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
I am training this month in Sorrento, Italy and will
be witnessing harvests of grapes and olives. This type
of harvest has been done for centuries. As you begin to prepare to enjoy the change of seasons in your life and the lives of your clients, I urge to to stop and reflect IN NATURE on the beauty and bounty of wherever you live. And as a good book to read and use with your clients, I recommend Seasons of Change by my friend and ILCT adjunct instructor Carol Mcclelland. To the Seasons and the way they season us! Pat Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC Monthly FREE Introduction to Coaching Calls: Have you lost the passion you had when you entered the profession of being a therapist? Are you on the fast track to burn-out or are you already there? Do you want to add another income stream to your existing practice? Do you want to set your own fees and get paid what you are worth? Do you want to revitalize your work, reclaim your passion, and find joy in doing what you love? Join us for a free one-hour class that will introduce you to the wonderful career of Life Coaching. We want to share our excitement with you and give you information that you can use to help you decide if Life Coaching is for YOU. Topics to be discussed:
Dates: October 12th: Click
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to register Pat's Coaching Forum Pat Williams will hold an open coaching forum for participants to ask questions and discuss current coaching trends with the founder and President of the Institute of Life Coach Training. Date: October 23rd This is a FREE call. Click here to register. Free Coach Referral Service This list is being offered as a free service to assist individuals in identifying and selecting coaches best suited for their particular situation. Click here for more information. Border Line – Understanding the relationship
between therapy and coaching As the profession of life coaching evolves, it becomes more uniquely defined and described. Over the past decade, many coaches and psychologists have clarified its definition and role (Ellis, 2005; Williams and Davis, 2000; Stober and Grant, 2006; Williams and Menendez, 2007), and these distinctions continue to emerge. Increasingly, life coaching seems to be revealing itself as an evolutionary step beyond traditional therapy. Traditional therapy will not become extinct, but rather it will increasingly serve only those clients who need clinical services. On a continuum, the distinctions between the two fields might be represented as in the chart on the opposite page As the helping professions continue to evolve, more clarity will emerge regarding which helping professional is the best fit for a client’s current concern. The distinctions between traditional therapy and coaching can be considered in four broad categories.
Let’s take a deeper look at each of these distinctions... Read the full article from Choice Magazine. Gear Shift - When to refer a coaching client to
a mental health professional Have you ever wondered if a particular client might benefit from professional counseling or psychotherapy? Are you uncomfortable raising your concerns with the client? What indicators or patterns should you be looking for to know a referral is appropriate? These questions are important ones for any coach who wants to maintain best practices and honor the principles and ethics of the coaching profession. In June 2002 a controversial article published in the Harvard Business Review suggested that many coaches — those who lack rigorous psychological training — do more harm than good because they downplay or simply ignore deep-seated psychological problems they don’t understand. A number of psychotherapists have similarly argued that some coaches are practicing psychotherapy without a license. In fact, one state wanted coaches to register as non-licensed therapists. Thanks to the proactive leadership of the International Coach Federation, this state licensing board was educated about the philosophy, ethics and scope of practice for coaching and the need to register was dropped. It is important that the coaching industry thoughtfully address these concerns. A clear response will solidly establish coaching as a unique profession anchored in learning and development. It will also differentiate coaching from the mental health field which has historically been anchored in the medical model of pathology... Read the full article from Choice Magazine. Going from Good to Great Your marriage doesn't have to be in trouble to benefit from an objective, encouraging third party—a life coach. "If couples are able to address an issue, goal, desire, or vision proactively, they can head off any number of potential crises," asserts Christopher McCluskey, a master certified Christian coach who works with couples around the world, objectively encouraging and helping them see paths to growth and success. McCluskey, whose background is in psychotherapy, worked primarily in marriage and family therapy for 12 years prior to becoming a coach. In 1998, he founded Coaching for Christian Living (www.christian-living.com). He is also the director of the Christian track at the Institute for Life Coach Training, an accredited school with the only distinctly Christian life coach training program in the world. In the last several years life coaching has become more prominent among couples. Here's what McCluskey had to say about the rewards a couple can attain through life coaching. Why would a couple seek a life coach? Because they want to grow their marriage or they want to pursue a stronger or clearer vision for their family. One of the most frequent reasons is to enhance their level of intimacy. They have a good marriage but are plateauing. They may feel their lives are scattered and out of control. And they want help getting back on track, help clarifying and living out God's unique calling on their lives. They may need help working through obstacles to get a spouse home from the work force or a job change, or they're preparing for empty nesting or graduate school. Another reason is blended families. A primary conflict in a blended family is children. So rather than just hold your breath and hope for the best or wait for the inevitable conflict, many blended families will work with a coach to help them proactively develop a better vision for how to blend their family and to head off the problems before they take root. I also work with couples as they move their families into the pre-teen and teen years. A lot of parents stumble through those years never nailing down a clear vision, and they wind up having the default vision of our Western culture: simply "surviving." They wander through those years thinking, Where do the kids need to be now? What new activities are they involved in? How am I going to deal with this new mouthiness? What am I going to do about this new group of friends they're hanging with? They're constantly reacting to every new "crisis." And so couples become like a steel ball in a pinball machine, bouncing off whatever's screaming for their attention. That's not an effective way to do family or marriage. They need to identify what they're going to say "yes" to in their family and what they're going to say "no" to. That's where coaching can help. A couples coach can help them catch a fresh vision and then use that vision to make it their reality... Read the full article at: Christianity
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It
is October and fall is in the air (except for those
of you in the southern hemisphere). I always love this
time as a marker for change. Change is always going
to happen, but I think the marking of a quarterly seasonal
change is a time to focus on both change that is happening
as predicted, and change that is desired for the coming
future. In the northern hemisphere, fall is a time to
harvest what you have planted, and to celebrate the
bounty. In the southern hemisphere fall is the time
to celebrate new growth and to prepare for the beauty
of spring and new development. Coaches and clients can
learn much from this metaphoric look at nature.
It
will be inspiring to see how villagers in a very small
community celebrate and endorse each other for the roles
they have played in bringing vital energy from the earth
into their bodies. Those of us in other parts of the
world do not always recognize or acknowledge where the
food that we eat comes from. I like to support organic
farmers in our community and go to farmers markets.
God bless them for what they do so we can enjoy the
bounty on our tables.
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