For those who are not familiar with Life Coaching, it is a profession that empowers and inspires clients to set goals, develop action plans, explore their beliefs and values, and enables them to live up to their amazing potential. Coaching is future focussed, it respects your past, but is about taking steps forward toward the future you desire. It is important to note that it is not counselling or therapy.
I first encountered coaching at a leadership training course a few years ago. It quickly became clear that coaching wasn’t just a leadership technique, that it had power and application to so many aspects of life. At the end of the course I was excited to learn more and the lovely facilitator gave me a list of articles and books to read.
Over the next few months, I read everything I could find about coaching and tested the techniques with my team members and with myself. I started to see incredible benefits and had some powerful personal insights. I fell in love with Coaching!
Knowing I had to deepen my learning, I excitedly enrolled in a Professional Coaching course and began my studies. Part of studying coaching requires you to coach and be coached. Every coach that I encountered brought their own style and experiences to the session. As a client I learnt so much about myself, I had many ‘ah-ha!’ moments which gave me new insights into what I value, how my beliefs impact my decision making and I learnt how to establish new healthy habits.
The most powerful sessions that I have experienced, both as a coach and a client have been those focussed on goals relating to health. Each and every one of us already has the resources we need to take steps towards better health and wellbeing. So often it is our own limiting beliefs or unhelpful habits and behaviours that hold us back from reaching our fullest potential.
The study of coaching had so many parallels with my yoga studies, both building upon each other and deepening my understanding of myself and my clients. The study of yoga and human behaviour is a life long journey, I love that every time I learn something new, it uncovers more learning to be done. Once I completed my professional coaching qualifications, I immediately started looking for the next course to continue to grow and build upon my knowledge, who knows where it will lead to!
I am inspired to help others to reach for their own potential and achieve the health, happiness and success that they desire. I am particularly driven to helping people, who like me, live with a chronic illness and want to take back their power to get the best outcomes possible from life.
If you would like to learn more about coaching, I would love to connect, please reach out today – contact us
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Jo