What is Life Coaching?
Coaching is… a process which aims to bring balance, achievement and happiness into your life by helping you to develop a greater awareness of who you are and what you want. It will enable you to set and work towards goals, in harmony with your true values and to transform the obstacles that stand in your way into stepping stones towards achieving them. Coaching is holistic, which means that every area of your life will be taken into account to ensure a healthily balanced lifestyle. It’s rather like a make-over but for the whole you!
Coaching is… a form of learning, where as your Coach I’ll support you to create learning and self-development in a way that benefits you. The word ‘coaching’ literally means to transport someone from one place to another, so you could say, life-coaching is really about supporting you on your life journey.
Coaching is… a constructive conversation or series of conversations that relate to your personal progress. As a Coach, I use the tools and techniques that I have learned through 20 years of teaching, training, mentoring, coaching, counselling, advice and guidance and NLP to aid you in the journey towards reaching your goals. This wide range of experience allows me to tailor the coaching to your specific needs, selecting the most relevant tools for you as an individual.
Coaching is… based on the principle that as an individual you are ultimately responsible for your own life and the results that you’re getting. Once you acknowledge that you are responsible for something, it follows that you have power and influence over it, so I’ll work alongside you to help build that personal responsibility and channel the power that comes with it.
Coaching is not…structured training, a way of someone else solving your problems for you, therapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or counselling. What I won’t do as your Coach is instruct you to do something specific or go and do it for you. If I did I would be taking responsibility – and so power – away from you. For example, if you’re not getting the results at work that you want, I might encourage you to: understand the situation more clearly, develop new ideas or approaches for the situation or take constructive action that gets you the results you want.