What is coaching?

Questions

Have you ever been at a stand-still in your life, where you felt struck and confused?

Have you ever wanted to get to the next level in a career or a hobby because you knew you had ability, but you needed that push to improve further?

Have you ever tried to figure something out on your own, join a self-help group or read a ton of self-development books and still felt stuck?

Have you ever faced a huge challenge that you just couldn't seem to solve on your own?

Have you ever wanted to change a bad habit or a personality trait that was holding you back but you just didn't know where to begin or how to get it done?

Have you ever felt like you had so much more to give to the world but you lacked the motivation to figure it out on your own?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, life coaching can help you.

What is Life Coaching?
The ICF (International Coaching Federation) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential”.

Life coaches are professionals who work with healthy individuals who want to improve their lives. No longer the domain of wealthy executives and aspiring management types, life coaching is now becoming more and more widely used by a variety of people who want to achieve personal or professional goals in their private life or career.

In the coaching relationship the client is seen as the expert in his/her life and work, and every client is creative, resourceful and whole. In other words, every client is doing the best they can with the resources they have (or know) at that moment. You are not broken, you do not need to be fixed. 
Standing on that foundation, it is the coach's responsibility to:

• Discover, clarify, and align with what the client wants to achieve
• Encourage client self-discovery
• Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
• Hold the client responsible and accountable

A coaching session is:
- 100% confidential
- a non-judging zone
- a collaboration between coach and client: Coaches don't give advice, they listen, guide and ask a lot of powerful questions

What this really means for me, is that I work with the Client to guide them on a journey to discover their own resources. Most of us know what we are supposed to do, but we procrastinate, find excuses or self-sabotage and don't get the results we want. We have set up so many goals and to do list but do not seem to really be able to attain them.

This is not me telling you what to do, it's helping you discover that you already have all that is required to lead a truly fulfilling and amazing life.

Whichever area of your life you want to improve, but feel that you are not making progress. If you feel stuck, unsure what to do next, coaching could help you take action.

What it is not
- It's not mentoring: a mentor is someone with superior experience is a specific (typically technical field) you want to learn in.
- It's not counseling