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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.

Therapist As Life Coach - Click to orderTherapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Patrick Williams, 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.


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. Sure to be a classic.


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.


Falling Awake: Living Your Life on Purpose - DVD Set
by Dr. Patrick Williams, MCC

Dr. Patrick Williams offers a dynamic presentation about waking up to purposeful living. A graduate of David Ellis' highly-touted Falling Awake program, Pat is passionate about people not settling for mediocrity. This DVD will help you find out how to create the life you've always wanted and be on purpose every day with ideas, tips and strategies to dramatically improve the quality of your life.

 


Therapist as Coach: Transforming Your Practice - DVD Set
by Dr. Patrick Williams, MCC

U.S. News and World Report calls personal coaching the second biggest consulting business. Therapists are well positioned professionals to transition into this exciting and personally enriching business. Therapists who learn the business of personal coaching will find that they really enjoy their clients, earn higher incomes, and even have a level of friendship and community that is neither proper nor possible in traditional psychotherapy. In this 4 DVD set you'll fully explore what personal coaching is and how it can change your practice and your life.

Some of the topics include:

  • What is a Personal Coach?
  • Why are Therapists uniquely qualified to enter this explosive field?
  • The Similarities and Differences between Coaching and Therapy
  • Gaining Clients around the World

Plus, you'll see 5 live coaching Demonstrations and get valuable marketing tips.


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