This course is designed to teach you everything you need to know to feel confident as a life coach, get your client’s real results, and create a thriving life coach business! You’ll receive:
- Life coaching industry best practices
- Professional life coaching skills and techniques
- Done-for-you templates, worksheets, and questionnaires
You’ll develop a strong foundation of understanding of how to be an effective coach, including:
- Overcoming your own biases as a life coach
- Establishing healthy boundaries and expectations
You’ll develop strong communication skills, including powerful listening skills and vital questioning skills that will allow you to help clients develop a better understanding of themselves.
You’ll learn core life coaching tools, including goal setting exercises and accountability tips to help you empower your clients to follow through and achieve their goals.
You’ll learn popular activities you can use with your clients, like the wheel of life, journaling, affirmations, as well as popular Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques.
You’ll develop the mindset of success including developing your emotional intelligence, learning how to establish rapport with your clients, make sure you and your clients are approaching coaching with a growth mindset, and develop true confidence as a life coach.
And then, you’ll dig deeper with in-depth life coaching processes designed to help you coach your clients to achieve specific outcomes. Processes we will cover include:
- Awareness
- Mindfulness
- Self-talk
- Emotions
- Beliefs
- Decision making
- Taking action
- Overcoming fear
- Creating change
- Finding passion and purpose
- Rewriting your life story
You’ll also receive a ton of done-for-you templates, intake forms, worksheet activities, and questionnaires.
You’ll have the skills, tools, mindset, and processes to thrive as a life coach and make a difference in people’s lives.
But, we want to make sure that your business thrives too! And, so the course also includes strategies for growing your coaching business, including:
- Naming your offering
- Structuring your coaching
- Determining your value
- Setting your price
- Identifying your niche
- Crafting a magnet message (elevator pitch)
- Creating a life coaching package
- Offering group coaching
- Tips for what actually works when marketing your business!
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
- Communication and Listening Skill
- Coaching Standards and Ethic
- Coaching Methodologies and Best Practice
- Session Process & Structure
- Coaching Package Blueprint
- Coaching Processes, Tools & Worksheet
- Coaching Business Setup
Course Curriculum
- Introduction to Professional Life Coach Certification
- REQUIRED: Agreement, Disclaimer and Code of Ethics
- What is a Life Coach (and Why Everyone Needs One)
- Life Coaching Synopsis (It’s a Great Time to Be a Coach!)
- The Truth About Qualifications
- Life Coaching vs Therapy (Coaching Ethics)
- Coaching, Consulting and Niche Coaching
- What Does it Take to Be a Successful Life Coach?
- NLP and Coaching Presuppositions
- Presuppositions of NLP and Coaching
- Biases
- Empathy vs. Projection
- Helping vs. Dependency
- Boundaries
- Getting in the Right State
- Intake Process and Questionnaire
- SAMPLE-Intake-Session-Checklist
- General Session Outline
- General Structure
- Communicating Roles and Expectations
- Coaching Roles
- Confidentiality
- Effective Setting
- Active Listening
- Reflective Listening (Paraphrasing)
- Empathetic Listening
- Communication Blocks
- The Power of Questions
- Types of Coaching Questions
- Probing Questions
- Additional Helpful Questions
- COACH: Making Goals Achievable
- COACH: Skill and Competency Development
- Skill Development
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals Model
- Setting Goals and Action Plans
- Setting Meaningful Goals
- 30 and 60 Day Planning WS
- Weekly and Daily Planning
- Having a Big Enough Reason
- Big Enough Reasons
- COACH: Accountability
- Willpower: Removing Cues and Triggers
- COACH: Creating a Reward System
- Wheel of Life
- Brainstorming
- The GROW Model
- The HEART Model
- Visualization Activity
- Visualization and Brain Science
- Affirmations and Incantations
- The Importance of Journaling
- Coaching Forms and Template
- SAMPLE Questionnaires
- SAMPLE Agreement
- SAMPLE Intake Session Checklist
- Coaching Code of Ethics
- NLP for Coaches
- NLP: Re-coding Your Emotional Memory
- NLP: Restructuring Your Feelings
- NLP: Changing Your Negative Self-Talk
- NLP: Anchoring Part 1
- NLP: Anchoring Part 2, Happy Anchor
- What is Emotional Intelligence?
- Why Emotions Are Contagious (Mirror Neurons)
- Identifying Emotions and Nonverbal Communication
- Recognizing Emotions
- Establishing Rapport
- NLP Rapport: Voice Tonality and Words
- Why the Growth Mindset is the Core of Coaching
- Mindset Assessment
- Growing Your Brain & Neuroplasticity
- Growth Mindset Part 1: Awareness
- Growth Mindset Part 2: Perspective
- Growth Mindset Part 3: Action
- Developing Awareness as a Coach (IMPORTANT!)
- Present Moment Awareness
- Present Moment Process
- Square Breathing
- Helping Your Clients Become Aware of Their Thoughts
- Reframe Negative Experiences
- Developing Awareness of Your Thoughts and Self-Talk
- Awareness of Self-talk Part 2
- Uncovering the Lies Activity
- Eliminate Excuses
- Excuses
- Helping Your Clients Become Aware of Their Emotions
- Thoughts Create Emotions
- Momentum: Stopping It Early
- Situational vs Psychological Fear
- Accepting Your Emotions
- Helping Your Clients Become Aware of Their Beliefs
- Understanding Schemas
- Conditioned Beliefs
- Identifying Hidden Beliefs
- Questioning Your Beliefs
- Changing Beliefs
- Helping Your Clients Make Decisions and Move Forward
- Overcoming Indecision Part 1: Autopilot and Being Stuck
- Overcoming Indecision Part 2: Irrevocable Decisions
- Overcoming Inaction
- Exposure Techniques for Overcoming Fear and Resistance
- Helping Clients Through Fear of Change and Risk
- Overcoming Fear of Change
- Fear of Change Activity
- The Change Resume
- Failure is a Good Thing!
- Understand the Words Risk And Brave
- Fear Setting Activity
- Helping Your Clients Find Their Passion and Purpose
- Why Purpose Is More Powerful Than Passion
- Passion vs Purpose
- Passions and Interests
- Passions Activity
- Helping Your Clients Rewrite Their Stories
- Identifying Your Life Movie Script
- Rewriting Your Life Movie Script
- Making Life Changes that Reflect Your New Story
- Creating Life Changes
- Naming Your Coaching Offer
- Structuring Your Coaching
- Determining Your Value
- Setting Your Price
- Identify Your Niche
- Test Your Coaching Niche
- Create a Magnet Message (Elevator Pitch)
- Create a Coaching Package (Package Your Gift)
- Why Group Coaching?
- Attract Clients (Marketing Your Coaching)