Life Coaching BPS305

Learn how to encourage others to achieve maximal well-being. This course will enable people in health, fitness, counselling, social work, etc to help others set and achieve life goals. Develop an appreciation of how different perceptions of the world can be just as critical as knowledge, skill and opportunity in a person's success or failure. Also covers coaching processes, coaching skills and goal setting; and is equally relevant to developing both physical and psychological well-being in the client. Thank you for the returned assignment, this course has been a wonderful experience and highly recomend it to people looking to advance their skills Daniel Tolson

If you are interested in helping people, this is the course for you. Lose weight, change careers, be promoted, come to terms with illness or disability, overcome debts - these are just some of the problems that a life coach can support their client with.

Life coaches can work with their own clients, in their own professional practice. You offer support to your clients to improve their lives. Life coaching has made a difference to many people. It is a fulfilling and rewarding career.

WHAT IS A LIFE COACH?

At some point in their lives, everybody seeks advice from friends, family or professionals to help them make decisions or decide how to handle a particular situation or event. The life coach makes available the kind of consistent assistance and support that may be lacking in a person\'s life or difficult to obtain when consulting family or friends who may have quite different perspectives.

A life coach can become a confidante, helping the client determine what is important, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ascertain where they want to be in six months, a year, ten years. Life coaching involves assisting the client set personal and professional goals and establishing a workable strategy to attain them within a given time frame. For clients, a life coach can provide a life-changing experience, an invaluable opportunity to take control over their lives and fulfil their dreams.

NATURE OF LIFE COACHING

Like the coach of elite athletes, the life coach is results oriented, and his or her main tasks are to help clients recognise, overcome or remove barriers to personal growth and development, and develop strategies for achieving goals that will enable the individual to develop his or her full potential. Again like the sports coach, the life coach will be required to accurately assess the client\'s aptitudes, strengths, weaknesses, needs and goals in order to arrive at a program that is specifically tailored to that individual. Unlike a sports coach, however, life coaches may also have to manage clients\' reluctance, lack of motivation, inaccurate perceptions and other psychological barriers to effective self-management. Life coaching is primarily about helping clients develop the skills and attitudes that will enable them to manage themselves and their own lives.

People may contact a life coach for very different reasons: to help them make better financial or career decisions; to get them motivated; to help them overcome feelings of frustration, helplessness, or lack of confidence; to help them manage personal relationships; to help them develop practical life skills. However, the reasons for contacting a life coach may not be the primary issues that are causing the client distress or dissatisfaction, and much of the life coach\'s work will be to lead the client on a journey of self-discovery. (notes taken from our Life Coaching course)

Course Structure The course is divided into ten lessons as follows:

1. Introduction: Nature & scope of life coaching
2. Individual perceptions
3. A well-balanced life
4. Coaching processes
5. Coaching skills
6. Coaching & physical well-being
7. Coaching & psychological well-being
8. Coaching success
9. Goal-setting
10. Review & adjustment

Aims

• Define life coaching and differentiate it from other professions such as psychotherapist, counsellor, personal trainer and so on.
• Understand that people perceive the world in different ways, and identify ways to help clients change counter-productive perceptions without excessive discomfdiscomfort.
• Define a well-rounded individual and well-rounded life.
• Define different coaching skills including listening, analysing, planning and focusing.
• Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to physical well-being.
• Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to psychological well-being.
• Identify the areas in which successful life coaching can benefit a client.
• Understand the importance enabling clients to develop aims, plans and goals.
• Recognise the importance of reviewing and adjusting the life-coaching processes.

What you will do in this course

• Interview a life-coach (or someone who offers life-coaching service as part of their professional counselling repertoire) for information on the nature of life-coaching.
• Identify principles that differentiate life coaching from other helping professions.
• Consider pros and cons of different approaches to life coaching.
• Do case studies to reflect on and/or observe the effects of different life-coaching
• approaches on improving a person\'s quality of life.
• Design and administer a questionnaire to research some effects of negative aspects of self-perception.
• Discuss the importance of balancing a client\'s limitations and encouraging the
• to step outside their comfort zones
• Identify means of monitoring an individual\'s self-perceptions.
• Examine the relationship and interaction between a person\'s mental/psychological and physical health and wellbeing.
• Consider how to deal with clients with special needs such as disabilities.
• Identify the processes involved in life coaching and describe what each can contribute to a client\'s personal growth and development.
• Discuss ways individuals might resist life changes and ways to facilitate change.
• Discuss the pros and cons of assertiveness training.
• Identify reasons that individuals are unable to make decisions.
• Identify different life coaching skills and when they are required.
• Explain the importance of listening to the client and how to do it.
• Consider factors that might make a life coach\'s personal skill repertoire ineffectual.
• Discuss the role and risks of physical life coaching in the life-coaching process.
• Research factors that must be considered when setting out a life coaching plan to promote physical health, and psychological health.
• Identify crucial information to be included in the development of a client\'s plan.
• Discuss ways to nurture a client\'s goal setting, planning and self-monitoring skills .
• Research how much life-coaches use/do not use individualised client plans.
• How can the life-coach monitor the effectiveness of his/her program for a client?
• Create and evaluate an action plan for a real person/client, including monitoring.

START A NEW CAREER AS A LIFE COACH!

Life coaching is a rewarding and fulfilling career. This course will teach you how to help others. Support them to lose weight, be promoted, find a new career, resolve difficult problems. It will enable people in health, fitness, counselling, social work and other professions to help others set and achieve life goals. Develop your skills in setting and achieving goals, not only for yourself but for those who seek your assistance. Some students who have prior experience or training in a related field such as health, fitness, counselling, social work, psychology or naturopathy.

Thank you for the returned assignment, this course has been a wonderful experience and highly recomend it to people looking to advance their skills, in a cost effective and timely manner.

I appreciate the oppurtunity to complete a project for the final assesment, my style of learning resonates with this, it gave me an invaluable oppurtunity to go back through my course work, and cement that knowledge into my mind, in an open environement, with a encouraging time frame.

Once again thank you, and to all your team mates. Daniel Tolson- Life Coaching, Dubai, UAE