The
Bluffer's Guide to
Life Coaching |
| By
George Edwards |
| Available
now as an audio download, click here |
| Extracts
from the book |
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| Life
encroaching |
| Life
coaching on the other hand is not about the past. It works on the
assumption that what you make of your life is up to you. Coachees
need to take careful note of this, for it is the main term and condition
in every life coaching agreement. In short, success is up to the
coachee to address here and now, the coachee has the answers, and
the coachee needs to make his or her own changes. |
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| The
road less travelled |
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As the Chinese proverb has it (one of many obscure Chinese proverbs
that are of considerable value to the life coach, because they only
really make sense to the recipient well after the session has ended:
‘If you don’t change the direction you are travelling
in, you are going to arrive at where you’re going.’ |
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| Discipline
disciples |
| Apostles
of life coaching will point out that everybody has something they
would like ‘fixed’, even if it’s something that without
benefit of alcohol and intimacy, they might not choose to share
with the wider world. |
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| Belief
relief |
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coaches keep their own beliefs pretty much to themselves. You won’t
catch a life coach saying, “I believe” very often, unless
it’s followed by “…I’m seeing you again next
Tuesday” or “we’ve made a lot of progress”.
They will shy away from anything that to the coachee smacks of a
personal conviction or belief, on the grounds that (as any experienced
bluffer will remind listeners in world weary tone), it’s the
coachee’s belief that counts. |
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| Reviews |
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| A
quick read and chock full of the basic information that's needed
to pass yourself off as knowledgeable. |
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Toronto
Globe & Mail
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amazing amount of solid fact disguised as frivolous observation. |
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The
Sunday Telegraph
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| Table
of Contents |
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The
Dos and Don’ts
What life coaches don’t do
What life coaches do
How life coaches do what they do
The
origins of life coaching
A Californian hybrid
An established perennial
The life coach’s tool bag
Questions
Empathy
Life coaches and life events
Beliefs
Health
Success
Work
Motivation
Money worries
Managing time
Life coaches’ specialisms
Life coaching session
Life coaching qualifications
Fancy letters
Where life coaches coach
The house call
The telephone call
This and that
Confidentiality
The need for life coaching
So, you want to be a life coach?
So you still want to be a life coach?
Glossary
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Fortune
Telling
