About Life Coaching
Coaching is client-focused, goal-oriented and forward-looking. It is about where you, the
client, are at, where you want to go. From there, you are guided there by having the steps broken down into
smaller, more achievable goals.
While counselling is a concept familiar to many people, coaching and counselling are quite
different; where coaching is more inward-looking into emotions and feelings about a past
situation.
What coaching is:
- Addresses "what" about a person's state or situation
- Use the PRESENT then move them toward FUTURE outcomes
- Acknowledge the feelings but not focus on them
- Are collaborators/ team
- Participatory, interactive, dynamic
- Goals/ results driven – use action plans, may suggest possible options
- Non pathologizing/ towards wellness
- Client centered
- Personalized education
- Short term
- Empowerment-focused
- Positive awakening and transformation
As such, coaching is not about information giving, but rather more client centered,
participatory and interactive. One cannot always prepare or anticipate what the client is going to say or
what is to happen in a session. Hence the coach needs to be alert, be flexible and be extremely comfortable
with all the available methods/ resources available.
With clients who have worked with psychologists and used to therapy, they might come to a life
coach expecting to be told what is wrong with them, and how they should overcome their problem. A good life
coach, however, believes that the client innately already knows the solutions and will try to encourage the
clients to come up with their own solutions. This can be met with resistance with clients used to a model of
help.
Read about the coaching model used here!
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