Tomorrow's Life Coach
Volume 9 Issue 3 – March, 2010

In This Issue:

• Pat's Ponderings - Exciting Changes for ILCT by Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC
• Monthly
  • ILCT-CPH Teleconference - How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints, Part 2 - March 23rd
  • Pat's Coaching Forum - 5 Steps to Coaching for Wellness and Optimal Living - March 15th
  • Introduction to Coaching Calls - March 29th & 30th
  • Free Coach Referral Service for CLC's
• News & Features
  • 8 New Opportunities for Coaches by Jay Ostrowski, MA, LPC/S, NCC
  • In case you missed it: How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints - Part 1
• Upcoming Classes at ILCT
• What Pat Recommends
  • Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition by William Bridges
  • Effective Coaching in Healthcare Practice by Ruth Hadikin
  • 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

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 - Exciting Changes for ILCT

One of life’s constants is change. Responding to change is an evolutionary skill that we, as coaches, help our clients hone as they face crisis, challenges, and turmoil in their lives. Helping them face circumstances, check alternatives, and choose an appropriate response is what coaching Is all about.

As ILCT continues as a world leader in the application of Total Life Coaching, we are also changing to meet the demands for a new way to teach, communicate and support those who want to learn how to become excellent coaches. This past month we conducted a survey with ILCT students on the changing coaching industry and how ILCT can help support them and the coaching community.

We found that:

• 25% of our students are planning to complete the ACTP program
• 60% are planning to take 1 or more classes in the coming year
• 75% indicated they might be interested in ILCT’s proposal to offer shorter classes
• 75% expressed interest in taking self-directed courses

Aside from the multiple electives ILCT currently offers its students, respondents were asked about other courses they might be interested in taking. The top choices were:

• Leadership Coaching
• Career Coaching
• Non-profit Coaching
• Entrepreneurial Coaching
• Creating a Revenue Stream
• Internet Coaching
• Parenting

During the coming months, we will be working to implement some of the valuable suggestions received through the survey, creating alternative formats for some of our popular classes, as well as working to develop new classes to meet the needs of our students and the profession. 

If you have suggestions about possible courses you’d like to see offered at ILCT, or want to share your ideas about changing course formats, we would love to hear from you.  Please share your thoughts with us!

And stay tuned to this newsletter and our website, and we will let you know when we begin rolling out these exciting new programs!

Also see the article below from Jay Ostrowski, Director of Marketing and Product Development at LifeOptions (www.lifeoptions.com).  Very exciting news – and soon, more exciting ways for you to become part of the community of coaches. 

Live Well, Coach Well, Be Well.

Pat

Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
Chief Energizing Officer, ILCT
Executive Vice President, Life Options
Department Chair, Professional Coaching, International University of Professional Studies
Author: Becoming a Professional Life Coach. Therapist as Life Coach, Total Life Coaching,
Law and Ethics in Coaching
Recipient of Global Visionary Fellowship for Non Profit www.CoachingTheGlobalVillage.org
Biography

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ILCT - CPH Teleconference: How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints, Part 2

We hope you will join Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and Director of the Institute for Life Coach Training, author of Law and Ethics in Coaching, and Sara Oberg, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates for a discussion of How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints, Part 2.

Part 1 of this call was so popular that some of you were unable to get on our bridge line, for which we apologize. However, if you missed it, you may listen to it by clicking here.

Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern

Fee: No charge (some long distance charges may apply).

REGISTER NOW

Pat's Coaching Forum: 5 Steps to Coaching for Wellness and Optimal Living:

Join Dr. Patrick Williams and Jim Strohecker, CEO and Co-founder of HealthWorld Online (www.healthy.net) for the a forum on 5 Steps to Coaching for Wellness and Optimal Living:

1. Get wellness specific coach training - adds to credibility.
2. Focus on your own wellness journey - walk your talk - and good coach training is part of that.
3. Use a credible assessment tool like the Wellness Inventory.
4. Get yourself in front of people in the community - do presentations - one time or ongoing.
5. Be authentic - you are your best advertisement.

Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern

Fee: No charge (some long distance charges may apply).

REGISTER NOW

Introduction to Coaching Calls:

Join us for a one-hour call that will introduce you to the wonderful career of Life Coaching and the ILCT program. We want to share our excitement with you and give you information to help you decide if life coaching is for you! This class will also offer you the opportunity to experience a "‘teleclass," the training format used in our program.

Topics to be discussed include:

• What coaching is.
• What is unique about the ILCT program.
• The journey to becoming a coach.
• ILCT’s Foundational Coach Training Program.
• Avenues to certification.

You will have the opportunity to have your questions about life coach training answered.

Fee: No charge. (Long distance charges may apply).

Monday, March 29th, 8:00 p.m. Eastern REGISTER

Tuesday, March 30th, 12:00 p.m. Eastern REGISTER

Free Coach Referral Service for CLCs
ILCT provides a listing of Certified Life Coaches and graduates of our Accredited Coach Training Program. These are coaches who have completed at least 60 to 130 hours of coach training. This is a value-added service for those ILCT students who have reached this high level of excellence!

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 have not registered — Sign up now

News & Features

8 New Opportunities for Coaches

As you all know, ILCT was recently purchased by LifeOptions Group, Inc. late last year (view the press release). The unique combination of expertise in technology, coaching, counseling and publishing creates new opportunities for coaches and counselors. Based on feedback from current and former students , we have created , or are in the process of creating , the following opportunities for coaches and counselors to enhance their skills and create new revenue streams:

1. Referral opportunities from our online community and LifeOptions Provider Network
2. The ability to publish and obtain royalties
3. A place to connect with other coaches and keep up with the ever changing industry
4. The opportunity to add products and services to our online store
5. New courses on leadership, online counseling and coaching, group coaching
6. New course times and shorter courses
7. The option to take coursework online
8. The ability to license our award winning online platform for use in private practice.

We would like to create more opportunities for you. Please send us a quick note to tell us what you need in order to succeed: Jay.Ostrowski@LifeOptions.com.

LifeOptions is also growing an online community where coaches and counselors can collaborate with LifeOptions to provide online services. If you would like to be notified when this community opens please send an email with the subject “Notify me” to Jay.Ostrowski@LifeOptions.com.

We look forward to working with you,

Jay Ostrowski, MA, LPC/S, NCC
Director of Product and Business Development,
www.LifeOptions.com

How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints - Part 1

In case you missed How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints - Part 1 with Dr. Patrick Williams, Founder and Director of the Institute for Life Coach Training, and Sara Oberg, Marketing Manager of CPH & Associates - click to listen now.

We hope you will also join them for How to Avoid Common Ethical Complaints - Part 2 on March 23rd!

Expand Your Business! Deepen Your Coaching Skills! Register For Upcoming Classes at ILCT
NOTE: Flexible payment plans are available. For details call 972-861-1915.

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What Pat Recommends

	Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition by William Bridges Whether it is chosen or thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since first published 25 years ago, Transitions has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, in time, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.
	Effective Coaching in Healthcare Practice by Ruth Hadikin The first book on coaching aimed specifically at midwives and other healthcare professionals.
	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 important lessons. Review: 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

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