Life Coaching to Support Women

May 22, 2008

Empowerment: Promoting Women’s Autonomy

What is Life Coaching

• 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.

• Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness, and coaches are not therapists nor consultants.

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What does a life coach do?

• Life Coaches may apply;– Mentoring – Values Assessment– Behaviour Modification– Behaviour Modeling– Goal-setting– And other techniques in helping their clients

Additionally, life coaching does not delve into diagnosing mental dysfunction nor analysing the past.

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What can be accomplished through Life Coaching

• Life Coaches;– help individual clients achieve results and sustain

life-changing behaviour in their lives and careers– Involve the whole person with the emphasis on

producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and more effective process for living

– Focus on what the client wants. The client possesses all the answers and strengths required for success

• www.thelifecoach.ca

What can be accomplished through Life Coaching

• Life Coaches;– Pose the questions, hold the focus on the issue, and

maintain a safe positive space for the client to explore possibilities

– Explore all aspects of the client’s life to ensure growth and balance throughout the client’s life

– Work from the premise that if nothing changes, nothing changes. In order for the future to be different from the past, you must change on the inside.

• www.thelifecoach.ca

How to access a Life Coach

• Life Coaches can be accessed from anywhere you live

• Life Coaches often work from home and conduct their work on the telephone and using Web-based technology

• A client may work with a coach based in another country or in the same city

• Sessions may last anywhere from a check-in or a regular session of 45-60 minutes

Relevance of Life Coaching to Empowerment Work

The Process of Leaving Abuse: Stages of awareness and action

AwarenessLooking for

HelpPreparing for

the futureTakingAction

The woman’s journey

Healing

Life Coaches in NB

• Some coaches are available throughout the province but the network is not well developed

• Cost may be prohibitive for the women we work with

• Consideration being given to developing our own Life Coach Program as a next step in a future action plan

• Would you see this as a valuable addition to the current mix of services?