What is Life Coaching ?

To put it simply, Life Coaching helps clients move beyond self-limiting concepts and behaviors and assists them in determining and achieving their personal goals. Our coaches act as guides towards the discovery of our clients' highest visions for themselves and assists them in remaining true to and fulfilling their visions. Each coaching program is customized to individual needs while remaining based on the principles of The Handel Method. Through Life Coaching, you will learn how to design and maintain each area of your life beautifully and in a way that makes you proud. Our focus is on personal integrity, honesty, communication, dreaming big and pursuing and achieving goals that excite you!

Definition of "life coaching" from Wikipedia:

"Life coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that will help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. Life Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness and life coaches are not therapists.

Life coaching has its roots in executive coaching, which itself drew on techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training. Life coaching also draws inspiration from disciplines including sociology, psychology, positive adult development, career counseling, mentoring and other types of counseling. The coach may apply mentoring, values assessment, behavior modification, behavior modeling, goal-setting and other techniques in helping their clients.

Government bodies have not found it necessary to provide a regulatory standard for life coaching, nor does any state body govern the education or training standard for the life coaching industry; the title of "coach" can be used by any service provider. Multiple certificates and credential designations are available within the industry.

Some assert that life coaching is akin to psychotherapy without restrictions. The State legislature of Colorado, after holding a hearing on such concerns, disagreed, asserting that life coaching is unlike therapy because it does not focus on examining nor diagnosing the past. Instead life coaching focuses on effecting change in a client's current and future behavior. Additionally, life coaching does not delve into diagnosing mental illness or dysfunction.

According to a survey of life coaching clients, "sounding board" and "motivator" were the top roles selected for a life coach. Clients are looking for a life coach "to really listen to them and give honest feedback."