Life Coaching is a purposeful conversation between you and I: you being the coachee and I, the

coach.

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What makes the Life Coaching conversation very special is that it has a specific purpose.

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The experience of being coached by a Life Coach is sometimes a bit hard to define: we start a conversation, set some goals, explore your thoughts and emotions around your issue.

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I ask you different types of questions to understand what you are experiencing.

 

Some of the questions may be difficult to answer, simply because noone has ever asked you those type of questions before, maybe because you have never even asked yourself those type of questions.

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We explore your behaviour and analyse whether what you do gets you the results you want.

 

If you are coming to Life Coaching, it is likely that what you are doing right now is not getting you what you want, so we explore what you can do differently.

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Life Coaching offers you a space to explore your options, your opportunities, your possibilities. While you are being coached, you can test doing things differently and then come and talk to the coach about what happened, what you were thinking, how you felt, what impact your actions had on others...

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All this is discussed in the Life Coaching space, where there is no right or wrong, no judgements, no advice about what you should or should not do.

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Time and time again, I have been marvelled at the possibilities that open up for my clients when they are allowed to express themselves in this way, in such a safe space of exploration.

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What happens in the first Life Coaching session?

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In the first session, we agree on what you want to work on.

 

You bring a problem and the desire for change.

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I bring my knowledge and experience in the process of change and the methodology of transformation.

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During the first and, sometimes, second sessions, we explore your problem and you decide on what you want to happen: What outcome do you want?

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The idea of the coaching relationship is to help you to move you from where you are right now to where you want to be.

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We will embark on a journey of exploration and discovery that will develop your self-awareness and ability to make life-enhancing decisions.

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Life Coaching works better when we focus on a specific outcome so the first step is to explore and decide what outcome you want to have and how having that outcome will help you to achieve your long-term goals.

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Most professionals and coaching practitioners tell us that coaching focuses on the future and that we do not talk about your past. This is not entirely true.

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It is more accurate to say that we use the information that you bring to the coaching and this includes your past in relation to the issue and to the outcome you want.

 

Questions we may reflect on are:

 

How did you get to where you are now?

 

What have you tried that did not work for you?

 

What have you tried that did work?

 

What are the main challenges that you’ve experienced in relation to the issue?

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All this is information that helps us understand your present circumstances.

 

Coaching does not dwell in the past, though.

 

However, sometimes, in order to make real changes, we need to face our past, understand it, accept it and let it go so that we can move forward.

 

You are not your past behaviour or circumstances.

 

In this sense, Life Coaching is the learning to practise the Art of Possibility.

 

Life Coaches do not believe that who you are now is the whole story.

 

We believe that there exists in you a potential still to be manifested and our job is to help you see this and to actualise that potential according to your needs and desires.

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In my practice, I use a future-led approach whereby we work on becoming very clear about the outcome you want, and your short and long-term goals.

 

Then we work from the future backwards: If this is who you want to be and where you want to be, what is preventing you from being that person right now?

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The first change is that of your mindset and personal identity:

 

Who do you believe yourself to be?

 

What are your assumptions about you, others and the world/life?

 

What emotional baggage are you carrying that is no longer serving you?

 

How do you show up in the world, in your relationships, at work, in your personal life?

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These are some of the things we aim to explore in our Life Coaching sessions.

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Sometimes, clients need more than challenging questions.

 

In my coaching practice, I use a wide range of tools and strategies to help you move forward.

 

We do visualisations, work with imagery, symbolism, energy and movement.

 

We work on your beliefs, values, communication skills, and many other aspects of your personal psychological make-up.

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Sometimes clients have the mindset and the motivation but lack the skills that will allow them to overcome their obstacles.

 

We then do some life skills training, for example, we may work on developing your ability to set boundaries, have difficult conversations, perform in public, behave assertively, etc.

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Life-skills training is an important aspect of an effective coaching strategy.

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Finally, I bring my strong intuitive self to the session. I work with my intuition a lot and I am also a good reader of energy and energetic transactions.

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People come to Life Coaching for many reasons, perhaps they are looking to:

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• Find clarity on an issue

• Gain purpose

• Become more self-aware

• Set meaningful and challenging goals

• Identify strengths and resources

• Explore ways forward to achieving success

• Take specific, targeted action

• Set deadlines and commitments

• Challenge limiting thoughts patterns

• Review results and learn from successes and failures

• Look at situations differently to gain new insights

• Understand your own motivations better

• Change direction away from habitual behaviour

• Get to the core of what stops you moving ahead in your life

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