Life Coaching

Life Coaching - In my short introductory post, I have talked a little bit about how this blog would work. Of course the main focus of this blog of mine is to really talk about everything under the sun with respect to life coaching. It is definitely one of the best things which would value add to your life. Life coaching is not a simple business and you should engage a life coach to be on the safe side. Well in all other cases, perhaps you might find my blog good enough that you can do some life coaching on your own without engaging a life coach. In this way, you can not only save some money but learn some trips to do it yourself (DIY).

Anyways besides engaging a life coach, there are also many life coaching courses out there that you can take up. Currently there isn’t any life coach certification or life coach accreditation. From what I know, life coaching is pretty new and is a self-regulating profession, except for those registered under international professional associations). To attain such certifications, you would need some good life coach training or should I say life coaching training.

So if you are on a quest to find a life coach, I am not sure this blog of mine would be able to help you out. But of course deep down in my heart I hope that this blog will truly really really help you out. My blog would in subsequent articles focus on becoming a life coach. Maybe if you want to look for some life coach jobs to get some life coaching certification, you are also most welcome.

So as mentioned, I like to introduce good books on life coaching for my blog. I believe that it is impossible for me to cover everything on my blog and hope that with my good recommendation, people may actually buy some of this books to read and improve on their knowledge. In today’s article I would like to recommend this best selling book titled Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life by Laura Whitworth.

Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life

You would be happy to know that many of the reviews of this book gave it a 5-star rating (46 out of 70 with another 14 giving it 4 stars at the time of this post). Anyways this book is a newly revised edition. Co-Active Coaching teaches you how to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. While is book is written more for the coach or prospective coach, I would say that it is useful for people who need some help with life coaching to read it too. This book is divided into three parts and the authors, Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandahl describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model for great life coaching.

The three parts of the book are as follows:

Part One is about "Coaching Fundamentals." The authors outline the model which places the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership. The model focuses on the coach using his or her skills to focus on the client's fulfillment, balance, and process.

Part Two is about "Co-Active Coaching Skills." There are five skills which are key to the coach's success: listening, use of intuition, exploration of curiosity, action and learning and self-management. The book details activities that the coach can practice at the end of each chapter. This would allow the coach to perfect his skills in the five different areas.

Part Three is about "Co-Active Coaching Processes." While the earliest section was about skills, this section is more on how to conduct a smooth life coaching process. For this section, the authors highlight the three core principles of coaching, which are fulfillment, balance and process.

The fourth section is on "The Coach's Toolkit" which is a little nice section that had packed all the information needed to facilitate life coaching. For example you can find Action Plans, Client Activities and Worksheets, Intake Checklists etc which are good tools for the coach to use when coaching clients. There are even exercises and worksheets that can be used by the coach to better understand what the client is asked to do and so as to allow him to understand the coaching process as well. There are over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to reinforce the principles and techniques taught in the earlier chapters.

With so much good information stored in this book Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life, you should go ahead to grab it soon before it runs out of stock! Stay tuned to my life coaching blog for more good books and future updates!

Life Coaching