Tomorrow's
Life Coach In This Issue:
Tomorrow's Life Coach (TLC) is a monthly online journal from the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) that nourishes the intellect, intuition and inspiration of the personal and business coaching community. Pat's Ponderings: Coaching Clients on Purpose I write this month from my hotel room in Atlanta where Lisa Kramer and I are presenting an all day Institute on Life Coaching With Couples (relationship coaching) at the Smart Marriages conference. I have presented at this conference six years in a row and it always draws a big crowd. Relationship Coaching was predicted by me in my first book, Therapist as Life Coach (http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/resources/books/books.shtml), to be a niche for the future. Well, the future is here and it is growing as a specialty area for coaching. Couples can benefit from relationship coaching, especially those whose relationship needs coaching on creating a mutual vision, or those who want to take a mediocre relationship to one that is thriving and mutually satisfying, and those who want to open conversations about what each really wants. As Lisa describes it, this is "loving with intention;" and is the theme of Conscious Relationships. Lisa teaches all of the above in her Relationship Coaching with Couples course with ILCT. All coaching is about improving our clients' lives in whatever aspects they want, whether it is work, health, relationships, retirement, life purpose...it is all about the client and their life. Relationships are part of everyone's life in some way, and obviously, looking at the world's challenges today, it is all about relationships! I leave you with this quote which has great meaning to me and helps explain why I am so passionate about coaching people to live their life as "on purpose" as possible. If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. – Johann Goethe Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Announcements Introduction
To Coaching As A Profession (Class) This group will meet for 60 minutes a week for four weeks on a teleconference line. All you will need is your telephone and a quiet place to listen. Upon registration you will receive a special telephone number and access code. During this class the following topics will be discussed:
Fee: $99 Pat's Coaching
Forum This Free call is open to all individuals and we invite you to share this invitation with others. The call will last 60 minutes. Date: July 25th A Seminar At Sea For Coaches, Consultants, Therapists and Aligned Professionals with Patrick Williams and Lynn Meinke
Plan now to join Patrick Williams and Lynn Meinke for an educational cruise experience in February, 2007. This is the perfect month to escape the dark and cold months of February and come to have fun in the sun of the Caribbean, and take the trip as an educational expense. Come learn and relax at the same time...our class time will only be while at sea and will not interfere with opportunities to visit the beautiful ports of call. (CEU's for mental health professionals and certified coaches pending) 11th Annual ICF International Conference: Quantum Thinking on Human Potential, Tools For The New Frontier Please join Pat, Edwina, and many of the faculty! Take advantage now of the early bird registration for the ICF Annual Conference, November 1-4, 2006, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Early bird registration ends July 31st. ILCT presenter highlights:
Coming This Fall - A Supervision Practicum
The Practicum is for coaches who have completed their CLC or beyond and have accrued at least 100 hours of paid coaching experience. This Practicum can also be useful for coaches preparing for the oral examination process at the PCC Level. The Practicum will meet weekly for one and one-half hours in small groups limited to six participants. Further information regarding the length of the Practicum and fee will be available shortly on the web site. If you have any questions, please contact Lynn Meinke at 610-876-6487 or ilct-lynnmeinke@comcast.net. Spotlight On Classes - Advanced Skills Practicum You’ve been through the Foundational Class and you realize that your coaching, as good as it is, could improve. We’ve all been there. It’s part of our professional development. The Advanced Skills Practicum may be the next step for you. In the Advanced Skills Practicum you continue to hone your coaching skills by working with a client over fourteen weeks in a small group setting. This class meets once a week for 90 minutes with the first and last class meeting for sixty minutes, each for a total of 20 hours. Each student coaches the client at least three times and receives verbal and written feedback which can be used towards ICF certification. Students receive a manual with at least 30 skills fully expanded to include when each skill is useful, languaging examples, how to incorporate the skill in the coaching conversation, traps to avoid and more. Register Expand
Your Business! Deepen Your Coaching Skills!
Additional classes, details and online registration at our course section. Some schedules may change; check listing or contact Edwina Adams, Administration/Registration, at edwina@lifecoachtraining.com. Where In The World Is Pat Williams? July 16-20, 2006 Pat is also doing three other presentations: Ethics In Coaching, Falling Awake (Living The Life On Purpose), and a featured presentation on "Using the coach approach across the relationship spectrum: individuals, family, community, society and the world". For more information: www.nationalwellness.org July 21, 2006 This presentation will examine:
For more information: marykay@lifecoachmkay.com, ICF - Greater Madison Area Chapter July 31-Aug 4 , 2006 Live coaching demonstrations, practical experience, and interactive worksheets will be utilized to illustrate coaching principles and techniques. Taking Your Coaching Business To The Next Stage What is success to you? How will your coaching business contribute to that success? The answer to those questions help define your predictable path to success. Each coaches' path will be unique. Some coaches want their business to experience slow growth, so their path will be a very slow incline; a comfortable walking trail where pleasures can be enjoyed along the way. Other coaches seek difficult challenges and hard goals--their path will be steep and rocky with a parcel of risk, but the view at the top will take their breath away. Those who crave frequent changes or new environments will create a path that winds around majestic oaks, bubbling brooks filled with carp and songbird-filled crepe myrtles. And straight paths are reserved for coaches that are highly focused on their chosen niche, who enjoy predictability and being able to see a long way down the path. Honor YOUR definition of success and HOW you want to get there. But my challenge to you is--move to the next stage! Whatever your pace of business growth, you need to move one foot forward, then the next, in order to stay in business. As you consider "success", what is the next action you should take to move closer to your goal? ILCT is a powerful spark for moving to the next stage. Being a student at ILCT provides more than just absorbing knowledge. You gain MUCH more...valuable resources recommended by your instructors and peers...real-world stories about coaching...new colleagues for collaboration and potential alliances...re-evaluation of your self-care...review of ICF coaching ethics...new methods for growing your business...etc. Go forward, move to the next stage, do it today! To your success, Annette A. Miller, MBA Law And Ethics In Coaching is 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. Sure to be a classic!
Total Life Coaching 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.
At last, 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.
News ILCT Wins ACTP
Renewal From ICF In their letter to ILCT, ICF stated:
ILCT Faculty Published in Australasian Coach Newsletter Lisa Kramer, PCC, has published an article in the Australasian Coach newsletter, June 2006. She has written Designing the Alliance in Relationship Coaching: Key Ingredients. Lisa is a faculty member of ILCT. Here is an excerpt: "The process of designing the alliance in relationship coaching is different from working with individual clients. Regardless of the type of relationship - be it a marriage, a business partnership, or even a parent-child relationship - the coach must establish a connection with two people simultaneously. The manner in which the coach engages the clients, partners, sets the stage for a coaching relationship that is based on mutual respect and trust..." continue reading (page 10). Pat Williams PsychJourney Audio Bookclub Interview Hear Pat Williams interviewed by Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney on the topic: Therapists Transitioning To A Coaching Practice. Listen (.mp3 file, 34 minutes, 51 seconds).
Innovative and thought-provoking, Lynn Meinke is a Professional Certified Coach with over thirty years experience assisting individuals to attain their highest potential. Lynn transitioned from being a psychotherapist to being a life coach in 1998. She trains helping professionals in the art and science of Life Coaching with The Institute for Life Coach Training and is a mentor with Coaching and Mentoring International. Lynn graduated in the inaugural class of The Institute for Life Coach Training in 1999. She is a senior faculty member and Director of Skills Development for ILCT. Prior to becoming a life coach, Lynn was a psychotherapist specializing in women’s issues most notably trauma and dissociative disorders. Early in her career, she was trained as a Registered Nurse and was a member of an open-heart surgical team. Lynn is a cum laude graduate of Ramapo College in Ramapo, New Jersey with a BS in Psychology. She went on to graduate with an MA in Psychology from Columbia University in New York City and did post-graduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute in New York City. She had previously completed her nursing education at the Bryn Mawr Hospital School of Nursing, Bryn Mawr, PA. A member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) since 1999 and co-chair of the Life Coach Committee since 2001, Lynn has presented at the 2003 and 2004 ICF Annual Conferences and the 2004 ICF European Conference in Norway. A recently submitted research project entitled, The Life Satisfaction Survey, has been accepted for presentation at the 2006 ICF Research Symposium in St. Louis. Lynn gives presentations and workshops at numerous local and regional conferences and organizations and will be co-leading "The Journey of the Soul" with Pat Williams in February 2007 as part of a cruise presented by Mind Body Cruises. She is the co-author of the Manual for the Advanced Skills Practicum and creates other advanced classes for ILCT. A new class for advanced students, Supervisor Practicum, is scheduled to be launched in the fall. (See separate article, Coming this Fall). When asked about her coaching style Lynn replied, Clients tell me that I am their advocate, totally committed to them, and their vision carrier when they forget their dream. They say I believe in them so much that they begin to believe in themselves. They tell me that I am warm, intellectually curious, light-hearted and so intuitive that I must be psychic. My passion is coaching and working with people who want to create, design and achieve their extraordinary visions. Lynn loves to travel and learn about different ways of being. She enjoys skiing, reading in front of the fireplace with a glass of merlot, watching and collecting movies and knitting. One of Lynn’s greatest achievements and a continuing source of joy is her 40 year marriage to Fred, a financial analyst, author, artist and new coach. She is the proud mother of three fabulous adult children and their spouses, and is a doting MoMi (grandmother) to Keenan and Jillian who are two years old. Last but not least, she is honored to have the companionship of Monet, a rescued standard Poodle who follows her everywhere.
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A
Supervision Practicum for coaches who want to more fully
develop the art of coaching by focusing on their own
coaching process with clients. In this Practicum, participants
will have the opportunity to bring their own case materials
for examination and exploration. Using their cases as
stimuli, participants will role-play and coach each
other. There will also be time for feedback, reflection
and discussion. Outcomes from this approach allow participants
to refine their coaching approaches and skills to fit
their own unique coaching style while more fully embracing
the artful, non-directive, client-centered, creativity
of coaching.
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and Ethics In Coaching: How To Solve And Avoid Difficult
Problems In Your Practice
Total
Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills, And Techniques
To Enhance Your Practice...And Your Life
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