Becoming a Professional Life Coach

Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training [Hardcover]

Author: Patrick Williams | Language: English | ISBN: 0393705056 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of how people who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partner with them in designing their desired future.

No matter what kind of sub-specialty a coach might have, life coaching is the basic operating system: a whole-person, client-centered approach. Here, Pat Williams, who has been a leader in the life coaching movement, has co-authored another essential book for therapists working as coaches. Becoming a Professional Life Coach draws on the wisdom of years of collective experience that have gone into designing the curriculum for the Institute for Life Coach Training. This curriculum has trained therapists and psychologists around the world to add coaching to their current businesses. This book presents the essential elements of life coach training program in a content-rich form that is equivalent to a graduate-level education in the field.

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• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (March 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393705056
• ISBN-13: 978-0393705058
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I highly recommend "Becoming a Professional Life Coach" for both new and experienced coaches, and for anyone interested in learning the "coach approach" in their lives, business and communities. Today coaching skills are an invaluable resource, both in the workplace and for personal fulfillment, yet there are still millions that don't even know what coaching is or how to become one. Pat and Diane deliver an easy to read, comprehensive guide offering history, theory and practical application of the most potent skills used by professional life coaches worldwide. This book addresses a great need in the marketplace.

As a veteran coach, it was refreshing to expand my own depth of knowledge on skills I've been using for years. They describe the skills, and when and how to use the skill most effectively. I also love how they included the developmental stages of consciousness, which help people recognize how ready someone is to change, and the best way to support someone to the next stage. They've also included sections on identifying life purpose, creating fulfillment and working on practical issues like money. The case studies integrate real-life examples to demonstrate how a skill or process is put into action.

Since Patrick Williams is the founder of his own coaching school, I expected a cookie cutter curriculum from his own school's teachings. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly they integrated and referenced the best disciplines from a variety of coaching schools, as well as useful and distinguished models from the field of psychology. It is no wonder that Patrick Williams is known as "The Ambassador for Life Coaching.

Anyone considering life coaching as a career, whether expanding an existing therapeutic or other helping practice to include coaching or starting out brand new, should obtain a personal copy of Becoming A Professional Life Coach: Lessons From The Institute For Life Coach Training by Patrick Williams and Diane S. Menendez. As one of the most comprehensive and modern resources related to life coaching, it focuses more on the actual practice of coaching rather than establishing a professional coaching business.

Becoming A Professional Life Coach opens with a brief history of the profession of life coaching and its expansion. From there, Williams and Menendez define exactly what coaching is as well as what it is not. As many therapists and other psychological professionals have added coaching to their repertoire of offerings, it seems that the lines between coaching and therapy have been blurred. The authors are clear in their distinction between the two and focus on the fact that most coaching clients are healthy, successful, and ready to make life changes.

Fundamental to success as a life coach is the ability to listen, and the authors provide several excellent strategies for effective listening including how to read between the lines to hear what clients are really looking for. Important to the practice of coaching is not to teach or advise so much as to help the client realize for herself exactly what it is that she wants from life. Increasing clients' awareness through effective language and conversation is key to this element of coaching, and the authors' strategies are sound.

The authors use several relevant and modern case studies along with the stories of students who have passed through the institute's training program.

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