Volume 7 Issue 1– January 2008

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

"There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." These immortal words spoken by Gandhi are the only truth about peace that will lead to its ever being realized in our world. (Read Peace is the Way by Deepak Chopra) You and I must strive toward peaceful living in our homes, with our families, our communities and our world. That means to be purposeful and conscious of our actions and communications every day. And when we find ourselves not at peace, act! Do something peaceful, or "peace-creating." Be anonymously kind to someone, or be of service to a stranger. Give a gift for no reason other than that of love.

We all can be less apathetic and more responsible (response able). What daily actions are you taking for peace? What self-limiting beliefs about the world and about other cultures are you not challenging? Anger and violence seem to be dominating human attitudes today and yet I know that there are millions of quiet peacemakers. Maybe it is time to be more vocal, more actionable, and more authentic. How can we find ways to mobilize our "global warming" amongst humans that I wrote about in the last newsletter?

John F Kennedy said "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."

It has been 40 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated for being a peacemaker, but his powerful words still ring true, "Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is LOVE."

In Speak Peace in a World of Conflict by Marshall Rosenberg, he teaches to create peace by connecting to life at three levels:

  1. Creating peace within ourselves.
  2. Creating peaceful connections with others.
  3. Transforming the structures we have created — corporate, judicial, governmental, and others — that don’t support peaceful, life-enriching connections between us.

And in The Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute, the the character of Yusuf says, "lasting solutions to our outward conflicts are possible only to the extent we find real solutions to our inner ones."

Peace is the way, and the path begins within us, then we can journey toward peace with others in our community and hopefully that will spread.

"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself. All things are bound together. All things connect." Chief Seattle.

How can you help? What will you do differently? Send your ideas and thoughts to me at ideas@lifecoachtraining.com.

Pat

Patrick Williams Ed.D., MCC
Chief Energizing Officer, ILCT
Former Curriculum Consultant for the Coaching Certificate Program of Fielding University
Department Chair, Professional Coaching, International University of Professional Studies
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  • Origins of Coaching
  • What Research Says Good Coaches Do
  • Current Status of Coaching
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  • Helping Professional to Coach: 7 Success Factors
  • Some Similarities and Differences Between Coaching and Therapy
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Pat's Coaching Forum

Pat's guest on January 22, 2008 will be Deb Davis, his coauthor for Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition. Their discussion will center on what's new and expanded in this 2nd edition:

  • recent coaching trends
  • updated liability concerns
  • new business opportunities
  • research about coaching

Date: Tuesday, January 22nd
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. Eastern (3:00 p.m. Central, 2:00 p.m. Mountain, 1:00 p.m. Pacific)

This is a FREE call. Click here to register.

Free Coach Referral Service
ILCT has begun providing a listing of our 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 situation.

If you became a CLC in 2007, be sure to sign up!

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News & Features

Gregynog Hall, University of Wales
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ILCT in the UK - Foundational Course, Part I
ILCT is launching our long-standing coach training LIVE in the UK for therapists, health care professionals, human resource professionals, and others with graduate / specialty backgrounds, to be taught by ILCT senior faculty member Lynn Meinke; assisted by Susie Brisco, and Catherine Hadrillin, who are qualified coaches in the UK. The training is set in a beautiful environment at the University of Wales Gregynog Hall Conference Center.

Foundational Coach Training, Part I consists of 20 hours of classroom instruction with each component of learning anchored in the ICF Core Competencies. Continuing practice in small groups with mentoring will occur following the Course via the telephone. The second twenty-hour course, being planned for later in the year, is the final 20 hours of the regular foundational course taught in the US.

Read more / register

FREE Teleclass - Coaching with Spirit and Soul: Coaching Through the Midlife Transition

Date: Monday, January 14, 2008
Time: 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. Central, 3:00 p.m. Mountain, 2:00 p.m. Pacific)

Join Susie Strauss for a free informational telelcass on Coaching with Spirit and Soul: Coaching Through the Midlife Transition, to be offered January 21st through Feburary 11th.

If you serve mid-life clients, you'll coach them through the great midlife transition, where spiritual questions and issues come to the forefront. This course will serve as a workshop where we inquire into midlife and soul-coaching as they occur during the ages of 35-55.

Click to register for the call or learn more about the course

FREE Teleclass - Body-Mind Life Coaching (TM): Using the Body to Deepen Awareness and Forward the Action:

Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2008,
Time: 7:00-8:00 PM Eastern (6:00 PM Central, 5:00 PM Mountain, 4:00 PM Pacific)

Join Lauree E. Moss, Ph.D., CLC, PCC to discuss these advanced courses designed to provide coaches with tools to work with the powerful non-verbal messages of the body. Whatever your coaching niche, these courses will teach you how to access the wisdom of the body.

The call will be divided into two parts: In the beginning, Lauree will provide a brief description of the Body-Mind Life Coaching process, giving case examples to illustrate the work. In the second part, she will demonstrate a technique that you can immediately integrate into your life and work.

Lauree brings to life coaching over 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist and a teacher of mind-body work. She has been an adjunct faculty at ILCT for several years.

Registration: Email Lauree at laureemossphd@aol.com or call her at 310-828-0234 to let her know you would like to be on the call. and she will provide the bridge line number directly to you.

Click here to read more about the courses and Lauree's bio.

Spotlight on Coach Training for Employee Assistance (EAP) & Workplace Professionals

The EA-CS certificate program is designed for EA professionals committed to leveraging their skills and fully utilizing their talents to inspire the optimal potential of employees and organizations. Employee assistance professionals use coaching skills & strategies to create more effective employee performance, generate increased client / employee satisfaction and retention, and build "continuous learning organizations."

The EACS™ certificate is the foundation for coaching in areas that are essential for balancing employee & organizational excellence while simultaneously integrating coaching within the workplace, such as:

  • Life-Work balance; developing clarity of purpose and focused action with clear goals and improved effectiveness of employees and the organization.
  • Transitions in times of crisis and individual or organizational change.
  • Job performance & career satisfaction; contributing to organizational goals and mission, making specific behavioral changes and leveraging strengths.
  • Identifying and developing authentic leadership, followership, and essential team-working capacities.

The EACS™ program has been preapproved by EAPA for 20 PDH credits and preapproved by HRCI for 20 PHR and SPHR recertification credit hours. The winter class begins Feburary 19th, with an early-bird registration discount through February 1st.

Read more / register or contact Candia Dye at Candia@lifecoachtraining.com.

Spotlight on Advanced Skills Practicum

Do you want to take your coaching skills to a new level? Do you want to practice your coaching skills with a live client in a supportive small group environment? Would you like to have a notebook full of skills and aids on how and when to use them at your fingertips? Look no further. The Advanced Skills Practicum offers all this and more.

This class is composed of 14 sessions; the beginning class is an introduction; the ending class is a wrap-up of what has been learned. The remaining 12 sessions will cover 30 – 40 coaching skills. This class will provide a minimum of three observed coaching sessions for each student with written feedback, which can be used towards the ICF requirement of six observed coaching sessions.

I loved this class! And I had made up my mind I was going to hate it! Why? Because I am unusually self conscious when being observed, especially by someone I consider an expert. Lynn Meinke is an expert coach and I was sure my self-consciousness would do me in. Thankfully, my worst fears were not realized because of Lynn's ability to make me feel comfortable, to use great coaching skills to encourage and acknowledge her students and to give instructive and constructive feedback... Lynn practices what she teaches so well and I look forward to other classes with her. She shares her experiences, her learnings and her expertise with ease and grace. And she welcomes as well as solicits information from her students to further understand the client's situation. For example, I am a pastor and our client was a pastor as well. Lynn did not hesitate to double check assumptions to gain insight from me in this setting. I truly experienced sitting at the feet of a master in her presence. I always left the call fully supported, fully an adult and eager for the next class. Thanks, Lynn and ILCT. Nancy Leport, Fresh Perspectives

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Coaching the Global Village - Project Update

In 2006 Dr. Patrick Williams was named The Foundation of Coaching's First Global Visionary Fellow, at which time he received a small grant to begin a project he called "Coaching the Global Village." (The Foundation of Coaching, an independent non-profit organization supporting coaching worldwide). His idea was to train volunteers in a group coaching process so they could help people combat hunger, poverty, lack of education, and other challenges to which a professional coach approach could be applied.

To date he as selected his Wisdom Circle/Advisory Board which met several times during 2007 to plan the first trainings. Two pilot trainings have been scheduled for early 2008!

  1. One with the Board of AmeriCorps in Lansing, Michigan, January 28th and 29th. AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage Americans in intensive service to meet the nation’s critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.

  2. A second with YouthZone in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, February 17th - 23rd. YouthZone is dedicated to providing oppportunities for all youth to become responsible, contributing members of society. They work with youth, their families, and the community toward this end.

See more at Coachingtheglobalvillage.org

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Where In The World Is Pat Williams?

February 17-23
Glenwood Springs, CO
Coaching the Global Village with YouthZone.com - Pilot Coach Training
CoachingtheGlobalVillage.com


March 13-16
Washington, DC
The Psychotherapy Networker Symposium — 603: Becoming a Wise Elder Therapist: Lessons from Africa and Tribal Societies with Dr. Patrick Williams (Sunday, March 16th).
www.psychotherapynetworker.org

What Pat Recommends / New Books

Peace Is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an End
by Deepak Chopra

"There is no way to peace, peace is the way."

Deepak Chopra expands on Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, teaching us how to expand awareness, stop reacting out of fear, and reject war—one person at a time.

As Dr. Chopra says, "Violence may be innate in human nature, but so is its opposite: love. The next stage of humanity, the leap we are poised to take, will be guided by the force of that love."

Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

In every interaction, every conversation and in every thought, you have a choice – to promote peace or perpetuate violence. International peacemaker, mediator and healer, Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg shows you how the language you use is the key to enriching life.

Speak Peace is filled with inspiring stories, lessons and ideas drawn from over 40 years of mediating conflicts and healing relationships in some of the most war torn, impoverished, and violent corners of the world. Speak Peace offers insight, practical skills, and powerful tools that will profoundly change your relationships and the course of your life for the better.

The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
by The Arbinger Institute

"Through an intriguing story of parents struggling with their troubled children and with their own personal problems, The Anatomy of Peace shows how to get past the preconceived ideas and self-justifying reactions that keep us from seeing the world clearly and dealing with it effectively. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. As the story unfolds, we discover how they came together, how they help warring parents and children to come together, and how we too can find our way out of the struggles that weigh us down. The choice between peace and war lies within us."
Therapist As Life Coach - Click to order

Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals, Revised and Expanded Edition, by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis

In 2006, U.S. News and World Report listed coaching as one of the 10 top growing professions. The first edition of Therapist as Life Coach, published in 2002, anticipated this trend, and since its publication it has become a standard for therapists who wish to transition or expand their practices into life coaching. Pat Williams and Deborah C. Davis have revised their classic practice-building book for today's therapists and future coaches. Every chapter in this second edition has been updated and rewritten, reflecting the growth of the coaching field and its increasing appeal to not only therapists, but all helping professionals.

There is new material throughout, including:

  • an overview of recent coaching developments
  • updated liability concerns
  • new business opportunities
  • a new section on the research about coaching
Speaking of Success

Speaking of Success - World Class Experts Share Their Secrets - featuring Patrick Williams, Stephen R. Covey, Ken Blanchard & Jack Canfield

Do you want to:

  • Unlock your potential
  • Turn your life around
  • Remove mental blocks to success
  • Be the success you were meant to be?

If your answer is yes to any one of these, you need to read this book!

Those who choose to travel the road of success must also travel the road of continuing education. Success is about being prepared. Every time you read a book that contains the experiences of successful people, you are advancing on your own personal road to success whatever that work means to you.

The authors in this book will help you expand your horizons and gain a whole new perspective on how to achieve success!
Speaking of Success

Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training by Dr. Patrick Williams & Dr. 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.
REVIEWS: Being a truly effective ally of another person requires us to know both what to do and how to be; Becoming a Professional Life Coach gives us both. While the task of creating a comprehensive training text on the broad field of life coaching is quite daunting, Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez take it on with what appears to be real joy and they master it. The reader is both instructed and inspired cover to cover. The challenge of doing more than producing another coaching "cookbook" is met and exceeded with an excellent integration of both practical technique and well grounded theory.

Becoming a Professional Life Coach integrates what is sometimes missing in much coach training, such as Prochaska's Stage of Readiness For Change. The book takes terms which have become well-worn catch phrases, such as fulfillment and empowerment, and infuses them with new life, helping the coach to truly understand their meaning, importance and their use. Becoming a Professional Life Coach will become the touchstone in the field of training life coaches. Michael Arloski, Ph.D., PCC, author of Wellness Coaching For Lasting Lifestyle Change.

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