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Life Coaching to Support Women

Life Coaching to Support Women. May 22, 2008. Empowerment: Promoting Women’s Autonomy. What is Life Coaching.

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Life Coaching to Support Women

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  1. Life Coaching to Support Women May 22, 2008 Empowerment: Promoting Women’s Autonomy

  2. What is Life Coaching • Life Coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that will help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. • Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness, and coaches are not therapists nor consultants. Wikipedia

  3. What does a life coach do? • Life Coaches may apply; • Mentoring • Values Assessment • Behaviour Modification • Behaviour Modeling • Goal-setting • And other techniques in helping their clients Additionally, life coaching does not delve into diagnosing mental dysfunction nor analysing the past. Wikipedia

  4. What can be accomplished through Life Coaching • Life Coaches; • help individual clients achieve results and sustain life-changing behaviour in their lives and careers • Involve the whole person with the emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and more effective process for living • Focus on what the client wants. The client possesses all the answers and strengths required for success • www.thelifecoach.ca

  5. What can be accomplished through Life Coaching • Life Coaches; • Pose the questions, hold the focus on the issue, and maintain a safe positive space for the client to explore possibilities • Explore all aspects of the client’s life to ensure growth and balance throughout the client’s life • Work from the premise that if nothing changes, nothing changes. In order for the future to be different from the past, you must change on the inside. • www.thelifecoach.ca

  6. How to access a Life Coach • Life Coaches can be accessed from anywhere you live • Life Coaches often work from home and conduct their work on the telephone and using Web-based technology • A client may work with a coach based in another country or in the same city • Sessions may last anywhere from a check-in or a regular session of 45-60 minutes

  7. Relevance of Life Coaching to Empowerment Work

  8. The Process of Leaving Abuse: Stages of awareness and action Healing Awareness Looking for Help Taking Action Preparing for the future The woman’s journey

  9. Life Coaches in NB • Some coaches are available throughout the province but the network is not well developed • Cost may be prohibitive for the women we work with • Consideration being given to developing our own Life Coach Program as a next step in a future action plan • Would you see this as a valuable addition to the current mix of services?

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