LIFE COACHING

What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching is a personal development profession - a highly successful and effective one.

It is all about people setting positive goals and working towards them. Based on change which is desired and initiated by the client, it focuses on the willingness and ability of the client to move forward and take action, supported by the coach.

Teamwork, a partnership between the coach and the client, is the essence of the relationship, based on mutual trust and an agreement to advance your goals or vision, while taking responsibility for your own life. It is about self-empowerment, since it is you who makes the decision and initiates the action.

Who needs a Life Coach?

Sometimes we may have a moment of truth, a realisation that we can’t stand our boring job, our unsatisfactory living conditions, or whatever, any longer. We may know what changes we want to make, but change, as everyone knows, can be scary. Much safer to stay in the comfort zone!

Or we may simply feel unfulfilled, but not be able to put our finger on why this is so. It’s all rather like a plateful of spaghetti, but we can’t seem to find the end – or the beginning.

Enter the Life Coach!

This is where the Life Coach comes in. Professional, supportive, yet not emotionally involved, with the intuition, training and capability to help you set goals, achieve targets, realise you can do, be and have everything you choose for yourself. An outsider who can cast a fresh light on things and illuminate a starting point …

The Energy of Coaching

… And then the joy and magic that can happen! When the light bulb goes on inside your head. When you get your “aha” moment, when you realise that you knew it all along. When you want to shout “yesssss!” from the rooftops.

My coaching style

At some level, I’ve been coaching people all my life. I’ve “been there, done that, got the T shirt”. See my About Me page (link) for some further comments from clients and colleagues.

Starting from the principle that the cup is always half full, as opposed to half empty, this is what you can expect from me as your coach:

	A strong focus on what is good, positive and already working for you
	A lively, interactive, enjoyable and exciting working relationship
	Respect for your hopes, dreams and aspirations
	Total confidentiality
	Constructive, encouraging feedback

We start in the present, the “now”. Together, we establish where you want to get to and consider strategies for how you’re going to get there.

As your Life Coach I will listen to you, I will not judge you, I will share in your successes, and rejoice with you when you make a breakthrough. I won’t, however, do it all for you! I will work with you, not for you, to discuss, motivate and inspire you. The answers already lie within you. What we do together is find them and bring them out.

Where and How?

Coaching sessions are basically conversations between the coach and the client. They can take place face-to-face, by telephone, by email, or a combination of all three.

Ideally, but by no means essentially, a personal one-to-one meeting to start the ball rolling, followed by telephone calls made by the client to the coach at a predetermined time, with emails in between – this is a combination which works well for me and my clients. I am also happy to receive short calls in between sessions to celebrate your achievements or when a boost of encouragement is needed.

Free Coaching Session

I offer an initial free, no obligation coaching session. This gives us an opportunity for me to answer any questions you may have, to give you a “taster” of coaching, and for us to discuss how and when coaching may best meet your needs. Do give me a call or email.

“DON’T BE A SLOW COACH – GET A LIFE COACH!”