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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 is "Green" and Ecologically Friendly Attending the Earth Day celebration this month here in Palm Coast, Florida, I was reminded of the first one in 1970. . . We are all more cognizant today about the environment and hopefully, you ALL are making conspicuous efforts to change things that impact the environment. In thinking about this I realized that coaching as a profession is very "green." Most coaching involves assisting clients to de-clutter their lives - everything that impacts their personal ecology, both the visible and invisible. Our coaching conversations can even expand into how our clients and their companies are reducing their waste, and identify inefficient use of resources that can definitely impact profits and progress. Do you coach your clients to increase awareness of their personal interface with the environment? As an industry, since most coaching is done by telephone, think of how many "office visits" we are saving and car miles that are reduced - thereby saving lots of electricity and gasoline while reducing pollution. Although I recognize face-to-face contact is important in coaching and marketing your business, but even that reduces the environmental impact because much of marketing can be done electronically; and networking in most instances is done locally. And, best of all, coach training (both basic and advanced) is done over the phone, allowing people to switch from commuting to work each day to an exciting profession where they can live "green" each and every day! Here are some tips from Rhonda Abrams in the USA Today (March 9, 2006):
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:
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to register Pat's Coaching Forum Pat's guest for the May Coaching Forum will be Helga M. Matzko, MA, CAGS, PCC. Helga is joining ILCT as an advanced instructor for a new ILCT course beginning September 2, 2008: Coaching the Addiction-Recovered Client to Full Potential (see below for more information). This unique class is designed for coaches who want to either expand their coaching business to include addiction-recovered individuals or increase coaching skills specifically tailored to coaching this population. We invite you to join Pat and Helga to learn more! Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 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 need. If you have your Certified Life Coach credential, and haven't yet signed up - please sign up now! Click here for more information. Spotlight on New Class: Coaching the Addiction-Recovered Client to Full Potential Beginning September 2, 2008 ILCT will offer a new course titled Coaching the Addiction-Recovered Client to Full Potential, taught by Helga M. Matzko MA., CAGS., PCC.
This unique 12 session, 12 hours teleclass is designed for coaches who want to either expand their coaching business to include addiction-recovered individuals or increase their coaching skills specifically tailored to coaching this population. Although sober, the concept of having a chronic disease and promise of relapse prevents many from dreaming of an expanded future, give credence to their often secret longings for more, different, and better. This paradigm shift from addiction as pathology to strengths and human potential may hold the elusive answer to the nagging question of how to prevent the dreaded fear of relapse. Central to this affirming coaching approach are the ten “Growth Process Affirmations" (GPA). These affirmations highlight the existence of the recovered individual’s use of strengths throughout the history of addiction and will facilitate individual’s growth potential after recovery as appropriate. Here is an example of GPA:
Heuristically, the application of the GPA’s mirrors the principles of positive psychology, Gestalt Philosophy, and Robert Kegan’s transpersonal human development model as well as other time-honored coaching approaches. Choice Magazine Expert Series Multi Media TeleCast - Global Warming of the Human Kind and More! with Dr. Patrick Williams and Garry Schleifer, Editor of Choice Magazine In case you missed this interesting event, join Pat and Garry as they explore the Psychology Alliance and Global Warming of the Human Kind:
Peer Resources - April 2008 Bulletin - Featuring Dr. Patrick Williams: The Rise of the New Elders In October of 2007, the first Baby Boomer applied for Social Security. This rather simple action reflects the beginning of a major transition in American culture -- the "eldering" of our largest generation. It also represents an opportunity to recreate the ways in which we view the aging process. More than any generation in our history, the Boomers have explored and searched for ways to generate meaning in their lives. From the counter-cultural sixties to the New Age movement of the last twenty-five years, the quest for a meaningful life has been led by the Boomer generation. Richard Leider (Lieder & Shaprio, 2004), the co-author of Claiming your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose, says that becoming a wise elder does not happen just because we have lived a long time or had many experiences. Becoming a true elder requires that we pursue and involve ourselves in the growth opportunities of elderhood. It is a process of what I call eldering, not oldering. Leider (2006) says that "first we must embrace elderhood as a stage of development." Second, we must do "the personal work necessary to growing whole. Becoming an elder involves growing, loving, learning, and giving in the second half of life." Rather than talking about retirement, I prefer the idea of protirement. Protirement is the ability to do what you really want to do when you no longer have to do those things we all must do to support ourselves and our families. From this perspective, we can begin to become the new elders of our communities. As the Boomers now move into another new stage of life, what Erik Erickson called the "Integrity stage," many of these people will certainly be seeking a way to transform aging into eldering -- a process of giving back to younger generations... Read the full aricle at Peer Network. Expand Your Business! Deepen
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