What Is Life Coaching Anyway: Some Distinctions
- Coaching is most often described as:
~ a partnership, thought partner, action partner, sounding board.
- The coaching relationship assumes that the client already knows what is their best solution.
- The coach’s role is to help clarify and uncover those solutions through observation and questions.
Coaching Outcomes
a. The client is self-generating: that is, beyond the coaching relationship, clients can integrate coaching principles for themselves to maintain perspective and create their own solutions independent of the coach.
This is the Enlighten Principle ~ shedding light to give focus.
b. The client is self-correcting: that is, clients are conscious of their own process so they can make adjustments to their communication, actions, and way of being in the midst of their lives.
This is the Empower Principle ~ accessing power through trustworthy relationships.
c. There are long-term measurable results: that is, objective observation confirms what the coach and client understand is happening. The results are exceptional by the client and other’s standards.
This is the Excel Principle ~ achieving results beyond the imaginable.
Coaching Applications
Whole Life Coaching: A powerful partnership designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of human learning, effectiveness, and fulfillment.
Benefits of Whole Life Coaching:
- Greater sustainable results in less time. Goals!
- A higher quality of life.
- Stronger communication skills and relationships.
- Greater self-esteem.
- Better decisions making strategies.
- Greater clarity professionally and personally.
- Focus on a life values, a life plan, mission and vision.
Sources: The Excelerator Coaching Program and the International Coach Federation
In peace and mindfulness,
Zoey
Zoey Ryan BSc., PCC
executive ~ leadership ~ life coach for wise women
values based leadership & life coaching to set your heart on fire and soothe your soul!
Enjoy this special calming visual … with ‘blissings’ from Zoey
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
~ Mary Oliver from the poem A Summers Day