What is Life Coaching?
Life coaching is a professional service that fosters the development of a one-to-one interactive relationship between coach and client devoted to helping clients identify and accomplish their personal and professional goals and become self-actualized. It relies on collaborative efforts and is highly goal oriented and success building. Life coaching provides clients with feedback, insights and guidance from an outside vantage point, yielding results that could not be achieved by the client working alone. Life coaching is not to be confused with therapy or counseling.* Coaches are trained to recognize the client in need of services that cannot be addressed by coaching and to make referrals to appropriate specialists.
In a successful coaching-client relationship, clients:
• Do more than they would on their own
• Take themselves more seriously
• Create momentum and consistency
• Find more effective and focused solutions
• Become more balanced and fulfilled
• Attain more realistic goals
In life coaching, information drawn from the client is used by the coach to promote the client’s awareness and choice of action. This information is not used to evaluate performance or produce reports for anyone but the person being coached. Confidentiality and privacy are maintained in accordance with applicable laws.
Life coaching has the freedom and flexibility to address a wide variety of personal and professional topics. In any given coaching relationship, coach and client alone determine the scope of their work. Any contribution the coach makes to produce the client’s desired outcome is through collaborative and on-going interaction with the client.
And finally, life coaching is designed to provide clients with a greater capacity to produce results and a greater confidence in their ability to do so. It is intended that clients do not leave LCMS with the perception that they need to rely on a coach in order to produce similar results in the future.
Who Benefits by Being Life Coached?
- Anyone stuck in a rut or feeling trapped
- Individuals trying to get ahead
- People lacking confidence
- Individuals or groups seeking new solutions to problems
- People wanting to improve their relationship skills
- Individuals wanting to break a bad habit or create a good one
- Anyone trying to find better ways to deal with stress
- Individuals suffering from chronic back pain
- Probably everyone!
* See Helpful Definitions page
"There is only one corner of the Universe that you can be
certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Huxley