Clarifying your purpose and intention as a life coach
Claiming the confidence to coach
Creating your ideal coaching scenario
Developing the faculty of presence
Attending skills
Active listening
Validating your clients
The skill of reframing
Drawing forth your client’s innate wisdom
Environmental preparation for your coaching session
Psychological & spiritual preparation for your session
How to initiate your coaching session
Open-ended questions
A vocabulary of feelings
Embracing forward steps
Keeping your client on track
Leveraging contrast
Content and process
Healing as release from fear
Cost and Payoff
Empathy and sympathy
Assessing preference
Differentiating between presenting issues and core issues
Honoring beliefs/permission slips
Client as mirror of coach
Moving beyond labels
Goal setting
Setting healthy boundaries
Dealing with resistance
Giving clients homework
Concluding your coaching session
Coaching and money
Business and ethics
The intuition factor
Identifying your niche/target client population
Marketing & promotion
The spirit factor
Evolution of a coaching relationship
How long coaching takes
Ready to fly
Certificate Requirements
If you wish to receive a signed Certificate of Completion for the Life Coach Training, you will be asked to do the following:
Participate in at least 9 out of the initial 10 webinars, and at least 3 out of the 4 follow-up practicum webinars. (You must be on the webinar for at least 60 minutes to be considered present.)
Have your personal coaching session with Alan.
Participate fully in the In-Person Training Retreat. No late arrivals or early departures, please.
Do at least twenty 50-minute practice coaching sessions over five months, and submit reports, including getting your clients to submit feedback reports, all in a timely manner.
Participate live or watch recordings of five sessions of the online Coaching Room, and submit a brief report on the coaching skills you learned.
Pass a written final exam.
Demonstrate to the instructor a basic working knowledge of life coaching skills.
Participant fully including the Self- Intro requested prior to the start of the course.
Important Note: Our preferred method of communication is via email. We ask that participants be knowledgable in computer skills, including email and online automated systems. We do not text or use other social media applications for communication. Thank you
