It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for
living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored
lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the
personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may
still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will
help you move closer to that goal.
Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is
more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is
your authentic being in action.Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah
Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life
coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleague and writer, Lloyd
J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into
the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your
professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It
also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical
information and philosophy presented here.
Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 50 life lessons, and
is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed,
for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's
processes on the message and lesson level makes living and life coaching
much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you
step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these
fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections:
Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose;
Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success:
Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating
High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired
Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes:
The life lesson
The messages contained within the lesson
Coaching objectives for your clients regarding the lesson
What you need to know about the lesson to provide the framework for
coaching it
Coaching methods, exercises, questions, and language for bringing each
lesson to your clients
Sample coaching conversations that exemplify the coach-client dialogue
for the coaching of the lesson.
