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LIFE COACHING
Responding to your needs, discovering your potential and helping you reach your goals.
Life circumstances can be overwhelming. Family, children, marriage, illness/disease, addictions, abuse and other outside negative influences can complicate our lives. A trained Life Coach can be a voice outside your particular situation who has the skills and advice to help you weed through those difficulties while helping you reset your priorities and reach your goals. You will also learn to how to guard your heart and home. These techniques will help you understand what it is to seek true and lasting happiness, find peace and regain joy.
A Life Coach does not provide the same kind of services or have the same training as a counselor, therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist. We neither diagnose mental or behaviorial illnesses nor prescribe any medications. Instead, we work much like a sports coach. We assess your potential, provide you with strategies and tools and we encourage you so that you can reach your goals.
Together, we can address family life, parenting, marrital relationships, anger management, addictions or personal crises.
In addition to one-on-one or family counseling, 'I Refuse to Lose' programs for marriages, parenting or interpersonal relationships are available for scheduling in a seminar or workshop format to any group or organization.
Whether at a conference or in a personalized session, we develop each topic to explore common misconceptions and destructive patterns in order to re-establish healthy thinking and behavior to bring peace and order back into a world of confusing and conflicting messages. I believe that strong families make strong communities and this is my objective.
How to Choose the Right Life Coach:
A life coach provides guidance to indivduals who want to accomplish specific goals, but are having difficulty doing so on their own. Choosing the right life coach involves knowing what your needs and goals are and finding the life coach whose specialties fit them. Before choosing your life coach, do your research, interview him/her or participate in an initial 'sample' session.
1. Assess your needs.
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Life coaches have particular areas of expertise such as business, relationships or grief, etc. Decide why you are seeking a life coach and choose one who serves your area of need.
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Having an idea of what you expect to gain from life coaching will also help you in selecting the right coach who can help you achieve the desired outcome.
2. Get References.
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Ask family, friends or trusted associates for a reference. Be sure to get a reference from a person who has actually been coached by that person. Ask questions about that life coach's personality, the area of their expertise and the emotional support they provide their clients.
3. Research your potential life coach.
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Once you have identified a life coach you think you'd like to work with, explore his or her website, blog or other social media. Find out if the coach is certified for life coaching and in what areas of expertise. Try to determine if you share the coach's perspective on life in general and in pursuing goals. Compare the information you gather from the life coach's online presence with any information you have gained from personal references or a referral service.
4. Schedule an interview and a sample session.
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Meet with the life coach and ask questions that may not have been answered during your research. Ask about the hourly fee and if the coach requires a commitment to attend a minimum number of sessions. Question the coach about his or her life coach training and the type of continued education in which he or she participates. Verify the coach's specialty and discuss the format of a regular session.
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If the coach offers a free session, schedule one to determine if the coach is a good match. During the session, consider the following questions: Do you feel comfortable with the coach? Is this someone you think you can trust? Do you get the impression that the coach will hold you accountable for accomplishing your goals?
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I've never had a counselor or coach that is as knowlegeable and caring as Joel. I've been to both The Man in the MIrror seminar and through classes and at this point can honestly say sometimes I cannont contain the joy within me. You want to talk about freedom! I feel like I've been set free like a bird in a cage and feel extremely fortunate. Thank-you Joel. You're amazing! ~ Jason