Benefits of Life Coaching with NLP
What’s in it for you?
Life Coaching is like the metro map. When you know your destination, but are unclear about how to get there, the map is there to support you and show you several options for planning your journey.
The benefits of life coaching are indeed manifold. The most valuable of them follow:
- It is totally natural and unobtrusive.
- Regardless of the client’s momentous geographical location and circumstances, life coaching can fit in with his/her schedule, especially if conducted over the phone or online.
- People can take life coaching anywhere; I’ve heard of a client being coached at the airport!
- The client creates the agenda, the Coach holds it.
- The client will learn to understand many of his/her behaviors and why s/he is compelled to do them.
- Life coaching strengthens memory.
- Life coaching encourages self-discipline.
- Life coaching inspires clients to vote economically with their time, money, and energy.
- In the long term, the skills/capabilities acquired in a life coaching engagement, plus the regained personal resources, will manifest themselves in saving of time, money, and energy.
- Issues can be dealt with content-free.
- Any content of the life coaching process is completely confidential, unless otherwise stated with the client’s permission.
- Life coaching enables the client to evaluate any situation from the outsider’s viewpoint, which is valuable for problem-solving and decision-making.
- A coaching relationship enriches and strengthens the client’s interactions with him/herself in any aspect of life.
- By showing the client useful ways of thinking and interacting with him/herself, life coaching empowers the client to higher quality interactions with the surrounding world.
- The life coaching interaction benefits the lives of people of any age, cultural background, social status, and occupation.
- Any client will inevitably restore/affirm his/her personal integrity as well as…
- …explore and learn about his/her identity.
- Life coaching inspires connection with the spiritual sphere.
- The client will gain an insight into what’s beyond his/her own self and how s/he fits into the wholeness of the universe.
- Creativity, self-worth, and self-confidence will naturally find their place in each client’s inner and surrounding world.
Life Coaching is aimed at perfectly [mentally] healthy and resourceful people who are determined to get what they want out of their lives, open their mind to self-exploration, personal growth, and self-improvement.
It is a process that creates powerful and lasting changes in a natural and unobtrusive manner. It takes place in a series of sessions conducted over the phone, in person, or online, tailored to the client’s choice during which the Coach and client continuously design the flow of the process and follow the client’s agenda. The client determines the agenda for each session. The sessions can be used to address a variety of specific life-related issues in the areas of health, relationships, work, money, and success, as well as for evaluation of situations, installing or dismantling habits, making decisions, reinforcing and celebrating positive happenings, generating useful behaviours and ways of thinking, or making commitments.
The roots of life coaching can be traced back to the Inner Game books of the mid 1970s. In these books W. Timothy Gallwey suggested a paradigm shift in sports coaching. He had noticed that players self-corrected when he coached with open questions instead of catching errors and offering suggestions. In fact, when a player relaxed and held a picture and feeling of the desired result, the player improved. The player had corrected without even knowing s/he had ever been in error, unselfconsciously. As the Inner Game books topped best sellers lists and Gallwey’s reputation grew, he found himself speaking more often to business leaders in the US and Europe than to sports audiences. As the principles of the Inner Game were applied to professional development, the value of individual coaching became apparent.
NLP enhances the process of life coaching with the tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming which in practice means that the NLP Coach will be more easily than a Coach not trained in NLP be able to see the client’s viewpoint by observing their physiology, talk their language – and help them decipher hindering language patterns, and get the feel for their successes and learning feedback through working with their environments, behaviors, capabilities, beliefs and values, identity, and all that is beyond the identity of the client.
