeOptions for a discussion about:
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