Quick FAQ’s About Life Coaching
· What is Life Coaching?
· Why Hire a Life Coach?
· Am I a Candidate for Coaching?
· Why Coaching Instead of Counseling?
· How Do I Choose a Qualified Life Coach?
What Is Life Coaching?
Life coaching is fitness training for your mind and spirit. Coaching takes you from where you are in your life to where you want to be. All coaching involves goals for learning and change. People work with coaches to make progress on their chosen goals. Coaching clients often achieve greater success and more quickly than they would on their own.
There are two main types of life coaching, personal and business involving countless individual goals people can achieve. Coaching works in the present with the focus of clients on designing their futures— not just letting things happen to them.
Why Hire a Life Coach?
People hire coaches to achieve major breakthroughs in their lives: deepen relationships, reevaluate life choices, develop talents, eliminate procrastination and achieve goals, overcome challenges, and make successful transitions through job changes, marriage, childbirth, divorce, loss, and other significant life events.
Am I a Candidate for Coaching?
1. Do you want a higher level of fulfillment and development
in your personal or work life?
2. Do you need balance?
3. Would you like to deepen your intimate relationships?
4. Do you want to increase life satisfaction?
5. Do you need improvement or enrichment in specific areas
of your life— marriage, family, parenting, relationships,
or dating?
6. Is your job all it needs to be?
7. Do you have a goal that you just can’t seem to get
started doing?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, you may be a candidate for coaching.
Why Coaching Instead of Counseling?
Counseling enriches lives and involves goals, but is primarily a prevention and intervention (“stay well/get well”) service, which provides a specific diagnosis. Counseling works with emotional healing or relief from psychological pain. A mental disorder diagnosis “label” is required when services are to be covered by insurance benefits. In counseling, a client basically progresses from “mental illness” into “mental wellness.”
Coaching is one tool or methodology, which is often used by mental-health professionals for therapy. Coaching is also the process for life coaches to aid in enrichment of your life.
Life coaching is an enrichment and achievement oriented process (“are well/become excellent”). The field of life coaching itself does not/cannot deal with emotional healing or psychological pain. (And coaches who are not also licensed mental-health professionals are not qualified to work with healing and pain.) Through life coaching, individuals progress from a “good life” into an “excellent life.”
How Do I Choose a Qualified Life Coach?
Coaching as a skill has been practiced for over 40 years by several professions (aside from sports) as a technique or method of producing learning and change through motivation, support, and formal knowledge of human behavior. Business managers, consultants, mentors, mental-health professionals, and educators are well known as key professionals whose academic training and experience provides coaching expertise.
However, to date, there is no professional license available specifically to regulate coaching competency. Academic education, experience, and informal certification can serve as a guide.
For in-depth answers to these FAQ’s, and 6 top criteria for choosing a Coach, go to http://www.hirecoach.com/how-to-choose-a-coach/
