Life Coaching Training course available by distance learning.

Study life coaching as the first step to a new career or business.

• Start this course as your first step towards your new career as a life coach.
• Learn more about coaching processes, effective coaching, coaching skills, psychological well being.
• Start at any time – learn while you are earning and study in the comfort of your own home.
• Courses Direct is an organisational member of the Association For Coaching. Students on the course are eligible to join the association as student members.

COURSE AIMS

• Define life coaching and differentiate it from other professions such as psychotherapist, counsellor, personal trainer and so on.
• Understand that people perceive the world in different ways, and identify ways to help clients change counter-productive perceptions without excessive discomfort.
• Define a well-rounded individual and well-rounded life.
• Define different coaching skills including listening, analysing, planning and focussing.
• Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to physical well-being.
• Identify ways in which life coaching can contribute to psychological well-being.
• Identify the areas in which successful life coaching can benefit a client.
• Understand the importance enabling clients to develop aims, plans and goals.
• Recognise the importance of reviewing and adjusting the life-coaching processes.

WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE

• Interview a life-coach (or someone who offers life-coaching service as part of their professional counselling repertoire) for information on the nature of life-coaching.
• Identify principles that differentiate life coaching from other helping professions.
• Consider the pros and cons of different approaches to life coaching.
• Do case studies to reflect on and/or observe the effects of different life-coaching approaches on improving a person’s quality of life.
• Design and administer a questionnaire  to research some effects of negative aspects of self-perception.
• Discuss the importance of balancing a client’s limitations and encouraging them to step outside their comfort zones.
• Identify means of monitoring an individual’s self-perceptions.
• Examine the relationship and interaction between a person’s mental/psychological and physical health and well-being.
• Consider how to deal with clients with special needs such as disabilities.
• Identify the processes involved in life coaching and describe what each can contribute to a client’s personal growth and development.
• Discuss ways individuals might resist life changes and ways to facilitate change.
• Discuss the pros and cons of assertiveness training.
• Identify reasons that individuals are unable to make decisions.
• Identify different life coaching skills and when they are required.
• Explain the importance of listening to the client and how to do it.
• Consider factors that might make a life coach’s personal skill repertoire ineffectual.
• Discuss the role and risks of physical life coaching in the life-coaching process.
• Research factors that must be considered when setting out a life coaching plan to promote physical health, and psychological health.
• Identify crucial information to be included in the development of a client’s plan.
• Discuss ways to nurture a client’s goal setting, planning and self-monitoring skills.
• Research how much life-coaches use/do not use individualised client plans.
• How can the life-coach monitor the effectiveness of his/her program for a client?
• Create and evaluate an action plan for a real person/client, including monitoring.

Course Content & Structure:

The course comprises 10 lessons, as follows:

Introduction: Nature & scope of Life Coaching

Nature of life coaching, cognitive behaviour therapy, different approaches, the scope of life coaching.

Individual Perception

Psychology of self-perception, perceptual barriers, motivating clients to challenge their perceptions.

A Well-Balanced Life

The inter-relationship between psychology and physiology, stress, the psychology of balance.

Coaching Processes

Key coaching processes, assessment of the client’s situation, dealing with emotions, setting goals, replacing negative habits with positive ones, leadership qualities in a life coach, imagination and enthusiasm, clarifying goals, recognition of limitations.

Coaching Skills

Understanding the communication process, body language, communication barriers, listening skills, assessing learning styles.

Coaching and Physical Well-Being

Human nutrition, important factors in nutrition, physical well-being.

Coaching and Psychological Well-Being

The psychology of self-esteem, stress management programme, identifying stressors.

Coaching Success

High achievement, coaching success, career guidance, managing your money, beginning a business.

Goal Setting

Values, aims, and goals, types of goals, planning, future goals, steps for successful goal achievement, effort and attribution.

Review and Adjustment

Indications that a programme needs to be reassessed, client’s lack of confidence, personality clash, over-achievers, health, and safety issues.

• Study counselling theories and principles with this 1500 hour diploma by distance learning
• An outstanding foundation for a career in Counselling or related areas.
• It is broader in scope and greater in depth than many other courses designed to train counsellors; and offers a wider variety of study options in electives (which allows you to develop unique specialist knowledge that will differentiate you from your competitors when you work in the industry).
• Study fifteen 100 hour modules. There are core modules and elective modules. So you choose the elective modules from areas of psychology and counselling that suit you most.

WHY SHOULD YOU STUDY THIS COURSE?

• Learn to help others find a better life.
• Prepare you for a new career as a life coach.
• Fill in the gaps in your life knowledge and experience. What are your weak points (health, fitness, finance, management, communication, knowledge)?
• Improve your  knowledge through reading and studying.
• Establish a business.
• Become a better life coach with training to add to your experience.

Start a new and rewarding career in Life Coaching and help people to find new and better ways to live their lives.