Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice...and Your Life Review

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(More customer reviews)Unfortunately I purchased 7 copies of this book for a coaching program I was doing before I had read it. The cover information and introduction were intriguing.However, I found the content thin and failing to deliver on the promises laid out in the introduction of the book as well as the introduction of each chapter. I liked ideas that they told me they would tell me about; the authors delivered thin regurgitated material.

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Total Life Coaching byPat and Lloyd is more than just a book.

It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal.Life coaching is more than a collection oftechniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it isyour authentic being in action.Readers of PatWilliams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleagueand writer, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on thisearlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely howto enhance your professional practices throughpractical and effective life coaching. It alsoempowers you to change your own lives throughuse of the practical information and philosophypresented here.Total Life Coaching isorganized into a series of 50 life lessons, andis designed to be either read cover-to-cover ordipped into, as needed, for assistance whenconducting a coaching session. Keeping life'sprocesses on the "message and lesson"level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guidesyou step-by-step through the complex process oflearning and coaching these fifty importantlessons. The lessons are organized into 8sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; CoachingCommunication Skills; Living Life withIntegrity; Success: Clients Achieving theirPotential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; CreatingHigh-Quality Relationships; Understanding YourPast to Create a Desired Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes:

The life lesson
The messages contained withinthe lesson
Coaching objectives for yourclients regarding the lesson
What you need toknow about the lesson to provide the frameworkfor coaching it
Coaching methods, exercises,questions, and language for bringing each lesson to your clients
Sample coaching conversationsthat exemplify the coach-client dialogue for the coaching of the lesson.

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Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training Review

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(More customer reviews)I highly recommend "Becoming a Professional Life Coach" for both new and experienced coaches, and for anyone interested in learning the "coach approach" in their lives, business and communities. Today coaching skills are an invaluable resource, both in the workplace and for personal fulfillment, yet there are still millions that don't even know what coaching is or how to become one. Pat and Diane deliver an easy to read, comprehensive guide offering history, theory and practical application of the most potent skills used by professional life coaches worldwide. This book addresses a great need in the marketplace.
As a veteran coach, it was refreshing to expand my own depth of knowledge on skills I've been using for years. They describe the skills, and when and how to use the skill most effectively. I also love how they included the developmental stages of consciousness, which help people recognize how ready someone is to change, and the best way to support someone to the next stage. They've also included sections on identifying life purpose, creating fulfillment and working on practical issues like money. The case studies integrate real-life examples to demonstrate how a skill or process is put into action.
Since Patrick Williams is the founder of his own coaching school, I expected a cookie cutter curriculum from his own school's teachings. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly they integrated and referenced the best disciplines from a variety of coaching schools, as well as useful and distinguished models from the field of psychology. It is no wonder that Patrick Williams is known as "The Ambassador for Life Coaching." As a veteran life coach, I applaud Patrick for inspiring thousands more to integrate a "coach approach" in their everyday lives and/or become a life coach themselves. The world could use a few more life coaches, and this is a perfect place to begin.
Mary E. Allen, CPCC, MCC
Author of The Power of Inner Choice: 12 Weeks to Living a Life YOU Love
Host of "Conversations with the Masters"
Host of "Conversations with the Masters of Coaching"
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Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerfulcareer in the last several years, has shifted the paradigm of howpeople who seek help with life transitions find a "helper" to partnerwith them in designing their desired future.
No matter what kind of sub-specialty acoach might have, life coaching is the basicoperating system: a whole-person,client-centered approach.Here, Pat Williams,who has been a leader in the life coachingmovement, has co-authored another essential book for therapists working as coaches. Becoming aProfessional Life Coach draws on the wisdom ofyears of collective experience that have goneinto designing the curriculum for the Institutefor Life Coach Training. This curriculum hastrained therapists and psychologists around theworld to add coaching to their currentbusinesses. This book presents the essentialelements of life coach training program in acontent-rich form that is equivalent to agraduate-level education in the field.

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