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Life Coach

Life coaching: a new personal service of the modern world

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When we live our life we do it with the purpose of achieving many goals or aims, but the path of our lives is not as easy as we sometimes think, that’s why the market introduces us different alternatives to accomplish those “dreams” we have or just to live our life more easily. Here is where the life coach appears: a life coach is an alternative that the individuals have to take the best of their lives without worrying or stressing, without the idea of failure. But what is a life coach? A life coach is the woman or man in charge of the activities of our lives, life coaching is the idea of assisting clients, to help them achieve their personal goals; a life coach will be able to use different methods towards to the client to take part of the process of setting and reaching aims. We must affirm that a life coach is not a therapist, although many times therapist can be coaches.
A personal life coach is selected by clients by their skills in an specific area, that certain area in which the client would like to improve; just like kids or teenagers have basketball coaches to improver their basketball skills, there are individuals who hire a life coach to help them improve a or more certain parts of their lives. Life coaches are experts in: society, business, education, family, etc. A life coach would be your mentor, paid or not, depends on the relationship that the client has with the coach, is the person with whom your personally connect and from whom you’ll receive constructive criticism. A life coach should be able to give clear directives that would stimulate the individual by creating new ideas, these ideas will be the ones that will help the person to achieve their goals. If this happens, then the background of the life coach won’t be as important or relevant as his or her ability to facilitate maintain hope, focus and build motivation.

Credentials and certifications

A life coach can provide us of different training programs, and coaching institutes but we must say that nowadays there is not an official regulatory standard; there is not studies or training standard that a person must achieve to become a life coach. That’s why there is a high level of confusion that involves the terms “credentialing” and “certification” since a great variety of certifications and credential exists. There only two recognized standards of accreditations: The International Coaching Federation, and the European Coaching Institute. ICF has self-proclaimed as the largest worldwide not profitable association of coaches, with the aim of regulating the coaching industry, this institute has developed a system of credentialing coaches which includes an specified number of hours that a life coach must have as a training; we mean with this, number of coaching experience, and the necessary proof of ability that a life coach should have to define the standards for each level. The different levels that the International Coach Federation have defined are: Professional Certified Coach, Associate Certified Coach and Master Certified Coach. The ICF also provided to a life coach the approval of their independently development.

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Specialization of a life coach

A life coach tends to specialized in one or more several areas, transition coaching, career coaching, personal or life coaching, parenting coaching, wellness and health coaching, executive coaching, systemic coaching, business coaching and corporate coaching, among others. A life coach for women writers and for entrepreneurs with attention deficit disorder are two of the most recently examples of the new branches. Also, as the internet has spread and grown, life coaching started to expand its online presence; we can find many life coaching organizations or an independent life coach services offered online or over the telephone.

  
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Personal Life coaching Relationship

Life coaches help people to reach their individual goals, coaching may help people to enjoy relationships better, we mean, relationships with parents, brothers, friends and children or why not, with team members and managers. A popular branch of life coaching is the dating coaching, it focuses on dating single people; and although a life coach specialized in dating coaching may have sub specialties, their clients very usual seek for help with issues related to creating intimate relationships.

 

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