Products
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: 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. |