Life Coaching
Background
The background for Life Coaching is found in the history of Executive Consulting, as clients of business/executive coaches expressed the desire to accomplish in personal growth what was taking place in their professional growth. The movement was formalized in 1994 when The International Coach Federation was formed. Just as Executive Consulting is based on trust, solving problems, and enhancing business, today Life Coaching professionals apply these concepts to family, personal relationships, and personal growth.
"Life Coaching is an ongoing partnership focused on the client taking action toward the realization of goals, desires of the heart, and pursuing passion with integrity.“
Life Coaching versus Psychotherapy
The Life Coaching process includes vision identification and creating a template for action, activities that foster a proactive mindset rather than a continual response to crisis. While Psychotherapy focuses on brokenness and healing/reconciliation, Coaching focuses on specific growth, proactive approaches, and action. Further Psychotherapy is insight oriented, often involving a client’s experience of pain. Coaching simply identifies the gap between where the client is and where they want to go.
Aspects of Coaching
- Vision casting, naming passions
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Identifying core values supporting the vision
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Specifying Purpose
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Identifying Resources needed to fulfill vision
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Partializing Goals to pursue the vision (step by step)
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Accountability over time; the coach and client collaborating to maintain goals toward the Vision
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Proactive Growth, future oriented
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Transitioning Life’s changes with Insight
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Developing professionally, personally or organizationally
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Peak Performance Development
Who might benefit from Coaching?
Individuals
You might be an executive or the owner of a successful small business looking to find balance between the demands of work and the needs of your family. Perhaps you are a musician, a writer, or an artist looking for a creative breakthrough, or a doctoral candidate looking for the perfect thesis. You might be a twenty-something techno whiz entrepreneur with a brilliant idea for a product or service that will change the world forever.
Couples
You might be an empty-nester looking to make a difference in the lives of others but not sure which direction to choose. Maybe you simply want your already great relationship to be spectacular.
Whatever your circumstances, goals or dreams might be, the bottom line is that your life is in transition and you are determined to make your life be what you want it to be! Contact me now for an appointment.