An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. Becoming a Professional Life Coach introduced readers to coaching fundamentals—listening skills, effective language, session preparation—as well as more advanced concepts such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognizing and combating obstacles, aligning values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and living with integrity. This new edition, publishing 8 years after the original book, is updated with information on coaching competencies, ethics, somatic coaching, wellness coaching and how positive psychology and neuroscience today are informing the coaching profession and the body of knowledge that makes it such a global and growing profession. Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and strategies for being an effective, successful life coach. It is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. About the Authors: Patrick Williams, Ed.D., a pioneer of the coaching profession, began executive coaching in 1990. In 1998 he founded the Institute for Life Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training Program. He speaks worldwide on living purposefully, coaching for global change, wellness coaching, and the coach approach in leadership. He has written dozens of articles and taken part in numerous television and radio interviews. He is also the author of Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training and Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice… and Your Life. Diane S. Menendez, Ph.D., is a master certified coach and has coached leaders, teams, and organizations for more than 25 years. She specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, and culture change in large organizations.
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