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The ICF Coaching Competencies

April 25, 2012 By 1 Comment

One of the most important things to know that will help you run your coaching practice the correct way is the ICF coaching competencies. The ICF (International Coach Federation) has developed 11 core coaching competencies that help to promote a greater understanding about the skills, techniques, and approaches utilized in the coaching profession. These ICF coaching competencies are also used as the foundation for the International Coaching Federation credentialing examination.

The 11 ICF Coaching Competencies

  1. Meeting ethical guidelines and professional standards. Coaches should comprehend ethical standards and be able to apply them in their coaching practice.
  2. Establish the coaching agreement. Be able to discuss with a client the specifics of a contract (fees, schedule, goals), and ethically determine whether or not there is a good match between your coaching and the goals of the client.
  3. Establishing trust and intimacy with the client. Have the ability to provide a secure and supportive environment that produces mutual trust and respect.
  4. Coaching presence. Have the ability to trust your instincts and intuition as a coach. Have the confidence to use humor, experiment with new techniques, take some risks, and “go with your gut” in certain situations.\
  5. Active Listening. Be truly engaged with your clients and focus on what they are saying. Pay attention to words, tone, and body language.
  6. Ask powerful questions. Ask questions that promote and provoke insight, action, discovery, and further inquiry.
  7. Direct Communication. Be able to communicate clearly with the client, appropriately explain exercises and techniques, and respectfully define goals and objectives.
  8. Creating Awareness. Be able to help clients discover their own feelings, goals, and objectives. Be able to effectively invoke inquiry for a greater understanding of the forces that determine emotions, feelings, and self-awareness.
  9. Designing actions. Be able to help clients create and design actions that will enable them to reach their goals and objectives. Help them create a road map to personal growth and success.
  10. Planning and goal setting. Have the ability to create, develop, implement, and maintain a coaching plan with results that are attainable, specific, and measurable.
  11. Managing progress and accountability. This is the final ICF coaching competency and works to put responsibility on the coach to make sure to review the coaching plan, but also shifts responsibility to the client for taking action to achieve the stated goals and objectives.

These ICF coaching competencies are not listed in order of importance, but are placed in more of a chronological order. They are all of equal importance and should be understood and followed to the best of your ability.

They ICF coaching competencies create standards for coaches that help create a professional atmosphere in the coaching industry. They help build up a certain level of trust for clients when entering into a relationship with any type of coach who subscribes to the competencies set down by the ICF. Both clients and coaches can think of them as the necessary skills that make someone a good coach!

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Fred Philips
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Secret Coaches Talk: Coaching Conversation on Tools, Techniques, Powerpoint and Success

April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Last night we had a coaching conversation on tools, techniques, Powerpoint and success as the topic of my monthly coach only mastermind. We discovered our top picks based on what creates lasting success for our clients and in our personal lives.

Monthly Mastermind for Coaches in the Wellness Industry

Every month I hold a conference call with new and experienced coaches all over the world. We talk about what we are doing, give space to ourselves to release, discover and create ways to stay motivated and inspired. I learned in my training with JTS advisors that there is nothing more important then accountability and support when Jeff created my first group mastermind for us. After the article was written about me in the New York Times posing the questions, Should a Life Coach have a life first?, I decided new coaches need an open space to talk and support eachother. We discuss important topics, expand our minds within different levels of diversity and challenge our knowledge in contribution to the world. This month we chose to focus our coaching conversation on tools, techniques and powerpoint. Our focused coaching conversation on tools, techniques and powerpoint was a big hit for all of the coaches who participated and I thought I’d share the most exciting discoveries with you this week.

Coaching Conversation on Tools, Techniques, Powerpoint and Consistent Success

The coaches conversed on tools, techniques, Powerpoint and success; deciding their favorite in each area that creates lasting success for their clients. We talked about tools that we offer our clients to take home, techniques we use in sessions and successful powerpoint presentations we have used for conferences.

All Coaches Agreed on First Place Tools, Techniques, Powerpoint and Lasting Success

I thought you might like the condensed version of our coaching conversation on tools, techniques, powerpoint and lasting success rituals that we agreed take first place.

  1. The top TOOL in our coaching conversation on tools, techniques, Powerpoint and lasting success was TIME BLOCKING.

Time Blocking involves:

  • Defining your values
  • Deciding on your priorities
  • Setting goals
  • Breaking down large goals into one hour/one day action steps
  • Blocking out time in the week or month ahead in advance to take action on these smaller tasks
  • Using reward and accountability to stay on track

2. The top TECHNIQUE discovered in our coaching conversation on tools, techniques, Powerpoint and lasting success was ACTIVE LISTENING.

Active listening involves:

  • Asking powerful questions
  • Filtering Information
  • Tackling blind spots with awareness
  • Finding the question that lands just right
  • Listening at four levels- Downloading, Debating, Empathy, Meta Position
  • Listening beyond words

3. The top POWERPOINT discovered in our coaching conversation on, techniques, Powerpoint and lasting success was discovering the HUMAN NEEDS

The human needs involve:

  • Love and Connection
  • Significance
  • Variety
  • Certainty
  • Growth
  • Contribution

4.  The top LASTING SUCCESS discovered in our coaching conversation on, techniques, powerpoint and lasting success was ACCOUNTABILITY and CONSCIOUSNESS.

Create Your Own Coaching Conversation

Last nights Mastermind group reminded me how thankful I am for the space each month to explore, surrender and release. It was simply rewarding to redefine and discover what is truly working in our daily practice within our business in our coaching conversation on tools, techniques and powerpoint.

Lasting success is important to me and accountability and consciousness really hit home. I find conciousness in my daily success ritual and accountability each month in this group for new coaches. The best thing you can do for yourself is find a friend, community, coach or fellow colleagues that you can form your own mastermind. You are welcome to join monthly mastermind with me each month at www.thersvprev.com.

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Jeannine Yoder
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Coaching Conversation, Tips, Techniques, Powerpoint and other Coaching Tools

April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Getting clients to buy into your coaching philosophy is a matter of getting them to pay attention to your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, and Powerpoint presentations. You would think it would be easy to do since they are PAYING you for your time. Though some clients are like eager students on the first day of school, others are more like that kid in the back row who never raises his hand and always tries to avoid any eye contact or have any conversation with the teacher. These are your problem clients.

Problem clients are enigmas. Should you even care if they don’t pay attention? After all, you have their check. If they want to throw good money away and give it to you, what is the issue? If they don’t want to listen to your tips or try to understand your techniques, or watch your Powerpoint presentations, what is the problem?

Well, there are two problems. First of all, you became a coach because you have a strong desire to help. If your clients are not paying attention to your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and other tools of the trade, you are NOT helping them.

The second reason you should care that clients pay attention and understand your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and other coaching methods, is that they will not get anything from your coaching and your reputation may suffer. Clients who do not benefit from your services will not tell others about your coaching expertise. They may even be negative about their experiences with your coaching. As a coach, one of your best forms of advertising is word of mouth; silence or negativity about your coaching is definitively not good for business and your bottom line.

Get Coaching Conversation, Tips, Techniques, Powerpoint Presentations to Matter!

The best method to get clients to pay attention to your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and other tools of the coaching profession is to ask questions. Always ask questions. Never stop asking questions. Once you are finished asking questions, think of some more questions. Spend much more time asking your clients questions than talking to them. All your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and other methods should be inquiry-based. Begin with questions instead of a lecture. End with questions instead of a summary or a demand. Questions, questions, and more questions!

What goes best with questions? If you answered, “Listening”, you win the prize. To keep your clients happy, you must listen to their answers. Coaches who ask and listen, usually have satisfied clients. Ask, ask, ask, listen, listen, listen; the successful coach’s mantra. By asking and listening, your clients will be much more likely to pay attention to your coaching conversations, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and other methods.

Though coaching is a dynamic, satisfying, and profitable business, it takes some work to build a successful practice. It starts with marketing and promotion, but the cornerstone of your business takes places when you are with a client. Getting them to pay full attention to your coaching conversation, tips, techniques, Powerpoint presentations, and all the other tools of the trade you employ, is the key to having happy clients, retaining happy clients, and obtaining more happy clients.

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Ten of the Best Coaching Quotes

March 12, 2012 By 1 Comment

I thought I would put down some of the most inspirational coaching quotes for your perusal and consideration. These are motivation quotes that can be used effectively in your coaching practice. Using quotes can inspire, motivate, and enlighten your clients. Take these coaching quotes and apply them to your practice and life, and you just might- notice a big difference!

My Top Ten Coaching Quotes

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett.
Yes, it means that you should take small steps to achieve your goals – you won’t get there in one giant leap. Patience is definitely a virtue.

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” — John Wooden
John Wooden was known for his coaching quotes and this is one of his best. To achieve something, don’t be afraid to make mistakes or fail. If you don’t take a chance, you will not succeed.

“Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag — the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.” — Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune
This one pretty much sums up the job description of a coach.

“Fear regret more than failure.” — Taryn Rose
Take it from a guy on the wrong side of fifty – you definitely regret the things you didn’t do way more than the things you did. Don’t be afraid to go for it!

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life… and that is why I succeed.” –Michael Jordan
Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure is merely a stepping stone to success.

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.” –Brian Tracy
Yes, it is important to see the glass as half-full. Achievement and success often go hand in hand with optimism.

“There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” — Tom Krause
Once again, you usually can’t succeed unless you experience failure. Failure is one of the motivators for success.

Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there’s a difference between deciding and doing. –Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt
Ok, it’s more of a funny riddle than a quote, but it sums up one of the traits of successful people. Many people dream, many people make decisions, but successful people take their dreams and their decisions and put them into action.

If you wish your life were different… do your life differently. –Terence Houlihan
As a coach, you must make your clients believe that they can make a change at any age or at any point in their career.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. –John Wooden.
We will finish on a coaching quote from the late, great John Wooden. In you coaching practice, it is extremely important to be able to offer criticism and give advice without causing clients to get upset, angry, or resentful – it’s one of the most overlooked yet vitally essential skills of a good coach.

There you go! Ten coaching quotes to use in your practice. Ten coaching quotes to help your clients achieve their dreams and will also make you a better coach.

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How to Steer Clear of a Disaster Assessment Coaching Session

March 6, 2012 By 1 Comment

Assessment Coaching had been on my “to do list” since day one of starting my personal journey to become a life coach. I don’t mean leading a client through an assessment coaching session, I mean getting one for me.

Assessment Coaching And Why we Love it

It is probably our ego that thrives on the attention of being analyzed by professionals. Oh yes, I could not wait! My favorite part of my job is the unlimited access to other coaching professionals who can help me to better my life. So I volunteered my time to receive an assessment coaching. I didn’t stop there; I invited my fiancé to receive a relationship assessment coaching from a friend who was in his coaches training. Boy did I learn first hand how an assessment coaching can go wrong.

What is an Assessment Coaching?

An assessment evaluates a person, place, thing or situation. An assessment coaching compares your results against the standard. It offers you information so you can identify healthy or productive changes you might incorporate to increase productivity in you life.

Assessments are most effective when you go over your results with a trained professional. Many coaches now specialize in Assessment Coaching. A coach will help you to evaluate what the information is telling you and how you can begin to make small shifts in your life to increase performance in your career, relationships and within yourself.

Assessment Coaching Domains

Abilities/Skills- these types of assessments are best used for job placement and discovering your optimum performance.

Personality/Style- important assessment to consider when evaluating future performance an emotional stability.

Interests/Values- useful in determining satisfaction, commitment and level of engagement.

Health/Well Being- understanding your personal level of stress and how you balance is found through assessment coaching around your health.

Coaches Must Never Get Lost in The Pages

Disaster struck in my relationship assessment coaching session. Two hours in my fiancé and I realized our coach was reading off of the pages, word for word. We could have done that on our own and enjoyed the time together.

It is very important for coaches to review the assessments before the session. Familiarize yourself with the likes and differences of the partners and their assessments.
You will want to be fully present in the session. Listening and playing in the moment with the results is the fun of assessment coaching.
See if you can apply the information from the assessment to the conversation and current challenges of your client or the couple.

We asked our coach how our way of communicating was different and how we might utilize what we have learned in a disagreement. At that point he read back to us what the assessment noted about our communication styles. Hello? We can read. This was an opportunity to really coach us through a conversation and utilize the information and tools the assessment provided. A coach becomes valuable in a coaching session when working with the client to understand and implement change immediately.

If you are looking for an assessment coach or want to conduct a session please take your eyes off the page and look for active presence. My disaster assessment coaching lead me to believe a coach who engages with the client, versus the words of the page, is the key ingredient to transformational results from assessment coaching.

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Coaching Competency: Dealing with the Doubting Thomas

February 27, 2012 By 2 Comments

Sometimes the biggest challenge to your coaching competency is dealing with the Doubting Thomas; those whiners and complainers who just don’t believe coaching works, or worse, that your coaching works!

2 Types of Doubting Thomases

* Those who stay away from coaching

* Those who hire coaches.

The first type, the ones who avoid coaches at all cost, are no problem. As coaches, you never see them, so they don’t bother you. It’s the second type, the ones who whine and complain, but continue to hire coaches, who are the real pains in the, er…neck. These are the ones who truly test a coach’s competency!

The origin of the term, Doubting Thomas, comes from the biblical account of Thomas, one of the Apostles, who doubted Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. But here, the term is used to refer to those people who doubt the effectiveness and competency of coaching. Specifically, YOUR coaching competency!

The First Thing You Should Do When Dealing With a Doubting Thomas

You should ask a question – preferably an easy general question. Something such as, “How are you?” Simpler is better. By asking a question, you should be able to find out what type of person you are dealing with.

Someone who is generally a positive person will usually give you a brief, concise answer. This person may be exhibiting some negativity because they are going through a tough time or have a pressing personal issue. This person can be called an optimistic Doubting Thomas and is the perfect candidate for good coaching

If someone gives you a long, complicated answer, that usually means you are dealing with a negative person who views the world pessimistically. This is a pessimistic Doubting Thomas, and is a trickier person to work with and requires your best coaching competency.

Coaching Competency: Dealing With the Optimistic Doubting Thomas

With an optimistic doubting Thomas, it is important to find out what has caused the recent negativity. Finding the problem through a series of questions will allow you to phrase the problem in recognizable and easy to comprehend terms. Having a detailed description of the problem makes identifying a solution much easier. Constantly framing and reframing the problem with pertinent questions will help the client see the issue more clearly and may eventually lead to the client finding his own solution. Whether you find the solution, or the client finds it with a little assistance from you, it will help that doubting client see the true value of your coaching.

Coaching Competency: Dealing With the Pessimistic Doubting Thomas

Dealing with the pessimistic Doubting Thomas is harder than the optimist. Trying to change them is like trying to change someone’s political party or religion. It certainly won’t happen in a day and may never happen. So, don’t try to completely change them. Be happy if you get them to move just a little!

If they get mad and want to vent, vent right along with them. If they are mad at their employer or the government or a relative, get mad with them. Join them in cursing out whomever it is they are cursing out. Knowing that you are on their side may cause them to open up and be more responsive to your coaching.

Once you have vented with them, you can then, in a calmer and more peaceful environment, try to solve their issues. You can’t fix all their problems, as a pessimist will have an unending supply of issues, but you can address one or two of them. When you offer reasonable solutions to fixable problems, the pessimistic Doubting Thomas may see how valuable you are as a coach.

At some point in your coaching career, you will need to deal with a Doubting Thomas and prove your coaching competency. Identify what type of doubter they are: optimistic or pessimistic. Then deal with them in the appropriate manner. Your coaching competency will determine how well you deal with these doubters and overcome their negativity toward coaching. Turning a Doubting Thomas into a fan of coaching will surely increase your client base and help you make more money as a coach!

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article…Thank you!

Fred Philips
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Secret Agenda’s Running Your Life Coaching Income

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Life Coaching income takes dedication to create, so lets get rid of those secret agenda’s running defeating your ability to receive financial abundance.

What is a Secret Agenda?

Secret Agenda’s come in many forms. Have you ever said to yourself “I don’t want this to ever happen again and I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure it doesn’t”? How about “I’m going to stop myself from doing this in the future”? How about “I will never have or receive this again because it causes too much pain”?

You may find that your life coaching income is limited by past experience you have had, judgments you made or limitations you have put on yourself. Your life coaching income is begging you to take a deeper look and destroy these buggers so it can increase and grow exponentially.

What Secret Agenda’s are running all day everyday in your life and coaching business that might affect your income?

Much like a computer running background data that you can’t see, these same programs are running your ability to receive an increase in your life coach income.

How to Destroy These Agenda’s And Set Your Life Coaching Income Free

You need to start by running your business from the question not the conclusion. If you consider that your business is like a long hallway and you are trying to walk as fast as possible to the other side then you are living on total secret agenda overload. Your life coaching income can never increase if you are focused on the “how” and control. Start to slow down and notice all the doorways along the way. Rather then rushing to the end why don’t you try knocking on the door. You don’t have to know what is on the other side.

Knocking in this analogy relates to asking more questions of your business and potential.  I like to play around with asking a question each day.

What can I generate or create today that will create money now and in the future for my life coaching income?

Step Out of Your Comfort Zone With Pride

We all have a Comfort level when it comes to money. A lot of people live with the comfort of barely enough to get by. If you function here you have blocked yourself from the energy and ability to receive more. This level of comfort and control will feel like what you have to maintain with your life coaching income.

Step into the energy of what it will feel like to receive unimaginable life coaching income and function from this point of energy and reference never anything less.

Vaporize Your Agenda’s Today in 5 Easy Steps

By reading this article you have already done your life coaching income a favor and brought awareness to your possible working limitations. You are an infinite being who is meant and deserves to receive.

  1. Place value on what you do and do not accept less
  2. Be willing to be open and receive
  3. Start asking questions rather then making conclusions
  4. As part of your daily practice release judgments you have put on success
  5. Allow yourself to be and create from passion

Your life coaching income will give you a big hug and a thank you Open yourself up to lots of hugs and kisses to receive that next level of financial freedom.

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Assessment Coaching: Key to Hiring & Team Building

January 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Whether you are building your own team or coaching a CEO, assessment coaching can be your secret weapon. Assessments, properly administered and interpreted, can almost instantly get you inside of peoples’ heads. So whether you are hiring or helping people perform as a highly effective unit, assessments can be the key to your success in coaching. Here are three insights that assessments can provide.

What Is Your Style?

Assessment instruments can give insights into Behavioral Style, Values and Aptitude. By behavioral style we mean the way we behave when we are being most genuinely ourselves. Now there are certain behavioral styles which are suited to certain professions. And on a team, various roles are best filled by people of differing behavioral styles. So by looking for specific behavior styles, known to succeed in specific roles, a hiring manager can nearly guarantee hiring success. By understanding how different behavioral styles interact, it is pretty straightforward to coach team members on the contribution of each team member, and how they can best work together.

What Are Your Values?

Our values drive our underlying motivation and therefore our actions. We seek what we value the most. Just as in behavioral styles, specific values are more successful in specific professions. And knowing this, you can use assessment coaching to maximize your success as a hiring manager or as a coach. For example, the behavioral style of a sales person and a customer support person may be similar, but you would expect the successful sales person reflect a high level utilitarian value, you would probably expect the successful customer support person to show a high level of altruistic value. On the one hand they may behave similarly, on the other, one is a successful closer, and the other can’t help but give the store away!

Using Assessment Coaching to Judge Aptitude

Another way of interpreting the combination of style and values is what you might call aptitude. So to take assessment coaching to a higher level, you can infer ones natural ability to perform certain job functions, or their aptitude. Now while you should not make hiring or management decisions based on assessment results alone, as part of a well developed hiring or management process coaching with assessments can nearly guarantee your success as a coach or as a manager.

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Increase Your Life Coaching Income with New Year’s Resolutions

January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment

What life coach doesn’t want to increase their life coaching income? Ok, there may be a few of you who have reached the pinnacle of success and wealth, but most coaches are continually seeking new ways to boost their profits and money-making ability.

Want to send your life coaching income to the stars and beyond? In the spirit of the new year, here are five absolutely stupendous, incredible and amazing New Year’s resolutions you can make to expand and grow your business.

The 5 Absolute Best Ways to Grow Your Life Coaching Income

1. Delegate and delegate some more. If you have a team; delegate more tasks to them. If you have a virtual assistant, delegate! Perhaps you write articles to promote your coaching practice. Delegate this task to freelancers. The amount you pay to freelancers is worth the time you free up.

2.Don’t give your client TOO much! Are you always over-delivering with your clients? Clients don’t need that and it won’t really get you more business. Trust the value of what you offer and let the clients take it from there. Deliver honest value for your fees and give out extra time sparingly. Less time over-delivering means more time delivering to more clients. More clients means more life coaching income!

3. More is better! Coaching a group means more money. If you replace some of your 1 on 1 coaching with some group coaching, you can boost your income significantly. For example:

You have 10 clients @ $100 = $1000

You have 8 individual clients @ $100 = $800, plus 1 group session with 5 clients @ $70/each = $350. $800 + $350 = $1150. So, you made a little more because you replaced 2 clients with one group. But, let’s take this a little further:

You have 5 clients @ $100 = $500, plus 4 group sessions with 5 clients @ $70/each = $1400. $500 + $1400 = $1900. Not only have you made $900 more, you also have one less filled time slot. You can fill that with an additional client for more money, or just take the time for yourself – more money and more free time! A life coach’s income increases substantially with group coaching.

4. Find a niche! The more specialized your niche, the less competition and the more you can charge per hour. Of course, before deciding on a niche, you will need to make sure there is a demand for those particular services. If you decide to specialize in life coaching for men named Sue born in July, there may not be much need for your services. Find a unique niche with demand, and your life coaching income will rise.

5. Passive income actively grows your profits! As a coach, there are several different products you can sell that fits with your business. You can sell:

    • e-books
    • DVDs
    • e-courses
    • online coaching
    • online group coaching
    • assessment tools
    • Mp3 recordings
    • monetized coaching blog

You can make these products yourself, or find a freelancer on elance.com, guru.com, or a similar site. Either way, the sky’s the limit on how much passive income you can make from products based on your coaching practice.

With these five New Year’s Resolutions, you can boost your life coaching income. Try them out and have a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!

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Meditation as a Coaching Model

January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A coaching model is an approach to coaching. It is a set of principles that guides our engagement with our clients. There are many models in coaching, but one of my favorites is what I call the meditation model of coaching. It is based on the understanding that when we are in touch with our inner selves we are in touch with the farthest reaches of the universe. We are, therefore, in touch with all the answers to all the questions that we might possibly have.

In the Mediation Coaching Model, You Hold on by Letting Go

Hold on by letting go. Move by being motionless. And lead by following, if you have the nerve. We begin by helping to quiet our client’s conscious mind so that they can hear without listening, see without looking, and feel through a web of nerves that extends beyond themselves and connects with the web of being that is the universe.

If We Are so Connected, why Do We Seem so all Alone?

Our clients are so distracted by the frenetic pace of the physical world around them that they lose their sense of connection, and that is where the meditation in the mediation coaching model comes in. Meditation is a quieting of the mind. And in that quiet state, our clients can begin to hear not only their own pulse, but the pulse of the universe, the pulse of the entire creation. And if they can make that connection, they will soon learn that they can draw upon the wisdom of the universe, and that they are not alone.

What Drives this Realization?

Faith drives this most powerful coaching model. The faith that people demonstrate when they lean back and fall into the arms of their friends waiting to catch them just before their heads smash into the floor. This is the faith that allows our clients to sit, not only perfectly quite, but also perfectly vulnerable. Think about the state of perfect vulnerability. And if you can and you are ready for that responsibility, then you may be ready to be a meditation coach.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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