Lifecoaching

[escapeplan]

I'd like to know your experiences of life coaching.

If you are a coach:

1/ How do you deal with problems in your own life?
2 /Could you use the same techniques to solve your own problems?
3/ What are the limits of coaching from the point of view of the coach not the client?

If you have been coached:

1/ How was the experience?
2/ Did it lead to you becoming a life coach later on in life?
3? How could coaching be better utilised in personal development?

Thank you for your inputs. The above questions are just some pointers for discussion.

[Acting Like Godot]

[Angela]

Originally Posted by escapeplan

If you have been coached:

1/ How was the experience?
2/ Did it lead to you becoming a life coach later on in life?
3? How could coaching be better utilised in personal development?

Thank you for your inputs. The above questions are just some pointers for discussion.

1/ It was great - fun, inspiring, insightful, very helpful.
2/ no
3/ I don't know

[Mounds]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

I have this one, have yet to read it. Too many other engaging books out there. Coaching books are unusually dry... I mean, I've read boring books before but these are a real snooze.
I will even go so far to say that if I were standing on the top of a tall building and someone handed me a coaching book to read, there is a real chance I might fall asleep and plummet to my death.
One time, I read a coaching book in the bathtub. No word of a lie, I actually fell asleep in the tub. Thankfully, I survived to tell the tale of how boring coaching books are.
I propose that someone out there writes a book on coaching that is actually interesting. Coaches are supposed to be upbeat and happy. Who is writing these books for them? Ever have one of those monotone professors that drones on and on and on... coaching books must be their retirement project.
Maybe I'll compile all the information from these coaching books - *ALG throws Mounds off tall building*

I WASN'T FINISHhhhhheeeeeeddddd......

[Angela]

There's one coaching book you might enjoy that's not a snooze -- Supercoach. It's great for coaching yourself, not just for coaching others.

[ChrisL]

Originally Posted by escapeplan

I'd like to know your experiences of life coaching.

If you are a coach:

1/ How do you deal with problems in your own life?
2 /Could you use the same techniques to solve your own problems?
3/ What are the limits of coaching from the point of view of the coach not the client?

1) The same way I show others how to handle them - by being curious about our experience instead of judging it, by being self-validating instead of self-negating.
2) I do
3) We can only take someone as deep/far as we ourselves are willing to go. If the coach (or anyone) has not dealt with their own conflict, then they will stop or resist when the client comes to it.

If you have been coached:

1/ How was the experience?
2/ Did it lead to you becoming a life coach later on in life?
3? How could coaching be better utilised in personal development?

Thank you for your inputs. The above questions are just some pointers for discussion.

1) Fantastic
2) No - my experience was during/after becoming one.
3) Depends on the person.