Life Coaching

Life Coaching has its starting point in the USA. It is now a recognised method of receiving professional mentoring, in both personal and business areas of life. Personal, Life or Psychological Coaching is a term generally used in the fields of life, relationship, dating, personal growth, phobias, self discovering, health issues, creativity, self-care, spirituality and other fields of personal development. A Life Coach works one to one with a client, over an extended period of time.

 
Personal Coaching is a relationship which is designed and defined in a relationship agreement between a client and a coach. It is based on the client's expressed interests, goals, and objectives. The sessions can take place face to face, over the phone, or by email. The coach will help the client to set and achieve goals, provide encouragement and feedback and assist them to discover new ways of tackling situations.

 Life Coaches assist people in all areas of life, where there is a desire to self discover, unlock potential and achieve new goals. They may be business goals or personal ones, such as improving a relationship, find a purpose in life, self understanding, live a better life and etc. The idea being that the goals will become more achievable with the help of a professional mentor who can help with motivation and foci. Additionally, many people who do not feel comfortable seeing a Counsellor/Therapist, may find a Life Coach helpful to provide the necessary direction that they initially require for making changes in their lives.
 

A Personal, life or psychological coach acts as a human mirror for clients by sharing an outside and unbiased perspective on what they are observing about their clients. The coach approach’s is to compose a clear pattern of understanding so that the client in the case would be able to identify with. A Personal Coach may teach specific insights and skills to empower the client toward their goals or a more stable life approach. Finally, a Personal Coach encourages the client to celebrate the achievement of milestones and goals. Imagine hiring a personal and professional consultant for life, someone with whom you can discuss individual relationship difficulties and receive help in identifying and creating what you want in your life. Someone that will not judge you but understand you. Many people who do not feel comfortable seeing a Counsellor or Psychologist may find a Life Coach helpful to provide the necessary direction that they initially require for making changes in their lives.

Depending on individual client needs, coaching sessions are regularly scheduled 60 or more minute sessions which occur two or three times a month, sometimes once a week. Your relationship with your coach is collaborative in that you work together to identify goals and develop methods toward realizing your goals and results. You are the one who takes action while your personal coach is there to guide and to support you all the way. The coach will give you techniques that can be used with remarkable effect.

Individuals are better able to make big decisions when they have the support of friends, family, peers, or a life coach. With a life coach a client is more comfortable taking bigger strides to getting the job done and making the appropriate changes toward a better life.
 

Coaching for the Young

From experience, the most imperative thing of all, if you are interested in what young people want, is that you have to mean it. Practicing coaching for the young is not challenging at all, actually it is very self gratifying experience. Coaching can help the young to develop their self awareness and lead to the discovering of their true potential in life as a whole . Young People when coached have a more dynamic understanding of their needs, talents and aspiration and goals. It is one thing to be in a job centre, told to give out advice to someone young who comes in looking for a job. It is another to want to give advice, support and understanding in ways that build the self-esteem of the person in front of you.

The use of NLP and LOA on young people is a new ways to create confidence and re-awaken feelings of self-worth, even in the most distressed and vulnerable young people. Coaching for the young has a positively affect on their self-esteem. NLP techniques can be use to explore how a young person structures their thoughts and learning strategies, and what intervention will make a valid difference.

Coaching for the young is also design to help their emotional needs, social conflicts, improving relationships in general, create a understanding and healing of past events. Produce brighter and more dynamic attitude about the future. Using wide range of effective approaches, NLP and LOA can help young people to deal and overcome anger, stress, attitudes, phobias, emotional distress, learning difficulties and also can help improving social life. The individual is in control of his/her learning pace.

Coaching for the young is not intended to take the young from the young, it is design to improve and help the young to take advantages of the life around. The emphasis here is to make the young a happier and more in control person. Coaching for young is not going to change you it will help you to discover yourself and your full potential. Coaching facilitates the youth having a more defined understanding of their goals , from deciding on a specific profession to learning about the process required to reach their goals that that are realistic and successfully met.

Youth Coaching can help the individual:

• Learning that they are appreciated for who they are, not just for what they do, or what they “win” when recognized for achieving individual objective.
• Re-evaluating and re-setting unrealistic goals.
• Bring to an end feelings of failure out of any life aspect such as learning activity and daily family life
• Taking the “feeling of boredom” out of the learning activity.
• Real understanding of friends and family values and social issues.
• Participating in sport and daily activities
• To establish habits of volunteerism and philanthropy

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.” W. Somerset Maugham