Q: What is Life Coaching?
A: Life coaching is about helping clients determine where they currently are and where they would like to be, clarifying their life goals. As a life coach, I listen to my client's goals and aspirations and help them discover and utilize their strengths to achieve these goals.
Q: What is Co-active Life Coaching?
A: Co-active coaching model is based on Coaches Training Institute's (CTI) proven whole-life coaching approach that enables people to achieve success and fulfillment in their work and life. CTI coaching holds that people are naturally creative, resourceful, whole, and completely capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. The job of a Co-Active Coach® is to ask powerful questions, listen and observe to elicit the skills and creativity a client already possesses. For more information, please visit: http://www.thecoaches.com/
Q: What is the difference between Life Coaching and Therapy?
A: The main difference is that, in coaching we start with the foundation that there is nothing to "fix" with the client. The client is creative, resourceful and whole. Therapy, on the other hand, is diagnostic and treatment based. Another difference is that in coaching, we focus mainly on present and the future. It is about establishing where the client is in his/her life, where s/he wants to be in short and long term future, clarifying and identifying life goals and prioritizing them with action points. Therapy usually deals with the past and the emphasis is on understanding the issues rather than action points and accountability.
There are also some similarities between the two. Both professions use techniques that are similar: active listening, being present in the moment, asking powerful questions, etc. However the intention behind those are different.
Q: How do I start?
A: The very first step is to call or e-mail us to schedule your 30 min. complimentary sample session. During this session you will be able to ask any questions you might have on coaching and decide whether coaching is for you and whether we are a good match. If Yes, your next step will be to schedule your Discovery Session, which is a 2 hr coaching session conducted either in-person or on the phone.
Q: How long are the coaching sessions?
A: Your first coaching session is the Discovery Session which is 2 hrs long. After that, we will decide how often and how long we will meet. This will be based on: whether you would like to be coached in-person or on the phone and the current issues you would like to address in coaching. Telephone coaching can be 40 min-2 hrs in length and in-person meetings vary between 1-2 hrs.
Q: Is there a minimum time I need to commit?
A:Â No, I do not require a minimum time commitment. Our coaching relation will continue as long as there is a benefit for you as the client. The time you need will depend on where you currently are, where you would like to be and how committed you are to get there. Often times, when a client reaches a specific goal and experiences how coaching helped them to get there, they find another goal to work on and the coaching relationship continues.