Life coaching is a process that begins with identification of a need for change and takes the client through the micro-processes of planning, achieving and evaluating change to fulfill established goals. Although clients come to a life coach seeking to change their present circumstances or their feelings about their lives, many clients are very reluctant to actively and purposefully engage in the processes of change, and might expect the life coach to somehow bring about the changes without any real growth or development on their (the client’s) part.

Therefore, life coaching not only involves planning and engaging in processes to bring about change, it can also involve the life coach in motivating the client to accept the need for inner change in order to bring about outer change. In the end, the processes of recognising a need for change and for managing change may be even more valuable and contribute more to the personal growth of the client than the outcomes.

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction
   • nature of life coaching
   • cognitive behaviour therapy
   • different approaches
   • the scope of life coaching.
2. Individual Perception
   • psychology of self-perception
   • perceptual barriers
   • motivating clients to challenge their perceptions.
3. A Well Balanced Life
   • the inter-relationship between psychology and physiology
   • stress
   • the psychology of balance.
4. Coaching Processes
   • key coaching processes
   • assessment of the client\'s situation
   • dealing with emotions
   • setting goals
   • replacing negative habits with positive ones
   • leadership qualities in a life coach
   • imagination and enthusiasm
   • clarifying goals
   • recognition of limitations.
5. Coaching Skills
   • understanding the communication process
   • body language
   • communication barriers
   • listening skills
   • assessing learning styles.
6. Coaching and physical well-being
   • human nutrition
   • important factors in nutrition
   • physical well-being.
7. Coaching and psychological well-being
   • the psychology of self-esteem
   • stress management programme
   • identifying stressors.
8. Coaching Success
   • high achievement
   • coaching success
   • career guidance
   • managing your money
   • beginning a business.
9. Goal Setting
   • values
   • aims and goals
   • types of goals
   • planning
   • future goals
   • steps for sucessful goal achievement
   • effort and attribution.
10. Review and Adjustment
    • indications that a programme needs to be reassessed
    • client\'s lack of confidence
    • personality clash
    • over-achievers
    • health and safety issues.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school\'s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• 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 discomfort.
• 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.

• 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.
• Conduct 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 to step outside their comfort zones
• Identify means of monitoring an individual’s self-perceptions.
• Examine the relationship and interaction between 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.

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