Coaching is unregulated and as such anybody can call themselves a coach. I personally think this is wromg, but hey, it is what it is.
The issue I have, is with people setting up and devising their own methods from reading a couple of books and attending a seminar simply because they may not understand the fundamentals. That is not aimed at you Angela or anybody in particular because I have no idea how you coach, but I've cleaned up after enough bad coach's to know there is a LOT of them out there and they are damaging to the industry.
I don't follow any one model strictly although I tend to lean towards co-active coaching, but that's only really beacuse that's what I trained in. I also do a lot of intervention work but only ever do that face-to-face. Phone coaching can be great for a lot of stuff but when I do interevention work, I need to see the client. I need to get visual clues because the can be critical in knowing I am moving the client in the right direction. One-to-one coaching is much more intense and requires much more concentration which is why I never see more than 3 clients per day. That and I'm lazy of course ;-)
Having said all that, I think spiritual coaching and LOA stuff is cool because it's a whole different approach and as long as that is what the client wants then I can't see why anybody would have an issue with that. |