Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training

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, published eight 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.