Becoming
a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute
for Life Coach Training by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez
With his bestselling Therapist
as Life Coach, Pat
Williams introduced the
therapeutic community
to the career of life
coaching. Now, Williams,
founder of the Institute
for Life Coach Training
(ILCT), and Menendez,
senior trainer at ILCT—both
master certified coaches
extraordinaire—reveal
all the basic principles
and crucial strategies
that they have taught
to thousands of coaches
over the years. Beginning
with a brief history of
the foundations of coaching
and its future trajectory, Becoming
a Professional Life Coach takes
readers step-by-step through
the coaching process,
covering all the crucial
ideas and strategies for
being an effective, successful
life coach, including:
Listening to, versus
listening for, versus
listening with;
Establishing a client’s
focus;
Giving honest feedback
and observation;
Formulating first coaching
conversations;
Asking powerful, eliciting
questions;
Understanding human
developmental issues;
Reframing a client’s
perspective;
Enacting change within
clients;
Helping clients to
identify and fulfill core
values, and much, much
more.
REVIEWS:
Being
a truly effective
ally of another
person requires
us to know both
what to do and how
to be; Becoming a Professional Life Coach gives us both.
While the task of
creating a comprehensive
training text on
the broad field
of life coaching
is quite daunting,
Patrick Williams
and Diane Menendez
take it on with
what appears to
be real joy and
they master it.
The reader is both
instructed and inspired
cover to cover.
The challenge of
doing more than
producing another
coaching "cookbook" is
met and exceeded
with an excellent
integration of both
practical technique
and well grounded
theory.
Becoming a Professional Life Coach integrates
what is sometimes
missing in much
coach training,
such as Prochaska's
Stage of Readiness
For Change. The
book takes terms
which have become
well-worn catch
phrases, such
as fulfillment
and empowerment,
and infuses them
with new life,
helping the coach
to truly understand
their meaning,
importance and
their use. Becoming
a Professional
Life Coach will
become the touchstone
in the field of
training life
coaches. Michael
Arloski, Ph.D.,
PCC, author of Wellness
Coaching For Lasting
Lifestyle Change.
I
highly recommend Becoming a Professional Life Coach for both
new and experienced
coaches, and for anyone
interested in learning
the "coach approach" in
their lives, business
and communities. Today
coaching skills are
an invaluable resource,
both in the workplace
and for personal fulfillment,
yet there are still
millions that don't
even know what coaching
is or how to become
one. Pat and Diane
deliver an easy to
read, comprehensive
guide offering history,
theory and practical
application of the
most potent skills
used by professional
life coaches worldwide.
This book addresses
a great need in the
marketplace. . .
Since Patrick
Williams is the
founder of his
own coaching school,
I expected a cookie
cutter curriculum
from his own school's
teachings. However,
I was pleasantly
surprised at how
thoroughly they
integrated and
referenced the
best disciplines
from a variety
of coaching schools,
as well as useful
and distinguished
models from the
field of psychology.
It is no wonder
that Patrick Williams
is known as "The
Ambassador for
Life Coaching." As
a veteran life
coach, I applaud
Patrick for inspiring
thousands more
to integrate a "coach
approach" in their
everyday lives
and/or become
a life coach themselves.
The world could
use a few more
life coaches,
and this is a
perfect place
to begin. Mary
E. Allen, CPCC,
MCC, Author of "The Power of Inner Choice"
New
coaching books are
appearing with greater
frequency but they
vary significantly
in quality. Many
are poorly written
re-statements of
what has appeared
in other books.
Few bring fresh
perspectives.
Very different
is Becoming
a Professional Life
Coach by Patrick
Williams and Diane
Menendez. The authors
draw on their broad
coaching backgrounds
and experiences in
training others through
the Institute for
Life Coach Training.
Their book is practical,
informative, clearly
written and sensitive
to values even though
the writing is not
from a distinctively
Christian perspective.
This is a good overview
for anyone new to
the coaching field
and a helpful update
for experienced coaches. Gary
R. Collins, EVALUATING
COACHING BOOKS Newsletter
Pat
Williams has been
a pioneer & innovator
in wholistic life
coaching. After traveling
and sitting around
the fire with Pat
in Africa, I was inspired
to re-read the book
that I had already
wholeheartedly endorsed.
I was astonished in
my second read at
the wealth of new
insights to be uncovered,
even for a seasoned
life coach like me
with 33-years of experience!
Becoming a true professional
requires us to profess
our "anthropology"-
our point-of-view
on the "life" side
of coaching. This
book is ripe with
the wisdom to help
us do that. The evolution
of our purpose, values & beliefs
must continue through
all seasons of our
coaching lives. And
this book is an essential
guide for the journey.
I am confident it
will help shape the
life coaching agenda
for decades. —Richard
J.Leider, Founder & Chairman
The Inventure Group,
bestselling author
of The
Power of Purpose, Repacking
Your Bags, & Claiming
Your Place At the
Fire
Law
and Ethics in Coaching : how to solve and
avoid difficult problems in your practice by Dr. Patrick Williams & Sharon Anderson
Law and Ethics in Coaching
co-edited by Patrick Williams and Sharon Anderson.
With contributions from a dozen academic, legal,
and coaching professionals, this book is a must
for anyone in the field of coaching or whose
organization uses coaching as a service.
"Filled with a dynamic
blend of case studies, discussion questions,
illuminating quotes, and other examples, Law
and Ethics in Coaching is both a trailblazing
professional reference and an unparalleled textbook
for coaching programs."
Total
Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills, and
Techniques to Enhance Your Practice.....and
Your Life by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Dr. Lloyd J. Thomas
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 psychologist/colleague and writer
of more than 1600 newspaper columns, 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 52 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.
Total
Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd
is more than just a book. 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 [or
can incorporate in your own life]. 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.
Pat Williams, Ed.D., is
president and founder of the Institute for Life
Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training
Program. He is a licensed psychologist, a Master
Certified Coach, as well as the co-author of
the highly acclaimed Therapist As Life Coach:
Transforming Your Practice.
Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D., has
been an adjunct faculty member of the University
of Southern California and Albany Medical College,
and is currently on the faculty of the Institute
for Life Coach Training and the International
University of Professional Studies. He is a
certified life coach and licensed psychologist,
and for more than 23 years has written a weekly
newspaper column, "Practical Psychology.
REVIEWS:
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….shows
you precisely how to enhance your professional
practices through practical and effective
life coaching....Total
Life Coaching guides you step-by-step
through the complex process of learning
and coaching these 50 important lessons....
Total Life Coaching 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. Adolescence
Thank you, Pat Williams,
for writing Total
Life Coaching. It is a wonderful resource
book that every coach should have at their
fingertips, whether they have been coaching
one year or many years. It is not just
one of the many books on general coaching
philosophy and techniques. Total
Life Coaching is written with a “how
to” approach. It is organized into
a wide rage of categories of coaching
topics. Each category contains a rich
menu of information, exercises, creative
coaching approaches, and examples of coaching
conversations. I know I will be using
the wisdom of Total Life Coaching for
every client I have. Diana Kilinski,
LPC, CEAP, Business and Life Coach, Savvy
Life Skills, LLC
Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction
for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals,
Revised and Expanded Edition by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis
A book for mental health professionals
considering a transition into the new and dynamic
field of life coaching! Therapist as Life Coach
explores life coaching as a profession, examines
the relationship between life coaching and therapy,
and details the variety of options for professionals
considering either a transition into coaching
or expanding their practices to include coaching.
This book is one-stop-shopping
for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching
field. Every chapter in this second edition
has been revised, reflecting the growth of the
coaching field and its increasing appeal to
therapists and all helping professionals. New
material includes an overview of recent coaching
developments, updated liability concerns, new
business opportunities, and a new section on
the research about coaching.
The
Philosophy and Practice of Coaching:
Insights and issues for a new era by David B. Drake (Editor),
Diane Brennan (Editor), Kim Gørtz
(Editor) - Dr. Patrick Williams, Contributor
The Philosophy and Practice
of Coaching will help
to advance the global conversation about the future
of coaching.
The book is organized into three key sections:
Foundations for Coaching, Applications of Coaching,
and Organizations and Coaching, and the focus
is on enabling the reader to astutely link theory
and practice.
As coaching continues to grow, there is a need
for a deeper conversation about its current state
and its future directions. This book makes an important
contribution to this conversation in provocative
yet grounded ways. The authors are internationally
recognized coaches, educators, researchers and writers.
The book offers a unique opportunity to look
inside their minds and practices as a guide to reflect
on and advance your own work.
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