Greetings, and I invite each of you to explore what you believe to be relevant to life coaching and expectations.
Bill’s view of personal life coaching:
In a nutshell, a Certified Life Coach is someone who is highly trained to help clients explore within themselves topics of interest or growth.
Each coaching session is an independent event, with time frames determined by the person being coached (client) and coach as a team. The client will define the topic for any session and the coach is trained to ensure ethical principles are understood and followed and confidentiality is assured.
Coaching is not therapy, consulting, instructing, or any other discipline where it is dependent on answers emanating from the coach. In coaching, it is all about the person being coached. Coaching assumes the person is able to be in the present to work towards their identified and stated goals.
Coaches routinely will recommend a referral if therapy is indicated, but will always be at the discretion of the person being coached.
A professional life coach is about being an expert in listening, intuition, curiosity, exploring, questioning, challenging, and validating to the extent where a 1% growth is celebrated. Growth happens toward the edge of our comfort zones.
Why coaching works is more about how a person can vet desires, topics, aspirations, conflicts, fears, roles, or any issues within themselves, with the help of another to grow in areas of simple or complexity towards their best-self.
I look forward to working with you as your coach.
Coaching is about the person being coached not the coach for who has the power and agency to set the tone and direction of the session.
A skilled life coach protects from harm by strong ethical standards established by the International Coaching Federation (accreditation body). They guide along the side of the coachee and do not lead them. They evoke awareness and use their intuition to bring to light insights and enlightenments for those moments when clarity is within sight.