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Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice . . . and Your Life
Contributor(s): Thomas, Lloyd J. (Author), Williams, Patrick (Author)
ISBN: 0393704343     ISBN-13: 9780393704341
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $45.13  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2004
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Annotation: LIFE COACHING has burst on the scene both as an adjunct to psychotherapy and as an alternative to it. With the myriad of coaching styles and programs available, it can be difficult to focus on any particular strategy. Here leading coach trainer Pat Williams presents 60 essential skills and techniques that can be applied to a variety of life coaching situations.
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling
Dewey: 158.3
LCCN: 2004046531
Physical Information: 1.44" H x 8.28" W x 10.16" (2.65 lbs) 480 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal.

Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your authentic being in action.Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleague and writer, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented here.

Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 50 life lessons, and is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's processes on the message and lesson level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes:

  • The life lesson
  • The messages contained within the lesson
  • Coaching objectives for your clients regarding the lesson
  • What you need to know about the lesson to provide the framework for coaching it
  • Coaching methods, exercises, questions, and language for bringing each lesson to your clients
  • Sample coaching conversations that exemplify the coach-client dialogue for the coaching of the lesson.

Contributor Bio(s): Thomas, Lloyd J.: - Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D., is an adjunct faculty member of University of Southern California, Albany Medical College, and the Institute for Life Coach Training. He is a certified life coach and licensed psychologist and for more than 20 years has written a weekly newspaper column, 'Practical Psychology.'Williams, Patrick: - Patrick Williams, Ed.D., is founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training, the first-of-its-kind institute for training psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, and helping professionals to build a successful coaching practice. He was a licensed psychologist for 25 years and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Kodak, and is the co-author of the highly acclaimed Therapist as Life Coach: Transforming your Practice, Total Life Coaching, and The Law and Ethics of Coaching.