Life Coaching to Support Women

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Life Coaching to Support Women

• May 22, 2008

Empowerment Promoting Womens Autonomy
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What is Life Coaching

• Life Coaching is a practice with the aim of
  helping clients determine and achieve personal
  goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that
  will help clients with the process of setting and
  reaching goals.
• Coaching is not targeted at psychological
  illness, and coaches are not therapists nor
  consultants.
• Wikipedia

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What does a life coach do?

• Life Coaches may apply
• Mentoring
• Values Assessment
• Behaviour Modification
• Behaviour Modeling
• Goal-setting
• And other techniques in helping their clients
• Additionally, life coaching does not delve into
  diagnosing mental dysfunction nor analysing the
  past.
• Wikipedia

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What can be accomplished through Life Coaching

• Life Coaches
• help individual clients achieve results and
  sustain life-changing behaviour in their lives
  and careers
• Involve the whole person with the emphasis on
  producing action and uncovering learning that can
  lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and more
  effective process for living
• Focus on what the client wants. The client
  possesses all the answers and strengths required
  for success
• www.thelifecoach.ca

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What can be accomplished through Life Coaching

• Life Coaches
• Pose the questions, hold the focus on the issue,
  and maintain a safe positive space for the client
  to explore possibilities
• Explore all aspects of the clients life to
  ensure growth and balance throughout the clients
  life
• Work from the premise that if nothing changes,
  nothing changes. In order for the future to be
  different from the past, you must change on the
  inside.
• www.thelifecoach.ca

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How to access a Life Coach

• Life Coaches can be accessed from anywhere you
  live
• Life Coaches often work from home and conduct
  their work on the telephone and using Web-based
  technology
• A client may work with a coach based in another
  country or in the same city
• Sessions may last anywhere from a check-in or a
  regular session of 45-60 minutes

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• Relevance of Life Coaching to Empowerment Work

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The Process of Leaving Abuse Stages of awareness
and action

Healing
Awareness
Looking for Help
Preparing for the future
Taking Action
The womans journey
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Life Coaches in NB

• Some coaches are available throughout the
  province but the network is not well developed
• Cost may be prohibitive for the women we work
  with
• Consideration being given to developing our own
  Life Coach Program as a next step in a future
  action plan
• Would you see this as a valuable addition to the
  current mix of services?